#Animal crossing map editor how to#
#Animal crossing map editor software#

Load your game and open the pattern design app.Palm trees can be planted inland if you lay down a sand path with island designer.Some fish require a river on levels 2 or 3 to be caught.

You can have a maximum of 8 Bridges and 8 Inclines on your island.Trees can't be planted on tiles directly next to the beach.This means the minimum amount of cliff, if you want to plant a tree, is 3X3. A tree can only be planted on Cliff levels if there is tile surrounding it.There has to be one tile between level 1 and level 3.Remember to combine your objects together as you go. Lock this layer to avoid moving everything around when decorating.Once you have finished your terrain layers group them together and label them as 'My Island'.Continue making layers for Rocks, Grass 1,2,3, Water 1,2,3 etc.Continue to copy and paste your sand tiles to fill out the beach, following the outline shown on your Plotting Map.Move this tile to the minimum beach base making sure the dark outline matches with the grid.Copy and paste a 2X2 sand tile and rename this layer 'My Beach'.I suggest making a new layer for each type and height of terrain.

#Animal crossing map editor how to#

How To Create Your Base Terrain After you have scaled and positioned your map you can begin creating your base terrain.

These abbreviations also apply to the fences in the Garden section.

Tiles with 2X4 V is the vertical orientation (4 up/down, 2 left/right).

2X4 is the horizontal orientation, measured 2 tiles up/down, 4 tiles left/right.

There are both diagonal corners (C TL) for terrain and curved corners (CC TL) for pathsĪll tiles have a size that relates to the grid.

Grass and Water tiles are separated into 3 colours for each of the terrain heights. Asset names are abbreviated to fit these groups. Tiles are organized into Grass, Water, Sand, Rock and Paths. Terrain Tiles are the building blocks of your map. Once your image is positioned you can move on to the next step. The pier is 2X8 and your map should fit into these squares somewhat. Count 6 squares up from the outside of the grid (on the appropriate side) this is where the lower outside corner of your pier will be.

Lastly you can use your pier, as they don't vary in position other than being on the left or right.

I have also included an object called Map Corners (Purple) it is a line on the far right of the screen that you can line the edge of your map to (but not overlap).

Another way is to use the dotted lines on your map and align them with the Large Grid.

The outline of RS should fit in the middle of the Small Grid lines.

Resident Services is usually the easiest to position.

To get it in the correct place you can try these methods: However you can get it positioned well enough to know where everything goes. The lines will be big and blurry, and wont fit exactly into the grid.

Go to object properties and change the image opacity to 50%.

Place this image below the Grid group in the layers bar.

Scale this image to X 681.567 and Y 380.647 (make sure maintain ratio is off).

After following the How to Plot a New Horizons Map copy and paste your completed image into the ANCH+MappedV3.psd file.

To get your map into the right size for this file you will have to scale your picture again. However this is not the same grid I use in this file. How to Plot a New Horizons Map This guide will help you make a map that is correctly proportioned to fit in a grid. To get your map off your Switch and into this program you will first have to follow my other guide:

Map Minimum and Background are locked so they can't be moved.

Map Minimum is the map currently shown.

At the Bottom of the layers is Map Minimum and Background.

The Banner group has the yellow banner up top, a text placeholder to put your town name and an optional Town Tune maker.

These are all the things you will use to create your map. (More about plotting your map onto this base in the next step.)

Plotting Maps has an example map to help you place your map over the minimalist map that is already shown.

Turn Big and Small grid on or off as needed.

Each group of layers holds multiple assets to organize them. In your layers tab is a list of all the assets I have included. Names for program functions might be different depending on the program you use. Note: My instructions use terminology used by Corel Photopaint.

The right side is where the assets to make a map are.

#Animal crossing map editor software#

In your software the layers tab needs to be open.

When you open the file this is what it should look like.