Heroes of might and magic maps how to#

You can also choose the the size of land to be placed. They are shown in the active option window. There are nine land types - water, grass, dirt, snow, desert, wasteland, swamp, ash, and beach. From here, you may begin by placing land on the map.Finally, on the bottom of the workbar are six more buttons - Choose Magnification, the 'Undo' button, 'New Map', Map 'Specs', Save, and Map Options. Below these buttons is a the active option window. Below that are six butons, the first in the top row is Land, folowed by Greenary and Scenery, Details, Rivers, Roads, and the Eraser. Notice the workbar on the right side of the screen, the top is a mini map of you current map. The majority of the window will be taken up by your map. When the New Editor opens, the map will be composed entirely of water if you chose to do it from scratch, while 'Random' will generate a map for you.This will open Map Editor for creating/adjusting maps. 'From Scratch' being to make the entire map by hand - the layout, options, castle placements, ect - while the 'Random' option will generate the map layout for you. Choose either the 'From Scratch' or 'Random' option.New Map is creating your own map, while LoadMap is opening an already completed map and altering it. Choose either the NewMap or LoadMap option.This is achieved by either choosing the Map Editor option on the autorun screen or by choosing the program in the file folder. If you choose the 'LoadMap' option, scroll down to which ever item you are currenly dealing with.

The order of this toturial is based mainly on the 'NewMap' option, as explained below.

Heroes of might and magic maps how to#

This is a Walkthtrough on the how to properly use the Map Editor program that comes with Heroes of Might and Magic II.