Overview
How to use any picture for the map editor, you like.
How to prepare a Map for the Map editor fast and easy
I spend now 20 hours into this game and have to agree with everzone that the game is great strategy. There wasn’t a true tutorial by todays standards, but that’s no problem for someone, who doesn’t like to explore. Now let’s get to the crucial point. …
20 hours into the game and I spend most of it yet to create my own map (mostly INGAME, only 3 hours outgame). So what happened? After watching the map editor tutorial on youtube I figured out: I could do that too and with my own favourite fantasy maps as well. So what I did OUTGAME is:
1. find a picture of the Map of your desire (without provinces)
2. Use GIMP to open the map
3. Find all white Color Pixels that are 255/255/255 and change them into 253/253/253 (How you do that? Google if necessary)
4. Use the path tool and do Shift+Left Click at all your desired points on the map. (these will be the centers of your provinces (be aware that 1500 is the max for the game)
5. Use the Voronoi Path plugin (need to install it) and make a right click on the path window to choose the option Voronoi path
6. Choose the option “Preserve the original path”
7. Now you have to paths: the original path dots you made and the path net you created with Voronoi path.
8. Choose the Path tool and choose the option “Stroke path” to draw the Voronoi path net onto the picture (tada you have your provinces borders ready)
9. Choose the pencil tool and chance its brush to “1Pixel”. Choose the foreground color 255/255/255 white.
10. Select your original single dots path and select the path tool and the option “Stroke path” and the option “stroke with paint tool” and use the pencil. When it’s done then there should be a single white pixes in each province.
11. Now the map is ready to use in the map editor. (Takes may be 30 mins to do all that, but you can use any map you like)
So I am now about to finish my big map 1500 Provinces and I do a lot of test in betweens and it is a lot of fun.