Substitute for “Map copy”

Article created by Talon Karrde (Woad Creations)

I know that many were turned off of the Empires editor because there was no map copy like feature (In Age of Kings and Age of Mythology there were ways to make buildings overlap and create new buildings, in Age of King’s editor the feature was called Map Copy), so it was nearly impossible to overlap buildings, but here is an easy substitute!

You use impassable tiles!

You place the building you want (say, a mosque), then you put impassable tiles where you want the other building to be on the mosque (say its 2 minarets flanking the entrance). Then you make the impassable tiles an object group and replace them with minarets!

You put that effect into whatever trigger you want and, presto! a mosque with minarets flanking the entrance!

Here’s some more tricks:

-If you replace an impassable tile that is underwater with a 1 tile building, it will stay underwater.

-If you replace an impassable tile that is underwater with a building that is more than 1 tile, it will float on the surface of the water.

-If you replace a boat with a land unit, the land unit will stay on top of the water, as if he’s floating (however, if you attempt to move the unit, he will sink).

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