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Zogu · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:48 am Post subject: Maximum map dimensions?

Hi!
I have just created a map and it doesn't render very well.

What are the maximum recommended dimensions for a map? My map is 980x700. My screen resolution is 1024x768.

The upper part of the map gets cut, even though I get a vertical scrollbar on the right. I can't scroll to the top of my map!
Also, my background image, which I used at design time to draw the countries, is not displayed correctly; it is now "pushed" about 20 pixels down. Needless to say, the result is quite messy.

At least my map is playable, despite the fact it looks so bad!!!

It's sad that I can't scale down the whole map by, say, 15%. This would eliminate the problems I experience right now (map too large). Maybe someone could write a little PHP or Perl script that can scale up/down map elements. Maybe I should write it???

Also, I had yet another problem -- this time it's probably a bug in the Map Editor. Sometimes, when I save my map, the "additional lines" (i.e. the <line> elements) aren't saved at all; they vanish & don't show up in the XML. I think it's caused by the presence of the <above> tag but i'm not 100% certain.

Thanks,

-H.D.

PS: I use Lux version 4.52

Preacherman · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:43 am Post subject:

Hi Zogu,

There are possibly a couple of bugs in the map editor, it is a very new feature to Lux and isn't fully implemented yet. The best thing you can do is to always take the saved map file and go through it by hand in any decent text editor to check for the most common errors.

I never used the map editor, but just took a quick look and can't see anywhere to set the map dimensions, so it might be worth checking these manually in the map file - it will be at the top, like this :

Zogu · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:

OK... my map dimensions were smaller than the countries' max coordinates... and the background image wasn't the right size! Wow.

But I still have the editor bug which wipes out "additional lines" when saving (and it happens every time it upgrades an existing map file).

Thanks for the help.

My map will now be ready for beta testing and (maybe) upload.

dustin · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:44 am Post subject:

There is also a menu option when playing the map you can use. Board->Save Resized Map to make a version of it that is a different size.

Preacherman · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

∞ wonders if Dustin actually reads previous posts ∞

Razz

mbauer · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

DSMyers1 · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

I was wondering how the game will behave if I use a very large map, i. e. something on the order of 3000x1500. Is there code written to handle this well? To be more precise, how does the game handle scrolling?

mbauer · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject:

DSMyers1 · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:17 am Post subject:

Okay good...The map that large would be so my Dad, who plays the original Risk on computer alot, can be able to see the countries without his reading glasses....

Smile

BarStar · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:54 am Post subject:

Oh just GREAT!!!!!!!! Now you tell me I can resize a map after i totally created a new mini map of my Classic Lux board from scratch....ugh.

Grumble, grumble... sigh.

dustin · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

Scrollbar appear when a map is too big for the screen.