MapDisplayUIControl

Map Display UI Control

The key items for using a control are:

The Height Map

This is a 32 bit TGA texture. The blue channel is used for the height information, for ease of use it is recommended that the heightmap be greyscale. The default name for this should be HEIGHT.TGA and it should live in the DATA/UI/TEXTURES folder (generally this will be in the local campaign folder).

The Map Image

This image is used to texture the map, and can be any valid image format. The default name is MAP.TGA (or DDS, etc). It should be in the DATA/UI/TEXTURES folder also. Note that these texture names are customisable if needed using the scenario file (see below).

Using a Map Display

Once you have a heightmap and a map image, you can see the map ingame. Add the control to a UI txt file as normal - the below example could be the base for a custom campaign screen:

[CAMPAIGNDISPLAY]
level 4
type mapdisplay
file MAP.DAT
x 0
y 0
width 1024
height 768
script CAMPAIGN.BSF
handler QUESTHANDLER