Civ5 Anticipation. Mapmaking.

[The_J]

Ah, sorry, confusion from my site, i meant Gamespot, not Gamestop.
And the link is this one.

 

[Niptium]

Thanks !

I'm a bit disapointed. Have I been the only one that drew maps beforehand?

 

[Ramesses]

By the way, Niptium, I'm waiting until after Thanksgiving to get Civ V (that's when the current quarter ends). So, that hex version of your map won't be done for a while.

 

[Niptium]

By the way, Niptium, I'm waiting until after Thanksgiving to get Civ V (that's when the current quarter ends). So, that hex version of your map won't be done for a while.

I will do it myself.

 

[Ramesses]

I will do it myself.

I'm sorry. I can't afford to have any distractions, because I have to graduate. I didn't mean to let you down.

 

[Niptium]

No biggie, it will be my pleasure.

 

[ilikepies]

I wonder if it's possible to include a few of these (awesome) maps in a map "type" (Niptium's maps) which isn't actually scripted, just picks one of these maps randomly and spreads players+resources around it, so there's still some unexpected elements but you're playing on interesting and balanced maps....

 

[Blue Monkey]

Thanks !

I'm a bit disapointed. Have I been the only one that drew maps beforehand?

I also do. This site lets you customize & dl PDFs of all kinds of graphs & grids. I've used it to overlay tile grids on map images for C3C. I like doing it this way because I create different scales of grids & think about how the map would play out at various sizes. They have a page of hex-grid generators. There is also this site which hosts a generator with more features (including printed coordinates), but I haven't used it.

 

[Thorburne]

I also do. This site lets you customize & dl PDFs of all kinds of graphs & grids. I've used it to overlay tile grids on map images for C3C. I like doing it this way because I create different scales of grids & think about how the map would play out at various sizes. They have a page of hex-grid generators. There is also this site which hosts a generator with more features (including printed coordinates), but I haven't used it.

Interesting... I'll have to keep those in mind myself. The only problem that I have is knowing exactly how many tiles make up the different map sizes. I like to use CC Pro and Fractal Terrains from ProFantasy. I just have to figure out the best way to color the maps and key them. Hopefully, I'll be able to figure it all out in the next few days.

 

[Blue Monkey]

In C3C days a forum member made us a little utility called bmp2bic. Make a bitmap with a specific 16-color palette (terrain defined by RGB) run it through the utility and out came a bic ready for the editor. Hopefully one of our genii will provide something equally useful for CiV.

 

[Elite]

really cool map.

 

[Le Sage]

Here's the map I created or my mod in Civ4. I hear converting them to Civ5 is supposed to be easy enough, so I'm looking forward to it.