Reading maps from .map files

[Endoperez]

That "Could a Java program using this work" line: it was originally "Would this (algorithm) work". I changed the line to make clear I'm going to make a program utilizing this, not change maps by hand, and managed to translate it to Gibberish. Confusing language, that.

I have already made a working program, ModConverter, which has a GUI and can handles Dominions's mod (text) files. However, I don't have much programming experience besides that and school stuff, and while ModConverter works without crashes it has some annoying input/output bugs, and I'm not going to reuse much code from it. So it seems I didn't plan/implement it properly.


I'm not sure if I understand that "graph" stuff, but hopefully it is just a term I don't know in English. I'll check that.
Okay, I have heard of that. I have to ask my Math teacher a few things, but I think it's doable.

[Arralen]

Doing a fast scan through the ressources, this is what I found what may be a good starting point:
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/info/view.html
In the 7th line, there's something called "edge-vertex-connectivity" what resembles our problem to some extent.
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/f...ectivity.shtml

[BigDaddy]

Guys,

Mike Milchior has done a program similar to that one for another program. You can find a link to it at this site:

http://www.slooflirpa.com

[alexti]

Endoperez said:
I'm not sure if I understand that "graph" stuff, but hopefully it is just a term I don't know in English. I'll check that.
Okay, I have heard of that. I have to ask my Math teacher a few things, but I think it's doable.

You can get some basic info at MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Graph.html But if you aren't familiar with graphs at all, you may be for a hard time. Either you implement your own algorithm (like the one you originally suggested) which will work on one maps, but not on others (and ti will keep you puzzled why it didn't work on a particular map). Or you have to go through some learning to find existing algorithm you could use. Your problem is more of a mathematical problem than a programming one. There isn't much to program there if you've figured out the right algorithm. But you can be proud of finding yet another interesting Dominions-related problem Good luck!