Tutorial: Adding custom maps to the wiki

Choose a map_identifier, for example: FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods

Take the following screenshots, either with Ganesha DX (WiP) or with the Map Viewer.

Press the following keys to adjust the map viewer:

• X : Makes the axis lines disappear
• Shift+b : Turns the background magenta

PS: The following filenames must use underscores _ instead of spaces!

Azimuth	Altitude	Magnify	Field of View	Suffix	Example
0°	90°	100%	Isometric	_bev.png	FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods_bev.png
45.0°	30°	100%	Isometric	_45.png	FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods_45.png
135.0°	30°	100%	Isometric	_135.png	FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods_135.png
225.0°	30°	100%	Isometric	_225.png	FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods_225.png
315.0°	30°	100%	Isometric	_315.png	FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods_315.png

Edit the screenshots with Photoshop/GraphicsGale/Affinity Photo or whatever you prefer in order to set Magenta to a transparent color and to crop the images to their smallest sizes.

Upload all of these files in one go with Special:BatchUpload

Create a new page with the map_identifier as the title with the following contents:

{{ #printmap: map_identifier }} [[Category:Maps]] [[Category:Custom Maps]]

For example:

{{ #printmap: FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods }} [[Category:Maps]] [[Category:Custom Maps]]

Preview to make sure everything is working, then save!

Adding Terrain Data

Getting the Terrain Code Without Ganesha Dx

You must know which mesh file you want to extract the information from. Normally that will be the first map state mesh.

There's no real simple way to determine which file it is, other than that it's not a texture file (i.e. it will be under 128kb) and will be saved by Ganesha.

The first map state's mesh file's ISO sector is located at 0x0000001C and is 4 bytes long... you might be able to cross-reference with the vanilla map list here matching with the Sector Start: https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/MAP/

Open up the Mesh file in a hex editor and at 0x00000068 you should find the offset for Terrain Data. It is stored in Little-Endian so make sure to byte-flip.

GoTo that offset, and copy 4098 (0x1002) bytes at that position. The 2 extra bytes are the width and length of the map.

Getting the Terrain Code With Ganesha Dx

Open your Map in Ganesha Dx and go to View -> Show Raw Terrain Data. Press the Generate Button and then press the Copy to Clipboard Button. Every time you make a change to your Terrain, you must click the Generate Button again.

Where to put the Code

Paste the result as the second argument of the #printmap function as below. There can be spaces between each byte or none, either way it will work.

Note: I replaced most bytes with "..." to not fill up your screen

{{ #printmap: FFTHacker_Alternate_Sweegy_Woods | 0A 09 00 00 01 ... 01 00 }} [[Category:Maps]] [[Category:Custom Maps]]