simonseidel/Map-Editor-V3

Map-Editor-V3

Version 3

Download Links + How-To @ the end of readme

• 10/8/2025 added some community-made videos including a youtube tutorial and info about sampctl.

Features:

• Objects + Colors - w/ Texture and Text Support.
• Vehicles - w/ Fast & Easy Tuning.
• Pickups
• Actors - w/ Animations.
• Player Attachments
• Categories - for Models, Vehicles, Skins and Textures.
• Toolbar - Instant access to a wide array of useful options.
• Offset Editor - Edit the offset of attached objects easily with keys.
• Map File Management - Wipe, Load & Save your maps.
• Ingame Help Menu - Contains credits, keystrokes and information about the script.
• Category Manager - Edit categories and their content.
• Edit Marker - A yellow arrow indicating which item is being edited.
• RemoveBuilding Support - You can now remove & re-create buildings.

What's New?

• Edit Marker
• Simplified Texturing
• Categories + Category Manager
• New Browser Design
• Toolbar with More Options
• Huge amounts of minor tweaks

Videos made by the community:

• Fusez Map Editor - Installation Tutorial for SAMP 0.3DL
• SA:MP Mapping - Adding Text via Fuzes Map Editor
• SA:MP Mapping - Preparations of Making a Custom Interior and Setting Textures
• SAMP: Advance Map Editor

Screenshot(s):

More pictures can be seen in this album.

The map shown in the album is included in the map editor package.

Credits:

• Slice - strlib
• Y_Less - sscanf
• Zamaroht - Textdraw Editor
• SuperViper - All Object Models
• Pottus - All Object Textures
• Pottus - All GTA SA Objects
• Crayder - All Model Sizes & Skin Names
• Stylock - GetAttachedObjectPos
• h02 - Noclip Flymode
• Southclaws - sampctl support
• UnNeko (Youtube) - Video Tutorial

Dependencies: REQUIRED!

Downloads can be found at the bottom of the page

• strlib (Required) by Slice
• sscanf 2.8.2 (Required) by Y_Less

How To:

• Download everything required, download links can be found further down this post. Youtube Tutorial
• optional: use sampctl prepared by Southclaws. (not tested by me yet - can someone confirm it is working correctly?)

How to Compile:

• Extract mapedit.pwn to your filterscripts folder.
• Extract the folder mapedit and its' content to your filterscripts folder.
• Extract strlib.inc to your pawno/includes folder.
• Extract sscanf2.inc to your pawno/includes folder.
• Compile the code using pawno.
• If the compilation was successful you should have the file mapedit.amx in your filterscripts folder now.

OR

• Extract mapedit.amx to your filterscripts folder.

Before Loading:

• Extract sscanf.dll (windows) / sscanf.so (linux) to your plugins folder.
• Add sscanf (windows) / sscanf.so (linux) to your plugins line in your server.cfg file.
• Create a folder in your scriptfiles folder and name the new folder maps.
• Extract mapedit.db from the map editor package to your scriptfiles folder.
• Extract mapedit_maps.db from the map editor package to your scriptfiles folder.

How to Load:

• Add mapedit to your server.cfg filterscripts line, then start your server.

OR

• Type loadfs mapedit in the server console window once opened, then press enter.

Done!

Problem?

If something doesn't work as it should, try using a blank gamemode combined with the map editor filterscript! Example provided below.

(Thanks to Kwarde for the tip)

pawn Code:

#include <a_samp>

main() { }

public OnGameModeInit() {
    AddPlayerClass(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ,0 , 0 ,0);
}

Download

• strlib (Required) by Slice
  • GitHub Download
  • GitHub Page
• sscanf 2.8.2 (Required) by Y_Less (use other versions at your own risk, it might break something)
  • GitHub Windows Download
  • GitHub Linux Download
  • GitHub Page
• Map Editor
  • GitHub Download
  • GitHub Page
• Map Editor V3 Building Migrator Database Tool (Optional)
  • GitHub Download
  • GitHub Page