Utility: RanDom v2.03 - Map gen & Semirandomizer... Updated

[Panpiper]

Ballbarian said:
I know that I would appreciate someone taking something like that upon themselves.

Not that I am begging or anything.

(Please, oh please won't somebody save me!!!)

Heh, not just save you, but save the rest of us as well. (Ok, maybe just me.)

I fear I remain utterly clueless. I have tried exactly the same as yourself, removing all changes made by the program then running it again.

"I suspect that you have 'Desired Num Players' value on the 'Starts' tab..."

Oh boy. Er... There's a tab? When I run SemiRandom I get a DOS sceen that requests that I input a filename. If I try to run the RanDom program, I get an error message saying it can't find SemiRandom.cfg even though it's sitting right where the extraction put it, in the SemiRandom folder right above the RanDom program. The documentation (which is for version 0.80 by the way) describes the first 8 or 9 entries in the .cfg file, but the rest are undefined, so I have no way of knowing what to hack. The SemiRandom.cfg file looks like this:

F:\Program Files (x86)\dominions3\SemiRandom
100
1
0
25
25
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
7
6
0
2
EA
-1
4
0
4
255 205 000 225
GANPLAINS

Or maybe I should just ask you to post that modified Faerun file? ;-)

[Ballbarian]

I will attach the modified Faerun file to this post.

For what it is worth, the following is from the SemiRandom 107 code and may give you a fair idea of what the additional values are associated with:
Code:

---

  line input #1 path$

  line input #1 fiddleXP  REM <=0 means block #xp lines to keep Hall of Fame clear of Independents. 1 to allow.

  line input #1 fiddlePercent

  line input #1 fiddleName

  line input #1 showNeed

  line input #1 hotPercent

  line input #1 colPercent

  line input #1 cldband1   REM -1 means realworld climate bands not defined

  line input #1 tmpband1   REM otherwise the values are prov# ranges.

  line input #1 hotband

  line input #1 tmpband2

  line input #1 cldband2

  line input #1 numPlayers    REM -1 means use DEFAULT_PROVPERPLAYER or provPerPlayer (0=NO START PLACEMENTS)

  line input #1 aiLandPlayers REM 0=NO AI LAND PLAYER PLACEMENTS

  line input #1 aiSeaPlayers  REM 0=NO AI SEA PLAYER PLACEMENTS

  line input #1 aiDifficulty  REM 1 to 5 (2=standard)

  line input #1 selectedEra$  REM values= EA, MA, LA

  line input #1 provPerPlayer REM -1 means use DEFAULT_PROVPERPLAYER or numPlayers

  line input #1 minNeighCount REM -1 means use DEFAULT_MINNEIGHCOUNT

  line input #1 maxSeaStarts  REM -1 means use default of 3.

  line input #1 enforcedSpace REM -1 means no space enforcement, otherwise value entered enforced.

  line input #1 mapTextColor$  REM -1 means don't set, otherwise = Red Green Blue Alpha (000-255)

  line input #1 map$

---

I will try figure out what is going on with your error message (with RanDom) after a good nights sleep!

[Ming]

Endoperez,

Thanks for the explanation. A follow-up question: if I just want to give the AI better Pretender/scale settings I don't have to worry about GAN files, right?

I'll start to play around with RanDom and see if I can get it to work. Thanks for drawing this excellent program to my attention (and thanks to Ballbarian for writing it and Gandalf for the idea).

[Ballbarian]

Right. Custom Pretenders and scale settings are stored in 'god' files. These can be created by hand with a text editor or via the "God Editor" (link in my sig).

[Panpiper]

From the readme files included in the zip:
Ok, here is a line by line map of the SemiRandom.cfg:
1. Path$ > Path used by SR to find your gan & data files.
2. fiddlePercent > Percent of provinces in the selected map file to attempt to modify.


This is what messed me up. Your posting of those lines from the SemiRandom 107 code did the trick. The above would indicate that the second line in the .cfg file defines the percentage of provinces modified. In fact it is the third line. I shall now be able to hack, thank you.

(And I really mean it with a big thank you. The work some people have done to make my life happier really astounds me sometimes.)

[Ballbarian]

Ugh! Just realized that my attachment of the modified Faerun file didn't take, or I completely forgot to attach it. If it turns out that you end up needing it Panpiper, let me know and I will get it to you. It sounds like you have everything under control. Great news!

(Oh, and thanks for the thanks! )

[PvK]

OMG I hadn't studied this before and it is insanely cool!

Wow......

[Ballbarian]

Attached to this post are 14 new GAN province files in zip format submitted by Gandalf. Some of them are his own inventions and others include contributions from Jutetrea and quantum_mechani.

GandalfContributions1.zip

To apply:
Paste the 14 ".gan" files into your SemiRandom/GAN_BIN directory and add the following lines to GanList.txt (located in your SemiRandom/LIST_CRATE directory):


GAN10_VL_U_A_OR_PLN_WST_FST_FRM_S_N_
GAN4_PN_U_R_OR_S_N_
GAN5_TMP_LO_U_R_OR_PLN_FST_S_
GAN6_U_A_WST_S_
GAN7_VL_U_A_OR_PLN_EMT_WST_S_
GAN8_U_A_S_MST_
GAN9_VL_M_R_OR_PLN_WST_FST_FRM_N_
Jutetrea1_U_R_L_CO_FST_
Jutetrea3_CLD_U_A_N_EMT_FS_
Jutetrea3_CLD_U_A_N_MNT_FS_
Jutetrea6_TMP_VL_U_A_S_FS_AS_WS_ES_
quantum_mechani1_U_A_OR_EMT_MNT_S_N_L_
quantum_mechani2_U_A_PLN_
quantum_mechani3_CO_M_R_SWP_N_


These are new and were not included in RanDom version 203.

Great additions from Gandalf, Jutetrea and quantum_mechani for the library. Thanks!

[Ballbarian]

How did I miss your post?!?
Thanks PVK!

[Gandalf Parker]

Anyone whose post I typed into a file is invited to check it and make changes of course. Its still your province design. Feel free to update it as you see fit.

My one stuff will not tend to be hard-to-beat surprises. More along the line of interesting change-of-pace filler stuff.