Spring RTS Engine

Steel fields is a 32x32 map. What do I need to be able to trim that down to say 28x28? Can I just open up the sd7 file and change the size?

nope, maps don't work that way.

you would have to export the texture, scale it and the height field down then rebuild it.

SME is handy tool for such operation.

Takes like couple of minutes...

I tried using SME. For some reason it just wont load the map. I have 6 gigs of ram so I dont know what the problem is.
for those of you who use sme, how long does it take to load a map?

Should load really quickly. Did you decompress the map first?

i extracted the smf file from the map sd7 file so i suppose i did

In SME import .smt file, works for me that way...

smf is just information, smt is texture.

1) unpack the map
2) springmapedit File -> Import Spring Sm2 map
3) file -> save all maps
4) there will be several bitmaps, some quite large
5) use irfanview/photoshop/whatever to resize those bitmaps
6) use file->load to them again
7) export -> spring sm2 map
pack the map

see http://springrts.com/wiki/Map_development on how to pack the map, what bitmap sizes for what mapsizes and all that.

for those of you who use sme, how long does it take to load a map?

depends on the size, the console window shows progress with #####

For some reason it just wont load the map. I have 6 gigs of ram so I dont know what the problem is.

Does it load a smaller map? Also copy the errors from the console.
I think only frostregen can really help with sme as he made it:
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=16341

Iy just wont load. oh well.