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Old October 30th, 2004, 12:35 AM
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I'd love to be able to create maps, but don't know how (computer-wise) and don't have the right sort of software. Any suggestions?
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Old October 30th, 2004, 10:04 AM
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@PashaDawg:
You didnt mention so Im guessing you have Windows?
Any paint program and text editing program can be used. The ones that came with your machine even. If you have Windows then you probably have Paint and Notepad. Paint will work although you need to pick up a program to move images in and out of the .tga format. I recommend IrFanView which is a free download. Notepad can edit the .map files but you might prefer to use WordPad or even Word which is fine as long as you save them as text and not a Word document.
www.irfanview.com

A free and much more powerful paint program is GIMP. And thats what the developers for Dom use. It has terrain generators in it.
www.gimp.org

A free and much more powerful Notepad program is one called Note Tab Light.
www.notetab.com
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Hi Gandalf:

Thanks. I'm cranky because Paint is so clunky. Maybe I will search around for something more user friendly.

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