Carnivores 2 MAP

The MAP files are used in Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Ice Age. Carnivores also used MAP files, which had a slightly simpler format.

The MAP files consist of large blocks of data, many of which are pointers for items in a corresponding RSC file. MAP files are always exactly 14,155,775 bytes long, but RSC files can vary in size considerably.

Each area in Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Ice Age consists of 1024 * 1024, or 1,048,576, cells. According to Action Forms, each cell is 4 * 4 meters, making the overall area 4096 * 4096 meters (just over 4 kilometers on each side), or almost 17 square kilometers; the maximum area height is 127.5 meters.