How can I delete and remove a unit (Boat) that I placed in my new map with the map editor creator.I can seem to find a way to delete the unit I placed on my map?There honestly should be a right mouse click option in the map editor creator in C & C Remastered, so we can delete our selected units.I do understand that we can CTRL + Z to delete last action, but this does not apply here, as the unit I put in my map was long ago.How can I delete a unit placed on my map, in the map creator editor please?

@Dreamer0563 probably here ..\Documents\CnCRemastered\Local_Custom_Maps\Tiberian_Dawn

Hold shift, and right click the unit.I haven't been able to find any documentation for the map editor, but I'm looking.

I'd be happy just to find the proper location to save my maps so I can play them within C&C

@Ronnie_Dabbs Map bounds: All maps in TD and RA are always the maximum possible size. In the editor, you can then define which portion of the map is actually usable in the game. Note that the map editor will not allow you to select the full area of the map because maps always need a 1-cell outer border; this is reserved for special purposes such as spawning reinforcements to drive/walk into the map, and for getting rid of aircraft (airstrikes, Nod delivery planes, transport heli dropoffs, transport heli evacs, spy planes, etc) flying out of the map. You can't "get rid" of map bounds; they are necessary. If you messed them up, you just need to redo them. The system for defining the map bounds is terrible though, no doubt about that. Would be much better if instead of making a full drag selection, it allowed resize-dragging at the borders... or just defining it in a settings screen like the other map configuration options :-\ Templates: A template is, for example, a bridge over a river. A tile is one single graphics cell from said bridge. So as long as you're only dealing with small one-cell map decorations, there will indeed be no difference. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. The only area in which I'm not well-versed when it comes to this stuff is the specifics of Red Alert mission scripting.

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GENERALZOOL
6 years ago
@AgentTito1287
That is thankfully a simple process, though a couple notes for you.

First: Load the Map you want to import into the Remastered Version of the Map Editor.
Second: Locate Waypoints that were added by CnCNet Map Editor or RAED. These are the HOME and REINF Waypoints. Remove them if you're importing a Multiplayer Map (The Remastered Game thinks they are Players 9 and 10, and will try to use them as Random Spawn Locations if you use Random Spawning).
Thirdly: Just Save the Map using the 'Save As' Function.

Paths:
C:\Users\[USER]\Documents\CnCRemastered\Local_Custom_Maps\Red_Alert

C:\Users\[USER]\Documents\CnCRemastered\Local_Custom_Maps\Tiberian_Dawn

Note: If you've not played the game before, then these paths won't exist.
Nyerguds
Hero+
6 years ago
@AgentTito1287 wrote:

Are you sure 64x64 is the maximum map size? The game can handle 126x126 ones, so I don't see why the map editor should be HARDCODED to 64x64 when the game itself is capable of handling maps almost twice that size!

"The game" is two games. C&C1 can only handle 62x62. Red Alert can handle 126x126.

It's always been like that.
CNCJack_TD
6 years ago
@Nyerguds The Scripting works fine....but it has its weird specialities no newcomer can be aware of. The reason for crashing is making a reinforcement with a Dropship and the mapboarded had only one cell extra space outside of the visible area. Infantry reinforcement seems to work nice...but boats will make the game kabooommm. The fix was not to check or change the script....i had to push the mapboarder 1 row of ceels further to get 2 rows of freespace for spawning.
Weird stuff and really annoying since the map editor start up with having only 1 row left over.
AgentTito1287
6 years ago
Thank you, that will really help me going on down the long road. I wish ppm would post this in their mapping tutorials section, save us a lot of hassle.
Oh and Nyerguds, I cannot tell you that I had no idea that TD's max size was 62x62, hence why they hardcoded it at 64x64: just to make it compatible with both games. Why no one tells me these things, I will never know.
Nyerguds
Hero+
6 years ago
@AgentTito1287

The actual map dimensions are 64x64 and 128x128, for TD and RA respectively, but the outer border is necessary for spawning in reinforcements and getting rid of transports and aircraft leaving the map, so the actual usable area is 62x62 on TD and 126x126 on RA.
AgentTito1287
6 years ago
Sorry for worrying you, but yes, I knew that, I just tend to forget that the 1 tile space you leave as a soft border on each map is vital and I tend to think of the obvious as redundant to mention, hence the confusion.
CNCJack_TD
6 years ago
Make it two rows if you want to play with boats 🙂.
By the way i found an very old documentation on one Fan-Community Site may be a lot of new users are not aware of.I forgot about this aswell, 20 Years is a lot of time.
It is a complete Mission Editor Guide from Andrew Griffins and C. F. Harkins from 1997. There you can read a lot of explanations to things, that are not explained in the editor so well. For example what the <Do This X> (X=Number) Action will do. As far as i studied their Disclaimer and intention it is free to use as long you do not implement it in some kind of magazine or Software, charge fees for it and so on. Made for public to help fans understanding C&C Red Alert better. I guess a lot of stuff in there also applies to Tiberian Dawn.
Important: Always give Credits to its authors since they put a lot of effort into this and want their work to be used in that way they wanted it.🙌
Just Google: "The Red Alert
Single Player Mission Creation Guide" Version 1.1 is the "newest" so far. You can get it on ra.afraid.org a RA1 Fansite under Downloads/documentations. I was not able to upload since this forums does not like ZIP files nor TXT Files ( i have no idea why, may be it is just for screenshots).😢
This File should get a sticky since it leaves a very competent and structured impression about Editing and Creating Missions in Red Alert 1. So anybody will see it quickly without the need to ask about it.
jros83
6 years ago
@jppenny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRtSdZwZMDU&list=LLzJLpYYEWGZltbtaOeEFAxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxBh80c06w
Step by step walkthroughs.
Divatoxy
6 years ago
Well to not make another topic, here is my problem. After i edit some map some bugs appear in the remastered mode and in the classic mode doesnt, units can walk over those parts:
Annyone can help please?
CNCJack_TD
6 years ago
Ive seen something liek this in RA Remastered. The walkable tiles on some Bridges were like shiftet 1 cell to left or right. My units actually drove over the river and refused to use the bridge (custom map so far only).

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