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Custom Map Question

brotherlytechbrotherlytech Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
edited May 2013 in The Foundry
Is it possible to alter the layout or make hills or valleys in custom maps?
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    crok2crok2 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You cannot altar cryptic maps but you can make your own map and 'build' it the way you want. A few examples are 1) B2 borderlands. He made the entire map from scratch including the caves and the Keep. Also, The Beast Within is a totally hand made map. IE It is an outdoor map and they built the rooms manually. It is an indoor LOOKING map but it was totally hand made on an outdoor map.

    So although you can't altar what has already been placed... you can start with an empty map and create a masterpiece :)
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    brotherlytechbrotherlytech Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    So if you pick a custom map, lets say Outdoor, type: Empty, Map name "Flat Large" How would you put Hills into it?
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    chinspinnerchinspinner Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You can put rocks etc into it, but you cannot change the terrain.
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    abaddon77777abaddon77777 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    So can you paint your own custom outdoor maps or not? As in, hills, mountains, choose where the river flows, place buildings etc .

    If not.....then it kinda defeats the whole purpose of being able to make your own adventures.
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    hercooles130uscghercooles130uscg Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    abaddon77777 wrote: »
    So can you paint your own custom outdoor maps or not? As in, hills, mountains, choose where the river flows, place buildings etc .

    If not.....then it kinda defeats the whole purpose of being able to make your own adventures.

    As for terrain, no, you can not change the actual "mesh" of the terrain. What you can do is utilize rocks, water tiles and other things to heavily modify a map. I have made maps with rivers in them before using the water tiles.

    The main purpose of make your adventures is less about maximizing the customization of actual maps, and more about the customization of the stories and objects with in each maps. You can take the exact same map, and two different talented authors can turn them into so completely different things that even Cryptic would have a hard time telling they started from the same base map, just by using objects such as rocks, trees, buildings pieces, water, etc.
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