Originally written by Salvage, June 26, 2002

Thanks go to Apache for the screen_dump tip.

This is meant only for if you don’t have a scanner (which I don’t), aren’t all that talented at drawing on a computer (I’m not), or too lazy to actually draw a map (shame on you).

1. First, you’ll need a few things, one is MS Paint (which everyone should have), Gimp (freeware, Yay!) download it and install. You will also need some blank maps. There are some very good ones on Vigil’s website.
2. Open your mission.
3. Create an area brush around the area you want to put on one of your maps.
4. Select the area brush and select Me Only.
5. Select Filter and filter out everything except terrain.
6. Set the Top view to Solo and zoom out (or in) until you get the largest size that will fit on your screen.
7. Take a screenshot by typing screen_dump into the command box. The screen shot will be saved in the directory where DromEd is installed named dump000.pcx etc. Open the screenshot in Gimp, right click on the image and go to File > Save As… and save it as a .bmp file.
8. Open the .bmp in Paint, crop it to an appropriate size (only your map area is shown in the image, plus a small amount of space on the outside). You should have something as follows:
9. Save the image and set the Save As type to Monochrome Bitmap. The results should be similar to this:
10. Next Click on Image > Invert Colors. You should now have black lines on a white background. As follows:
11. Next, clean up your image, use Paint’s handy fill tool and eraser to get the image looking right. You will probably have to fix a few things:
12. After you’re done cleaning up the image, save it and open the image in Gimp.
13. Right click on the image and go to Image > Scale Image…, set the height to 300 px (pixels) and hit OK. If the width is larger than 530 px then set the width to 530 px instead. The actual size of the maps are 552 px width and 360 px height. If the resulting size is too large then you will have to set the other dimension:
14. Fix your image of any problems that happened when you shrunk (Tip: to draw a straight line using the pencil tool move the mouse to where you want a line to begin and hold shift down, then move to where you want the line to finish and left click, release shift), add any arrows or markings you wish to add to the image (DO NOT PUT ANY TEXT ON THE IMAGE, it will be added later).

1. Right Click on the image and go to Select > By Color…, set the Fuzzyness Threshold to 0 and click on a black line in your image, right click on your image and go to Edit > Copy.
2. Choose which map background you are going to use and open it in Gimp. Right click on the map image and go to Edit > Paste, position it where you want it and right click and go to Layers > Anchor Layer
3. Paint over any black on the edges with white. (Tip: use the selection tool(dotted box) to select the area your map is in, right click and go to Select > Invert, and use the fill tool (paint can) to fill the outside with white).
4. Save the image as a bitmap (.bmp)(to save in Gimp right click the image go to File > Save As).

Close the image in Gimp, but don’t close Gim

1. Open the image you just saved in Paint, go to File > Save As… and change the Save As Type: to 24-Bit Bitmap and save over the file.
2. Open the image in Gimp.
3. Right click on the image and go to Layers > Layers, Channels, and Paths…
   • For newer versions of Gimp, the Layers tab should already be visible. If not, go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Layers.
4. In the new window right click on Background and go to Duplicate Layer, right click on the new layer and go to Edit Layer Attributes… and rename it to Waves, set the Opacity slider to 40.
5. Repeat 2 more times, naming the new layers Horiz Ripple and Vert Ripple, remember to set the Opacity slider to 40.
6. Select the Waves layer, right click on the image and go to Filters > Distorts > Waves. Set Amplitude to 1.30 and Period to 50, leave everything else as it is and click on OK.
7. Select the Horiz Ripple layer, right click on the image and go to Filters > Distorts > Ripple…. Set Angle to 0, set Period to 200, and Amplitude to 1. Click OK.
8. Select the Vert Ripple layer, right click on the image and go to Filters > Distorts > Ripple…. Set Angle to 90, set Period to 200, and Amplitude to 1. Click OK.
9. Right click on the image and go to Layers > Flatten Image.
10. Right Click on the image and go to Select > By Color…, set the Fuzzyness Threshold to 110 and click on a black line in your image, right click on your image and go to Edit > Copy.
11. Choose which map background you are going to use and open it in Gimp. Right click on the map image and go to Edit > Paste, position it where you want it and right click and go to Layers > Anchor Layer.
12. Paint over any black on the edges with white. (Tip: use the selection tool (dotted box) to select the area your map is in, right click and go to Select > Invert, and use the fill tool (paint can) to fill the outside with white).
13. Save the image as a bitmap (bmp) (to save in Gimp right click the image go to File > Save As). Close the image in Gimp, but don’t close Gimp.
14. Open the image you just saved in Paint, go to File > Save As… and change the Save As Type: to 24-Bit Bitmap and save over the file.
15. Open the image in Gimp.
16. Add any text to your image now. If you are doing multilingual maps (please do) you are going to have to do different versions of your map starting here.
17. Right click on the image and go to Layers > Layers, Channels, and Paths…
18. In the new window right click on Background and go to Duplicate Layer, right click on the new layer and go to Edit Layer Attributes… and rename it to Waves, set the Opacity slider to 40.
19. Select the Waves layer, right click on the image and go to Filters > Distorts > Waves. Set Amplitude to 1.35 amd Period to 50, leave everything else as it is and click on OK.
20. Right click on the image and go to Layers > Flatten Image.
21. Right Click on the image and go to Select > By Color…, set the Fuzzyness Threshold to 110 and click on a black line in your image, right click on your image and go to Edit > Copy.
22. Choose which map background you are going to use and open it in Gimp. Right click on the map image and go to Edit > Paste, position it where you want it and right click and go to Layers > Anchor Layer.
23. Right click on your newly created map, go to File > Save As… and name it something else (like page000.pcx in another directory), this is your completed map image, ready to be put into Thief 1/Gold or Thief 2.

