Map news in next patch
 

With the next patch of Dominions 3 it will be possible to change how individual provinces appears when you fight.

You can change the background image (the sky) and/or change the ground color to make pink mountains (see attached screenshot for that). You can also set which ground layout should be used e.g. a province with all fights taking place in the arena or use no ground at all to fight in space.

These changes are made in the map file. I hope it can add some extra immersion to the weirder maps :)

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It will be great for Dom3k I suppose, and others :)

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ehm no offence, it might be my ignorance, but the map file is the .map file right?

I think this is a great feature and I'm very happy for what this will enable in dominions 3K. Space provinces as you suggested primarily. I have no idea how that thingie with the colors of the ground works but I'm sure it will fit different planets having different colors in addition to getting spaceprovince fights :D . (take note Rdonj since I specifically gave the planets on your map different colors :D)

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Since you're going to be looking for images anyway can't I make you do it? :angel

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Hmm, this looks interesting. Looking forward to it! :D

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Thank you.
An interesting addition. The use of commands which were already in the game?
But added as map #commands. Its always nice to get more options and I cant wait to see what people do with them.

How did the game decide when to use "snow" backgrounds?

Brainstorming (public domain):
Global map for polar/temperate/tropical/temperate/polar
Maps are numbered lower-left to upper-right
On a map of 1500 provinces...
...ImageMagick script
........change the "plains" color of the top 10% of the image to white
........change the "plains" color of 20% of the middle of the image to dark green
........change the "plains" color of the bottom 10% of the image to white

...perl script
.......add magic site to top 10% provinces for boosting cold scale
.......add magic site to mid 20% provinces for boosting hot scale
.......add magic site to bottom 10% provinces for boosting cold scale

...python script
......change battle background of top 10% provinces to add grey
......change battle background of mid 20% provinces to add dark green
......change battle background of bottom 10% provinces to add grey

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Thank you JK! :)
Very cool addition!

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Hey that screen (hadn't looked at it up close yet) is from dom3K.. hahaha my spider indies against a ghostdragon assassin it seems.

Rdonj, I'll find 2-3 backgrounds for the spaceprovinces yes, I just meant setting the commands :D

This is a really great feature for dom 3K, glad the mod was worth the effort for JK.

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Oh right, my bad.

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Now I just hope the patch will be released soon :D

(what a weird thing to say, why would I say such a thing :D)