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<h1 align="center">The Colossus Battlelands Builder</h1>
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BattlelandsBuilder</h2>
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<div class="p">BattlelandsBuilder is a (crude) tool to interactively create
Battlelands for use with the "
<a href="http://colossus.sf.net/">Colossus</a>
" Game. It has the same requirements as Colossus itself, see
<a href="README.html">README</a>
and
<a href="build.html">Colossus build-HOWTO</a>
.</div>
<div class="p">To create the program, just type "ant bbjar". See the
<a href="build.html">Colossus build-HOWTO</a>
. for more details. This should create the BattlelandsBuilder.</div>
<div class="p">You can use it directly, starting from a bare plains hex, or
you can give a pre-existing Battlelands as a starting point by loading the
previous Battlelands with the File menu. </div>
<div class="p">Editing is point-and-click : click in the middle of an hex
to get a popup-menu to change the type and elevation of the hex ; click
near the border of an hex to get a popup-menu to change this border of this
hex (warning: beware slope or wall who can easily be put on the wrong hex,
as there's not much visual clue of their orientation).</div>
<div class="p">If at least on hex is selected (surrounded by red), that
means the terrain use a startlist, i.e. custom entry hexes for the defender
(like the Tower in regular Titan). If no hexes are selected, normal rules
apply.</div>
<div class="p">The "File" Menu:</div>
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<ul>
<li>The "Load Map" menu item is used to load a Battlelands
file in the map. The loaded battleland is
<em>merged</em>
with the currently displayed battleland. Use "Erase Map"
below if you want to start from scratch.</li>
<li>The "Save As" menu item save the Battleland to a file
choosen by the user.</li>
<li>The "Show Battleland" menu item dump the Battleland on
standard output (can be seen only if you have a CLI or a way to access
standard output...)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="p">The "Special" Menu:</div>
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<ul>
<li>The "Erase Map" menu item return the map to the default,
i.e. only Plains of elevation 0, and no hexside. Warning: startlist is
unchanged.</li>
<li>The "Terrain is a Tower" is used to specify if the
terrain is designed to be a Tower or not (i.e. the
<tt>TOWER</tt>
flags explained in
<a href="FileFormat.html">FileFormat</a>
).</li>
<li>The "Remove StartList" removes all hexes from the
startlist. See the file format link above for a startlist
description.</li>
<li>The "Fill Edge with Slope" put a slope on every hexside
between plains with a difference in elevation of exactly one, unless an
hexside was already present.</li>
<li>The "Fill High Edge with Cliff" put a cliff on every hexside
between plains with a difference in elevation of two or more, unless an
hexside was already present.</li>
<li>The "Fill Sand Edge with Dune" put a dune on every hexside
between plain and sand, unless an hexside was already present.</li>
<li>The "Randomize" submenu items are used to generate a
random map from a description file (many are predefined).
See the
<a href="BattlelandsRandomizer.html">BattlelandsRandomizer</a>
for a description of the input file. The loaded battleland is
<em>merged</em>
with the currently displayed battleland. Use "Erase Map"
from the File menu if you want to start from scratch.</li>
</ul>
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Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
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<ul>
<li>Q I can't get the hex side popup-menu, or my hex side is on the
wrong hex
<p>A To get the hex side menu, you must be quite close to the side
itself. You must also not be on one of the outer side, without a
neighbor hex, as you can't put a hex side there. Finally, if the
hex side is put "backward", that means you clicked on the
wrong Hex ; for instance, you must click behind the straight border, on
the Sand, to get a proper Dune. Clicking where you intend to get the
round part will put the Dune backward.</p>
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<li>Q BattlelandsBuilder let me do something dumb!
<p>A Well, yes. It's designed that way : you can do whatever you
please with it, including surrounding a Tree with dune or filling the
map with Volcanoes. It will try to flag some obviously
"dangerous" or "wrong" combinations with warnings,
but you can use the output anyway (the warnings are comments that will
be ignored by Colossus).</p>
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