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Hello,

I just wanted to point you all too a potential CentrED type community forming.

Over at Orbsydia there is a forum for centred design.

http://www.orbsydia.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?153-UO-CentrED

These forums seem a little quiet. I was wondering if there was any sort of CentreD Mapper community out there?

I've been using centred for a couple years now on various shard projects and I find its pretty much the most awesome tool of UO dev. I've managed to refine mapping to an art that really allows us to extend UO maps far beyond its official forms.  So I was wondering if there was a pool of knowledge out there for the various mappers.

Also I am looking for a place where I can recruit centred mappers to take on a large project. To create a rich and beautiful world, that is far better than the original released for OSI.

I have been spending a lot of time with Centred once of the most difficult things to deal with were the transition areas between similar tile types. Such as grass and forest for example, its hard to see. What would be helpful is using the information in the art.mul for texture date. The image of the title is larger and square. Having this image appear on a mouse over highlight of tile information could be very helpful to see how the transition lines up.

Hello,

There is a feature that would be increase workflow a lot. Would it be possible to to create a option to pop up an undocked (like the minimap) resizable tile selection window. Those working with dual monitors will find this useful. So of like Inside UO on your second screen so you can quickly see all the tiles you need and quickly scroll through the list.

Let me know if this is feasable and if it will be a future feature.

Thanks

Hitman, a very big thanks to you. Your complete map editing tool is beyong awesome. It makes land tile work easy not to mention provides a live view of your z-axis work.

I have been working with it for a short while not and seriously you have provided the means to create the most map ever. I will most likely post some pictures when I finish off areas.

I do have some suggestions that could improve the application.

When you select a tool you often have several sub options, it would provide a better workflow in the options would in a sub bar or at the empty space on the bar. An example of this is seen in photoshop. It would allow you to quickly tweak options as your need changes.

The second option that would be useful its a translucent grid overlay to highlight the slope. I have been currently working with mountain regions and have had a hard time making them look good as its hard to tell teh slope on rock tiles. I came up with a trick of drawing the mountain region in stone pavers doing the z work I need and the drawing over with mountain tiles. The stone pavers provide a perfect grid pattern that really allows you the see the slope on the tiles.

anyways an excellent job sir

Thank you again for this wonderful tool.