Tanarus Map Builder

Tanarus Map Builder View Level 3-D

Tool

Ramp low edge

Ramp up to

Blocks

only untextured (cyan) faces

Base

Team

Pad carries

Stack

hover a cell

Click a cell, or drag a rectangle to apply to an area. Wheel = zoom, middle/right-drag or Space+drag = pan. In "Single level" view, Block/Plank/Ramp/Air go to that level (air fills below).

Map

Size—

Height

Texture set

Switching keeps every texture the new set has by name and clears the rest.

two-base map

Legend

Number = stack height. grey block top · tan plank · arrow ramp (points uphill) · dotted = air on top · red/green/blue/grey fill = base pad (T = tank start, D = defense) · coloured border = team ground / recon.

Next element — what a new block / plank / ramp will look like

Top—

Sides—

Bottom—

all three 4 sides

Only textures used by

History

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Resize / crop the map

Keeps the cells from (origin X, origin Y) for the new width and height; everything outside the new edge is discarded, new cells are plain ground. This clears the undo history.

Origin XOrigin Y

WidthHeight

Export arena

Arena nameletters/digits, max 8 (the 1998 tools choke on longer names)

fast visibility build (untick for the full build before publishing)

fill untextured faces first (0 would render cyan)

MapEdit runs headless on this machine: it saves the map, generates the .dat, compiles the collision grid (MAP2AMP), builds the BSP and visibility and packs the .t3d. About 15–60 s for 48×48, several minutes for 128×128.

Tool

Base

Stack

Map

Legend

Next element — what a new block / plank / ramp will look like

New map

Resize / crop the map

Save .map

Export arena