Help needed with Map making

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Arralen:
Did an extended Version - added some castles for the AI to conquer, as it still doesn't build them.

I did a fun thing for Dominions 1 where I turned Man into a nation with no deity and no special units. Then I scattered castles/labs/temples all over a large map and assigned half of them to Man. Man become kindof the leader of the Independents.

Working on a eXtra extended Version .. little bit of a surprise here

Glance at either of the .yab files in http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/ and send me email if you have any questions or want me to setup a nightly re-run of a map file for you. (they are plain text files to you can view them with any word processor)

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Keir Maxwell:

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Originally posted by Arralen:

2) Draw the borders.

I read somewhere that this wasn't strictly necessary in dom2 and Sabers instructions for creating a map file for all units doesn't seem to contain any instructions to put in borders. How does it work?

Help appreciated.

Keir

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The game itself won't add any neighbours to those that are defined in the .map file; it will use only those that are explicitly written in the .map file. So those borders are only there as a visual help for players.

AFAIK, the only thing that Dom2 looks for in the .tga file is the white dots as capitals. I wish they had changed this so that it was all written in the .map file, and the .tga were only a visual thing: it would make it soooo much simpler... (It's probably too late to change that, though - changing it in a patch would mean old maps would become unusable, unless they let some new command override the current dom2 default... plus some simple conVersion utility... hey, it might work!)

[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by PhilD:

AFAIK, the only thing that Dom2 looks for in the .tga file is the white dots as capitals.

Good to know.

Ok so its focus on the white dots . . . thats right the really, really, small white dots.

Keir