Map tweaking resources

[Grimthane]

I think this has come up before but I have been unable to find where.

Does anyone know whether there exists a way of changing the orientation of a map?

We have a great QB map for Italy, with N/S friendly edges, and would like to be able to use the map in a North Africa QB, which requires E/W friendly edges.

I understand that Pyewacket's converter does not do this. Is there anything out there that does?

Thanks very much.

Grim

[LeeW]

Can't you just use the second parameters page in the scenario editor to change the frienly map edges?

lee

[Kingfish]

You can't access the editor if the game began as a QB

[Grimthane]

My understanding is that as a QB the friendly edges are automatically E/W for a North African battle. You can do what you like in the editor, but they still run away E/W.

This means routed troops run sideways instead of away if your map happens to be N/S.

Run-away problems are a 'feature' of several otherwise excellent scenarios including Highlanders in Hell, St Edouard's and St Nazaire. Whether these could be fixed in the editor I don't know, but it's certainly no good for QB maps.

[mrpwase]

My understanding is that routed troops will run towards the nearest 'friendly edge', which is specified in the editor (or by the QB generator, which picks the common friendly edges for the theatre i.e. N/S for Italy, E/W for Eastern Europe).

[Grimthane]

Yes, mrpwase, that's exactly what happens.

The problem is how do you get around it if your map happens to be N/S and your theatre is Africa or Eastern Europe?

Pyewacket's map converter can flip maps vertically or horizontally, but a 90 degree turn is harder because you have a lot of oriented tiles that need to be swapped as well as the columns for rows switch.

I might have a go at it, but I thought there might be someone out there who could save me some hair-pulling.