How prevalent is RMG Wierdness?

Edi · #1 December 24th, 2007, 05:50 AM

The RMG has gotten fairly little attention compared to mods and other things with higher priority. I am not very familiar with it myself, so all the shortlist entries regarding it are based on entries by other people.

The RMG is a useful tool in creating new maps, but you practically have to open the newly created map in the map editor and then check terrain and neighbor assignments. Currently it is a good idea to restart Dominions 3 every time after you've created a random map to avoid problems stemming from a corrupted geotable (scales bug, but would explain a lot of RMG strangeness).

You should also probably take a look at the maps and mods subforum, there are a fair number of user created maps there and there's also a sticky thread that links most map threads, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find them. Most maps are medium-sized, but there are some small ones as well.

vfb · #2 December 24th, 2007, 05:56 AM

There's also Zylithan's superb new map database here:

http://dom3maps.wikidot.com/nav:top

llamabeast · #3 December 24th, 2007, 08:24 AM

Many of the problems come from using the same name as a previous game. Try using a different game name every time. Doing that I've never really had any problems.

Foodstamp · #4 December 24th, 2007, 01:46 PM

Wow what kind of bugs are you having? The RMG only fails me when i duplicate a game name.

Cor2 · #5 December 24th, 2007, 03:51 PM

Mine has refused to create new maps for months now. I go through the waiting process and I get the exact same map image I created just before this probelm started with a diffrent corruped map file, its unplayable. Never bothered to complain because there are so many user created maps around that are good. Its just weird.

Endoperez · #6 December 24th, 2007, 04:25 PM

I haven't heard of this before, and couldn't reproduce it on my system. How big maps are you generating, and with how many provinces? I did my tests with very small maps (400x200 pixels instead of 1400x1200), but I always got different maps and didn't notice any grabled graphics.

Cor2 · #7 December 24th, 2007, 11:30 PM

Any size map. I have tried from 50- 400 provinces. pixel ranges from 600x600 to 1200x1200 rez. Its been a while since I tried, not in 3.08 or 3.10. Maybe fixed in one of those patches. It started shortaly after i got the game, I might have generated a dozen ma0ps or so.

I am just not really intrested in trouble shooting, as i dont use that feature any more. I might try again later see if the problem is still there when I get some time.