1. Draw your map and save it in .pcx format (must begin with page followed by a 3 digit number (eg. page000.pcx).
   1. For multiple pages save them from 0 to whatever number of pages you have (like page000.pcx to page007.pcx for 8 pages)
   2. MAKE SURE THAT THE MAP IS SAVED WITH THE THIEF PALETTE, or for Thief 2, you need to use the USER INTERFACE PALETTE. Vigil’s files have the Thief 2 interface palette applied by default. If you’ve created your own, then you can do one of three things, you can paste your map over top of one of the blank maps and save (select all on your map, ctrl-c, select the blank, ctrl-v, save), you can load the palette and save your map with that palette.
      1. Palette for Photoshop (Image > Mode > Color Table >Load)
      2. Paint Shop Pro (Colors > Load Palette), and Photopaint, or you can edit the pallette manually.
      3. Palette for Gimp (Open an image that already has the correct palette (e.g. one of Vigil’s blank maps), Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Palettes. Near the top you will see something like Colormap of Image #…[Untitled]. Right click, Duplicate Palette. A new tab will open, change the name at the top to something useful like T2 Maps Palette). It will now be available forever. In your map image, Image > Mode > Indexed…, Use Custom Palette and select the newly made T2 Maps Palette. Also uncheck the box Remove unused and duplicate…
   3. Gimp Palette
      1. For the pink outline color, right click in Gimp and go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Colormap, click on index 254 (the second-to-last item, which is usually pink) to assign that to your foreground painting colour. For the green transparent color, select the first item in the palette, which is usually green.
   4. Photoshop 6 Pallette
      1. In Photoshop 6, for the pink outline color, go to Image > Mode > Color Table, click on the second color to the right at the top row. In the box beside # enter the hex number ff00ff and click OK. Next, for the green transparent color, go to the the very bottom right color and click on it, in the box beside # enter the hex number 64FF05 and click OK.
   5. Paint Shop Pro 7 Palette
      1. In Paint Shop Pro 7, for the pink outline color, go to Colors > Edit Pallette, double click on the second color to the left at the bottom row. In the box beside HTML Code: enter the hex number #ff00ff and click OK. Next, for the green transparent color, go to the the very top left color and click on it, in the box beside HTML Code: enter the hex number #64FF05 and click OK.
2. Now, create a directory called intrface (notice there is no e between the t and r) and inside it create another directory named after your mission (miss19, miss27, etc.).
3. Put your maps into your mission directory (miss19, etc.). If you have text on your map you may want to make it multilingual so put the English version in the english directory inside your mission directory (French in french, German in german, English in english). Note: if you make your maps multilingual then you must not have any maps in the base mission directory or they will override the maps in the language directories.
4. In DromEd, go to Editors (on the menu bar), click on Mission Variables, and click on Dark Mission Description and then on OK
   1. 
5. In the first line put the number of your mission (19, 27, etc.), in the second put the name of your mission (miss19, miss27, etc.)
6. Next, in Dromed in the command box in the corner type in
   1. quest_create_mis map_min_page, 0
   2. quest_create_mis map_max_page, 0
   3. The above is for one map if you started with map 0 (for more you would replace the number in max map for the highest number of your maps).
7. You Should Now Have A Basic Map

1. Follow the guidelines for The Basic Map for getting the image ready.
2. Draw boxes (they must be rectangular and the lines can be no larger than 1 pixel thick) around the rooms in color 254, the pink color in standard T2 map image. Tip: to draw a straight line using the pencil tool move the mouse to where you want a line to begin and left click, then hold Shift and Ctrl down, then move to where you want the line to finish and left click, release shift and Ctrl. You will need to have more than one of these boxed maps to have a complete and fully functional automap. Save these maps as p000ra.pcx, p000rb.pcx, p000rc.pcx etc. for page000.pcx, and save them as p001ra.pcx, p001rb.pcx etc. for page001.pcx, and so on for all your maps.
3. For each of the boxed maps fill in the areas inside the pink boxes that you don’t want to show up on the the map screen (these parts will be transparent) with the the first palette colour. Save the files. Close Gimp, it’s no longer needed.
4. Extract the map tools (cutout.exe and makerect.exe, which at the time of writing (2022) are in the original Dromed Toolkit, in the thiefmapper folder), copy the images you just made into the directory where you extraced the map tools.
5. Open Notepad (or Notepad++ which has more features), enter the following (this example is for page003, which requires 4 files to allow for all the pink boxes. change the numer as appropriate for other pages):

   cutout p003ra.pcx p003rb.pcx p003rc.pcx p003rd.pcx
   makerect p003ra.pcx p003rb.pcx p003rc.pcx p003rd.pcx

