Report, edit, etc...Posted by Hubschrauber on 2006-06-05 at 23:38:10
I've searched through the downloadables and most of the forums and found no answers, so I'll ask here. How do you do square tiles on a Mac? I'm using StarFire Edit.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Falkoner on 2006-06-06 at 10:26:23
I'm not certain with the mac, is starfire all it has? because theres a good chance starfire doesn't have square tiles, you might want to try a diffrent editor.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DevliN on 2006-06-06 at 11:23:50
Wow, that's easy... you don't.
All we Mac users have is StarFire and Emerald. Buth suck compared to anything on PC. Unless you somehow get GUEdit to work on your Mac (which I've never been able to do, but I hear you can), then you're out of luck. Othat than that, hope and pray for the release of SCM Draft Mac.
All we Mac users have is StarFire and Emerald. Buth suck compared to anything on PC. Unless you somehow get GUEdit to work on your Mac (which I've never been able to do, but I hear you can), then you're out of luck. Othat than that, hope and pray for the release of SCM Draft Mac.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Hubschrauber on 2006-06-06 at 12:47:29
Well, I found one way to get rectangular tiles, just editing somebody else's rectangular map does that. But from the description of the Advanced Mac Edit from nuclearrabbit, I gather that there's a way to do it that involves CHK editors and stuff. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with that, and if they could tell me how.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DevliN on 2006-06-06 at 13:49:33
Yeah the rectangle ISOM thing has been known for awhile, but its not as good as the square tiles.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IanMM on 2006-06-06 at 14:22:44
First you do all terrain besides what you want square. Then save. Now you stretch the window to take up the whole screen. Drag the window to the left and reapeat these last two steps till you see white. Now make terrain on the white. Save close and reopen the map and now you can make square terrain.
There you go.
There you go.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DevliN on 2006-06-06 at 14:35:19
StarEdit crashes when I stretch the screen all the way to the right.
And does this do 1x1 squares or 2x1 rectangles. If its rectangles then there is no point, considering we could just use some one else's ISOM map to make rectangular terrain without all the work.
And does this do 1x1 squares or 2x1 rectangles. If its rectangles then there is no point, considering we could just use some one else's ISOM map to make rectangular terrain without all the work.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Snipe on 2006-06-06 at 15:08:10
I think devlin would know 
. They should try and come out with a more efficiant terrain creater for mac.. I guess someone is working on it.
. They should try and come out with a more efficiant terrain creater for mac.. I guess someone is working on it.Report, edit, etc...Posted by DevliN on 2006-06-06 at 15:42:12
If someone made a program for Mac that only did terrain (like SCM Draft with only a terrain layer), then it would be hugely successful! I mean sure the trigger system in SF is great and all, but all Mac users really need is a good terrain editor. That was the only appeal for me to SCM Draft Mac.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Hubschrauber on 2006-06-06 at 18:06:10
I did what Ian said to do, and it works, but it only allows you to make 2x1 rectangles, not square terrain.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by L-inspecteur_Chocolat on 2006-06-06 at 20:53:13
You can make a mod with TileEdit for Staredit(Mac), that allows you to place 1x1 square tiles, sprites, sprite-units, disabled sprite-units, etc from the doodad palette. This information is stored in the .CV5 files and their related files.
However, no-one has ever took the time to create such mods for it.
However, no-one has ever took the time to create such mods for it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DevliN on 2006-06-06 at 23:15:12
QUOTE(Hubschrauber @ Jun 6 2006, 03:05 PM)
I did what Ian said to do, and it works, but it only allows you to make 2x1 rectangles, not square terrain.
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And you did it in StarFire Edit? I wonder why it didn't work for me...
QUOTE(L-inspecteur_Chocolat @ Jun 6 2006, 05:52 PM)
You can make a mod with TileEdit for Staredit(Mac), that allows you to place 1x1 square tiles, sprites, sprite-units, disabled sprite-units, etc from the doodad palette. This information is stored in the .CV5 files and their related files.
However, no-one has ever took the time to create such mods for it.
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However, no-one has ever took the time to create such mods for it.
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Is it that hard to do? I've never Modded anything, but you make it seem so easy. I have a feeling that anyone who makes a program that only makes terrain (for Mac, that is) would become hugely popular among the Mac community. Or hell, if someone made BMP2SCM or SC Picture Mapper for Mac, that would be just as awesome.