I am making my first map and nothing will show up when im supposed to be entering the map details. I dont know how to create a screenshot or I would.

Well, first you'll need much more information than that.

Have you read the wiki on making maps? That is probably the best way forward.

If you have a link to the single player map that youre working on, perhaps that will help too.

Yes, Ive read the wiki and I just uploaded into warlight and havent done anything so it doesnt have a link

It would still have a link, even if its just the file. Click "Get link for sharing".

My guess is that you didn't assign each territory an ID: Territory_#, so all you are seeing is the black outlines, which don't show up on the black background of the map editor. If you did give them all an id #, go back through and make sure you spelled "territory" correctly. Sometimes I slip up when typing and accidentally type "teritory", and then copying and pasting that over and over again, is useless. Check these things, and if that doesn't work, let me know and I'll try to help you further.

BBBs advice sums it up well.

Bout all I could add is that you could change your line color in Inkscape to make it visible against the black backdrop. I did all my maps with red backdrops so I could see the borders even before I labelled the territories.

In related news: If you are running windows 7, you can type "snip" in the search field from the start menu and it will bring up the snipping tool for easy screen captures. If you're running windows XP, I recommend a free and easy tool called "MWSnap" for captures. If you're running on a mac or linux box, I dunno what the answer is but I'm sure there is one :)

on, completely forgot to address that. if youre on any windows, Alt+Prtscn and then paste into Paint gives you a screen cap.

BBB, you don't need the alt. Simply print-screen will do the trick.

Of course, then you would need to save the file from paint and upload it somewhere to post on here.

@BBB they are all named correctly. Also the only thing that shows up is when i press show example armies half of it shows up at the top of the screen

Also here is the link: http://WarLight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=14348

Richard sharpe, I just changed background to red ans stroke to white and still nothing.

I MAY know what the problem is.

Are you using Inkscape for this? If so, is your drawing centered in the 'box' on Inkscape?

I am using inkscape and what box??

When you open Inkscape it will show a rectangle with a bit of shadowing in the center of the screen. Your map must be wholly contained inside this rectangle.

The dimensions of the rectangle can be changed in the Document Properties menu (Ctrl-Shift-D) in the 'custom size' area.

If you don't see this square at all I would make the area very large and then zoom out as much as needed to find it.

It was the Box. It wasnt showing on my document so I just copied and pasted into a new document now it is working fine. Thank u so much Richard!

I have another question. I have images for the background of my map. Can I make those a background or no?

The Straight up images won't go through. You need to convert them to a Path first.

Same with text.

How do you do that?

Never mind. Here is the map so far: http://WarLight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=14354. I would also like people to test 4 player FFA, 2v2 and maybe even zombies.

Looking at Cheddar 7 and 8, I think you should try using "Simplify path".