New map by Jason Lutes

[tinkthank]

oh thanks -- I opened the map file and couldnt find a #defaultmapzoom command. Is that somewhere else? Or if it is not there, must I enter it myself -- does it matter where? And what value(s) does one enter? Sorry and thanks in advance.

[Minrhael]

Played with it myself as I had the same desire. You can put #defaultmapzoom right before the #description line. I found that for cradles at least 1.6 or so was about right.

[Gandalf Parker]

Wow is that what that does? And all this time I took for granted that it affected the starting position of zoom (pageup/pagedown) so you just started more zoomed out than normal.

(note: I went looking at the mapedit.pdf to see how I could have misunderstood that. Is it just me or is that command missing?)

[PDF]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Wow is that what that does? And all this time I took for granted that it affected the starting position of zoom (pageup/pagedown) so you just started more zoomed out than normal.

(note: I went looking at the mapedit.pdf to see how I could have misunderstood that. Is it just me or is that command missing?)

It affects map zoom but flags/building icons are fixed relative to this value.
So a flag will take "50% less space" in a province is mapzoom is set to 2 for example.
However by doing so the map looks initially more pixellated. You can then zoom out as you want, but the icons will resize correspondingly smaller...
Is that clear ?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by PDF:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Wow is that what that does? And all this time I took for granted that it affected the starting position of zoom (pageup/pagedown) so you just started more zoomed out than normal.

(note: I went looking at the mapedit.pdf to see how I could have misunderstood that. Is it just me or is that command missing?)

It affects map zoom but flags/building icons are fixed relative to this value.
So a flag will take "50% less space" in a province is mapzoom is set to 2 for example.
However by doing so the map looks initially more pixellated. You can then zoom out as you want, but the icons will resize correspondingly smaller...
Is that clear ?

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Much, thank you. It sounds like we could use another map command to set the pageup/pagedown zoom level seperately. Hmmmm no that might be too much. Too many petty little commands can intimidate new people from trying mapping. Ishould write up something on "a minimum map project". Kindof like what the Jotun walkthru does for playing the game. Someone might consider that for modding also

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[ April 09, 2004, 14:29: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Daynarr]

I had no idea about it either.
Nice to know this thingie.

[Stab West]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
-- Im trying out new sigs. Would "NetNanny" give the wrong impression?

Yes, It would.