new map generator

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm thats not what I was hoping from seeds. I was hoping for something like DomMap had. One seed number which defined the map. I could run a full color map for display, then a subtler one for play, and one for it again as blank provinces or borders only for special game progression displays.

[lch]

I have now got this program working under Linux via wine, too. You have to download http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/f...t.vc80.crt.zip and unzip and move the DLL files and the manifest file into the MapGen directory, then it works:

Code:

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~/446398-MapGen_0.52.03082007 $ wine MapGen_0.52.03082007.exe

fixme:actctx:FindActCtxSectionStringW 00000000 (null) 2 L"msvcr80.dll" 0x347acc

ParadoxHarbinger's MapGen

Version 0.51.03082007

Copyright 2007, Jason Makay



generating height-map..........done

generating terrain-map.............done

generating province-map.........done

generating sprite-mapdone

saving image...done

saving map...done

saving seeds...done

freeing memory...done

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Tested with MapGen 0.52 and wine 0.9.35 and wine 0.9.29. For an explanation of the error message and why the native DLLs do not work yet, look at the wine mailing list: It's the function loading/check mechanism that gives trouble.

Because this is a C++ program which uses the Windows API and makes calls to the MSVC DLLs this program will never work with Mono (unlike the Unit editor written in C#), you'll have to use wine.

[paradoxharbinger]

@gandalf

well the seeds can be loaded and the options can be changed via the scripts, if that's what your getting at.

[Gandalf Parker]

lovia thaded?

[paradoxharbinger]

oh, my bad that got screwed up, should say reloaded, not used to having to avoid the goofy pad thing on laptops.

[paradoxharbinger]

well, been a while since i posted, here's a quick update on goings-ons. im creating a gui in c# so that for those uninterested in such things, scripting will become uneccessary. i believe it was ich who mentioned that installing mono will allow for people on the major systems to run c# apps, so this will hopefully also solve the crossplatform dilemna. not much else other than that, more info when it's available

[paradoxharbinger]

Kristoffer O has kindly supplied a zip file for all of the sprites in the game, so i will hopefully be able to have a quicky update out sometime soon that will have the sprites put in, as well as a few other minor fixes.

also news on a brand spanking new full blown overhaul should be coming along shortly

[Ballbarian]

Just fyi, I think the zip only includes unit sprites. I don't have time to look more at it now, have to get back to work. ( I Hope that I am wrong!)