Talk:MAPS
Errr... need a bit of formatting help... see the page? I want to put on all the separate levels so that they are easily seen to readers. I managed to get the Skyranger showing as thumbnails, but the next heading should be below the thumbs, but isn't... :o( How can I get it to format right, or any other ideas would be appreciated! Cheers ---- Phoenix 18 April 2006 09:59 BST
One possible option would be to put a <BR clear="all"> after the image, so that all text that follows the image will continue underneath it.
For more image manipulators, check out Magic Words.
- NKF
Excellent! Cheers NKF!
- Phoenix
Extra/unused .MAP files?
Hi all,
I've been looking at UFO's .MAP files in quite a bit of depth and I've found a few that don't seem to be used in the game. I've done a cursory examination of them in Hex Workshop and listed some of their attributes below. In a plain steam distribution, the files are:
MAP3.MAP 32X48X3
MAP4.MAP 32X48X3
PABDUCT.MAP 10X20X4
PHARVEST.MAP 20X20X4
PSCOUT.MAP 10X10X4
TEMP.MAP 10X10X1
TEMP1.MAP 10X10X1
TEMP2.MAP 20X20X1
TEMP3.MAP 20X20X1
UFO_000.MAP 10X10X2
Anybody know what they are? The first two are especially weird; there's no way they could fit into an X-Com map unless it was the same map every time, like a TFTD ship attack. Off the Rails 11:02, 8 February 2011 (EST)
- There's also UFO_010, UFO1A and UFO1B. Obviously, some of these are early UFO designs (for which we haven't been able to determine a correct set of MCD files to use - we'd probably have to build an MCD from scratch if we ever wanted to see them), but some I'm outright unsure about. - Bomb Bloke (Talk/Contribs) 17:25, 8 February 2011 (EST)
- Although I'm new here, I've been lurking for a while and, for a month or so, learning to make .MAP data my bitch. I've an idea: assuming the MCD array starts with BLANKS.MCD, we can figure out whether a particular map tile is empty or not (ie if the relevant byte in the file is 00, the tile contains nothing; otherwise it must contain something...) and therefore come up with a basic floorplan for the terrain. I'll have a crack at it and put the results on my user page. Off the Rails 16:04, 10 February 2011 (EST)
- There's an easier way to actually 'see' what the files might contain using Daishiva's MapView. The question is that you don't know which MCD sets are required for each map (except for the UFOs) so it would take a lot of trial and error and mostly likely they are simply garbage (I've checked UFO_000, and it never made any sense, regardless of the MCD combination I tried). Hobbes 16:38, 10 February 2011 (EST)