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

[Ballbarian]

Pehmyt,
Sorry. Just saw your post and I have to leave 5 minutes ago. I will return late tonight and see if I can help you if someone hasn't beaten me to it.

[Ballbarian]

Just some touch up to the main post. Added links to help those who run into the missing ocx error and some sample map images pulled in from some of the older posts.

(Pardon my mess. )

[MaxWilson]

Okay, I'm not sure exactly what was causing the problem (i.e. why the array indexing wasn't right) but I finally decided that the PRINT was simply a logging statement, so I REM'ed it out... and it seems to work. Now to experiment with the God editor and some scenarios. I'm glad that I'm finally getting around to this, I've been meaning to play with SemiRandom for ages.

Edit: nope, I guess I was just lucky. It didn't really work because semirandom.yab is the *source code* for the .exe, not something which is actively being used by the .exe. It turns out I just got lucky that time (I guess it happened to pick all valid nations that time I tried it). Back to work for me, trying to isolate the problem.

[MaxWilson]

Okay, I *think* the problem is that nation.cfg should have a "-" instead of "!" in front of Tir Na N'Og to mark it as off-limits. After making this change, SemiRandom appears to be working reliably, although I'm puzzled why it assigns several versions of the same God to a given nation (EA Arc) with different lands. However, that's probably valid and I just don't understand map files well enough to know that.

-Max

[MaxWilson]

Okay, here's a version that should "just work" for anyone doing SingleAge games. It has a bunch of stuff from Ballbarian's first post all rolled into one (e.g. all of Foodstamp's GANs, Ballbarian's extra Gods) and the nation config file set for all nations in EA/MA. (LA is omitted because it has no God files yet.) Actually, let me rephrase that: pick your nation by editing nation.config to move the hyphen "-" onto your nation. Other than that it should just work.

-Max

[Ballbarian]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

Okay, I *think* the problem is that nation.cfg should have a "-" instead of "!" in front of Tir Na N'Og to mark it as off-limits. After making this change, SemiRandom appears to be working reliably, although I'm puzzled why it assigns several versions of the same God to a given nation (EA Arc) with different lands. However, that's probably valid and I just don't understand map files well enough to know that.

-Max

The RanDom program (for Win users) takes care of the nation configuration and other options, because (as you have discovered ) it can be a daunting task to set all of these options manually and get everything working as you would like. Even with using the gui it can be a challenge.

- reserve for human
! disable this nation
enabled for AI

The multiple placements of EA Arc is because that nation number is 0 and it is the first nation in the nation cfg list. Sounds like some of your settings might be off a tad.

[Ballbarian]

For some examples that might help clarify some things, I will post some of my own current settings.

Nation Configuration screen from within RanDom
(So you can see graphically how SemiRandom sees the settings in the Nations.cfg file posted below.)



Nations.cfg (EA section only)

===EARLY ERA===
!0 Arcoscephale
1 Ermor
2 Ulm
!3 Marverni
!4 Sauromatia
!5 T'ien Ch'i
!7 Mictlan
!8 Abysia
!9 Caelum
10 C'tis
11 Pangaea
!12 Agartha
13 Tir na n'Og
14 Fomoria
!15 Vanheim
!16 Helheim
!17 Niefelheim
!18 Kailasa
!19 Yomi
-20 Hinnom
!*21 Atlantis
!*22 R'lyeh
!*26 Oceania
68 Lanka

SemiRandom.cfg

C:\Games\dominions3\SemiRandom
 0 
 100 
 1 
 0 
 25 
 25 
-1 
-1 
-1 
-1 
-1 
 0 
 7 
 0 
 2 
EA
 20 
 4 
 0 
-1 
255 000 000 255
Faerunmod_SR

Hope that helps.

[Ballbarian]

Since I am running out of time again, I will go ahead and attach Stavis_L's wonderful contributions to this post. When time permits, I will either do a proper upload and announcement or post an updated "compilation" to simplify things for new users.

