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A fan site for Firefly Studios' series of Stronghold games: Stronghold 1, Stronghold Crusader, Stronghold Warchest, Stronghold 2, Stronghold Legends and now Stronghold Crusader Extreme! We have walkthroughs, image galleries, play-tested maps, patches, music, utilities, informative forums, tutorials and much more! The exclusive SHK SH2 AI-Editor has been released. Become a member (free) to enjoy all the benefits of the site, including private messaging, online games and access to our downloads areas and forums. Click here to find out more (if you are having problems registering click here for help). Key to Icons:  Stronghold 2  Stronghold Crusader  Stronghold 1 |
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 Topic: 9. Distributing
The new items published under this topic are as follows.
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Update! Lord Michael's Walkthroughs for 
This tutorial explains how to produce "birds-eye view" pictures that show your entire map in a single image as well as how to prepare them for uploading to our forums. Better still, you can do this in Microsoft Paint which is supplied as standard with most versions of Windows. 
In order to distribute your own maps or use maps distributed by other people, you will need to learn how to use ZIP compression tools. This tutorial provides links to free software and has a step-by-step guide for some popular products...
This guide will show you how to take screen grabs from the game and prepare them (as well as any other images you may have) for uploading to our forums. Our goal will be to make pictures that are smaller than 100kb (the size limit for our forums) and we will also look at cropping and resizing images to ensure that they fit well on the page and don't cause horizontal scrollbars to appear. Last of all, we will show how these perfect images are uploaded to our forums.
Never neglect the author's map description that appears in the downloads section! It is this description that potential players of your map primarily use when deciding whether or not to download it. Read on for our hot tips on the art of description writing... 
