Map Information - [EBPEdit Help Contents]

View and edit basic map identification and settings via the Edit, Map Info pull down menu.

MAP NAME

Enter a very brief description of the map, such as United States Central.

VERSION

Enter any version description, numbers or text.

BY

Enter your name.

COPYRIGHT (IF ANY)

Enter copyright message, or indicate if your map is public domain.

DESCRIPTION

Enter a one-sentence description of your map.

VIEW MORE INFO FROM FILE

(optional) Enter the name of a text file that contains details about your map, then click the button to view it. If the file you specify contains simple text and its file name has the extension .TXT, EBP will load and display it to the user. For all other file name extensions, EBP will pass the name to Windows, asking Windows to open it for display via the user's preferred viewer; since this could fail if the user's computer does not have a program that displays such files, we recommend using only simple .TXT files.

MILEPOST ORIENTATION

Choose a milepost orientation carefully because once selected it cannot be changed except by rotating all map content via the Edit, Rotate 90 feature. If your map's mileposts can be connected via a straight vertical line (i.e. no zigzags) choose vertical orientation, else choose horizontal. Examples: the USA+Mexico map employs a vertical orientation, while Europe employs a horizontal one.

# MILEPOSTS ACROSS

Enter the width of your map in number of mileposts. Count the mileposts in a straight line (i.e. no zig-zags). The board games are usually about 70 mileposts wide. The maximum value in EBPEdit is 150; the larger this value, the slower EBP's AI bots will run. Before or after changing the number of mileposts, you may find the Edit, Move All utility helpful.

# MILEPOSTS VERTICALLY

Enter the height of your map in number of mileposts. Count the mileposts in a straight line (i.e. no zig-zags). The board games are usually about 50 mileposts wide. The maximum value in EBPEdit is 150; the larger this value, the slower EBP's AI bots will run. Before or after changing the number of mileposts, you may find the Edit, Move All utility helpful.

MIN EBP VERSION REQUIRED

If your map requires a feature found in a version of EBP newer than 1.0, enter that version number here.

NEWSPAPER NAMEPLATE ICON

(optional) To display graphics at the top of Event Cards, enter the first of two adjacent icons here. For example, if your Icons picture has a newspaper nameplate image spread across icons 41 and 42, you would enter 41 in this field. Newspaper nameplates are always two icons wide, and may not start with an icon number evenly divisible by 10.

EVENT CARD NEWSPAPER NAME

Enter the name of the newspaper on Event Cards. For example, Daily News.

SHARE BGND / MULTIMEDIA OF

To use the bgnd and/or icons of another map, enter that map's three-letter code name in these fields.