Fractal World Explorer Export

rlbeaver

I saw that you could export an FWE map to Fractal Mapper and have it appear as a countour map, however, I appear to be doing something wrong.

I pull up FWE and generate a randam map using all the default values, I export to FM8 using 1000 meters in both options. When I open the map in FM, it comes up in Feet which means all my continents are just a few 1000 feet across. If I change the map options in FM8, the map gets so tiny it's not even a pixel width in size.

I appear to be doing something wrong unless this is how it's supposed to work...

Bob

Ed_NBOS

What specific version of FM8 and FWE are you using? (use Help -> About from the menus)

rlbeaver

Fractal Mapper 8.10f (build 1380)
Fractal World Explorer 1.7

Ed_NBOS

Ok, I thought that was fixed in that version. But its easy enough to work around. When FWE creates a Fractal Mapper map, it uses a text-based variant of the Fractal Mapper file format. So you can actually open it up and edit it directly.

After you create the .fmp file from FWE, use notepad or other text editor (not a word processor!) to open it.

At the top of the file, it should look like this:

[Begin]
Definition: The Fractal Mapper Map File
Format: 5.00
Map: Map
  MapName:
  ImageWidth: 10000
  ImageHeight: 5000
  SpanWidth: 40000
  SpanHeight: 20000
  SpanUnitName: Kilometers
  DefaultColor: 6300672
  GridHeight: 250

Set the SpanUnitName to Kilometers or Miles. Set the SpanWidth and SpanHeight to the values you want, keeping in mind that a 'globe' will be twice as wide as it is tall (set the SpanWidth to the planet's circumference), while a square FWE map will be equal in both directions. The above sample is what it looks like after the file is corrected.