Edit:
Attached to this post are 46 new GOD files & 38 new GAN province files in zip format submitted by Stavis_L. This is a great addition to the library and the new god files are greatly appreciated!

Stavis_L_GodsAndProvinces.zip

To apply:
Paste the 38 ".god" files into your SemiRandom/GOD_BIN directory and add the following lines to GodList.txt (located in your SemiRandom/LIST_CRATE directory):

STAVX1_64_A_LA_
STAVX2_70_A_LA_
STAVM1_58_A_LA_
STAVM10_62_A_LA_
STAVM11_51_A_LA_
STAVM12_53_A_LA_
STAVM13_54_A_LA_
STAVM14_61_A_LA_
STAVM15_67_A_LA_SEA_
STAVM16_56_A_LA_
STAVM17_55_A_LA_
STAVM18_52_A_LA_
STAVM19_70_A_LA_
STAVM2_57_A_LA_
STAVM20_71_A_LA_
STAVM21_65_A_LA_
STAVM3_49_A_LA_
STAVM4_66_A_LA_
STAVM5_64_A_LA_
STAVM6_59_A_LA_
STAVM7_60_A_LA_
STAVM8_50_A_LA_
STAVM9_63_A_LA_
STAVH1_66_A_LA_
STAVH10_49_A_LA_
STAVH11_53_A_LA_
STAVH12_54_A_LA_
STAVH13_59_A_LA_
STAVH14_61_A_LA_
STAVH15_55_A_LA_
STAVH16_58_A_LA_
STAVH17_57_A_LA_
STAVH18_67_A_LA_SEA_
STAVH19_60_A_LA_
STAVH2_71_A_LA_
STAVH20_62_A_LA_
STAVH21_63_A_LA_
STAVH22_64_A_LA_
STAVH23_65_A_LA_
STAVH3_70_A_LA_
STAVH4_52_A_LA_
STAVH5_52_A_LA_
STAVH6_51_A_LA_
STAVH7_51_A_LA_
STAVH8_56_A_LA_
STAVH9_50_A_LA_

Paste the 46 ".gan" files into your SemiRandom/GAN_BIN directory and add the following lines to GanList.txt (located in your SemiRandom/LIST_CRATE directory):

STAV1_CLD_CO_U_R_WST_DS_
STAV10_HOT_IS_U_R_FST_
STAV11_TMP_VL_M_R_FST_S_
STAV12_M_R_WTR_N_.gan
STAV13_TMP_M_R_PLN_EMT_
STAV14_U_A_
STAV15_TMP_U_R_FST_N_NS_
STAV16_U_R_WST_FS_
STAV17_U_R_WST_FS_
STAV18_TMP_VL_U_R_FST_
STAV19_U_R_OR_SWP_FST_
STAV2_HOT_U_R_SWP_S_WS_
STAV20_U_R_OR_PLN_FST_FRM_
STAV21_U_R_OR_PLN_FST_FRM_
STAV22_U_R_
STAV23_CO_U_R_
STAV24_M_R_DEP_
STAV25_CLD_IS_U_R_FST_FS_
STAV26_TMP_M_R_FST_
STAV27_M_R_FST_
STAV28_M_R_DEP_
STAV29_M_R_SEA_
STAV3_TMP_LO_U_R_FST_
STAV30_TMP_U_A_
STAV31_M_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_SWP_FST_FRM_
STAV32_M_R_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_SWP_FST_FRM_
STAV33_M_R_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_FRM_
STAV34_CLD_M_R_OR_PLN_EMT_FST_FRM_
STAV35_TMP_M_R_OR_PLN_EMT_FST_FRM_
STAV36_HOT_M_R_OR_EMT_MNT_FST_
STAV37_CLD_M_R_OR_PLN_EMT_FST_FRM_
STAV38_HOT_M_R_OR_EMT_MNT_FST_
STAV4_CLD_U_R_SEA_
STAV5_U_R_EMT_SS_
STAV6_U_R_EMT_FST_
STAV7_CO_U_R_PLN_MST_
STAV8_HOT_U_R_EMT_WST_
STAV9_LK_U_R_WTR_


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

More great additions from the community for the community. Thanks!

