It’s often easier to layout the map in this mode. In the above screenshot I’m not looking at modeled terrain.

Toggle Display Mode- This changes how you are viewing the map.

I have it set to display help in the above screenshot.

Show/Hide Help- This displays some useful information for using the Map Editor.

If you want to change the victory point limits for your map then use this option to modify the MapProperties.xml file and regenerate the map.

File- This is where you can edit the MapProperties.xml file, go to the folder where the map information is stored or exit the Map Editor.

The most useful functions in the above editor are: It starts with 2 player Nexas’s (Nexi?), a Turinium Generator and one other region. The following is the default map that you are given. As you will see in the demo I change to Frozen terrain later, it’s easy to do so don’t worry too much about your selection here. I selected Terran (grassland) terrain and default lighting. The large ones are ridiculous and will take a lot of time to design. Ashes small maps are what other games would call huge. You probably assume that you will run out of space quickly on small maps, you would be wrong. For your first map I’d select a smaller map size. If you create a new one the menu to the right is presented. From there you can decide if you want to modify an existing map, or create a new one. That will add a Map Editor button to the main menu of the game. To enable the Map Editor add the “-modding” (without the quotes) to the Launch Options for the game. You can get this game directly from us or on Steam, and if you are working on a mod submit it to ModDB. Sometimes that turns out horribly (okay, a lot of the time that turns out horribly), but sometimes it turns out brilliantly. With direct access to the files you can do things the developer never expected. An editor only allows you to do the things the developer setup for you to change.

But they also keep you from doing incredibly good things. Editors are nice because they typically keep you from doing “bad” things. You can mod the game the same way the developers make changes to the game. This is not always going to be a managed and curated editor with limited options. This document will introduce some of what is possible, and we will make a map and a mod to take advantage of this. Modders have access to the gameplay elements to change and tweak as they desire. But it was also built from the ground up to be mod friendly. In the end you win by destroying their Nexas or controlling enough of the map to win via victory points. You fight for regions to get resources, you fight to protect the areas you control and you fight to destroy your enemy’s armies and infrastructure. Modder’s Guide for Ashes of the SingularityĪshes is a large scale RTS where you wage war with huge armies over massive areas.

Ashes of the singularity mods