I can take no responsibility for any damage, injury, discomfort, virus invasions, offence, death, illness, plauges of locusts etc. caused by the use, misuse or by not using this program or any associated files or documents or any files produced, whether you recieved this program in a form which differed from the form I distributed or a form which had been altered. In other words, I take no responsibility for any ill effects caused by MAP MAKER.
Right, I think that gets the disclaimer out of the way. Now for the copyrightand license stuff:
This program is Freeware. It can be freely distributed in an unmodified form,although I still retain the copyright. You may modify certain parts of the !RunImage file for your own personal use (read the scrolltext for details), andyou can alter the sprites in the S1 file. *** YOU MAY NOT ALTER ANY OTHER PARTS, AND UNDER *NO* CIRCUMSTANCES DISTRIBUTE OR PASS ON A MODIFIED COPY! ***
I take no responsibility (here we go again) for any modifications you make orany effects caused by this. You may not make money from this program - if youdistribute it you may only charge for COSTS or give it away from free. I didn't go to the effort of writing this program so someone else could maake any financial gain from it.
MAP MAKER is fairly simple to use, and guides you by making various icons andpieces of help available throughout the program. The best way to learn how to use it is to try it out, and create some maps. The maps you create can be used as level data for games for example - if you find a use for it in any program etc. please give me a mention.
To start with, you either have to load a saved map or start a new one. The file loading (or saving later on) can be slightly confusing. To start with, youmust confirm whether you wish to continue or not. If you do, you will be asked to enter the name of the disc to save to. For exmaple, you could use:
ADFS::IDEDisc4
or
ADFS::0
You must then give the directory to save the map into. If you want to save tothe root directory, just press RETURN. Otherwise, give it the name of a pre-crated directory. You must then type the filename. Make sure you get all of this information right - any error will cause the program to quit. This would be extremely annoying to say the least if it does this when you are trying to save a massive, intricately designed map. I recommend you save regularly under different names so that you don't lose hours of work. This will be the first part of the program to be updated when I get around to doing version 2.
The actual editing part of the program is fairly self-explanitory - just remeber that when the pointer is over the map area SELECT places the currently slected type and ADJUST places block type 0 (it can be used as a form of delete). The information section is also self-explanitory, and if any information is already stored it will be showed. Saving files is very similar to loading files, read the section above.
When in EDIT mode, there is a scrolltext you can read, although it isn't easyon the eyes. Just click on the smiley face, and press SPACE to exit. This maycontain some useful information, and if you don't want to ruin your eyes justload the 'scrolltext' file using !Zap or !Edit etc.
