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Three published

Maps that
measure up

A generator writes each one and a validator checks it, so the symmetry below is measured rather than intended. Every player in a match needs the same file.

The maps

Each thumbnail is the real generated layout with the terrain stripped back. The full layouts keep the terrain, and high ground is lighter there.

  • Start position
  • Supply
  • Oil
  • Hospital
Layout of GXCircle12ZHv1: spawn points and resource markers

GXCircle12ZHv1

12 spawns5120 × 512016 KB

every spawn a rotated copy of one templatecontested middle: 6 derricks, 6 docks, 6 hospitals

Twelve spawns on a circle, each an exact rotation of the last, so no start position has a better expansion, a shorter path to the middle, or a closer neighbour than any other. The middle is raised ground holding the shared resources. A generator writes it and a validator checks all of it: equal radius, equal neighbour distance, identical per-spawn supply, and a middle that looks the same from all twelve.

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Layout of GXCauldron12ZHv1: spawn points and resource markers

GXCauldron12ZHv1

12 spawnsfour-fold symmetry23 KB

twelve seats round a square pitdeals evenly to 4 teams of 3, or 2 of 6

Not a ring: a square pit with two kinds of seat. Eight sit on the edges and four in the corners, and they are deliberately not equal. A corner seat reaches $48,400 against an edge seat’s $64,300, and pays for it by holding half as much approach front. The measure that matters is that no seat is better overall, not that every seat is the same.

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Layout of GXQuarry8ZHv1: spawn points and resource markers

GXQuarry8ZHv1

8 spawnsfour-fold symmetry9 KB

four walled compounds$50,625 per player, identical to the digit

Eight seats in four walled compounds, every one a single orbit of the same template, so each measurement comes out identical rather than merely close.

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Where they go

Drop the folder into your maps directory. One folder per map, named the same as the map itself (Maps/MyMap/MyMap.map), with the .tga preview and map.ini beside it if the map shipped with them. Restart the game and it picks them up.

macOS
~/Library/Application Support/GeneralsX/GeneralsZH/Maps
Linux
~/.local/share/GeneralsX/GeneralsZH/Maps
Windows
Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data\Maps
Not the Maps folder inside the game directory. That one holds the official maps and is only read from a cache built at release time, so anything dropped there is silently ignored.