JAVA programmer? (and Win-DomMap, and some GIMP)

Leif_- · #1 February 25th, 2004, 07:16 PM

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Originally posted by PhilD:
Too bad, really. Me, I like the result, and I'll probably add a switch to dommap to launch this script on the .tga... ugly kludge, but if the maps look better...

I'm working on a perl script right now to do batch production of maps processed with this script. I'll put it up somewhere when it's ready.

Leif_- · #2 February 25th, 2004, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
I'm working on a perl script right now to do batch production of maps processed with this script. I'll put it up somewhere when it's ready.

Okay, I'm finished with the perl script now. It basically lets you create a number of maps with dommap, prettifies them with the Gimp script, zips up the maps in individual zip-files, generates thumbnails and builds a (very basic) web-page where the maps can be downloaded from. (The web-page thing can be turned off)

The script can be found at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/dominions.html and an example web-page with a handfull of generated maps on it can be found at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Domi...nion_maps.html

Torvak · #3 February 25th, 2004, 09:37 PM

Magnificent

Gandalf Parker · #4 February 25th, 2004, 10:01 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
Okay, I'm finished with the perl script now. It basically lets you create a number of maps with dommap, prettifies them with the Gimp script, zips up the maps in individual zip-files, generates thumbnails and builds a (very basic) web-page where the maps can be downloaded from. (The web-page thing can be turned off)

Wow, you are good. Sounds like what I have running (minus the gimp part) but you got there alot faster than I did. I will definetly take a look at it.

Leif_- · #5 February 25th, 2004, 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Unfortunately it still wont quite fill my needs because Im hard-headed and dont load GUIs on my servers. Everything I do with the maps so far uses no console display.

I came across something here http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/tomcat17/ about using virtual frame-buffers to allow Gimp to do batch processing from a text console. As far as I understand, you'd have to install X Window on the machine to get the frame-buffer, but you wouldn't have to actually start X Window as such.

Would that help you?

Arryn · #6 February 25th, 2004, 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
The script can be found at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/dominions.html and an example web-page with a handfull of generated maps on it can be found at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Domi...nion_maps.html

I've posted a link to Leif's page on my site so that it may be easily found in the future (no forum searching needed).

PhilD · #7 February 25th, 2004, 10:58 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:

quote:
Originally posted by Leif_-:
I'm working on a perl script right now to do batch production of maps processed with this script. I'll put it up somewhere when it's ready.

Okay, I'm finished with the perl script now. It basically lets you create a number of maps with dommap, prettifies them with the Gimp script, zips up the maps in individual zip-files, generates thumbnails and builds a (very basic) web-page where the maps can be downloaded from. (The web-page thing can be turned off)

Great job!

Actually, I think the maps look reasonable now - they certainly don't have the polished look of hand-drawn maps, but they seem good enough.