FTMAP Help

Anyone on line who knows how to use FTMAP?

<chuckle> That's EXACTLY what I did. I wish that they would display a
message, if you double-click on the icon, to exit the program and enter
the arguments in DOS.

You don't run the program by double-clicking on it. You run it from DOS
and pass it arguments. So from the DOS prompt you would enter:
  ftmap -g -i sprites_directory_name -f output.gif < input.ft

The.ft file is VERY picky. An extra space or carriage return can cause it to
abort. I found the PBEM spreadsheets by Jon Davis (available through the Full
Thrust Computer Core
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3565/index.html) to be VERY
useful and they generate a page that you can be used to make the.ft file.

Are you using vector or cinematic movement. If using vector, you will want
to add the -t argument to the list. Also, the vector shows the line of
PROJECTED movement. If you want to show where the ship came from, you will
have to add/subtract 180 from the course indicator that you send to the
ftmap program (be sure to watch for divide-by-zero errors).

The Manual (see below) is also helpful

Manual:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/2995/ftmap/docs/ftmap.html
FTMap page (by Tim Jones):
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/2995/ftmap/home.html

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Brian Bell
brian_bell@dscc.dla.mil
bkb@beol.net
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