Hello all. I've been doing some writing, and want to start taking screenshots for some stories which I plan to publish on the forums if I ever get them finished. However, to do so I need to create some custom maps, but I'm not that computer savvy and I have literally no idea what to do. If someone could walk me through the process, I'd be very grateful.
Below are some pictures which are similar to what I want to do, taken from the Big Giant Icon Thread.
Quote from: kelpplankton on May 20, 2013, 02:55:15 AM
As time passes, nature reclaims our abandoned city.
(https://i.imgur.com/6ZSQrbS.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WFExD8D.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rs3salb.jpg)
Even the dance clubs are not free from nature.
(https://i.imgur.com/RMd0e1P.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6XmwYCI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hTDbrLq.jpg)
Or uh, from cars?
(https://i.imgur.com/jxCDWwY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XDNrO6M.jpg)
Hold on, what's going on here?
(https://i.imgur.com/nh2nENE.jpg)
Oh.
(https://i.imgur.com/EFvTDvW.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rKJPefq.jpg)
Ohhhhhhh.
(https://i.imgur.com/oE3j6Wk.jpg)
Pocket D's sky sure looks ominous when stuck into a normal city.
(https://i.imgur.com/m6J9R69.jpg)
And the Rogue Isles are much safer now that they've started erecting warwalls.
But here's something that seems busted in Atlas Park on it's own:
(https://i.imgur.com/e9ASgTe.jpg)
There's these patches of dirt that seem to be alligned to the wrong plane- presumably these are supposed to be on the ground above where I am here, not on the same level as the tunnel. The parking lot in the area above this is suspiciously clean for the dirtier buildings that are around it, so I think someone made a mistake when putting this section together.
Anyway- this is super cool, so thanks for the update! Hopefully there'll be more than just an empty city to run around in alone one of these days, though I doubt that sort of thing would be part of an offline mode hack. ;)
Edit: I found a page that teaches people how to make custom maps.
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7551.0.html
Now I just need to interpret the pigg files and run demoedit, and those are two things I still don't know how to do. Any help would be appreciated.