From The Mana World
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The features described in this article are already implemented in the game. The article should describe how a certain aspect of the game currently works. You may of course edit this article to improve the description of the circumstances. Your opinions or improvement suggestions about the described aspects themself are of course appreciated, too. But please put these on the discussion page of this article to keep facts and fiction separated.
Maps are an important part of The Mana World.
Guidelines
You can build a map for The Mana World using Tiled
- Size: Around 200x200 tiles is good in practice, though the maximum is 1024x1024 tiles.
- Tile size: 32x32
- Map border: You need to leave a non-walkable but properly designed border around the map of at least 20 tiles (Diagram). This can be suspended in special cases (like the botcheck map).
- Walls/players proportions: A normal door for a player is 2 tiles in height.
- Indoor/Outdoor proportions: It is not required that inside view of buildings has to fit the size of outside view. Don't make them too different unless the involvement of magic is obvious for the area.
- Path reference: Please use TMW folder structure to keep references to tilesets working. Also, please use TSX file sinstead of directly referencing the PNGs.
- Transparent color: Tilesets use alpha so no need to set a transparent color
- Layers: Each map can have many layers. Two special layers are require din every map, though:
- Fringe: This layer is drawn simultaneously with items and beings, where tiles north of a being are drawn behind the being and tiles south of the being are drawn in front. Hence this layer is suitable for adding static objects to a map like plants or statues which exceed 32px in height. Tiles which belong into fringe are in oversize-tilesets marked with _x2 to _x8. Do NOT put tiles that are 32px high on this layer without written approval from TMWC; having them here instead of lower layers makes the maps slower to render in the client, decreasing performance.
- Collision: this is a special layer for which you have to use the collision tileset. Use the red collision tile where you want a tile to be unwalkable. Be careful that even if a tile is not reachable, but it's walkable, the server can spawn monsters there, which means they will be unreacahble by players; other weird situations can also occur. For example fill a wall with collision tiles, not only the borders, or you could have monsters spawning inside the wall.
In a good style of mapping, please always use the lowest layer possible, and don't place tiles under other tiles that are completely opaque (like having something beneath a wall tile where it isn't visible). This is also in the interests of performance, since it keeps down overdraw.
How to map
When you want to make maps for The Mana World but you don't know how to start, read the Dev:Mapping Tutorial.
The naming scheme we're using at the moment is described in it's own article here: De:TmwAthena Map Names.
Existing maps
Here a list of all existing maps and map name reservations:
| Map | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| botcheck | Bots Checking Area | |
| 001 | 1 | Tulimshar |
| 2 | Tulimshar indoor | |
| 3 | Tulimshar arena | |
| 002 | 1 | Sandstorm, south of Tulimshar |
| 2 | Sandstorm, indoors** | |
| 3 | Desert mines, Mining Camp** | |
| 4 | Desert mines, level 1** | |
| 5 | Desert mines, level 2** | |
| 003 | 1 | Beach leading to woodlands |
| 2 | Beach house | |
| 004 | 1 | Beach west of Tulimshar |
| 2 | Beach house | |
| 005 | 1 | Snake desert, SW of Tulimshar |
| 3 | Snake pit | |
| 006 | 1 | Desert mountains |
| 3 | Desert mountains caves | |
| 007 | 1 | South east woodland |
| 008 | 1 | Woodland around Hurnscald |
| 009 | 1 | Hurnscald |
| 2 | Hurnscald indoor | |
| 3 | Cave beneath Hurnscald | |
