Crop an existing theater/map?

[Cally]

Has anyone already tried to crop--i.e. make smaller--an existing theater/map while retaining the uncropped objectives,etc.? Or do I have to start from scratch beginning with DEM2Terrain?

Thx,
Cally

[Sherlock]

Has anyone already tried to crop--i.e. make smaller--an existing theater/map while retaining the uncropped objectives,etc.? Or do I have to start from scratch beginning with DEM2Terrain?

Thx,
Cally

Sorry but there is no way to "crop" an existing theater other than from starting from scratch.

[Luk]

Cally wrote:Has anyone already tried to crop--i.e. make smaller--an existing theater/map while retaining the uncropped objectives,etc.? Or do I have to start from scratch beginning with DEM2Terrain?

I guess it is possible. I was thinking about it 2 years ago. Europe theater did not work for me, so I wanted to make it's exact 64 crop. I choosed some central part, aligned by segments edges (128 segment-grid matched 64 segment one).

I think you can export croped terrain as a region and later import it into your smaller template.
You can also export objectives to the excel sheet. Than you have to lower x,y values in excel and import them into your new theater. You have to make new links, I think.

Its only vision..
Luk

[Sherlock]

You can't account/correct for the distortion induced in the re-projection of the coordinate system so your previously aligned terrain tiles will have increasing offsets (deltas) from your objectives as you move outward from the center of the new 64x64 size theater. Or so that is what I've seen.

[Luk]

hi Sherlock.
There is no need to temper with projection in my "guide".
There is only some textured tile checker + objectives on it.
You will take part of this checker, then you will place objectives on it.
The only problem is, that exported objectives have moved origin (in case your crop is not lower left quater of theater ).
The solution is easy in my opinion - count the number of offseted tiles
and make subtraction.

But Cally, you have to know the relations among theater files
and use some additional utils to produce new mea, thr...etc files.
Luk