Ryandor.com

I used Dragon for a while, and had it pretty well customized for a while (you can find some of my scipts on Rayandor's site). But, as good as Dragon is, it is pretty limited by the 256 colour pallet for both terrain textures and altitude. Which, in turn, required me to do a lot of adjusting in WorldForge.

Then one day Syduis' Map Converter came out. It uses two bitmaps - one for terrtain textures, another for altitude. I was hooked. Now I had a tool with which I could have every single texture easily available, AND altitudude chages where I had complete control over exactly how high I wanted the land (from -127 to +127).

Okay, so the final stages of map rendering take a little longer. Transition and Item Placer needed some work to make them actually useful, but that wasn't hard. UOCoast isn't exactly fast, but it does the job for land to water transitions. But the fact I how have complete control over the map, and spend a LOT less time "fixing" things in WorldForge more than makes up for it.

so everyone can have a chocie cuz when i got smc i didnt know anything about it and still dont understand it and want to know why not make a tutorial and a mod for smc and ask ryandor to post it to help peeps have a chocie as to which map making program they want to use if you do then more peeps will use smc cuz do you see any tutorials about smc around i mostly see dragon and do you see mods for it if there were more advertising about it then more chances are that more peeps will use it to

I did actully have a short toturial on it at paigelore, but I need to find and repost it.
It's good to see someone actually being able to use it. Maybe you'd be able to write a guide for it? along with some info on the other programs you use to get transitions, etc.

-Ryandor

I'm suprised anyone uses it. I rarely hear anything about it...

I think I can guess why so few people use it.

1 - Dragon has been around a while, so people are familliar with it and it's pretty well known.

2 - SMC is pretty new, and not well "advertised", so few people have even heard of it.

But I'll take up the challenge of writing a tutorial/guide. That should help a little.

I do have my customizations for SMC and Transition available, in case anyone wants to download them.
http://home.mindspring.com/~candyman3/d ... Tweaks.zip