create new map with different terrain

[nobody]

It would be useful if there was a possibility in the editor
to choose the terrain a new map should be created with,
instead of the default 'steppe'-terrain. Particularly, it
would be convenient if one could create a map
consisting only of water; it might save one quite an
effort.

Forum discussion: https://wl.widelands.org/forum/topic/1837/

[Sigra (sigra)]

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This would be easier with the planned selections. It should
be possible to select the whole map and set the terrain.

[Frank Pieper (frank-pieper-1)]

I don't know exactly what you means with planned Sections but sounds to me that Need for special Dialog-Item to specify Default-Terrain disappear and I consdier the Section-Thing to be more valuable than that asked Featur in this Topic. So I consider that Need supplied by that other coming up Feature.

[SirVer (sirver)]

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

[wl-zocker (wl-zocker)]

I do not know whether the "selections" mentioned some years ago are still planned to be implemented.
But I think it is quite easy to ask the map designer what should be the start terrain of a map when a new one is created (in the same dialog where he is asked for the map size). Now we only have one world, this is even more important: When I want to create a winter map, I have to change the whole terrain to something niveous first.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for widelands because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Since I had to touch the code for both New Map windows, I did a redesign of the New Random Map dialog first.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Screenshot of New Map

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

This bug was still open because we considered a better UI design in the forums. I won't be working on this for build 19 though, so I'm setting this bug to Fix Commited - the functionality itself is working.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Fixed in build19-rc1.