Need Help making map

[gerryandersson]

I need help making a map of the region shown on the map
that is linke bellow.
You could also tell me if you know where i can find
an alredy don map of the region. (then no one needs to make it)
I have loked all over the net and i can't find one.
I am going to use it in a scenario im planig to do.

The map is from the 17th century (i think).
(the scenario is going to be set in the 1950-1980 and is a fictional scenario)
It shows the terrain the best of the maps i found.
The map is showing the most southern region of Sweden and a part of Denmark.

I would be realy glad if somone could make the map
ore tell me where i can find one like it.

http://seagull.konbib.nl/atlas/hbma...wse&from=1&part=a&all=&Trefwoord=&Naam=&Jaar=

 

[insurgent]

Making scenario on the Danish-Swedish wars? I know no maps of Skåne, so I'm afraid you'll have to make it yourself.

You may also, though, find the MapEdit utility in the Civ2 download collection useful for your purpose. That way you can build a map within minutes and then use it as a base.

If you ask really nice, you may be able to make some mapmaker - such as the (almost ) legendary Mercator - build it for you...

 

[Morten Blaabjerg]

As Insurgent implies, it is in fact very easy to make a civ2 map based on a map source. Its tempting to use your map to do a tutorial on the subject, because I've been doing so many times now, and almost everybody seems to wonder how. But.... as it is these days, I'm extremely preoccupied with exams. You will have to do with a rough guide of the basics.

The basic steps are these. You need a basic image processor such as Paintshop Pro and MapEdit, and a little familiarity with the map palette. First load in your image into your image processor, and convert your map to a few working colors, preferable black/white, 16 or 256 colours. Then roughly erase everything that you don't want represented in your map, i.e. excessive text, cities and images, and make sure the coastlines are intact (you can change contrast and enhance outlines to make this a tad easier, but sometimes you will have manually to fill in 'gaps'). The idea is to get the map as 'clean' as a civ2 map.

Then you fill out the landmass with green, and the ocean with blue. The exchange color function of Paintshop Pro can also be useful here.

Details like mountain ranges, hilly masses, forests etc you fill in afterwards, painted broadly where you want them (you will have to make adjustments when you work with the map in the civ2 mapeditor). When done, you convert your image to a .bmp file, and load in the civ2 map palette, previously saved from a civ2 map (converted to a .bmp file using MapEdit). Now you make sure all colours of all terrains are correct (the main terrains are the colours at the top of the civ2 map palette).

Then you gotta take the civ2 map format into consideration, which basically means resizing the map to fit the size of map you want (literally in pixels), and reducing the width of the image with roughly 50%. Some experimentation may be required, depending on the original and your ambition.

When satisfied, you save the image as a .bmp file, and convert it to a siv2 map file using MapEdit (simply load in as .bmp, save as .mp file; you can also preview your work here before converting to a civ2 map). Finally you can load in your map in the civ2 editor, and you will have a rough skeleton to work with. Most of the hard work establishing coastlines etc will be done, and you can concentrate on polishing your work.

If you find out something is missing or you need to crop the map differently, you can simply load into MapEdit once again, and convert back and forth, work in Paintshop with cut'n paste etc, work in MapEdit for proper cropping, or with details in the civ2 mapeditor.

Hope this has been of some help. If not, someone might be willing to do it for you.. In any case, best of luck!

 

[gerryandersson]

Thank you bouth fore your help.
This will help alot.