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bergmania
10-05-2006, 11:39 PM
Ssnake, pretty please with sugar on top, make us PE owners able to import some form of shape data to the map editor before I go totaly bonkers.. :debile2:

Or is there another way of doing the roads,fields,woods without me handpainting it.. as it just take forever to do the 50km2 maps..
stuart666
10-06-2006, 10:00 AM
Ssnake, pretty please with sugar on top, make us PE owners able to import some form of shape data to the map editor before I go totaly bonkers.. :debile2:

Or is there another way of doing the roads,fields,woods without me handpainting it.. as it just take forever to do the 50km2 maps..


Try doing 80KM2 and get back to me. :)
CharlieB
10-06-2006, 02:13 PM
In many ways he does have a point. Putting in fields etc does take a long time. Stu I guess you are more than aware of that!
stuart666
10-06-2006, 05:00 PM
In many ways he does have a point. Putting in fields etc does take a long time. Stu I guess you are more than aware of that!


Absolutely! I think there are a few features in SB Pro which would make things easier. For example there is a shootlist where you can pick out a number of buildings, put them all into one orientation, and then place them. That would make towns a LOT easier. I dont begrudge it missing in Sb pro pe though. Pro costs more money, and the military are more likely to make maps anyway.

Its true I can see lots of room for improvement in the map editor. The postive side is, l cant recall seeing another map editor in any other sim that was as easy to use.

Even if you could load in sat data, there would still be a lot of correcting to do as you would have to manually alter buildings. I dont think it would save an awful lot of effort, particularly if you have large urban areas.

My advice is to pick a small area with and do it to death. One of my early maps was Ludwigslust in East Germany (I really ought to release that sometime) which I think was only about 10km by 15km. Having a good map it was pretty easy to do on an sb1 map with similar terrain.

Short answer is, pick a small project first before getting disheartened on something big.