free hand drawing tool (pencil) for the ingame map edditor and jpeg support

[mikeloeven]

the ingame map editor is great it allows you to make little sketches of your surroundings and tailor the maps to your needs. however there is no freehand tool which makes it difficult to use.

i would also like to see jpeg support so you can load images into your maps there are some really detailed maps available on the internet buy no way to put them on the built in maps

thirdly the premade maps you buy should allow you to place markers for unlisted npc's

[verden]

The maps aren't actually sketches, they are more just a bunch of data that references different icons whose art is part of the client. Adapting the existing system to freehand drawing would be a significant change as its not storing bitmap data like an image file. Since its not storing bitmap data, there isn't any easy way to change it to import bitmap data like a JPEG and place it on an map. So you are basically asking for a complete rewrite of the mapping interface. With some new icons.

[RlyDontKnow]

the maps aren't raw images, they're more some sort of vector graphic. hence it'd never be compatible with free drawing or jpg and similiar formats.

[derula]

But you COULD draw your sketch in a more advanced and easier to use vector graphics editor, e.g. Inkscape, and then use this to convert it to a sketch that you can import from within the game

[LigH]

Importing custom JPEGs won't happen, I believe. To allow everyone who looks at your map to see an included bitmap image, it would have to be sent to the viewer too. The lines, curves, and icon coordinates which describe the map will be uploaded to the server, but an additional bitmap image will most probably not.

[kaerli2]

The map editor is a vector system, so there's no need for bitmap support.  Derula has written a pair of Ruby scripts for importing/exporting map data as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) though.