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  • Just to make sure I do not mix things up: This has nothing to do with the tutorials Richard said he was working on - or does it?
  • MarkOliva wrote: Zeromaniac wrote: Anyway, my copy of FM is now no longer installed in the "Programme(x86)" folder, but in a subfolder of "Eigene Dokumente" of the account I wanted it installed to, and it works now. It should work there with …
  • MarkOliva wrote: To get to the bottom of the problems, it would be good to know where FM8 was installed. If you use Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the following destinations can make some problems: C:\Programs\nbos ... etc. (32-bit Windows) C:\…
  • I have no idea if this is related to the OPs troubles, but I found it problematic to install FM8 under Windows 7 as well. I think the issue was that I wanted to install it in another folder than the default one. If I interpret things correctly, FM8 …
  • Richard wrote: My first tutorials cover most of the basic uses of the tools when map making, including creating your own symbols and the importance of Layers. Also a little bit on FWE world modifications in FWE and importing into FM. I'll be cr…
  • Ed_NBOS wrote: Its very, very unlikely FM would be altered to support geographic coords like that. That would literally involve replacing the current graphics/rendering engine with a new one. More likely, if I were ever to add support for this…
  • Zeromaniac wrote: Ed_NBOS wrote: Did you install & run FM8 before trying to apply the update? It will report its location to windows when you do that. I certainly did, unless you mean if I installed it IMMEDIATELY before trying to update…
  • Ed_NBOS wrote: Did you install & run FM8 before trying to apply the update? It will report its location to windows when you do that. I certainly did, unless you mean if I installed it IMMEDIATELY before trying to update. The message window…
  • 2 mails and 3 days later I finally got my registration code from Steve Jackson Games, registered my copy of FM at NBOS and got my access code. However, when I logged in, downloaded and tried to install the 8.10f update, I was told that no copy of FM…
  • Richard wrote: Zero, you can do the basics and be satisfied with plopping down fractal blobs and labeling them. Thats FINE if you just want to do that. I'm not saying you cant. I'm saying if you WANT to use your artistic side, you can do this qui…
  • MarkOliva wrote: Richard wrote: I think Ed wants to keep his price reasonable. After all, FM does an excellent job in its own to give results that can look very professional. Kinda like using photoshop, its talent that will get you better result…
  • MarkOliva wrote: Zeromaniac wrote: Mark, since you refer a lot to what I have written, I feel the need to answer and clarify a few things. < SNIP > Mark, you really seem to take offense at my attempts to explain why my needs are, …
  • I triple-checked and there was no registration code, so I will email them, as you suggested.
  • Mark, since you refer a lot to what I have written, I feel the need to answer and clarify a few things. First of all, I don't mind if the designers feel that the functionality I want are better served with an add-on! At the beginning of my (st…
  • Is that offer still vaild?
  • While i was busy writing this long post, Ed has chimed in, so I want to address him first: Thank you for answering, Ed, but what I need is not the fancy heightfield look of FWE - although that is really nice! - but the ability to create and view my …
  • Richard wrote: ok, sorry my last post, I missed your previous reply. Ok, I see from your example you want a non-3D rendered Orthographic. You could "fake" it using the 3D global projection but that seems to be all. Yep, looks like we need …
  • Richard: Maybe the reason we don't understand each other is that you consider a map primarily to be a graphic object. For me it is primarily an organized collection of data which can be represented graphically in different ways (and while I value di…
  • MarkOliva wrote: Zeromaniac wrote: You see, I really don't think I'm looking for the "eierlegende Wollmilchsau", Ah, Du sprichst die Sprache! Ausgezeichnet! Zeromaniac wrote: I just don't understand why FTP and FWE do not allow me to simp…
  • Thank you for bearing with me and for your answers. However, I get a strong impression that you are just dancing around the fact that FM is simply unable to create or process small scale maps unless they happen to be of flat worlds like Pratchett's …
  • MarkOliva wrote: I have a great inclination to try to give you some help here, but it sounds to me like you're trying to find the egg-laying, woolly milk sow, as we say here in Bavaria. I think that this animal is as rare in the cartographic worl…