old world map

Kristoffer O · #1 October 13th, 2003, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by johan osterman:

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Originally posted by PDF:
BTW, IW people and betatesters, can you give us a primer on the Dom2 maps ?
Will we have our old Dom1 faves ? What are the new cool maps and scenarios/scripted maps ?

The old ones are easy to convert to the dom 2 format, takes a little work but not to much, but they will lokk the same way they used to. Kristoffer has also redrawn the Urgaia map. Currently there is only one* scenario, if I recall correctly.

*EDIT: I remembered wrong, there are 3 scenarios.

That is also wrong, there are 4 that I can think of.

PDF · #2 October 13th, 2003, 09:42 PM

Well, maybe 5 scenarios now ? Who told 5 ??

And are there other new "vanilla" maps (I mean non scripted, or just a little) ?

johan osterman · #3 October 13th, 2003, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by PDF:
Well, maybe 5 scenarios now ? Who told 5 ??
And are there other new "vanilla" maps (I mean non scripted, or just a little) ?

There are currently 7 maps in total, one of which is Urgaia and one that is the British Isles. And this time I actually checked and counted in order not to make an *** of myself again.

Jasper · #4 October 14th, 2003, 08:17 AM

Will you publish the maps in their original layered form (presumably still done in gimp)? I remember there were a couple of the larger maps from Dom 1 that I liked, but they just had too many provinces for my taste (e.g. Old World, Cimmeria). It would be cool to be able to easily tweak them.

Kristoffer O · #5 October 14th, 2003, 05:06 PM

Unfortunately the maps in Dom I wasn't made in layers. I have remade Urgaia. I rescaled it, replaced most colours with some beige, pasted mountains and forests from other maps and finally redrew the borders. Didn't take too much time. I will make a library with mountains and trees etc for those of you who doesn't like to draw. This will hopefully increase the number of player made maps.

Nerfix · #6 October 14th, 2003, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
I will make a library with mountains and trees etc for those of you who doesn't like to draw. This will hopefully increase the number of player made maps.

Great news!
The "tree libary" will make my mapmaking much easier.

Who knows if i will remake our beloved Cimmeria...

Jasper · #7 October 15th, 2003, 05:33 AM

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Unfortunately the maps in Dom I wasn't made in layers. I have remade Urgaia. I rescaled it, replaced most colours with some beige, pasted mountains and forests from other maps and finally redrew the borders. Didn't take too much time. I will make a library with mountains and trees etc for those of you who doesn't like to draw. This will hopefully increase the number of player made maps.

What I find most helpfull is that the terrain depictions are now static, rather than varrying with the local dominion. That gave me no end of headaches making a map with recognizble features for Dom 1, and in the end put me off as I couldn't get it quite right.

Having a tree library would be cool too, although it's not so hard to make your own -- or just extract a brush from another's map.