MapEditing Faq anuwhere?

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DrPraetorious said:
The .map file doesn't seem to include any coordinates whatsoever - just province names and numbers. So the map editor is somehow interpolating the locations of provinces from the map I supply it as a background?

The mechanism is actually pretty inconvenient for the map-maker and pretty convenient for the programmer:

Every pure white pixel represents a province; all white pixels are then numbered from bottom left to top right.

So Dom2 is only looking for white pixels, everything else is ignored by the program.

The map editor however tries to interpret province boundaries if they are in some unknown kind of red color, but I would not rely on that. Just remove all neighborships with the button and then set them by hand (left click sets neighborship, ctrl-left click removes - I wondered quite for some time until I figured that out).

I think a mapmaking FAQ would be very helpful!