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Premade houses would depend heavily on everyone using a non-custom gfx set. A better work around would be area copy/paste as mentioned previously in the bug tracker.

As far as NPC displaying goes, Bart and I originally decided to use a generic NPC balloon icon due to the fact multiple types of NPC's could be spawned on the same tile. This makes for a nicer, more exact representation of an NPC present on a single tile rather than using vaious sized NPC's cluttering a small area. Also, custom gfx NPC's require a black offset to center properly within the EO client. It is probably best to leave well enough alone for editing purposes.

Another suggestion: When you fill up a map with tiles by right clicking on a tile, you should be able to erase some tiles again.

Say you have a map of 50x50 but only want to fill up 45x45 of the map, then you can remove the other 10 tiles again without resizing the map.

Try using the "Edge" special tile. It will often black out the ground default tile (See EO's castle maze for an example). Also, keep in mind that you aren't actually "filling" but rather setting a default tile.

Hmm thanks, I never really tried edges. I'll give it a try next time.

Would it be possible to have it render it for you and make the house if you select all the tiles you need? Or could you possibly have it to where it can create a new house for you using your graphics if some how the map editor detects custom or original graphics?

Again, this is ideal for a copy/paste by area select utility. Custom graphics used by various servers make it impossible to simply preload houses. If there were such a feature you would more than likely have to load your house design anyway which would be redundant if copy/paste existed. Based on Sausage's recent comments, I assume the map editor will be scrapped for a client/map editor combo if he ever decides to begin such a project (don't get your hopes up).