Tutorial: Scenario Creation

Components

Landscape

The landscape - also called map - is a fundamental part of any scenario. After you have finished the concept for your scenario and created the necessary files, creating a landscape is probably your first priority. In OpenClonk there are three ways to create a landscape, these are:

• Dynamic maps using Scenario.txt, which has the drawback of only having stretched and scaled sinusoidal landscapes. This is an obsolete feature and should rather not be used to create landscapes as they are boring.
• Static maps where a drawn landscape is stored in a Map.bmp file, where each pixel represents MapZoom pixels ingame. Check out this tutorial if you want to learn how to draw and save static landscapes.
• Generated maps using a Landscape.txt file where you can create dynamic landscapes using complex algorithms. A lengthy tutorial about the map generator can be found here.