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The game is $30.00 to purchase through Steam, which considering most online map-making tools run similarly (or more) and you get an entire videogame out of it, not a bad deal.Once you've purchased the game, you can go to your and then tools to select the Civilization V SDK. You'll have to install it first, which is fairly simple. Then you can run the program, which opens up to screen. Select the Worldbuilder. It then opens to.
You have three options - New Map, Load Map and Mods. The first two are self-explanatory, whereas the third one allows you to select active mods that go into creating your map. I'll take about the mod content I like to use to make maps in another post.Let's select. It takes you to a generator screen, which allows you to use a Map Script from a drop-down list or generate a blank map using your length and width preference of hexes. I personally prefer running 110x75, as this is large enough to fit one large continent or two small ones without crashing my computer when I load it up to take screenshots.
Once you have your preferences set, you can hit 'accept map.' It'll then take you to your new-fangled map.Let's first address the top. There is New, Open, Save - all self explanatory. Then an undo/redo selection, followed by description, scenario editor, mod data, change mods, scale, resize, and a check for mini-map and world view. For all intents and purposes, the only ones which matter to us are the first five, then Scenario Editor and possibly change mods.The is where we'll start - this allows you to add players and city-states. I prefer to use players as the nations of my world.
The color pallets are better for players and you can write in the name of the Civilization, as well as it's ruler. Let's add or two and then move on.In the righthand panel we have all of our tool tabs. Let's select first, which has brush shape, brush size and the type of brush.
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Civilization 5 uses a Hex system, although you can select 'Square' paint, which just changes the shape of the brushes. You'll probably never use it.
The brush size ranges from to. Most of time I use tiny through huge.
Clicking on it drops a list of them, though you can also just mousewheel while the brush size tab is selected to shuffle through quickly. The brush type is default to grassland, which let's use to trace a. While you hold down the left mouse button, it traces it. When released, it adjusts the new land you've created by creating, another tile type.Now, using a larger brush, you can fill in the. You'll notice in the prior image I've opened up the drop-list in Terrain for Brush Type, which has a number of options. I usually opt first for mountains. All land-type terrains (grassland, plains, snow, desert and tundra) create new land, whereas the rest can only be painted onto pre-existing land.
Ocean and coast remove land and coast painted that does not touch any ocean tiles will be read in-game as a lake.Below terrain is selection for These are also paintable and will not create new land mass, but must be placed on certain tile types. Anyway, let's get started and add in some. The scale is not really reliable. I would consider the city tile to contain everything that directly supports the city. While the city itself probably only takes up a small portion of the tile, things like farmland, quarries, and military training grounds that the city controls directly but aren't necessarily in the boundaries of the city. With each hex you travel through outside of the city the influence it has over the people and lands becomes less and less unless it is a place of great value in terms of resources or military strategy. My friends and I have been using the Civ 5 mapmaker for awhile, its pretty good, however, the program does have some problems, its tile selection is rather limited compared to most other mapmaking tools (though can probably be modded in), it also takes rather long to load and if you keep the program open for too long without activity (like during a session) it can crash.
Lastly, it doesn't center well when zoomed into meaning that you can't really make a detailed screenshot. Additionally, rivers are confined to hexlines, making them seem a bit unnatural.