BIC/BIX to BMP/JPG converter

[hawkstarr]

My apologies. I attempted to post this in the questions forum, but somehow it ended up here. Please delete this.

Ok this is going to be an odd question, but I can't see that no one has thought of this before. I often use Civ3xedit to build my worlds for my pen and paper 3.5 edition ADnD games. yeah yeah...odd I know. But it is really a good help to be able to place and use Civ3 as a map maker for something as simple as this. I am trying to find a utility that will convert the BIC or BIX file into a standard BMP or other image file for my games. I have seen more then one tool to convert into BIX or BIC but nothing to get it out. If someone could point me into the right direction that would be great. Thanks!

My apologies. I attempted to post this in the questions forum, but somehow it ended up here. Please delete this.

 

[Chieftess]

It can simply be moved.

Also, there is such a utility in the Utilities forum. Look for "bmp2bic" (a thread by Longasc). He didn't make it, but he re-uploaded it.

 

[hawkstarr]

hm...I have attempted to download that and use it...however it doesn't seem to work properly. every time I attempt to load a senerio file there is no map. the map area shows up as just a black square...perhaps I am doing something incorrectly. I will play with it a bit more.

 

[Chieftess]

What you do is load a perfectly square bmp (80x80, 256x256), and save it as a bic file. Then, when the file is created (it doesn't tell you - you have to look in the directory), load it into the Civ3 editor. You'll have to paste a few coastal tiles overtop of coastal tiles (or grass over grass, etc.) so that it "paints" the correct tile. You only need to do that to a few of them, and then scroll the map. It should show up.

 

[hawkstarr]

hm...ok...
you do mean the Civ3edit.exe right? Still doesn't seem to be working.

 

[Wolfwood]

I don't think anyone has made a program to convert the ingame maps into BMP or JPG. The bmp2bic only converts to the other direction.

 

[Rhye]

Maybe the Multi Tool has that function. Maybe. I've never tried.

 

[hawkstarr]

I tried the multitool also. No luck. I didn't reallythink that this was out there, just wanted to ask incase I just missed it somewhere.

 

[Chieftess]

Ask Gramphos. He's bound to have some code to convert a map into an image. (One of the GOTM utils/helpers does that IIRC).