How do I make custom maps?

Silent Sorrow · #1 July 24th, 2003, 03:38 AM

In another thread about empire placement someone said the way to guarantee even empire placement throughout the quadrant was to make your own maps, place the empires manually and then give that map to someone else who thus wouldn't know exactly where those other empires were.

Sounds like a good idea.

Question: How the hell do I do that?

I don't see anything in the game when I load it up that indicates I can do this. And I've checked the FAQ and the modding tutorial as well.

PvK · #2 July 24th, 2003, 03:45 AM

There's a map editor program in the folder where the SE4 game program is.

PvK

Silent Sorrow · #3 July 24th, 2003, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by PvK:
There's a map editor program in the folder where the SE4 game program is.

PvK

Oh.

Eh ... heh heh.

Suicide Junkie · #4 July 24th, 2003, 04:50 AM

7 minute response time... Not bad, PvK

Silent Sorrow · #5 July 25th, 2003, 02:09 AM

Where is this map maker program? What is it called? I looked in my program directory for the game and I don't see anything there.

I looked in "extras" on the CD and tried something called "sectormodder" but it's so poorly documented that I don't know what to do with it. Is that supposed to be the map maker program?

tesco samoa · #6 July 25th, 2003, 02:16 AM

SE4Map.exe

is the name.

Do a search... Or it may even be sitting in your root directory of seiv.

Hints on map making

open seiv and generate a map and then save it.

open the editor and adjust the map to your tastes...