How to Crop a Map?

Hey.

I was just wondering how I would crop a map. Let's say I had a world map and I just wanted to play with Africa, Europe, North and South America. How would I edit the map so that I had all of these continents but not Asia and Australasia?

Thanks!

The complicated way I can think of is:

If you know how to code, you could save the map as a worldbuilder save, then write a simple parser to go through the save file, procedurally deleting the tiles you didn't want and adjusting the map size...sorry if that doesn't help.

There isn't really an easy way. Ringan is right that the only way is to open a WorldBuilder Save and manually delete the tiles you don't need.

Doesnt Rhyse WBS to BMP converter work? I have never tried it so I dont know.

I wrote a perl script to do it. If you know perl (or some sort of programming) I can post the code again. Otherwise PM me with what you want done.

Basically, a map is a X by Y rectangle and plots must start at 0,0. So if you wanted to chop the bottom 2 rows off the map, it would be necessary to renumber all of the remaining plots. Also the plotinfo section needs to be updated with the new map size.

Use sarysa's Map Maker. You can copy and paste sections of the map, then resize the map, then convert it to Civ4 WBS. Very useful.