question about maps

[dog]

Maybe this is a dumb question...but how do I play my custom mod with someone else's map? I want to play Marla/Scipio's big world map (which is it's own .bic file) but using the units and rules of my custom.bic. Maybe it's a simple answer and I've over looked it...

A related question: Is there an easy way to take part of one .bic and "cut and paste" it into another. Say, for example, I want want to retain my units, terrain etc but want to use the tech tree from another mod, is there a simple way to move the advances portion of the .bic into my custom.bic?? I know about adding the art etc... I just wonder about the list and the values for each entry. Can they be moved easily or do I have to do it by adding one at a time.

Oh! Just thought of another question. Sort of a tangent. Anyone know about Microsoft Works? I was building spreadsheets with all my units charted by age, civ and unit type (early ancient age/Rome/Defense etc) so I could keep the units balanced. I had three .ss format files open when lightning made the power go out for a sec. Now Works won't let me access the files. The error says "can't access the open file you need." Anyone know the answer? I put a great deal of time into those files.

 

[dog]

Someone must know something about these questions.

 

[Ed O'War]

I think the way to do it would be to save your custom mod as the Civ3mod.bic (back up your original first!). Then open the map you want to use in the editor, and do 'save as' to change it's name. Unless I've missed something, the map should now use your custom mod rules.

As far as cutting and pasting mods together, there's no really easy way to do it. You can cut and paste lists, like barbarian names or civ city names, but most other things would have to done by hand.

I don't know enought about MS Works to be able to help you there.

 

[roalan]

Very simple just change ,by hand ,Marlas Map .bic file. to whatever you have.

 

[dog]

Originally posted by roalan
Very simple just change ,by hand ,Marlas Map .bic file. to whatever you have.

That would take days. I've changed it that much. Especially since the 1.21f editor keeps crashing my computer (the previous editors never did).