It's the map from the original game, altered by Pharaxes for smaller file size. The old high res version is outdated that much that I don't want to contribute it anymore.
I've been playing around with the large map Pharaxes made, but it doesn't look the way I like. It shows no water, rivers and the mountains look flat. I've tried around but it's beyond my graphic skills to generate a nice looking map. I've found a solution to color the water but no solution for the mountains and landscape to look nice colored as we are used to have now.
If you want to use the old high res files with the actual Map Pack you need to copy the folder
..\istaria\terrain
the file
..\istaria\map_istaria_terrain.def
and use an editor to copy the top lines of the file
..\istaria\map.def
It contains other values, this is just an example!
Code:
UI_MAP
{
string Name = "Istaria"
float WorldGlobalLeft = 13500
float WorldGlobalTop = 41000
float WorldGlobalRight = 31500
float WorldGlobalBottom = 13000
float MaxZoom = 6
float MinZoom = 0.125
float MetersToPixels = 7.8125
That should be all if you want to use the old graphics with the new Map Pack.