20. Publishing/Sharing Your Map
Once you have completed your map, you can decide whether or not you want to share it. First of all you need to find your map, but save your map and close Giants Edit when you’re done editing. Now, go to your Giants Map Manager Mod dir, something like C:\Program Files\Giants Mod Manager\Modpacks\. Find the map you created.. ??.gck and make a copy of it on your desktop or elsewhere. Change the copies extension from ??.gck to ??.zip, as the .gck IS a zip file in reality. Crack it open and you’ll see three files, a gti, gmm, and bin. The gti and bin file directly impact the map, however the .gmm file is editable with notepad or another text editor. Open the .gmm file with a text editor and you’ll see a couple lines of text, like

Modinfo_BinName=yourmap.bin
Modinfo_BinType=13

To give your map a title, rename the file ???.bin to yourtitle.bin. Change the Modinfo_BinName=yourmap.bin to your bin file's name. Leave BinType alone, as it defines what type of map you're making. You need to add this line in order to make your map shareable:

Modinfo_Shareable

You can also add this line for comments, but it’s optional:

Modinfo_UserMessage=Your message here.

Once you’ve added the desired lines, save the .gmm file back into the zip and rename it back to the original .gck filename. If you want to have your map published in the GMM Map Database, send it to me.