Edit: See the Gan & God Compilation for updated version with syntax fixes for some of the god files included in this archive.

[Ballbarian]

Attached to this post are 37 new GAN province files in zip format submitted by Happyfungi. From the land of Pax Ravana (where a breakaway faction of Ermor refuses to ackowledge the new god and worships a diffent god instead) to Bergrens Hollow, more variety and challenges await.

HapyfungiGANS.zip

To apply:
Paste the 37 ".gan" files into your SemiRandom/GAN_BIN directory and add the following lines to GanList.txt (located in your SemiRandom/LIST_CRATE directory):

Happyfungi1_TMP_U_R_OR_PLN_FST_FRM_N_
Happyfungi11_U_R_OR_SEA_DEP_S_N_L_
Happyfungi12_IS_U_R_OR_S_N_L_
Happyfungi2_TMP_U_R_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_FST_N_L_
Happyfungi3_HOT_U_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_WST_S_N_L_
Happyfungi4_CLD_U_A_OR_PLN_FRM_S_N_L_
Happyfungi5_U_R_OR_PLN_CAV_EMT_MNT_S_N_L_
Happyfungi6_HOT_CO_U_R_OR_PLN_WST_SWP_N_L_
Happyfungi7_U_A_OR_SEA_S_N_L_
Happyfungi8_U_A_OR_DEP_S_N_L_
Hapyfungi10_HOT_M_A_OR_SWP_FST_S_N_SS_NS_
Hapyfungi11_CLD_M_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_S_
Hapyfungi12_HOT_M_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM _S_
Hapyfungi13_TMP_M_A_OR_PLN_FRM_S_
Hapyfungi14_TMP_M_A_OR_FST_S_
Hapyfungi15_TMP_M_A_OR_EMT_MNT_S_
Hapyfungi16_TMP_M_A_OR_WST_S_
Hapyfungi17_M_A_OR_SEA_DEP_CAV_WTR_S_N_L_
Hapyfungi21_M_A_DEP_N_
Hapyfungi28_M_U_SEA_N_
Hapyfungi29_CLD_M_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM _S_N_L_AS_WS_
Hapyfungi30_HOT_M_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM _S_N_L_FS_BS_
Hapyfungi31_TMP_U_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM _S_N_L_
Hapyfungi32_TMP_U_A_OR_PLN_EMT_MNT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM _S_N_L_
Hapyfungi33_HOT_U_R_OR_EMT_MNT_FST_L_
Hapyfungi34_TMP_U_A_OR_CAV_EMT_N_ES_S_
Hapyfungi35_HOT_CO_U_R_OR_EMT_FST_L_
Hapyfungi36_TMP_U_R_FRM_S_
Hapyfungi37_HOT_U_R_FRM_S_
Hapyfungi38_IS_U_R_FST_S_
Hapyfungi39_PN_U_R_PLN_S_
Hapyfungi40_VL_U_R_EMT_S_
Hapyfungi41_CO_U_R_PLN_S_
Hapyfungi42_CLD_U_R_OR_PLN_EMT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM_S_
Hapyfungi43_TMP_U_R_OR_PLN_EMT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM_S_
Hapyfungi44_HOT_U_R_OR_PLN_EMT_WST_SWP_FST_FRM_S_
Hapyfungi9_VL_U_R_OR_EMT_MNT_S_N_L_

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

More great additions from the community for the community. Thanks!

[Ballbarian]

Sorry that I missed your posts this afternoon MaxWilson. I will review your problems tomorrow night. I am already running about 4 hours behind on sleep and I expect work to be rough in the morning.