Using multiple tiles for place names on maps

[Gary Childress]

Maybe this is old news but I stumbled upon a neat way to add map labels which utilize several continuous squares using the resources.pcx file. I know others have used the resources.pcx to create map labels but the only ones I've seen so far are single tile labels and don't run over several tiles.

Pic 1: as set up in the Resources.pcx file.

Pic 2: as appears in the game.

Just thought this was kind of neat.

 

[The Last Conformist]

LOTM has/had this for scenario games, only with a single letter per tile.

 

[Ozymandias]

Nice going

-Oz

 

[Chris85]

I never thought of that. Good idea!

 

[Partizanac]

excellent IDEA, I can really use this!

 

[Gary Childress]

Thanks.

I'm working right now on a 3 letter per tile arrangement.

 

[Aiken Drumn]

Hey - thats gonna be funky for mods indeed!

 

[Gary Childress]

OK, getting wild and out off control now, 3 letters per tile...

In resources.pcx

In game

Note: for 3 letters I used font size 14. For 2 letters per tile I used font size 18.

 

[embryodead]

While the concept of resource labels/letters isn't new, the idea to use 2-3 letters per tile is, and looks better than other solutions, more in scale with the map

 

[WildWeazel]

Nifty