Edi\'s Projects: Requests & Commentary
 

This thread is intended for discussing any and all things related to any projects in the Map Projects thread and any other issues that might have relevance.

Discussion and commentary of the Dom3 DB is also welcome here, since if anybody needs to specifically ask me any questions, this will be a good place for it. So, fire away.

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A general request.

You're right, the random map generator as is is great. It's amazing. It completely defeats the purpose of taking existing scans and image files, opening up in photoshop, and putting little 1x1 pixel white dots everywhere.

So the thing I'm interested in seeing is the thing that the random map generator just can't do- /worlds/.

Something huge, watery-while-not-having-so-many-actual-water-provinces-you-might-as-well-surrender-to-oceana-on-turn-one (much bigger water provinces than the random generator), and /wrap-around/ (horizontally).

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All right.Dom 3 DB question time...

How come everytime I try to open it, it is gibberish? What program do I need to get at this stuff? I've tried notepad, crimson editor, word.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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You need Open Office:
http://www.openoffice.org/

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Thanks, for covering that, Ballbarian. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

normalphil, that's a good point. You might be interested in knowing then that the new big Faerun is going to have more sea provinces than even the old 424 version, and a fair number of them will also be big. The idea is to put enough sea room to comfortably fit all the UW nations on the map.

Something else that the RMG also can't do is thematic maps, but I suppose that is a synonym for worlds in this context. I Suppose there will be a demand for user made maps, as evidenced by e.g. Loemendor, because instead of being completely random, they are designed, often with something particular in mind.

The RMG also gets a big boost from Ballbarian's RanDom utility, because it allows setting border width to 0, running whatever map you want with whatever parameters and then you can just fire the thing up in GIMP or whatever, use replace by color to turn all the white dots to background color and redesign the map from the ground up on the basis of the map graphic. To reproduce that same map in different colors, just pluck the random seed from the map file and write it down, then run RanDom with as many variations as you want.

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Thanx.

Have I mentioned lately all you guys are awesome? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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We don't get tired of hearing it, trust me.

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An interesting thing that RanDom will also allow is to run a map with multiple color sets. So you can do a fancy map for a web page of a long running game, and one thats abit more bare for actual play (easier on the eyes). Even one thats just borders and try to color it in for who has what province as the game progresses.

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To reiterate what I said in the Thuggity Thug thread when people asked about the Faerun map, the first Dom3 version is fairly well along the way. Province borders were finished yesterday, now all that needs be done is place the white dots, do terrain assignment in the map editor and then add special provinces and it'll be ready to roll. Give me two or three weeks and it'll be done, after which I can get to work on a smaller version. This one is going to have 500+ provinces at a guesstimate.

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That's great! I'm not so much about new mod nations, but I really enjoy poking through new maps, and I enjoyed the Forgotten Realms gold box games from a couple of decades ago.

-Max

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I'm going to have to look into releasing the map with no specials soon, there's so many things to do now that I will not be able to finish making the specials in any kind of timely fashion.

Thanks for reminding me.

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Edi have you used the province editor Ballbarian put out? Makes special provinces REAL easy after a slight learning curve. Much less worry about format, can concentrate on content much more. Would still have to hardcode locations of course, but everything else is pretty simple.

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Yes, I recommend it warmly. Got it to work today. Easy to find units and sites that you feel like adding. Might come in handy if and when I finish my neverending map.

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Urf! I just took a look and got the thing working, but even though it is a quite wonderful and impressive program, no thanks.

The problem for me is that I put the damned DB together, so I have a fairly good idea what's what, where to find it and what it does. Trying to learn how to use the Province Editor is going to take me more time than doing everything by hand, I got fairly adept at doing that way back with the old Faerun maps. On top of that, I also have a substantial portion of the Faerun special provinces done, all I need to do is lift them from the Dom2 map files, adjust a bit and toss them in.

Then there is the issue of prioritizing: I can either work on the map file specials or I can work on the Great Fixing so that it will be reality with the next patch. I'm more inclined to do the latter, as the map is not tied to the patch cycle.

So I will release the map and the current map file (no specials, though future special provinces are flagged nostart) and let people get used to that before I make the customized map files.

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Changed Faerun 466 download file to zip format. Sorry if the change caused inconvenience to anyone.

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Rune Smasher has penetration bonus 2, not 1.

I think I remember that I spotted a couple of bugs in the Dom3 DB and I'll report them whenever I stumble over them again.

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Thanks. I know about the Firelord magic one and this is a good addition, I can get them squared away for the next version.

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Two things with the Faerun map: province 222 in the moonshaes is named starits of oman. Shouldn't that be STRAITS of oman? And province 407, the north high forest, isn't marked as a forest province. Regardless, its a great map.

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Thanks! Yeah, it should be Straits of Oman. I'll fix those. At work right now, but I'll do it when I get home.