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Originally posted by PhilD:
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I created a new Version (1.91) that tries to assign a terrain type to each province (based on number of pixels of each color - an ugly hack). It can be found at my lousy Web page. Feel free to copy and redistribute, or even to use the stupid thing.
Edit: the maps provided by Illwinter seem to be around 1600x1200, so that's the kind of size that seems to display correctly in the game. Unfortunately, the program's default size is much smaller. But if you use this size with the default amount of water and land provinces (10 and 90), you will see some small and some large provinces. Well, I did.
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OK for those following the DomMap project I have a web directory set up.
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...s2/RandomMaps/
At the moment it runs 30 maps as large as I can get. Could be larger but I have too many things running on my server right now to mass generate the max size. Still they should be about 450 provinces (400 land and 50 sea) and a size of 1200x2400. The pixels are quite scattered which I should probably stop doing since it might be better for Dom2 to leave larger patches of color. The jigsaw shapes of the province borders is set to extreme so that there are lots of strategic locations on each map. Each map is in the directory as .tga, .map, a .zip containing both tga and map, plus a .jpg for easy viewing and for those who would rather snag the jpg. The terrains are fairly well guessed at and the maps should be playable so let me know if there are any problems.
There are multiple directions to move next. More directorys for small, medium, large. Web page thumnails for easier viewing. trying to script something to work the visual parts of them better. Scripting to offer daily maps with my touch of random insanity. Give me a clue.....
[ January 15, 2004, 20:21: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]