new map generator

[paradoxharbinger]

one thing ive spotted is that you dont have semi-colons ( after your command, that might throw it off. the scripting isnt very robust as far as error checking goes, so it's best to follw the rules to the letter, so commands look like this:

command: arg1 arg2 arg3;

colon after the command, arguments seperated by spaces, and a semicolon at the end of the argument list

edit: just checked, leaving off the semi-colon at the end will result in duplicating the last character, and if you have a command after one that does not have a semi=colon i can only imagine all of thew odd things that could happen. moral of the story is stick to the rules

[Smauler]

I think my eyesight must be going - completely missed the semicolon at the end. I just tested it, and it works fine now. I'll probably play around with it more tomorrow. Thanks.

[Gandalf Parker]

Here is a first effort of mine (well the first Im willing to show)
a Mid-Sized Wrapped Map
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMap..._Wrappable.jpg
and it can be downloaded here..
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMap..._Wrappable.zip

Its a 168 provinces and wraps both top-to-bottom and east-to-west. Its not very nice to water nations Im afraid.

Im eagerly waiting for things like sprites, and bunching up continents abit.

Id like it if the dom2title would use the map name. If I run a batch of 12 MidMap then I get MidMap_001 thru MidMap_012 but in the game start menu they all show up as PHMAP.

Will the seed be recorded in the .map file?
If I redo the map with the same seed but turn off features, will it affect the order that randoms get used? In other words, is everything that can be randomized using the seed even if its not turned on so that the end result will look the same even if that feature is turned off on the next run?

Gandalf Parker

[Gandalf Parker]

OK after a day of playing with paradoxharbinger's MapGen I have come up with something I like. Its 2000x1500 pixels.
1055 provinces of 895 land and 160 water
land players have a ratio of 49 prov each for 18 players
water players have a ratio of 53 each for 3 players

Its a fully wrapped map. That means the top connects to the bottom and the sides connect to each other.

Here is a view of it
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/Max_001.jpg
and here is the download link if you want the map
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/Max_001.zip

Gandalf Parker

[Gandalf Parker]

[NECRO]
another in my effort to provide an ARK for worthy projects while we still can.
ParadoxHarbinger do you plan to migrate this to the new Dom3 forum?
Do you mind if I do it?
Are there updated links to the source code of this project?
What is the DRM of this project?

For anyone that is curious I do have some wrapped maps created with this program. I have not gotten the tiling to work (filling in with images such as mountain and forest) but of course that could always be done manually.
http://www.dom3minions.com/maps.htm
at one time I had planned to add it to the daily automated new-maps feature of the site and run map in all sizes. But using this program tends to involve knowledge of math that HB considers basic and I consider far beyond me.