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Please note, this is purely for continued support to existing Cartography Shop users. 3D World Studio is now the cutting edge application for map creation!!
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The CS forum appears to be building a rather large number of Stiky threads which needs to be consolidated, therefore this thread will replace the other relavent threads to improve overall access
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Tool: DarkGDK.NET - Cartography Shop map importer v1.0 (FREE)
Description: A tool for providing direct loading of .CSM map files into DarkGDK.NET. Provides lots of functions for managing your maps. Requires purchase of DarkGDK.NET if you do not already have it.
URL:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=93030&b=13
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Tool: Important updates for Cartography Shop v4.1
Description: These are the latest updates for Cartography Shop v4.1. If you have installed Cartography Shop, please download and update your copy with the following files.
Light mapper -
http://www.leadwerks.com/files/light.zip
Mirror -
http://mapmasterz.com/lit/light.zip
X Exporter:
http://www.leadwerks.com/files/x.zip
Mirror:
http://mapmasterz.com/lit/x.zip
Even better X Exporter
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=58462&b=13
Text Entity exporter:
http://www.leadwerks.com/files/txt.dll
Mirror:
http://mapmasterz.com/lit/txt.dll
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Tool: DarkBASIC Professional - Cartography Shop map importer v3.3 (FREE)
Description: A tool for providing direct loading of .CSM map files into DarkBASIC Professional. Provides lots of functions for managing your maps. Compatable with v6.2 of DarkBASIC Professional
URL:
http://www.apexnow.co.uk
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Tool: Cartography Shop v4 & v4.1 map importer for DarkGameSDK
Description: The same tool as above, but developed as a statically linked library for DGSDK users. Follow the link below to the relavent thread.
URL:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=72931&b=13
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Tool: GameSpace csm exporter
Description: Export GameSpace meshes as CShop prefabs.
URL:
http://copland.udel.edu/~ed/ercsm/
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Tool: Gile(s) file exporter for Cartography Shop v4.1
Description: Exports GLS Gile(s) lightmapper files from Cartography Shop v4.1, Courtesy of EddieRay.
URL:
http://copland.udel.edu/~ed/cshop/erglsexp082.zip
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Tool: Irrlicht - Cartography Shop map importer
Description: CSM map loading code for the Irrlicht Engine.
URL:
http://www.geocities.com/standard_template/index.html
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Tool: Cartography Shop .CSM Blitz map loader for Cartography Shop v4.1
Description: A tool for providing direct loading of .CSM map files into BlitzBasic.
URL:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=27211&b=13
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Tool: CopyCSMMedia
CopyCSMMedia is a simple MFC Application which allows you to copy a Cartography Shop 4.x .csm file with associated textures to a new location. Source is included.
URL:
http://www.etvig.com/copycsm/index.html
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Tool: MediaCopy v1.1
Description: A tool designed to allow easier transfer of dependent textures used by Cartography Shop map files for your projects. This saves you the trouble of querying and copying texture files manually.
URL:
http://www.apexnow.co.uk
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Tool: TGA Maker
Description: A tool which allows users to generate alpha maps for TGA textures for use with Cartography Shop. Allows creation of transparent textures such as Windows and lightmap filtering techniques.
URL:
http://www.leadwerks.com/ccount/click.php?id=5
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Tool: CSM Map camera fixer
Description: A tool that fixes the camera position of a Cartography Shop v4.1 map file. It will modify and generate a new copy of your map which has had the camera position reset to the world origin (0,0,0). Extremely useful if you get your 3D view camera lost within the Cartography Shop universe.
VB.NET Version - Requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (Redist or SDK)
URL:
http://www.mod2software.com/DBP/CSM_3DV_Fix.zip
VB6 Version - (May require latest VB6 Runtime files from MS)
URL:
http://www.mod2software.com/DBP/CSM_3DV_Fix_COM.zip
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Tool: PrefabMaker
Description: A tool used with Cartography Shop to support generation of prefab .CSM files from model files (.3DS, .CSM v3.01 and .X files). The tool generates v4.1 CSM map files which you can then place into your Cartography Shop prefabs folder.
URL:
http://www.leadwerks.com/files/PrefabMaker4.1.zip
Mirror:
http://mapmasterz.com/lit/prefabmaker4.1.zip
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Tool: .MAP to .CSM converter
Description: A tool which allows conversion of Valve Hammer Editor .MAP files to Cartography Shop v3.02 and v4.1 .CSM files. Also generates the texture image files used by your .MAP WAD files.
URL:
http://www.apexnow.co.uk
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Tool: Cartography Shop v4.0 demo with (FIXED) installer
Description: It seems that Microsoft released something that makes the installer not work. Here is a zipped version of the demo, if you have any problems:
URL:
http://www.leadwerks.com/files/csdemo4.0.zip
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Tool: Additional primitive prefabs
Description: Essential primitive prefabs to extend the primitive shape list used in Cartography Shop.
URL:
http://mapmasterz.com/lit/exprims1.zip
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Any additions, please email me.
Paul.
