.MAP ? Can this work

Hi guys, I have been using blitzplus for about a year now, and I ran across a program that makes maps for your games. Every other program I run into these days are for 3D not 2D. My question is, when I need to load my background for the game does it just have to be a .BMP format? Or can I run others too? The program I have makes it in .MAP format, and hope their is a way to make this work with blitzplus. Thanks

Images that Blitzplus loads are BMP, JPG, PNG. If you want it to load other formats you will need to write your own routine to read the file header/data for example a Tif or TGA image file (probably one in the code archives but not too difficult to do if you have the specs of those file formats). I have never heard of a .MAP image format.

Edit - however if you know how the .MAP file is structured you could write your own load routine for it.

ok, so your saying pretty much this 'program' is useless with blitzplus? I also have the mappy for blitz, but can I use it for 2D? or is just for 3D? I have been manually drawing on microsoft paint and its starting to wear on me thin. The graphics are horible doing it that way. Cool