Map previews

[APCs r Evil]

How do you generate a map preview? You know, the little overhead image of the map that appears in the shell. I seem to remember some professional way of doing it, and by that I mean not taking a screenshot and chopping it down to a 128x128 shot of the radar image, like I do.

[Red Devil]

command line switch:

/shellmap 128 [filename] Creates a 128x128 pixel terrain bitmap in the /bz2/addon folder
of the maps terrain within the playable area

[MrTwosheds]

Of course /shellmap 256 or /shellmap 512 work equally well. You may need to alter the map lighting to get a good picture of the terrain.