Xpilot : Newbieguide  : Making your own maps

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Included with Xpilot is the mapeditor, called xp-mapedit.

On the left you can see all the mapelements, which were handled in chapter "The map". Below that are all the drawingtools. This editor already has a help, so if you get confused by all the buttons, look in there.
The only thing a map MUST have are bases. You can't start play without them.

Below those buttons you can set the width and heigth of your map. If you make your map too large the your server might have trouble running the map smoothly. Now just enter a name for your map in the Name-field and your own name in the Author-field and you are set.

When you press Prefs you can set all the preferences of your map.

Just browse through all the options to see what you can do. If you don't understand an option go to this part of my website where all the options are explained.

Some general combinations of mapsettings :

No more wallcrashes

MaxShieldedWallBounceSpeed:    30000
MaxUnshieldedWallBounceSpeed:    30000
MaxShieldedPlayerWallBounceAngle:    180
MaxUnshieldedPlayerWallBounceAngle:    180

Now you have to try really really hard to crash into a wall.

TeamPlay:    yes

But that's not all. You have to make teambases on your map too. You can do this by holding your mouse inside the mapediting-area and press a number. Xp-mapedit will then draw a teambase there.

Teamplay-maps also use limited lives very often.

LimitedLives:    yes
WorldLives:    57437

Of course 57437 would be quite pointless. Normal numbers of lives are 3, 4, 5. But it is your map, you decide.

Timing:    yes
RaceLaps:    76544

But you have to set a route too. Routes are plotted on the map by letters. You can make a checkpoint by pressing a letter on the keyboard and xp-mapedit will draw a checkpoint at the position of your mouse. A lap is completed when a player returns to checkpoint A again. 76544 laps are a bit much though. The default is 3.

Then you can't make maps.
    By J-a-r-n-o

Yes, you can. It takes a LOT of work, but you can write a map using a text editor. You just have to know the names of all the options, and the characters for all the map-elements. But it is possible.
    By Zemyla

J, how do i fix this prob.... where it would normally say 'Teamplay' or 'Max WallSpeed' it is black.... on every one of the options... what do I do?
    By 'D'

Hmm, you could mail a screenshot to Jarrod Miller, who wrote the mapeditor. mapedit@xpilot.org
And tell him what version you are using and how you installed it.
And of course which type of Unix you're using. (Probably Linux in your case).
    By J-a-r-n-o

J.... u know how i installed it ;D and probably know that i have no clue whatsoever as to how to do screenshots ;D
    By D

J, u ought to put you're 4.4.2J on your site so that newbies can just download it instead of messin' with patches :-D as of 11:21 CST ftp.xpilot/pub is down just a suggestion...
not to mention you're patch site doesn't have a comment section :-)))
    By D

It's good training for newbies. :-)
As for xp-mapedit, Gimp can do screenshots. XView can do screenshots.
There must be at least one program on your comp that can do screenshots??? ;-)
    By J-a-r-n-o

How do you make treasure chests?
    By WhirlWhinds

I take that back (found out).
    By Whirlwhinds

The map editor isnt compiled or installed by default, try looking at the xpilot source dir /src/mapedit/
    By GXTi