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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby Lionhardt » 05 Mar 2015, 14:55

woah, never thought of looking into the prefs. Thanks, good call!
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby speed2 » 28 Mar 2015, 14:23

Since it took me quite a lot time to find and I havent seen it here yet, I post it here before I put all information on wiki.
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Krapougnak wrote:I'm not sure if understood correctly all that was going on in this thread but I'll give you this little piece of information from old GPGNet forum, to enable all 9 strata different terrain shaders have to be used. Go into "Lighting" layer => Open "Lighting properties" and in "Terrain shader" select TTerrainXP instead of TTerrain. But beware this changes the way the map looks ... or i should probably say it may change the way it looks ... all depends on the other lighting settings you have there. TTerrain is overal more "glossy", experiment with it a bit ...

I don't know if this was useful, if you already knew it or if even it was what you were asking anyway I hope this bit of information is useful to someone ;)
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby spice » 23 Dec 2015, 12:32

How can I find the editor? The viking website seems to be dead.
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby speed2 » 23 Dec 2015, 12:36

spice wrote:How can I find the editor? The viking website seems to be dead.

viewtopic.php?f=53&t=3026#p30006
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby spice » 23 Dec 2015, 18:11

speed2 wrote:
spice wrote:How can I find the editor? The viking website seems to be dead.

viewtopic.php?f=53&t=3026#p30006

I only have Forged Alliance, will this still work?
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby PsychoBoB » 23 Dec 2015, 19:55

I think you'll need a Vanilla version to get the map editor running.
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby watermelon » 25 Dec 2015, 10:39

spice wrote:
speed2 wrote:
spice wrote:How can I find the editor? The viking website seems to be dead.

viewtopic.php?f=53&t=3026#p30006

I only have Forged Alliance, will this still work?

No you need Supreme Commander: http://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?tit ... ting_Tools
You need Supreme Commander for making maps, Map Editor is not working just with Forged Alliance.
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Map cut off

Postby n3roxis » 06 Mar 2016, 02:10

Two of my maps are cut off under a certain height but only if i launch them in game.
How can i fix this?
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby speed2 » 06 Mar 2016, 02:23

You have too big differences in heights, probably some absurdly high hills. Recuding the height is the best solution. Alternative one is here: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=8439&p=79786&hilit=black#p79739
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Re: Map Editor FAQ

Postby TazzyUK » 07 Jun 2016, 04:26

Finally: There has been a problem with the people who have downloaded supcom through steam. The map editor won't allow you to do anything (I think). The discussion was in this thread: http://www.faforever.com/forums/viewtop ... f=2&t=2579


Was the thread/topic moved somewhere else? as this link no longer works.
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