[Gandalf Parker]

PhilD is managing the source code now. The Last batch of changes were his. He has pretty much gotten it to create maps which will work for Dom2. His Version is Linux only and there are people who would love to get just a working Windows compile made available.

The blur story is this. Dom1 had a very restricted use of color. The maps made for Dom2 have a much greater range of allowance. There are alot of possible ways to go as far as making the random maps look much better. But the EASIEST thing Ive found is a blur.

In a few steps, using GIMP, I can layer the white capital dots, layer the blue borders in water provinces, layer the brown color used for land borders, blur the rest and then save. I can provide links of the before and after if you wish.

With DomMap I can generate 100 maps a day and make them available on my web site. But they are ugly. Ive tried to find a way to automate blurring them while not touching 3 colors (or even 1, the 255/255/255 white capitals). But a better answer would be the fact that DomMap has all that info in an array at one point. There are alot of ways to go. Blur then insert the capital pixels to the file would be one.

Id also be interested in whether the C code actually generates a more extensive fractal map then "dumbs it down" to the old Dom1 map format. Such as... does it squeeze everything between height 100-150 into the green tree color because the old Dom1 limited the map to a total of 16 colors? Letting it assign each level to a slight color change could result in a great map.