Map Creation

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to make a map in the old funkymonk's tutorial... thanks a lot for this tuto wich makes map creation almost possible! But I still have a problem I'm unable to resolve... How can I define the water areas... I mean, not the water resource but the water areas where to place buildings on the sea. As I'm replacing a default map to create my own, the water area is pre-define and doesn't match at all with what I expect.
Could anyone help me please?

 

Thanks for your answer, but the water resource is ok, I understand how to define the resources areas. I just have problems defining the aera of sea and rivers in order to place building that can be placed over waters (like marinas or the american houses overwater from the special menu). I don't know if I'm clear because of my approximative english. When I create a map, my sea and rivers areas keeps the rivers and sea areas of the original map I use. The CXL map editor doesn't offer to define such an area... it's probably possible to create a dds. file to define it but I don't know where to place it... sorry for my poor english, I hope you understand what I mean!

I think your original tutorial is clear enough to create maps, why making a new one?

 

Good idea... thanks for the advice, I'm going to ask Skullz for the water area.

 

How did you go with the water area Ziz?

 

In fact, I don't have THE solution. I noticed I need to use an original map with all resources enabled in order to implement the resources on my own. The water area is exactly the same as the original map when I test it as a patch file from the map editor but then, it often deals with what I defined when I save it as a real project. The problem is that the resources areas doesn't match with what I defined everytime. So, I need to save many times before it deals exactly with my parameters... and it's hard to get all areas like I defined them... probably a bug, I don't really know, maybe something I'm doing wrong... I have to be patient!

 

You can also have a look at what Skullz wrote in this forum... quite instructive...
http://xlnation.net/threads/map-layer-test.1267/#post-5825

 

Hiya! So I have a map that I want to share, but I get confused when it gets to the pak/unpak bit. I've opened the map in CitiesXL and it all works, I just want to fix up the icon and share it.

 

I've never shared a map, so I can't help you for this. I suppose the icon is the dds file you create with photoshop from a screenshot of you map. Funky's tuto explains that part (256*256) and you import it as all the other files in the pak/unpak. Then you'll get your icon in the map menu in cities XL. Sorry if my answer is not appropriate...

 

I Truly hope this thread is still active. Here's my problem. I get everything made and put together, compress the data folder, save patch, load game, CRASH!!!!!!

 

What kind of map are you making, XL or XXL?
Are you using the old or new Map Editor?
It may help to post the crash's .log file also, or just the last few lines of it.