Maps available

Kristoffer O · #1 January 8th, 2004, 10:46 PM

The maps are now also available at www.illwinter.com

Thanks Tiltowait and Gandalf!

Tiltowait · #2 January 8th, 2004, 10:52 PM

mmmm, Mictlan. I got stuck with em as Last pick in a 3-turn a week game, so I decided to practice blood magic and ever since I am loving them! Nothing like watching those heavy calvery go down to a horde of imps on turn 5! Someday I may reveal my secred Mictlan recipe (can't now, got 16 spys on this form to worry about

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I suggest 8-14 players for Miirunst, with 2 of those being the underwater races. I'm playing it solo with 12 right now and like that pace. And remember the middle province is not completly worthless, it has a lot more magical resources than the surface or the abyss... 'course with the random maps, could be very different.

licker · #3 January 8th, 2004, 10:56 PM

I can't remember the answer to this question so I'll ask it again...

Why are the .tga files so fricking huge? 30mb is a hella big file for a damn map no? I mean not all of us have the broadband

Gandalf Parker · #4 January 8th, 2004, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by licker:
I can't remember the answer to this question so I'll ask it again...

Why are the .tga files so fricking huge? 30mb is a hella big file for a damn map no? I mean not all of us have the broadband

Give us time to level out on the huge TGA files. With Dom1 all maps were few colors and 640x480 or some size like that. Dom2 dropped all the limits and we are having fun with it.

One advantage to the way Im doing things though is that I re-use TGA files and write new .map files which are just text. For instance that same directory has .map files generated daily to give random opponents to each race.

The .map file for MiirunstX will probably be added to the daily re-random file so you only need to download that huge TGA once.
Hmmm I will go add a zip of the Miirunst game now.

Kristoffer O · #5 January 8th, 2004, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by licker:
I can't remember the answer to this question so I'll ask it again...

Why are the .tga files so fricking huge? 30mb is a hella big file for a damn map no? I mean not all of us have the broadband

Hmm, it is probably not too difficult to make a smaller Version. I'll take a look, as I have some spare time.

Gandalf Parker · #6 January 8th, 2004, 11:26 PM

OK now http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/Dominions2/ has a zipped file added for Miirunst if people have the ability to unzip files.

Kristoffer O · #7 January 8th, 2004, 11:43 PM

The illwinter one is also zipped. 8 meg IIRC.

I have experimented with rescaling. At 1/4 much of the nice information on the map is lost. Also all capital dots disappear entirely (impossible to guess where they should be). For the mapfile to be consistent they must keep their actual position relative the other capitals. Thus they must be rezised so it is possible to see where they are. Then a new white dot may be placed on the smaller map. 1/2 might be better.