Mapsize

Trikisatan · Post by **Trikisatan** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:45 am

How do I change the size of the map as it is ingame? As in being able to have more land to move around on.

Thank you.

DvdGStwrt · Post by **DvdGStwrt** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:25 am

*Settings will open up another window, look in the Landscape Settings.

I forget the name of the line specifically, what it does is change the size of each tile/grid. Over 600 will make your buildings too far apart for a town or village. Even when you have buildings set to a distance of 0 between each one.

Sizes over 900 are too big, takes a long time to render, and I assume other problems could arise.

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:45 am

The setting is, er... "landscape scale", I think.

115 is default. This gives you a nice small island. As DvdG says, you can increase this up to 900 or so to make a massive landscape. The number increases the size of each tile on the landscape (but not the number of tiles).

The main drawback with bigger tiles is that you lose resolution on tile textures and texmaps, because they are stretched over a bigger area (or, your texture tiles & texmaps have to be correspondingly massive to look any good). You also lose "positional" resolution for buildings, which can only be placed at the corners of tiles. So, as DvD says, you end up not being able to create a proper-looking town or village, cos everything's miles apart.

Of course, if you feel like you need lots of buildings close together, or you prefer the look of textures on a smaller landscape, there are other things you can do to make your world "feel" bigger: for example, reducing the speed of all vehicles.

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lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:19 am

feature request: being able to change how many tiles you can have on an island.

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:23 am

I meant to talk about that too, 'cos I knew someone would ask :)

Yes, that's on the long-term to-do list, but it will take a fair bit of re-coding, so it's not going to happen soon.

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lucifer1101 · Post by **lucifer1101** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:42 am

ok then not so important to me. the best you could do is to wait until your world is full then either do a wipe or make another world. your choice.

Trikisatan · Post by **Trikisatan** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:05 am

I appreciate your answers, thank you very much. I'd just like to say that I'm willing to help out with the programming if wanted, I've done a bit of 3d programming but my main skill is basicly planning how to make things work programmably.

junk · Post by **junk** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:42 pm

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