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Ok, how do I deal with a map that has land wrapping around without having it look like total crap? If I can't find a good way to do this I'm gonna have to scrap my map and just start over. Most people use continents completely surrounded by water, and thus all the borders of their maps are made of water.

Land has other issues though. For one thing it's easier to notice the terrain changes when crossing a border. Then of course theres houses on the border, NPCs on the borders, etc... Any ideas? Any technology? Haven't worked on UO in a month and a half.


Also, just a quick question, but I asked a long time ago if it was possible to make colored static water tiles using MapGenerator, and I forgot what the answer to this was. Example: Having fresh Blue water and Sea Green water.

The OSI format for terrain tiles does not support hueing.

So....

Patch in Sea-green tiles :P

Except that's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm talking about static shoreline tiles, which can be hued, and using that as entire ocean.

That's one hell of a lot of statics, for a standard map... I guess it's possible, but patching that to your players will be rough...

Don't worry man I'll give them some lube I just want to know how to DO it

Ouch.

Nebu, its possible. (im a little behind with map generator atm)
First, I am pretty sure you can assign a hue to a static item (art). So right now, since there is no existing methods avaliable, you would need to create a custom entry in terrain.xml that would be for your 'green' water. You would then need to create a custom transition, where rather than map water tiles, you would use art (static item) with a hue property of green. You would also have to include the water edge tiles, hued green as well, for your transition to dirt.. grass, whatever you need.

I cant explain how to create this custom transition atm because I have not worked with map generator in several weeks.. and brains fried from everything else..

Anyways, your ending result would be, having a specific color index on your palette, and where you paint this color on your terrain.bmp, your new green color water is placed (as art, not map tile).

Another way, use a mul editor and copy the water tiles, re-hue them the green you want, and patch this new green set of water tiles into he art.mul and art.idx files. This way, you can use a simple static item (art) index number and your done, rather than having ot assign these water tiles a green hue via Map Generator. (thats just making it a little easier all the way around)

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