Map maping tutorial (Request)

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:02 pm

Err, you're supposed to make your own map. Where's the fun in having someone else make it? Maybe you should look at my original post where I used an example to describe how to make zones and spawns. Obviously it wouldn't hurt to know inkscape a bit, either. I remember reading some very good documentation that wasn't very hard to find. I think I used one of the menus at the top, I can't remember which.

Loor · Post by **Loor** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:10 am

Or you could make them by hand, which isn't really that hard either...Unless your doing circles. You can also get it a lot more exact making them by hand.

Its just time consuming.

QUARG · Post by **QUARG** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:50 pm

Your best option would be to start small and add one element at a time in the form of test maps to learn how. Also using existing maps as templates which you can find in the arma resource helps alot too.

As for zones i find it easier to just add them manually into the .xml file.
An other thing is dont forget to name your file.

Example: dsf-1.aamap.xml

file header:
<Resource type="aamap" name="dsf" version="1" author="bosf" category="race">
<Map version="1">

Question guys why is the version in duplicate?

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:17 pm

Ouch. The version in the <Resource /> tag is the version of the map. It's your choice how you version your map files.

The version in the <Map /> tag is the version of the map format used to describe your maps. For the maps you want to create it should be 2, and NOT 0.2.8, 2.8, 42, 0.0.1, 1 and all those weird things I've seen already.

QUARG · Post by **QUARG** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:36 pm

Well that clear it up for me thankyou. I just took my own pill and read the section on map format and it says "At the time of writing, the only parsing engine version is "0.2.8". ". Is there a list of engine versions or does 2 just make it generalized?

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:37 pm

Now that's conflicting information. The code in the current trunk (which actually uses the version attribute to decvide whether to parse zonesv1 or zonesv2) reads the attribute as an int, leading to 0.2.8 being interpreted as 0, which happens to work because it treats versions 0–2 the same.

QUARG · Post by **QUARG** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:03 am

Not sure what to answer to that.