WRAPPED MAPS AVAILABLE

[Gandalf Parker]

And another one as an attachment..

[Gandalf Parker]

Eventually I may also offer these for games I host. Im thinking about fixing one of them up for the next MID's game I have (8-15 players).

OK I have done my usual bit. Sparked the subject and hoping that someone runs further with it. Here is the MapGen script I used in case someone wants to play with the color settings or any of the other parameters. Maybe figure out how to get continents and oceans out of it.

Code:

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border: yes ;

filename: Small ;

batch: 45 ;

pthresh: 5 ;

verbose: yes ;

pixel: 50 70 50 * * ;

pixel: 130 130 250 water water ;

pixel: 0 0 205 water ;

pixel: 255 250 205 waste ;

pixel: 124 252 0 farm ;

pixel: 139 90 43 mountain ;

pixel: 162 205 90 swamp ;

pixel: 102 205 0 plain ;

pixel: 34 139 34 forest ;

tchance: plain 50 ;

tchance: mountain 40 ;

tchance: forest 30 ;

tchance: water 40 ;

tchance: farm 10 ;

tchance: swamp 4 ;

tchance: waste 4 ;

tlevel: mountain 145 ;

tlevel: sea 100 ;

nbdist: 5 ;

tsize: 40 50 ;

psize: 35 45 ;

zoom: 1.25 ;

wraparound: xy ;

pcount: 180 20 ;

dimension: 1000 800 ;

---

[Jazzepi]

Thank you Gandalf.

Jazzepi

[Gandalf Parker]

Jazzepi said:
Thank you Gandalf.

Jazzepi

Ahhh. A small payment but gratefully accepted.

[Cor2]

Thanks Gandolf! I downloaded 4 and will most likely be back for the rest.

[Gandalf Parker]

Heehee. I suppose I could make a zip with all of them in it.
But to be truthful, I dont think they all turned out to be worthwhile. I was just happy to stop messing with the script when I got about half to be something I considered "not too bad"

[Gandalf Parker]

Here is a batch of max-sized wrapped maps.
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMap...ax_Wrapped.htm
For people who dont know, notice that the right side matches up to the left side, and the top matches up to the bottom. The game will allow you to scroll right-left and up-down forever by rolling the map.

Most of these are 1500 provinces. Its hard to get things quite right using the generator Im using (ParadoxHarbinger's MapGen). Especially mountain ranges but I will continue working on it. I also might script in some changes to the files.
If you grab one of these (go here and grab the appropriate zip file)
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/Max_Wrapped/
then I would recommend the following changes.
A) rename the tga and map file to something more interesting than Max_###
B) edit the #dom2title in the .map file to match (all of these are presently called PHMAP when you look at them in the game creation menu)
C) edit the #imagefile to use the renamed tga file
D) edit the #description. At least add the land and water counts (is there an awk script or something around here that will spit those numbers out from a .map file?)
E) add a #defaultzoom
F) if one of the maps is good but the mountains arent right then you might take it into a paint program and "drop" brown into more provices, then use the map editor in Dom3 to change them to mountain terrain

If you want changes (colors, amount of xxxx terrain, etc) let me know and I will see about running a new batch with that change.

I think now I will mess with the "sprites" thing and see if I can generate new maps with little pictures of trees, mountains, etc. Eventually (maybe) I will get around to automating it so that it generates new maps each day, makes all of the above changes, zips them up, and refreshes the catalog

[Wikd Thots]

Gandalf Parker said:
Heehee. I suppose I could make a zip with all of them in it.
But to be truthful, I dont think they all turned out to be worthwhile. I was just happy to stop messing with the script when I got about half to be something I considered "not too bad"

Hey G!
Your server is dead man! Nobody plays those stupid little blitzes of yours anymore. We are tired of it.
Why don't you start using these wrapped maps? Maybe then people will start playing on your server again in case you care about that. Or some different sized games? Something interesting! You keep talking about other game types. Cough up something.