User Guide

INTRODUCTION

NOTE: The Command & Conquer™ Generals World Builder tool is provided on an “as-is”

basis. It is not supported by Electronic Arts Technical Support. Please see the EA Tools End

User License on boot-up for details.

Welcome to Command & Conquer Generals World Builder. This development tool is used by Electronic Arts

designers to create single-player missions and multiplayer maps for Command & Conquer™ titles, and now it’s

available to you. The full-featured 3D environment gives you unprecedented visual controls and a wide array

of tools to get the details of your maps exactly as you want them. Building game maps is easier than ever, as

the World Builder’s suite of tools lets you rapidly prototype your creations and then jump directly into the

game to play them.

KEY FEATURES

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Step-by-step process to build multiplayer maps. Follow the steps listed in this document to get up to

speed building multiplayer maps (

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p. 36) for up to eight players. With a few extra steps, you can turn

your finished multiplayer map into a Skirmish map (

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p. 40).

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Designed like an art tool. The menus, tools, and their uses are derived from desktop art tools. If you’re

familiar with traditional art software programs, World Builder will feel very comfortable.

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What You See Is What You Get. Interact with your maps through the same engine as the game. Visual

toggles and camera options in World Builder allow you to position the camera anywhere over the map

and to view some or all of its components at any time.

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Urban objects and textures. The enormous library of 3D objects includes detailed touches to create

realistic cities from all over the world. You can build dense Asian cityscapes, Middle Eastern villages, or

modern American sprawl. Objects and textures are included for roads, highways, bridges, and railroads,

too.

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Many environmental settings. Use textures and settings to place your map in a wide range of geographic

locations at any time of day.

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Small output. Created maps are small enough to email to your Command & Conquer friends.