TX-Kingsnake's Land planning tutorial. This is long and boring. Anyone watching you do this (especialy females) will think you are a dork. It is not a step by step tutorial. You need working knowledge of an image editor and mission building. You should also have made atleast one successful pass at the fire writer. I am using generic terms so don't expect step by step.Create a 100 x 100 pixel layered image. Create a new layer of random noise with about ten colors. Select one of the colors in the image and cut it into a new layer named 01. Repeat this untill all ten colors have a layer. Save the image as your main color map.
Take each of the layers one by one and create a 1 bit black and white file. You will have ten 1 bit bitmap files named 01.bmp through 10.bmp. Each will look something like this.
Create yourmission in FMB and place an object, I chose a train car, and open the yourmission.mis in note pad. Go to the fire writer site (not always availalbe)
http://firew.3utilities.com/ and read the instructions and subsection called problems. Go to the fire writer generator,
http://firew.3utilities.com/fw_input.html Browse for the 1 bit bitmap file you made called 01.bmp. Look at your mission file in note pad and copy the x and y coordinates of the traincar into the fire writer generator. For example X=24636.41 Y=26833.26[NStationary] 0_Static vehicles.stationary.Stationary$Wagon1 1 24636.41 26833.26 360.00 0.0 Meters per pixel I used 20. ADD to object number: I used 1001. Hit send and save the zip file called objects. Extract the Zip file and rename the text file 01.txt. Open 01.txt and copy all the text and paste it to your mission file under the traincar (traincars are called wagons). Make sure no blank lines or incorrect spacing occurs. For example it looks partialy like this. [NStationary] 0_Static vehicles.stationary.Stationary$Wagon1 1 24636.41 26833.26 360.00 0.0 1002_Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0 25176.4 26833.3 0 0 1003_Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0 26056.4 26833.3 0 0 1004_Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0 25036.4 26853.3 0 0 1005_Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0 25496.4 26853.3 0 0 1006_Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0 25616.4 26853.3 0 0 Save the mission file and open it in FMB to ensure proper placement. If it is o.k. open the file in notepad and erase the all the camp fires that look simmilar to 1002_Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0 25176.4 26833.3 0 0. Now save. Open your mission in FMB and see that all the fires you placed are gone and your mission works. That was the test to make sure you did everything before going on. Now go back to
http://firew.3utilities.com/fw_input.html Browse for the 1 bit bitmap file you made called 01.bmp. Look at your mission file in note pad and again copy the x and y coordinates of the traincar into the fire writer generator. Meters per pixel I used 20. ADD to object number: I used 1001. Hit send and save the zip file called objects (leave browser open you'll come back to this). Extract the Zip file and rename the text file objects.txt to 01.txt. Erase the objects.zip file. Hit back button in internet browser. Browse for the 1 bit bitmap file you made called 02.bmp. The x and y coordinates are the same. Meters per pixel are the same. Open 01.txt and note the highest numbered campfire. In the example above it is 1006 enter one number higher 1007 in ADD to object number:. Hit send and save the zip file called objects (leave browser open you'll come back to this). Extract the Zip file and rename the text file objects.txt to 02.txt. Erase the objects.zip file. (Repeat begin) Hit back button in internet browser. Browse for the 1 bit bitmap file you made called 03.bmp. The x and y coordinates are the same. Meters per pixel are the same. Open 02.txt and note the highest numbered campfire and enter one number higher in ADD to object number:. Hit send and save the zip file called objects (leave browser open you'll come back to this). Extract the Zip file and rename the text file objects.txt to 03.txt. Erase the objects.zip file. (Repeat for all 10) Now create a new mission in FMB call it houselist. Place a few buildings from the objects list that you want in the city. Open houselist.mis in notepad. For example:[NStationary][Buildings] 0_bld House$Reichstag 1 24600.82 25913.47 360.00 1_bld House$BerlinGates 1 24574.69 25547.76 360.00Copy bld House$Reichstag 1Open 01.txtSave as (paste name) bld House$Reichstag 1Edit Replace Find what:Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0Replace with:bld House$Reichstag 1Replace alledit select allcopyOpen yourmission.mis and type [Buildings] under [NStationary] it looks like[NStationary] 0_Static vehicles.stationary.Stationary$Wagon1 1 24636.41 26833.26 360.00 0.0 [Buildings] Paste under [Buildings] Looks like this [NStationary] 0_Static vehicles.stationary.Stationary$Wagon1 1 24636.41 26833.26 360.00 0.0[Buildings] 1002_bld House$Reichstag 1 25176.4 26833.3 0 0 1003_bld House$Reichstag 1 26056.4 26833.3 0 0 1004_bld House$Reichstag 1 25036.4 26853.3 0 0(repeat begin)Open houselist.mis in notepad. For example:[NStationary][Buildings] 0_bld House$Reichstag 1 24600.82 25913.47 360.00 1_bld House$BerlinGates 1 24574.69 25547.76 360.00Copy bld House$BerlinGates 1Open 01.txtSave as (paste name) bld House$BerlinGates 1Edit Replace Find what:Static vehicles.stationary.Campfire$CampfireAirfield 0Replace with:bld House$BerlinGates 1Replace alledit select allcopyOpen yourmission.mis Paste under last object under [Buildings] (Repeat for all 10)Open FMB and see if you like it. I don't expect you to get it right the first time, it took me a while to figure it out so don't get grumpy.
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