The Random Map Generator and Maps

[Psitticine]

I'm afraid there's nothing built-in in terms of a random map generator in Dom II. Maybe Mr. Jones will update his Dom I map generator someday, but who knows? Maybe you could drop him an email and ask if he has any plans to do so.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Daynarr:
The map files are exactly the same format as they were in Dom 1 (TGA, or Targa). You can use maps made for Dom1, but you will need to delete colors in top-left corner for they have no purpose in Dom2 (they may cause game to generate province there). As far as I know, Dom2 supports much larger maps then Dom 1 so all maps need not be 800x600, in fact larger are preferred. Scripting files (.map) are different though with new commands and units so they need to be rewritten.

Im interested in this since I make extensive use of randomly generated TGA and randomly generated
MAP files. Possibly a gimp or a ghost script could be created which would... just tihnking out loud here... replace the color string in the old format with a flat land color. Hmmm no that might create a really tiny water province? or would it create just a stream in some other province?

I suppose it could snag the color in position 17 and fill in bits 1-16 with that same color.

[Psitticine]

Nope, it shouldn't be that difficult to make a pretty good random map generator from Dom's needs. I'm starting a killer quarter at school today (I'm both teacher and student . . . eesh) so I'm not going to have time to devote to such a project on top of everything else I've got going now, but there must be somebody about with the skills AND the time.

[Gandalf Parker]

A good place to start might be with the source code for the old map generator.
http://www.ont.com/~keldon/dommap.html

[blackwulf]

I NEED HELP!

In preparation for DOM 2 I have started playing DOM 1 again. I was made aware of Keldon’s Random Map Generator in this thread. I downloaded it and think it’s great. However I had downloaded it to my desk top and wanted to have it in a sub-folder of Dom 1 so I copied and pasted the exe into the folder and went back to delete the original file and it will not let me. No matter what I do including regediting all entries of dommap I cannot remove/uninstall/delete dommap.exe from my computer.

As a side not I had played around with the "run_dommap.sh" shell
Script which is mentioned in Keldon’s read me at his site.

I am running win XP and while this is a minor annoyance I really would like to be able to uninstall this program from my system.

I’d appreciate any suggestions. I emailed Keldorn but don’t know if he is still active and have yet to receive a reply.

Thank you
Blackwulf

[Pocus]

have you first checked that the file is not with read only attribs? It happens when you burn them on a cd.

if writable, then what is the message? Does windows say the file is still used by another app?

try anyway to reboot in safe mode (dont know how it is called in english, this is the mode without the drivers and terminate stay resident loaded).

[blackwulf]

Pocus,

I did indeed check for read only and I tried rebooting in safe mode. No matter what I try it comes back with the following message...

"Cannot Delete dommap:It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again"

I have been troubleshooting this for the Last six hours!

Blackwulf