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Contact Frozen Synapse Player with a Map Message

When you want to contact a player there is a last solution: challenge him to a game with your message written on the map.

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  1. Download the template file and write your message.
  2. Take a PNG screenshot of it with white pixels at the borders.
  3. Place the image in (Windows/Linux) FrozenSynapse/psychoff/ (Mac OS X) Frozen Synapse.app/Contents/Resources/psychoff/ You should find importtest.png already there. For Steam it's first Steam/SteamApps/common/
  4. In FS, press ` or ~ to open the console then type loadeditor(); press and ` again.
  5. You are now in the Level Editor. In the menu on the right, click Import from PNG and import it. Then save it as a map-message.enc (or anything). Then move the saved file from (Windows/Linux) FrozenSynapse/psychoff/data/encounters/ (Mac OS X) user/Application Support/FrozenSynapse/Psychoff/data/encounters/ [For Steam it's first Steam/SteamApps/common/] to userlevels/ in the same data/ directory.
  6. Now relaunch FS, log in, create a game with advanced setup, load the level by typing its file name (map-message), then if it asks add one or more units for both teams, then click submit and specify the player's name and “Map Message” in game information field. Submit, you're done.
template screenshot imported screenshot submit screen