MAP MAKER COORDINATE ERROR!!!!!!

by **WidowMakers** on Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:18 am

I started making a map with the tools provided at the top of this Forum. I noticed that the X,Y coordinates never lined up to the actual pixel of the jpg. Most of the posts just said you need to mess with the XML for an hour or so to fix it. Well I decided to find out how much the X,Y coordinates were mismatched. I found that the Large map a pixel location of (0,0) really gave (4,-20) and that (100,100) was really (104,80) Here is a pick of the quick grid map and the output from the map checker on this site.

If you want to run the map checker yourself the jpg and xml are also here
JPG
http://jmhooton.iweb.bsu.edu/joel/test%20grid.L.jpg
XML
http://jmhooton.iweb.bsu.edu/joel/testgrid.xml

So basically you subtract 4 from your X pixel number and add 20 to your Y pixel number.
Let me know if anyone finds this helpful.

Joel

by **gavin_sidhu** on Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:35 am

What type of map were u making? Dont really get any of that stuff you wrote, im not |337 enough i guess.

by **WidowMakers** on Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:48 am

Basically I wanted to just try and make a map. I used the tools from this site but when I tested it here..

http://www.multiblah.com/cc_tester/

The red dots were always in the wrong place. All of the other posts said to just spend an hour moving the (x,Y) coordinates around in the XML file. The picture at the top of the post shows the pink dots (these are positioned to the XML file) and the red dots (where the map ester actually positions the territory location). There is a shift. I do not know why but it is there. I just wanted to let everyone know.

Instead of speanding time tweakigng the x and y numbers in the XML file just subtract 4 from the x pixel number (like from photoshop) and add 20 to the Y pixel number ( from photoshop).
If your map has a territory and the pixel center in photoshop reads (100,250) you should put (96,270) into the XML file and the coordiantes will match up.

Joel