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ORIGINAL: ericbabe
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by completely 2D. Do you want to have a planar map with no height changes? You could probably mod this by deleting the map height files. If this is what you're looking for, I can look into providing instructions for this.

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

No wodin, the 3D effect for hills is still there regardless of map style chosen.

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ORIGINAL: ericbabe
Oh, I see what you're saying. The green shading on the board-game-style maps are the graphics from the new ATB board-game maps. The brown shading for the hills can only work when my shader is drawing the graphics, not when the game is using the board-game art. I think you're asking for the original game maps (which had brown hills) and not the maps from the ATB second version (which uses greenish hills). Does that sound right?

If enough people show an interest in creating their own giant maps, I'll try to put together a converter to convert big JPG files to the BYT files used in the game. If we do this, then perhaps someone could mod the original style board-game maps.

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive
After some thought, I think the brown doesn't show because the height is no longer there. Since the los file is still there, a hill may still block los, but the increase in AP for climbing hills may not.

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ORIGINAL: ericbabe

Oh, I see what you're saying. The green shading on the board-game-style maps are the graphics from the new ATB board-game maps. The brown shading for the hills can only work when my shader is drawing the graphics, not when the game is using the board-game art. I think you're asking for the original game maps (which had brown hills) and not the maps from the ATB second version (which uses greenish hills). Does that sound right?

If enough people show an interest in creating their own giant maps, I'll try to put together a converter to convert big JPG files to the BYT files used in the game. If we do this, then perhaps someone could mod the original style board-game maps.

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ORIGINAL: Gerry
Eric, I did not know that the 2nd edition of the AtB boardgame has a different depiction of heights than the 1st edition. Do you have an example of what this 2nd edition version looks like? (An example of the 1st edition is in this AAR I think: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/785690/conflict-of-heroes-aar-firefight-6-breakthrough)

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive
Gerry I can't guarantee that this will work for every map but: navigate to the Data\Maps folder, move the nameofmap_height.bmp to another folder on your computer. Don't delete it in case you need it for MP. I tried it with KV2 and it worked. Didn't have brown though.

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ORIGINAL: Gerry
Eric, is this shades-of-green approach to "2-D" hills easier to do in the computer game than the brown hills? (Again what I am looking for is a boardgame option where hills do not show up in 3-D).

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ORIGINAL: ericbabe
It depends what you mean by "easier." It's not any harder to code, but it takes days of work to edit those giant map files, and I'd have to pay an artist $1000 to make brown hills on the flat maps. So in that sense it's harder.