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Here's A Very Simple Xcom 1 Map Editor


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The file is a self extracting arj file. Change the extention from .ex_ to .exe and run it in your main UFO directory. It will spit out a big DOS batchfile called chanjmap.bat and two .com files called yesorno.com and getakey.com. Let me know what you think?

I will update it from time to time and place the updates here.
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Guest stewart
Okay here's V1.1, I added more maps.

As above this is a self extracting archive. Download the file, change the name to Chanmap.exe, run it.

I particularly like the Shantytown map and "Shoot-out @ Mega Mall". =b
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Does it run? You should have ran the self extracting exe from the Game main directory. Once doing that it wants to install a backup set of files. If it can't find the files to backup then the stuff wasn't dearchived in the main game folder. If it does create the backup then it's in the right place. Reading the batchfile itself will show how it works. For now play with the change maps feature (select "[e] Change an entire map" I believe) it presents a choice of terrain types. Pick one. Whatever you pick has a set of maps it will replace the "default" or previous version with. It only effects the particular terrain type. If you just change a desert map but land in farm land nothing different will happen.

If you decide to erase it remember to run "[g] Safely remove the generated backup" from the main menu first. It will put all the game maps back to their origninal settings and then remove the backups.
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Yep, it runs. I changed the urban map to the shootout at the mall map, and started the clock spinning. What do ya know? The first UFO went on a terror mission and I got to try the new map. All that open 'parking' space proved fatal to my poor unarmored rookies as they were cut down trying to rush the mall from the other end of the parking lot.


[img]http://www.xcomufo.com/shot0002.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.xcomufo.com/shot0003.jpg[/img]
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I mean that this editor do not allow to create completly new map. I mean placing everything myself. I worked with it a little and as far as I know its only changing original maps to other ones.
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If you mean, put stairs here put a tree there etc. then yep you can't do that. It just rearranges already existing maps. I think there is an actual map editor out there, I think it's in German though.
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It does not work. It just says that it can't fint a program to run it, and it asks you what one. :cussing: Stupd XP security messures! What can i do???
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The way it works is that it runs then quits then you start-up XCOM. I'm suffering with 95, so here's an idea but an XP user would be best to answer this.
1) Go to the finder.
2) Search for command.com
3) Run command.com
4) Navigate to the directory with chanjmap.bat
5) Run chanjmap from there.

Make sure that yesorno.com and getakey.com are in the same directory as chanjmap.bat, and that all of these are in the main UFO directory. Let me know.
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Oh no! Not dos! :crying: i beg you! anything else then dos!

<_< have not used DOS since windows 3.2 <_<
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Guest stewart
Maybe you can tell it that command.com is the "app" to run it with. Besides the actual "DOS" you'd have to do (assuming you installed it right) is:
1) cd c:\games\UFO (assuming thats where it is)
2) chanjmap

That's not so bad even for Gen Y types who've know nothing but GUI.

Let me know.

Has anyone tried the "Shanty Town" map in cultivated?
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[quote name='mikker' date='Mar 27 2003, 05:27 PM']no. i have cjanmap.ex_ only. The problem is that i CANNOT exband it.[/quote]
No problem rename the file to have .exe at the end then run it.

So has anyone tried the shanty town map replacement for farmland?
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Try starting a new game but first before you run Xcom setup some maps. Then run Xcom and XcomUFO and see if it still crashes.
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While Stewart is figuring out his new batch file, I took the liberty to create a GUI for chanjmap. (I THOUGHT it'd be rather easy, and practise my programming skills(*cough*) a little. Seems like it required a lot more work than I thought, so I'm putting it up here :beer: .

[url="http://users.skynet.be/fa220383/xcomufo/chanjmap.ex_"]chanjmapGUI[/url]
download the file, rename&extract 'chanjmapGUI.exe'. Edited by j'ordos
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Oh so you took the non interface commands out of the batch file and stuck them in a program you wrote from the ground up? Or does it actually run the batch file?
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[quote name='j'ordos' date='Aug 19 2003, 04:53 PM']While Stewart is figuring out his new batch file, I took the liberty to create a GUI for chanjmap.[/quote]
Oh crap! Forgot about this! :Blush:
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well, now you brought this back up, I noticed the link to the file had a password protection? :huh?: . Oh well, as I now have some room at my personal webspace again, I uploaded them there...

Also, note that with this post, I'm ahead of gangsta :happybanana: Edited by j'ordos
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[quote name='stewart' date='Mar 1 2004, 12:03 AM']Read this thread from the beginning; all of it.[/quote]
you cannot change the .ex file in XP. if you add .exe, its name is just chenjmap.exe.ex.

can't someone upload a zipped down .exe instead?
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is it that hard to just go (in a windows explorer window) to Tools > Folder Options > View tab > disable Hide extensions for known file types?

note: applies to any windows :)
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start the command prompt:

1 ) under "start" click on run
2 ) type cmd in the text field (command prompt starts up.
3 ) navigate to the directory using "cd". "cd .." goes up a directory, "cd " enters a directory.
4 ) in the directory with chanjmap type "dir chanj*"
5 ) type "ren chanjmap.exe"
6 ) type "exit"
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[quote name='Robo Dojo 58' date='Mar 2 2004, 01:21 PM']Here it is, all in one pretty picture. I hope it helps.[/quote]
wow, Large Fonts! :blink:
oh, and why the "censoring" of folder names? i doubt someone'll hack your computer with that :P Edited by SupSuper
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[quote]wow, Large Fonts!
oh, and why the "censoring" of folder names? i doubt someone'll hack your computer with that[/quote]
I have a 15" Screen. My large fonts are the same size on my screen as your small fonts are on yours. :crying:

The "Censoring" makes the Jpeg much smaller. I don't know how much, exactly, but every bit helps.

Oh, yeah, and I don't need everyone checking out my "collection". :)
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this sux, my tools doesnt have a folder options so i cant get to the view tab to disable hide extensions

ive been trying to figure out how to do this for monthes and i thought this would be it but im still stuck (if i do get it to work can i change .wmf music files to .mp3 format with it?
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[quote name='floater medic' date='Sep 15 2004, 09:32 AM']if i do get it to work can i change .wmf music files to .mp3 format with it?
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Changing the extension does not change the file format. Depending on the players you have installed, they may or may not be able to play the files again.
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