﻿FaME (Fate Map Editor):
'FaME' is a Map-Editor for the game 'Fate - Gates of Dawn'. With this Map-Editor you are able to change the Walls/Doors and Grounds for the Cities and Dungeons. It is not possible to change Switches, Stairs, Teleporters, Buildings, Items and so on. 



Intention for this Program:
'FaME' is actually just a side product that i´ve programmed to understand, which Bytes inside the Mapfiles are for which Maptiles and how the Maptiles have to look.



Dependencies:
The program 'FaME.exe' is a so-called 'stand-alone executable'. Meaning, that you don´t need any additional runtime libraries (e.g. VisualBasic, VisualC, DirectX) or Frameworks (e.g. JavaSE or DotNet), to run this program.



Systems:
Tested: 	Windows XP(x86), Windows 7(x86, x64), Windows 10.x(x64)
Untested: 	Windows Vista, Windows 8.x



Installation:
To install you just have to create a folder of any valid name you want, and copy all the files and subfolders from the archive into it. The folder 'Maps' contains the files from the folder 'a' of the game 'Fate - Gates of Dawn' (Except the files 'a0' to 'a7' which are no Mapfiles).

The program 'FaME.exe' doesn´t need an Ini-File, so there is no folder created inside the User-directory.

This procedure has the following advantages:
- No Administrator-Rights needed to run this program.
- No changes/modifications are made inside the Registry.

But some disadvantages too:
- You have to remove the program-files and subfolders manually.
- There is no entry created inside the 'Start' menu.
- There is no link created on the Desktop.



Uninstall:
The program-files and subfolders must be removed manually.



Usage:
The handling of this program is pretty self-explaining. But there are some things to mention:
1. The walls are always two-sided! Exception: One-sided walls - which are only visible from one direction.
2. The doors are ALWAYS one-sided!
3. The Ground-tiles are also used for map display.
4. Instead of clicking the button 'Set', you may also press the key 's'.


IMPORTANT!
To give the maps in 'FateMaster' a more fancy look, i´ve set the doors two-sided and added some tiles for red water. To do so, it was essential to create some additional tiles. You´ll find these additional tiles inside 'FaME', as list node 'Extra Tiles'.

If you want to create or modify maps for the game 'Fate - Gates of Dawn', you should NEVER EVER make use of these 'Extra Tiles'. The game 'Fate - Gates of Dawn' doesn´t know the Bytes used for the 'Extra Tiles' and will crash!

Fate - Gates of Dawn:
Before you put the modified maps into the folder 'a', you should rename the original files or make a Backup of the folder 'a' - or both.

The modified maps only take effect if they were loaded by the game. Meaning that if you perform a 'Load State' from an old game, the old maps are still in memory. The best way is to start the game as usual and load a savegame.



Terms and Conditions:
FaME (Fate Map Editor)
Copyright (c) 2016  Dragonfly

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.



Third-parties:
The file 'FaME.exe' contains the following library:

LibPNG (version 1.2.25):
libpng versions 1.0.7, July 1, 2000, through 1.2.5, October 3, 2002, are
Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson, and are
distributed according to the same disclaimer and license as libpng-1.0.6
with the following individuals added to the list of Contributing Authors:

   Simon-Pierre Cadieux
   Eric S. Raymond
   Gilles Vollant

and with the following additions to the disclaimer:

There is no warranty against interference with your enjoyment of the
library or against infringement.  There is no warranty that our
efforts or the library will fulfill any of your particular purposes
or needs.  This library is provided with all faults, and the entire
risk of satisfactory quality, performance, accuracy, and effort is with
the user.



Thank you for reading!
