Gmapping
 

Alright I really want to know how to gmap but nobody will help me so I thought it would be better if I just post it on the forums, that way people from all time zones might be able to help me. So if your willing to do alittle explaining please help me.

theres a couple ways you can do it.

You can use a gmap generator and all you do is type in the width/length of the gmap you want and then the gmap name. (Unfortunately i always lose the link to this generator)

Another way is to use graal's generator tool.

And you can do it manually.

Let me see if i can find that link, it will probablly be the easiest for you

Edit: heres the link for the gmap generator. http://www.graal.us/tools/generatelevels.html

Crow and a couple others have made their own, but i prefer using the link atm.

What does it mean by prefix? I'm confused by this :/ I don't know how big i want the gmap it is confusing me

a prefix is the name of the gmap and is the name people will see. for example, i think zodiac's is zodiacworld. in every outside level you see zodiacworld_. ex: zodiacworld_ab-14.nw. And the size of the gmap is how big do you want it? 10 wide and 10 length is 100 levels. I think Era's gmap is somewhat close to that size. Before you start a gmap, you need to know how big you want it. is it for a overworld, event, etc...

oh i think i'm starting to get it besides what is center x and y? And what will the width and height be for 2 levels 2 and 2?or like .2 or something?

you can't have .2 of a level. 2 x 2 means you will have a gmap thats a total of 4 levels. 2 wide and 2 in length. the center is center of the gmap. in a gmap 2 x 2, there really isn't a direct center so just pick a level.

I think i'm understanding everything else but i'm still lost with the center.

to be honest, im not sure what why the center of the gmap is needed. But nonetheless it only takes a few minutes to fill out. say you have a gmap 3 x 3 look at the picture below (yeah it's bad but it gets the job done)

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9664/loli.png

The red box would be the center

oh thx and when click generate how is it going to know which levels i am using because i clicked generate and it says "im not that stupid"

What did you input for each category for it to say that?

Edit: Your center x/y probablly don't make any sense.

Prefix: Era_test.nw
Height: 3
width: 3
X: 32
Y:27

if your gmap is 3 x 3 how can your x and y be 32 and 27? Look at my picture, theres only 9 levels, and your saying the center is level 32 and level 27. The center is 2, 2.

when it asks for the center, it isn't asking for the exact center of the gmap. you can make your gmap be 3 x 3 levels and still make the "center" the top left corner of the map. the "center" of the gmap is the level that will be named prefix_00-00.nw

like on Era, era_present_00-00.nw is unstick me. it's not in the exact center of the gmap at all. it's just the way you want to name your levels this way the main gmap level isn't some random combination.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh i thought you meant th ecoordinents i didn't know it's like graphing. Thanks man imma try out again but, when i click generate how does it know wwhat levels i'm using?

It automatically names the levels based on the prefix you gave. Thats why this tool is so helpful.

@frankie: Ahh i always wondered what the center was needed for

But how do i set certain levels to the gmap? I have more then 9 levels saved on my computer so how do i set a certain 9 levels?

oh.. you need to link them all together then make your own gmap file. I forget exactly how to do this but there's probably a guide somewhere on these forums. it's very simple.

Oh i think Tim or someone taught me let me look in history

when u use this tool it makes and connects new levels. Are you wanting to use levels that you already made on this gmap?

And frankie is right. In the .gmap file you'd edit that to connect levels manually for a gmap

Yes

if i were you, i'd just copy and paste the level onto the gmap