Maps available

[Ski Anderson]

Originally posted by Tiltowait:
Farthing: Looks great, though I agree with the others about the color, hurts my eyes. (dunno which paint program you use, but some let you have the command 'select similar', so you could select a white pixel/capital, select similar then copy em into a blank picture file, then change the colors and paste em back in, all without worrying about neighboors getting messed up)

I zipped through the province neighboors and did not see any problems. I wish I had that program !

Thank you very much for the feedback.

Taking the comments that I got into consideration, I tried to make my second map today. Borders are darker and the water and grasslands are less abusive to the eye.

It's a very small map (19 provinces, no water) suitable for 2 player games. It's called "A Question of Symmetry" and anyone who wants it is welcome to take a look at it.

A Question of Symmetry - Small Map - 19 Provinces - Approx. 473k

Comments, concerns, suggestions or fixes are appreciated. I'm completely new to this so I apologize in advance for any troubles.

Ski

[Arralen]

Originally posted by Tiltowait:
Cant get the new farthing map to load properly.

Sorry, folks, didn't have the time to test it properly.

Looks like DOM doesn't like indexed palette colors .. .
Fixed that, but file size has grown back to 9 MB again.

Loaded the map/graphic up in the editor and it looked quite o.k. .

You can get the reworked .tga file here.

[ January 15, 2004, 20:56: Message edited by: Arralen ]

[Gandalf Parker]

OK if you want to see what Arralens routine does to the DomMap generated maps then here is an example...
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/way2hard.tga
(and YES its huge but its still in work)

Also if you are interested in the types of maps that can be auto-generated by GIMP then check this one out...
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/rendered.tga

I can do improvements on that but Im not interested in drawing borders and placing capital dots. And Im WAY not interested in figuring out #neighbor and #terrain for the .map file. If someone creates a program for those then maybe.
(GIMP is a free way-powerful programmable Paint program for most platforms which is what the devs use)

[Gandalf Parker]

And the new addition for the day is....
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion.../000index1.jpg

I cant seem to get the html part to work right. Maybe tomorrow. But at least you can look at the thumbnail index it makes and see the file names

[Gandalf Parker]

FINALLY! We are back up to where we were on DomMap for Dominions 1.
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...humbnails.html

Now if I can get something to automatically do a slight blurring of the maps they will look much better (now that the old Dom1 pixel patterns arent needed). These maps are all playable. The .map file for each one has decent #neighbor and #terrain assinments.

Now for some improvments.

1) multiple download offeres? zip, tga, jpg, map

2) blurring (smoothing the image) of the maps

3) offering games of random crazyness

4) offering the same thing as today but in more sizes

5) offering the same as today but other DomMap preferences (such as less dots and larger blocks of color)

6) drop the DomMap and shift attention to the GIMP rendered maps because they are prettier

7) drop the whole thing and concentrate on getting a web-based server to work

8) give up period

COME ON PEOPLE. Im fishing for a direction here. Is anyone listening? Do I need to make a poll out of it to get some responses?

[Leadman]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:


COME ON PEOPLE. Im fishing for a direction here. Is anyone listening? Do I need to make a poll out of it to get some responses? [/QB]

The maps are great, thanks! What I would like to see is map making tools for the computer challenged such as myself. I would love to make maps but am completely lost when trying to follow the map making/editing discussions. If it were possible to develop something similar to the map making capabilities in Kohan, I believe that we would see a lot more maps for the game. Whatever you do, don't give up.

Leadman

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
7) drop the whole thing and concentrate on getting a web-based server to work

Better yet, do both!

Oh, and many thanks for your commitment, you'll never get all the praise you deserve.