Welcome to the SolidSCAPE home page

SolidSCAPE is a litte app dedicated to HeroScape, a great game made by HASBRO. In this game you need to build a map to play on it. A game fan then makes a tiny, fantastic Flash program to make plans of your customized maps. This great map editor is LandSCAPE: you can see what it is at the developer web site.
SolidSCAPE loads the maps saved by LandScape and shows them in full 3D: this is useful when you want to check how your custom map will look like, and to save 3D pictures of it.
So, SolidSCAPE have not any use without LandScape.

This is a comparison of the LandSCAPE and the SolidSCAPE views

This is how LandScape shows your finished map	This is how SolidSCAPE will render it

SolidSCAPE is currently in the BETA phase: this means that the program have almost all planned features, but it still needs some more developement. SolidSCAPE also still can hangs up, eat all your RAM memory, work bad or not working at all.

SolidSCAPE requires a Windows OS, the VisualBasic6 runtime library, and DirectX 8.1 (no, DirectX8 it's not enough). A 3D hardware accelerated video card is also strongly recommended. I've tested it on Windows 98 SE and Windows XP Pro. Right now i don't know if it works on other Windows version.

The current release of SolidSCAPE is Ver. 1.0.0 BETA - 11/04/2006 You can download it from HERE.

Ver. 1.0.0 BETA:
Features

• Load LandSCAPE maps in full 3D environment
• Exports BMP files of the current view, with auto-numbered filenames also.
• Full support for "overlays", with options to show each type.
• Optionally visible gaps between the tiles.
• Simulated shadows under bridges and overhangs.
• Customizable background color.
• Basic lights customization (On/Off, light colors).
• Optionally glowing for Lava tiles and Water tiles.
• Stackable Water and Lava tiles.

• Overlays are placed on the map evaluating the "position point" of them (wiht "position point" i mean the X,Y coords LandScape saves for each object of the map).
  So if you place in LandScape a 15 level tree on two non adjacents hexes, it will not be showed in SolidSCAPE at the supposed height.

• Real 3D volumetric shadows
• Better lights control.
• Better camera control (first person mode, selection of the rotation point, better strafe movement)
• Background image option
• Better tile sides
• Better 3D models and textures for the objects

If SolidSCAPE does not work for you, pls download THIS DEBUGGING VERSION, unzip it in the SolidScape folder. and run it. When you have the error, click on the "Show Log" checkbox, copy the text you will see and send it to me.