Maps
This section is reserved for custom maps and marker locations. You can find the new town maps HERE, as well as a brief writeup by AE on designing your own custom maps of regions.
Custom Marker Locations are fairly simple to add. Simply find your Horizons folder on your computer (default location is C:/program files/artifact entertainment/horizons/). Open the folder 'prefs' and then go into the file that says 'dawn_<char name>'. Here you will find a file called 'UIMapMarkers.def'. You can open this with Notepad or your favorite text editor. I suggest making a backup copy before you do anything else,just in case...
The information in this file is laid out in this format:
MAP
{
string MapName = "Kion"
MAP_MARKER
{
string Image = "map_marker_player.png"
float W = 12
float H = 12
string Text = "Ambrosia Vendor"
float WorldX = 20317.7
float WorldY = 24575.7
etc, etc, etc...
}
}
You have a couple options on how to import the data. The easiest is to just cut and paste the files here onto the end of your file. ONLY do this if you haven't made any marks on the town maps you downloaded. Use Method 2 if you want to replace your marks with the marks from these custom markers. Find the entry after 'string MapName = "<town>" and highlight everything from the 'MAP' above that line to the next 'MAP' and delete it. Then copy and paste the entries from the files here. Option 3 is more time consuming, but it's the only way to preserve your markers and add the new custom ones. Copy and paste all of the data in the files here just below the last entry for the particular map you want to edit. Then compare the old and new markers and remove any doubles. You can also do this in the game using the map editor there, if you prefer.
Custom Map Files - Coming Soon
Custom Map Markers - right click and save on your computer for easy use!