hollister21 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Hope this is the correct place for this ... I have not been able to get the map overlays to work for the scenario editor for CMBN or CMFI. BN is v2.01, FI is v.1.1 I have taken a screenshot of a map from google earth - using a photo editor I cropped the area of interest and saved it as "special_editor_overlay.bmp" (without the quotation marks) and saved it into the "Z" folder in the data folder. After restarting CMBN and opening the scenario editor, the overlay is not visible. The "O" toggle appears to have no function. Any ideas? Thanks for any help with this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat - was IanL Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Try "special editor overlay.bmp" without the quotes. Note the absence of '_' characters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 yeh, save it as "special editor overlay.bmp" IOW remove the underscores Hope that helps edit: Or try Ian's advice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollister21 Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 Ok thanks, that seems to have sort of worked ... Now the editor appears to recognize that there is an overlay image somewhere - a message says something about using the "o" key to toggle the supplied overlay. However, there is still no overlay image. Using the "o" key will change the entire map from its normal color to grey shade to darker grey shade to black. I'm running this on a mac btw, don't know if that matters or if there are any extra steps I'm missing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak40 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I've had issues saving the correct format of bmp. In GIMP there are options for 24 or 32 bit etc, and there is also an option to include the "color mapping". IIRC, I found that 24 bit and no color mapping were the correct options. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kensal Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Ok thanks, that seems to have sort of worked ... Now the editor appears to recognize that there is an overlay image somewhere - a message says something about using the "o" key to toggle the supplied overlay. However, there is still no overlay image. Using the "o" key will change the entire map from its normal color to grey shade to darker grey shade to black. I'm running this on a mac btw, don't know if that matters or if there are any extra steps I'm missing. Just changing say a png file to a bmp file by changing the .png to .bmp does not work. You need an image converter to properly convert your google earth screenshot to a bmp image - try this http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-bmp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Ok thanks, that seems to have sort of worked ... Now the editor appears to recognize that there is an overlay image somewhere - a message says something about using the "o" key to toggle the supplied overlay. However, there is still no overlay image. Using the "o" key will change the entire map from its normal color to grey shade to darker grey shade to black. I'm running this on a mac btw, don't know if that matters or if there are any extra steps I'm missing. Make sure to expand your map to the expected size of the overlay otherwise it may end up so distorted you can't really tell what you are seeing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollister21 Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Success! Ultimately took a combination of almost all your suggestions. Thanks for the help! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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