HELP ME PLEASE! (to make new continents with the Map Editor)
HELP ME PLEASE! (to make new continents with the Map Editor)
For instance when you start making countries they are all on the same continent. How do I make it so that the next country I draw is on a different continent?
1. Navigate to your saved maps folder. On a mac it is located at ~/Library/Application Support/Lux/Boards/Saved where ~ is your user folder. On a PC it is located in Program Files/Lux/Support/Boards/Saved.
2. Find your map in that "Saved" folder and open it in BBedit (BBedit is preferred but any program like BBedit should work) what you will find is something that looks similar to this:
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<luxboard>
<version>1</version>
<height>700</height>
<width>1150</width>
<theme>Civil War</theme>
<title>American Civil War</title>
<author>Mark Bauer</author>
<email>bauer32301@yahoo.com</email>
<description></description>
<continent>
<continentname>Olustee</continentname>
<bonus>1</bonus>
<country>
<name>Olustee</name>
<id>0</id>
<polygon>636,71,650,73,660,81,664,91,664,103,662,113,123,630,124,621,121,611,111,608,97,611,83,621,74,631,71</polygon>
<adjoining></adjoining>
</country>
</continent>
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<continent>
<continentname>name of the continent goes here</continentname>
<bonus>bonus value goes here</bonus>
</continent>
4. After the </bonus> and before </continent> of the continent tag is where you place all the countries that go into the continent. A country tag must contain all of the following:
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<country>
<name>country name goes here</name>
<id>id value here</id>
<polygon>polygon coordinates here</polygon>
<adjoining>adjoing countries id values here</adjoining>
<armylocation>coordinates of army box here</armylocation>
</country>
5. Make sure each continent has an ending </continent> to close the continent otherwise it will think you have more countries to place.
6. Make sure you only have 1 </luxboard> tag and it is at the very end of the document. This closes the lux map.
7. Save the file but make sure not to change the extension, save it any other format, or move it's save location.
Your done!
Hope that helped I wrote it quickly and off the top of my head let me know if you have any problems
mbauer
- Find the map file on your computer's filesystem. It will be inside your Support/Boards/Saved/ folder.
- Open up the map file in any text editor (i.e. notepad or textedit).
- You will see the list of countries that you created in this file. In between countries you must add the following text: </continent><continent>
For example your file might have:
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...
<country>
<name>top</name>
<id>4</id>
<adjoining>2</adjoining>
<polygon>239,310 270,270 190,277 188,316 239,310</polygon>
</country>
<country>
<name>side</name>
<id>1</id>
<adjoining>0</adjoining>
<polygon>222,181 256,208 213,214 174,131 222,181</polygon>
</country>...
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<country>
<name>top</name>
<id>4</id>
<adjoining>2</adjoining>
<polygon>239,310 270,270 190,277 188,316 239,310</polygon>
</country>
</continent><continent>
<country>
<name>side</name>
<id>1</id>
<adjoining>0</adjoining>
<polygon>222,181 256,208 213,214 174,131 222,181</polygon>
</country>...
I post this here in the hopes that you read it.
The map you submitted doesn't specify a theme. So if somebody has it set to the space theme then they can't see the connecting lines. So you might want to specify a theme. I'll give it a day or so incase you want to do this, then I will just let the map go in as is.
peace
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