How do you make your own overmap areas?

[stone94]

as the title says i was wondering how i could make my own buildings, and terrains to help add a variety of places to explore such as jungles and desert areas for those who actually survive long enough to travel beyond the city limits.

[Oddzball]

its not to bad making areas or buildings,

the real hard part is getting them to spawn properly.

Because the map is randomly generated, it happens a lot that stuff gets overriden by other areas.

OM_SPECIAL is what controls the special areas in the game, like beehives, labs etc, the game actually considers these to be “Dungeons” if you will…

Then its just a matter of drawing out the terrain with c++ on a 0-23 square grid
Then adding item spawn fields.
Then adding monster spawn areas.

[stone94]

thank you for the info, if i come up with any good areas and get them working properly ill be sure to post, could take a while though as my skills are currently limited to Ruby, but i can learn C++ from there im a fast learner so as long as i dont get lazy i should be able to contribute to the game

[uzername]

Here’s some info in dis old wiki: http://whalesdev.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modding (‘Adding structures to the map (buildings, regular locations …)’ section)