| 4 | Orum's Caves | |
| 5 | Brodomir's PvP Cave | |
| 6 | Brodomir's Cave | |
| 010 | 1 | South Woodland |
| 2 | Dimond's Cove | |
| 011 | 1 | Central Woodland |
| 3 | Hermit's Cave | |
| 4 | Lake Cave | |
| 5 | Snake Lord's Cave ****(unavailable) | |
| 012 | 1 | North Woodland |
| 3 | North Woodland caves | |
| 013 | 1 | North East Woodland |
| 2 | Magic house | |
| 3 | Cave | |
| 014 | 1 | West Woodland |
| 3 | West Woodland caves | |
| 015 | 1 | South West Woodland |
| 3 | Katze's Cave | |
| 016 | 1 | Southernmost Woodlands |
| 017 | 1 | North Woodland Mountains |
| 3 | North Woodland Mountain caves | |
| 018 | 1 | Woodland Mines (outdoor) |
| 2 | Woodland Mines (mining camp indoor) | |
| 3 | Woodland Mines level 1 | |
| 019 | 1 | Snow Field |
| 3 | Snow Field (caves) | |
| 4 | Snow Field (cave to 044-1) * | |
| 020 | 1 | Snow Town (Nivalis) |
| 2 | Snow town indoor | |
| 3 | Snow Town Cave level 1 | |
| 4 | Snow Town Cave level 2 | |
| 021 | 1 | Central Tulimshar |
| 2 | Central Tulimshar Indoor | |
| 3 | Central Tulimshar -Sewers** | |
| 022 | 1 | Tulimshar Docks |
| 023 | 1 | Beach Cliffs ** |
| 024 | 1 | Tulimshar Canyon/Tulimshar Magic School |
| 2 | Tulimshar Magic School indoor | |
| 3 | Tulimshar Magic School cave (Ancient Amulets 1) ** | |
| 4 | Tulimshar Magic School (Ancient Amulets 2) ** | |
| 5 | Tulimshar Magic School (Ancient Amulets 3) ** | |
| 6 | Tulimshar Magic School (Ancient Amulets 4) ** | |
| 7 | Tulimshar Magic School (Ancient Amulets 5) ** | |
| 8 | Tulimshar Magic School (Ancient Amulets 6) ** | |
| 025 | 1 | Graveyard Swamp East (South-westernmost woodlands) |
| 3 | Main Cave (South-westernmost woodlands, Rossy quest) | |
| 4 | Lock Caves (South-westernmost woodlands, Rossy quest) | |
| 026 | 1 | Graveyard Swamp West |
| 027 | 1 | Graveyard |
| 2 | Graveyard Indoors (Caretaker, Reid's Inn) | |
| 028 | 1 | Easter Island |
| 3 | Easter Island caves | |
| 029 | 1 | Candor |
| 3 | Candor Cave (Fight cave) | |
| 030 | 1 | Snow Field South (Romantic Place)) |
| 2 | Snow Field South Indoor (Santa's workshop)*** | |
| 031 | 1 | East Nivalis (Nivalis Port) |
| 2 | East Nivalis indoor | |
| 3 | East Nivalis Ice Caves (Labyrinth) | |
| 4 | Cindy's Cage Cave | |
| 032 | 1 | Desert mountains (Miriam extension) |
| 3 | Desert mountains (Miriam extension), caves | |
| 033 | 1 | South-West Snow path (Barbarians Camp) |
| 034 | 1 | Snow Forest |
| 035 | 1 | Lumber Camp-1 ** |
| 039 | 1 | Lumber Camp-2 ** |
| 040 | 1 | TBA ** |
| 041 | 1 | Tulimshar North-west beach |
| 042 | 1 | Tulimshar (Newplayers area) |
| 2 | Tulimshar (Newplayers area) Indoor | |
| 041 | 1 | Tulimshar North-west beach |
| 043 | 1 | Tonori Training area (tux9th)** |
| 3 | Tonori Training area- cave (tux9th)** | |
| 044 | 1 | Snow Hills |
| 3 | Snow Hills Ice Caves | |
| 045 | 1 | Deep Snow Forest |
| 046 | 1 | Highlands 1 (Rock Plateau) |
| 3 | Highlands Ice Caves | |
| 047 | 1 | Highlands 2 |
| 048 | 1 | Blue Sage's Outdoors |
| 2 | Blue Sage's Library | |
| 049 | 1 | Barbarian Village-1 ** |
| 2 | Barbarian Village-1 indoors ** | |
| 050 | 1 | Barbarian Village-2 ** |
| 2 | Barbarian Village-2 indoors ** | |
| 051 | 1 | Illia Sisters Dungeon Outsides |
| 3 | Illia Sisters Dungeon Bandit's Cave | |
| 052 | 1 | Illia Sisters Island |
| 2 | Illia Sisters Home | |
| 053 | 1 | Barbarian Village-3 ** |
| 2 | Barbarian Village-3 indoors ** | |
| 054 | 1 | Barbarian Village-4 ** |
| 2 | Barbarian Village-4 indoors ** | |
| 055 | 1 | Woodlands Hills (East) |
| 3 | Woodlands Hills (East)-Caves | |
| 056 | 1 | Woods |
| 057 | 1 | Woods |
| 68 | 1 | Tulimshar Noble quarter ** |
| 2 | Tulimshar Noble quarter-Indoor** | |
| 3 | Tulimshar Noble quarter-Sewers** | |
| 69 | 1 | Tulimshar Castle ** |
| 2 | Tulimshar Castle-Indoor** | |
| 3 | Tulimshar Castle quarter-Sewers** | |
(*) Map pending release (**) Map planned or under construction (***) Temporary Map release
