TouM, CD3 - City Wall Tower - How?

Targas

Maybe someone found a solution to the description on page 280 of the Tome of Ultimate Mapping. I tried to recreate the exercise to make a copy of the wall to create a tower, following all steps, but end up with a garbled version instead. Result attached. Can anyone help, please ?

Targas

and this is how it _should_ look...

Monsen

Yea, there are a minor error in the instructions there. The width for the outline entity and the width for the main entity should be swapped.

Targas

Many thanks, that did the tricks. Is there an errata notes with a correction of more errors (if any) in it somewhere ?

Monsen

No. As far as I know, that is the only error in the book (Only one I've had reported to me in any case, except for a few spelling mistakes which doesn't affect the instructions)

Jay_NOLA

This is another error I'm aware of.

There is a problem with the scaling with the tutorial on pages 42 & 43. The content in the red boarder on 42 doesn't match with the content inside the map boarder on 43.

If you want your map to match the images you have to do this. (This is following a copy and past of instructions I got from Monsen when I mentioned this back in early 2015.):

- Immediately after pasting the area into the new map (Immediately after doing step 11), before doing anything else, click the Scale button in the left toolbars.
- Hit P on the keyboard (to select by Prior), then D for Do It.
- The command prompt asks for scale origin. Type in 0,0 and hit enter
- The command prompt asks for scale, type in 0.85 and hit enter. This will scale the map down to 85%, which matches the images more closely (Although not perfectly. The map seems to have different scaling for X and Y)
- Continue the tutorial from step 12.

Monsen

Thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten about that one.
That particular tutorial have been completely rewritten for the next version of the Tome btw.