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Map Modding

Makes possible saving maps via the Chapi's Map Editor and loading these maps in mods.
Example map and region mod is "Test Mod Map". It is just a modified existing map for a new region.

Useful other mods to have: Cheats

The mod adds new mod items: "Map" and "Biome". The map item defines a map, which is a part of a specific region (e.g. Sobrious, Desertum, Saltu). In order to create a new region, the existing mod item Region has to be used. The link between the region and the maps is defined by the "Biome Group" property in the map mod item. Here comes the need of the biome mod item. The "biome" term does not define a new Region, but something specific for the random map generator. The only thing useful in this mod item is the group of the preset. These relations can be seen in the example mod "Test Mod Map".

Map creation workflow:

• Create a mod item map. The mod item ID is the map name. Copy an existing map from RandomMap group, if you are not familiar with the map properties.
  
• Ensure that you have the Chapi's map editor. Go to the mod editor map and hit F5. A list with maps will be displayed, and double clicking it should load that map.
  
• Open the map editor with F3 (it will be an EMPTY map).
  
• Reload the map using Ctrl-F5 to disable game logic.
  
• Edit the map (terrain, objects, effects, etc).
  
• Hit "Save Loaded Map" to save it.
  
• Exit the map editor by hitting F3 again and reload the map via Ctrl-F5 to test it.

In order to edit an existing NOT modded map, it has to be first converted to a modded map. To do so, the map mod item has a button "Import Loaded Map", below the "Copy From" property. It copies the currently loaded map into the modded map location. The map has to be reloaded into the map editor before convertion is possible.

Attention: creating new maps for an existing region would change the existing seeds! Therefore new maps need to have a new region.
The link between the maps and the regions is called BiomeGroup.

Guide: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084456260