"When can we make our own maps !!" might have been or still is one of the mainly asked questions out there fromout the bf1942 community, well here's the answer: http://www.battlecraft42.com and here's what the features will be:

• Full 3D Environment
• Real Time Rendering
• Easy to use Graphical User Interface
• MOD Support
• Create New Levels From Scratch
• Load Existing Levels
• Automatic Internal RFA Archiving
• Heightmap Importing/Exporting
• Multiple Preset Camera Views
• Terrain Mapper

- Carve Terrain
- Raise Terrain
- Smooth Terrain
- Point Manipulation Tool with Auto Smoothing Groups
- Flatten Tool
- Road Tool
- Tool Sizing and Power Settings
• Random Terrain Generator
• Lighting Editor
• Shadow Editor
• Fog Settings Editor
• Water Settings Editor
• Team Settings
• Configurable Default Settings
• Material Mapper
• Material Painting Tools
• Surface Map View
• Customizable Texture Sets for Surface Map Generation
• Intuitive Tree View for all Level Properties and Objects
• Drag and Drop Object Creation
• Object Mapper
• View Controls for StandardMesh, TreeMesh, Spawn Objects, Soldier Spawns and Control Points

View Object Meshes as Bounding Box, Collision Mesh, Detail Mesh and Textured Detail Mesh
• Move Tool
• Rotate Tools
• Drag and Drop Control Point Creation
• Drag and Drop Soldier Spawn Creation
• Drag and Drop Spawn Object Creation
• Surface Map Generator
• Terrain Shadow Generation Tools
• Object LightMap Generation Tools
• Surface Map Merging Tools
• Surface Map Assignments Editor
• Mini Map Browser (In Editor Mini Map)
• In-Game Mini Map Generator
• Thumbnail Importer
• In Editor Object Browser

This is an official editor-to-be, as the developement teams consists of nothing but DICE/EA developers. goodie!

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