Maps available

Gandalf Parker · #1 January 27th, 2004, 08:11 PM

I love the Bryce map.

I can probably get DomMap to do larger colored areas but Im not sure if it would work that well. DomMap does 2 things now that save alot of time. Setting all the #neighbor commands and setting all the #terrain commands. Doing what you want would make the terrains have to be done manually.

With GIMP it is easy to grab the capitals and borders to a seperate image. Hmmmm brain kicking in here. Grab borders and capitals. Keep the original there but semi-transparent. Replace the pixels with smoother gradient effects but appropriate to what was there such as one for grass, one for swamp, one for mountain. Paste some of the icon stuff as appropriate. Then delete the original layer, merge the repainted one with the borders and capitals, save image. Hmmmm that could work. It would make all the original map info still good.

Another direction Im looking at is that DomMap seems to do a fractal landcape but pixels it in 8 colors possibly because of the old Dom1 limits. Maybe I can find the place in the code where it puts 1 color for a whole range of hieghts and change it to use a range of colors there for smoother effects. It would be better if some C programmer looked at it. The original DomMap programmer doesnt seem to be active anymore (Im half tempted to buy a copy of Dom2 and send it to him to get him hooked again MUHAHahahaha)

Strages Sanctus · #2 January 27th, 2004, 08:23 PM

Wow I forgot all about Bryce. Time to dust off the cd and the skills heh.

Targa · #3 January 27th, 2004, 09:23 PM

OK, (duh!) I located and downloaded DomMap. Now all that's needed are the tree/mountain/etc graphics from Illwinter. Using the DomMap generated picture and map file, it's a simple matter of cut/paste in Photoshop to get this:

low-quality jpeg map

If the trees and mountains and stuff were available, it'd be fairly simple to make a Dom2-like map, although you'd still need to make the terrain match up... hmm..

[ January 27, 2004, 19:32: Message edited by: Targa ]

#4 January 27th, 2004, 09:26 PM

All you have to do then is just add a 3d for Banner, castle, temple and labs, and suddenly you have a 'pretty' interface. I'd enjoy it.

Kristoffer O · #5 January 27th, 2004, 09:53 PM

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Originally posted by Targa:
OK, (duh!) I located and downloaded DomMap. Now all that's needed are the tree/mountain/etc graphics from Illwinter. Using the DomMap generated picture and map file, it's a simple matter of cut/paste in Photoshop to get this:

low-quality jpeg map

If the trees and mountains and stuff were available, it'd be fairly simple to make a Dom2-like map, although you'd still need to make the terrain match up... hmm..

No access. Daily limit something.

You can find a mapstuff file (xcf format) on the Illwinter site. If you need another format let me know.

[ January 27, 2004, 19:56: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ]

Gandalf Parker · #6 January 27th, 2004, 10:36 PM

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Originally posted by Targa:
OK, (duh!) I located and downloaded DomMap. Now all that's needed are the tree/mountain/etc graphics from Illwinter. Using the DomMap generated picture and map file, it's a simple matter of cut/paste in Photoshop to get this:

Are you using the DomMap2 Version? Hopefully Phillip has the updated Version listed since we did alot of little tweaks to make the .map file match what Dom2 wants. Are you using it in linux? If you manage to compile it for windows let us know.

PhilD · #7 January 27th, 2004, 11:37 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by Targa:
OK, (duh!) I located and downloaded DomMap. Now all that's needed are the tree/mountain/etc graphics from Illwinter. Using the DomMap generated picture and map file, it's a simple matter of cut/paste in Photoshop to get this:

Are you using the DomMap2 Version? Hopefully Phillip has the updated Version listed since we did alot of little tweaks to make the .map file match what Dom2 wants. Are you using it in linux? If you manage to compile it for windows let us know.

I haven't made any new changes, but I updated the Version on my page to match the Last I sent to you.

I'm not going to try and make this produce much prettier maps; that would best be done with Gimp scripts, not a few hundred lines of C.

Oh, and it's Philippe, not Phillip. But you're not the first to make that mistake (even though I believe, even in English, it's usually spelled Philip).