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Old November 29th, 2003, 12:39 AM
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Default Re: The Random Map Generator and Maps

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I fiddled with the old map generator and have some lovely maps with more water. (40 water provinces, 90 land.) But of course, D2 complains about the map file being bad, but if I just try to load the tga the game exits.
Thats about standard. The DomMap generator was for Dom1 which did things differently.

The .map will be bad because #title needs to be #dom2title, and I think you have to add #domVersion 150 and #defaultmapzoom 1.5

The problem with the tga is that it tries to place all the capitals and put great big grey flags on each one. The row of color-code dots up in the upper-left corner which Dom1 wanted might be messing up Dom2.

Ive edited out the dots, and with smaller maps Ive gotten it to read in though it takes forever to come up. Flipping it vertically actually did help (thanks Arralen) since Dom2 numbers things in reverse but it still wasnt playable.
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Default Re: The Random Map Generator and Maps

I hate posting a note that has limited use (4 December) but I think todays batch of random maps came out well.
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...humbnails.html
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...humbnails.html
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...humbnails.html

They dont work in Dom2 but they still might be starting points for someone who wants to take one into a paint program and work it abit.

I hope someone updates this program.

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