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BigBog -> Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/9/2015 9:43:47 PM)

Is there a way to easily take a large map (one provided by the game for example) and restrict the battle engagement area to a small subset piece of that map? Like maybe "blacking out hexes" in the editor somehow or chopping the map down?

I am enjoying FCRS immensely and want to create a couple of very small tactical engagements for fun and for trying different tactics.

Thanks for any help here--



CapnDarwin -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/9/2015 11:08:51 PM)

There is currently now way to sub-divide a map. What we do in-house to test small situation is pick a map with terrain we want to use and just setup small forces with a VP point or two and test. We have a lot of these test scenarios and they work fine.



Mad Russian -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/9/2015 11:11:45 PM)

You should be able to cut a map down if you wanted to create actual smaller maps.

Good Hunting.

MR



CapnDarwin -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/9/2015 11:44:09 PM)

True, you can take the art file and cut it down, but then you would need to go into the map editor and hand add all of the map values. I think he was looking for a way to parse out a map area and we don't have that at the moment, nor do we have an exclusion "marker" to make hexes off limits. Both nice things for 2.1x stuff.



BigBog -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/10/2015 2:42:52 AM)

Capn, Mad Russian,
Thanks for the responses. I did try the approach of limiting the area by use of localized VP points, seems to work Ok. I did notice that the AI is rather adventuresome on the map I chose and sent one group on a long route to the objective! Was not a route that I had defended against, so it was surprise when they showed up on my far left flank (poor recon)! Really pleased with the AI.

I haven't tried cutting down the art file approach yet, maybe this weekend, although I read much of the steps needed to do so in the tutorials you guys have provided. Great support and thanks!

I am hopeful of seeing this platform extended with modules of the current/modern era-- an excellent system! Kudos!

RM




harry_vdk -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/10/2015 7:02:57 AM)

There is a way of creating a submap from a bigg map

Stap 1:
Cut a png from a bigger one with ImageMagick
Example: convert "NL xxx 1985.png" -crop 2568x1952+2885+2177 +repage "NL Rotterdam 1985.png"

Stap 2: (only ones)
Create a new .fp9 with the MapValue editor.

Stap 3:
Import the correct map value from the original .fp9 with this OtsFp9Tools
otsfp9tools /filename="NL Rotterdam 1985.png" /import="NL xxx 1985.png" /offsetcol=53 /offsetcol=46

Put this within a script and you can maintain the bigger map and update the smaller map.




BigBog -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/10/2015 2:39:05 PM)

Thanks Harry--will try that today!



CapnDarwin -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/10/2015 3:25:51 PM)

...or you can use Harry's tool! Sorry Harry been a long week on many fronts and I forgot about that. [8|]



harry_vdk -> RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q (1/15/2015 10:47:34 AM)

Hi,

I have done one option on my bucketlist with is usefull in this case.

/ExtractMap=<extract to filename>
/StartCol=<int>
/StartRow=<int>
/NrOfCols=<int>, default=46
/NrOfRows=<int>, default=30



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