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

 

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Status: offline 		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--
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RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q - 1/9/2015 11:08:51 PM   
CapnDarwin


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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: Creating a Small tactical engagement -map q - 1/9/2015 11:11:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		You should be able to cut a map down if you wanted to create actual smaller maps.

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


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Status: offline 		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.

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

 

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Status: offline 		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


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

 

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Status: offline 		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.


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

 

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Status: offline 		Thanks Harry--will try that today!

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


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Status: offline 		...or you can use Harry's tool! Sorry Harry been a long week on many fronts and I forgot about that.

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

 

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Status: offline 		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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