Sillysoft Games

G'day.

To avoid this tutorial becoming a mammoth waste of your precious time please take a moment to consider the following:

Reasons for -

I want to make detailed polygon shapes (as detailed as I want) with borders that align perfectly.

Reasons against -

My map doesn't require a lot of detail. Good maps don't need a lot of detail. If I wanted to make detailed maps I'd find a much better way of doing it than this.

Bottom line is - there's more than one way to skin a cat, this one works for me.

Stuff you'll need: Adobe Illustrator. Lux Delux, registered if possible. A word processing program. A few spare hours.









Fast forward - you’ve now built all the vector shapes that will form the countries and continents of your map.






Edited to add - If decimals do find their way into the code they are often very low or very high: Like a .008 or .997 for instance. If the decimals are close to forming a whole number I round up.

If you are unsure how to transfer the polygon co-ordinates into a .luxb file read on.



Also - If you are having trouble getting results from this tutorial or think my method sucks you might want to have a look at <a href="http://sillysoft.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... ">this.</a> simpler approach.

If you'd like to try using a script to transfer the data read <a href="http://sillysoft.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... ">this.</a>

Here's the finished product.



It took me about an hour and a half to build the polygons and copy and paste the code into a .lux file (keep in mind I had already drawn the country borders before I began to build the polygons)