Converting map to Global

[Cantona66]

Hello, this question may have been answered already, but is there a way to copy/transfer a PDE map/campaign to Global?

I guess you have to edit scripts afterwards but will there be a way?

[pzgndr]

Yes, but... You can export data in PDE and then import your map and most data into Global Conflict. There are some complications. There are many new terrain and resource sprites, so the new map will have odd things like jungles showing up where cities were and such, but these are easily edited. New belligerence settings need to be made for each country. And one toughie, the Combat Target Values table has new parameters and needs to be redone from scratch. So good news is you don't have to redo everything from scratch but bad news is there will be some additional effort required.

[SeaMonkey]

Hey Bill, any chance you can enlighten us on those CTV changes, perhaps some of the other parameters, like morale degredation, strikes, de-entrenchments, APs, etc. for the different units.

Don't violate the NDA, but any bone your able to throw, we're still hungry, what with that master of yours discarding his Christmas table scrapts and then leaving us to fend for ourselves.

[pzgndr]

Sorry, didn't mean to tease! It's nothing major really. Just a new parameter for surface raiders, but by simply adding one thing it changed the whole CTV table. Same thing for some of the scripts with new lines added here and there for more flexibility. Add one new line and you have to go back and revise every affected script. Argh! It's not hard, just tedious stuff. Again, point is you can copy/transfer most of a former map/campaign into the new editor but some additional work is required.