Region Map Making

[gag15]

Ok this Tutorial is for making your own Region Map.
It is really simple all you need is the Map Supplies, And well you are lucky cause I have them right here.

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And I guess I'll go into step-to-step guild.


-You well need-
Paint
Map Supplies

Ok open up a new paint project and the map supplies.

Then copy the dark green for the base of your region.

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Make the base how ever you wish!

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Now you use the lighter color then that one for more detial

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It should look like this

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Now use the lighter color from the last.

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Now add it to the map.

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Almost done

Ok the lighter color from the last.(lol, I have said that alot)

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Add it to the map.

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You guess it the last green color!

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Add it to the map. Should look like this or something like it!

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Now for islands do the same step-by-step bbut only make them smaller and you dont need to use all the colors.

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Add them to the map.

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Water Time
These are the three different types of water.

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Add them to the map.

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Now for the Town/city and routes!!

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I use this
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Ok the green is the starting town!

Well once all is added this is what it should look like!

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And if that map is used plz credit me and for the help, plz and thx u!

 

[foullump]

Awesome! Great! But, how do I get it into the game?

 

[DININI]

Use EliteMap . When u load the rom , go to the map window , right click and select import bitmap

 

[Shadow Weavile]

nice but please save it as .PNG ;)thats allot better for the sprites

 

[ElusionM]

Er>

Where is the link to download the program?

THX@!

 

[gag15]

I dont know how to ;oad them but i guess that you use elite map! Ill give that a try! To find elite mape just google or use yahoo to find it.

 

[ElusionM]

Nah Elite Map sucks. I dont think it supports EMerald as it always brings an error when I load a Ban/Map.

 

[Myoko-chan]

Where is the Map Supplies program?
And how will you apply bank/maps to the areas in your custom map?

 

[gag15]

Where is the Map Supplies program?
And how will you apply bank/maps to the areas in your custom map?

the map supplies is the first picture just save it to ur computer

 

[MasterZ]

That's awesome! That helped me alot for creating my own region.

How did you find out that green was the starter town?

 

[Myoko-chan]

You still didn't answer my question about applying maps to places in the map

 

[Teh Baro]

What's all this?

To put a map into a hack you have to first create the tileset, import it to the game (ruby:256 colors, FR:16 colors, search in unlzgba), then save the tilemap (which in rubi is a weird image right after the tileset, in FR i dunno lol ¯\(º_O)/¯) as raw (rawDump), edit with mew3's cyclone and then import to the rom with the loadraw options (cyclone has a help that explains this better)

This is just map making for fandom, not hacking!

 

[Lemonz]

Yeah, for one thing, if you wanted to use it in a rom hack, you would have to align it to a grid and make it out of less than 233 different tiles.

Well, 233 for ruby and sapphire, it's probably different for FR/LG.

 

[pokemon1412]

To make EliteMap supports emerald rom...

open file PokeRoms.ini

then find Pokemon Emerald - BPEE data...
then delete RomStyle line...

it should work.

 

[Cartmic]

Nice guide Gag :) Its seems usreful but I dont have elite Map :(

Then download it :P

http://helmetedrodent.kickassgamers.com/index.php?module=getfile&id=3

Zure.

 

[Lemonz]

You still didn't answer my question about applying maps to places in the map

Elitemap is meant to do that, but I tried and it doesn't seem to work. :/

 

[nrox653]

Wha...? This doesn't have anything to do with ROM hacking. There's no way to import this into the game, you have to first change the tilesets and all that crap. This is just a guide for fans creating a map for fun... This should be in the Pokemon General board. If you want to change the map you'll need to use Cyclone.

Edit: I see what made you believe you could make maps that way. In EliteMap, there's this world map thing in the lower left corner that you can change. However, that's just for pinpointing the location of the map you're editing. It doesn't edit the region map in-game.

 

[johnnysasaki]

But then. How do you edit the map?

 

[Naoshi]

But then. How do you edit the map?

The Baro's post explains that but we only know howto do that in R/S/E. D:


EDIT: Actually, the program, Cyclone explains it.

 

[johnnysasaki]

I don't have Cyclone. Where do you get it...?