tool request (terrain math)

[Kaljamaha]

I see the problem is already fixed, but here goes anyway...

I whipped up a small Perl script for this, I thought it would make a fun exercise (I haven't done Perl for some time). It became a lot bigger than I originally thought because I added some functionality to it. I wrote it in windows, so if you want to use it in Unix open it with nano or pico or something to change the line endings.

Just run the thing, it'll tell you what to do. I even tested the thing, so it shouldn't contain too many bugs.


K.

[Gandalf Parker]

I love both the Awk and the Perl versions of this. And reading them I SHOULD be able to figure out my next request but I wasnt able to. (I HATE bitmath)

The problem is that the nostarts are hidden in the terrain bits now. If I generate a map for a 10 player game, then everyone joins, then it tries to generate the game. Only after everyone has joined will it blow up because there is no way to fit that many players on the map.

Can someone whip me out a simple script (yabasic, bash, awk, sed, perl) which will tell me how many nostarts I have. All it has to do is count them so I know how many players to limit the game to.

Gandalf Parker

[DrPraetorious]

Change "mask" to the actual bitmask you want.

Code:

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awk '/#terrain/ && (and($3,mask)==mask){print; i++;} END{print i " start locations";}' map.mp

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I'm at my folks place so I can't check to see if it works.

[Gandalf Parker]

It works great. Thanks again.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK I thought we had this but so far I found a perl script that doesnt seem to work for me, and an online one that I cant use in lynx.

I want to package up some of the wrapped maps from PH's map generator but I notice that it has no nostarts. Can I get something (basic, awk, sed, whatever) that will nostart any province with fewer than 4 neighbors?

[DrPraetorious]

I have a script that does that at home, I'll attach it when I get back from work.

Do you want to require anything of the four neighbours - like, they all have to be the same land/sea, or don't count wastelands, anything like that?

[Gandalf Parker]

I would like them to be the same land/sea.
Thanks for asking.

edited: come to think of it. If its not too much bother Id rather nostart anyplace that would get stuck with neighbors of all the same bonuses.
water: 3 or more water neighbors.
land: 4 or more land neighbors. None of them water. And not all the same terrain (in other words refuse a mountain terrain surrounded by mountains or a swamp terrain surrounded by swamps

Id like the water to be 4 or more water and no land neighbors but so far Im having trouble getting PHs mapgen to make oceans

[lch]

Gandalf Parker said: I want to package up some of the wrapped maps from PH's map generator but I notice that it has no nostarts. Can I get something (basic, awk, sed, whatever) that will nostart any province with fewer than 4 neighbors?

There are dozens of scripts for this...

DireAussie has a web page which does this, Jack has that aswell and with source code available, too. There's a Python script in the Urrapand map which does this, although it would have to be changed a little so that the map file name becomes a parameter instead of being hard-coded. Finally, DrP has a done a perl script for this aswell.

[Gandalf Parker]

Great list.
I think you will see my name in the credits of most of those. But Im hoping for something that will work in linux, text mode, and can be automated as much as possible.

DireAussies doesnt seem to work in lynx (text browser)

Jacks online version is great and does work in lynx (I was surprised). I hadnt realized that he had added starting provinces. But it would need to be done manually I think. I might do it for the great big maps that I plan to offer very few of.

Jacks code seems to be windowsy.

The python code in the urrapand map does actually look to be workable. Thanks for mentioning it.

DrP's code was the first one I tried and didnt seem to get a result. Im sure its a fluke with my system.

I had understood that Ballbarian did one also but I havent found it yet.

So far it looks like Urrapand's python code is my best bet