6. Go to File > Save As…, set Save as type: to All Files (*.*), enter “map.bat” (with the quotes) and save it to where you extracted the map tools.
7. Run map.bat by double clicking on it, a dos box should pop up, wait until it says finished on the bar ar the top. You should have a number of new pcx files where you extracted the map tools, these are your room files. If you’re doing multi-language maps make sure the room images are named the same for each corresponding map area.
8. Copy the map, rooms, .bin and p000ra,b,etc. files to the intrface\miss# directory (and language directories if needed).
9. In DromEd, go to the Object Hierarchy found under Editors. Change the Show Tree: to Rooms. Click on default room and click on Add and name a new room type. Make a new room type for each different room file (p000r000, etc.).
10. Make your room brushes using the newly created rooms, one type for each room picture. You would use the same room type for a squiggly hallway that has only one room picture for it.
    1. If you already have room brushes, you can select each of them and click on Create (at the bottom of the DromEd window) and then select it from the rooms hierarchy and click in the Create button in this dialogue box. This will change the type from “default room” to the one you’ve just selected.
11. Now, for each room you must click on Edit (the one at the bottom of the screen), Add → Room → Automap. In the dialogue box enter the map page and enter the room number (0, then 1 for p000r001.pcx to be displayed over page000.pcx)
12. You Should Now Have An Automap

1. Pretty simple, do complete Automaps of your level, then replace the base maps (page000.pcx, etc.) with the original blank maps that you used to create your map in the first place. Now The Map Will Update As The Player Enters The Rooms.
   1. Or do a hybrid approach, with some areas pre-drawn as normal, with other areas completely blank till the player starts exploring

Thanks go to Magus Telliamed for pointing me in the right direction.

1. Complete the steps for Auto Updating Maps.
2. For the text of the objective, open Notepad, and enter

   fiction_x: "Enter Loading Objectives Screen Text Here"
   text_x: "Enter In Game Objectives Screen Text Here"

   1. Where x is the number of your objective, there is one space after the colon (:) and the text is enclosed in quotation marks.
3. Save it as “goals.str” (including the quotes) and put it in the intrface\miss#\languages directory where your maps are (such as intrface\miss17\english\goals.str).
4. Create an objective by entering into the command box: quest_create_mis goal_state_x, 0 for incomplete and quest_create_mis goal_visible_x, 1 where x is the number of your objective and it is a visible objective (I don’t know why you would want an invisible map out rooms objective).
5. Enter quest_create_mis map_locs_visited, 0 into the command box.
6. Create a QuestVarTrap (-1823). Click on Properties, click Add → Trap → Quest Var. In the dialogue box enter =1:goal_state_x where x is the number of your objective, this marks the objective as complete when it becomes complete
7. Create a QuestVarTrigger (-4370). Click on Properties, click Add → Trap → Quest Var. In the dialogue box enter >n:map_locs_visited where n is the number of rooms you want to be mapped out before the objective completes. Room types are counted, not room brushes (so if you have an L shaped corridor, which needs two room brushes of the same type (e.g. West Hallway), they both count as 1 map location).
8. ControlDevice link the QuestVarTrigger to the QuestVarTrap and it’s done. Note: when testing this you must close and re-open DromEd, as DromEd keeps the map_locs_visited variable in memory after leaving game mode.

1. Open Notepad.
2. Enter Page_0: “New Map Found”
3. Save As “newmap.str” in the books > language directory (which you have to create in the directory where DromEd is).
4. In Dromed create a marker(-36). Rename it to something like addmap1.
5. Add S → Scripts, enter StdButton and StdBook
6. Add Book → Text, enter newmap
7. Add Engine Features → Frobinfo, enter Script, Delete for World options, leave the others empty.
8. Add Shape → Model Name, enter one of the names from the following:
   1. scroll
   2. scrollop
   3. lcscroll
   4. lcscrosp
      1. Check the Object Hiearchy to see the model names of other readable objects
      2. Usually it’s easier to create the actual object (e.g. a HammerScroll) and then make changes, but most readable objects inherit the Book → Art property, which gets in the way of this setup.
9. Create a QuestVarTrap(-1823)
10. Add Trap → Quest Var, enter =x:map_max_page where x is the number of the highest map you want to be available on the map screen. =x:map_min_page can also be used where x is the number of the lowest map you want to be available on the map screen.
11. Control Device link the renamed marker to this QuestVarTrap.

The above has been copied from this page but has been copied here to preserve it (with a few tweaks to provided updated info, and some formatting changes). Due to the age of the file, it’s amazing that it’s still there.