new map generator

[DrPraetorious]

If it's a freely available .dll I'll install it if needed to use your mapgen.

[paradoxharbinger]

ok, i think i've found the dlls that need to be installed to run this heap. apparently m$ made it so that apps built with vs2k5 cannot be run on pcs that do not have the proper dlls installed, but m$ has made them available, the installer is here . there does seem to be a workaround for this, which, if i understand it correctly, just means that mapgen would be packaged in an installer with these dlls, which would be installed on your pc when you install mapgen. this is something i will have to look into further, i would rather a no-strings-attached sort of deal.

[DrPraetorious]

That fixed it.

Thanks!

Making maps now.....

[DrPraetorious]

A few RFEs -
* control for the frequency with which different terrains are seeded. At the moment, these maps have no mountains, which is a game balance issue.

* border mountains. Not sure how to do this, as border mountains don't get seeded like other terrains.

Anyway, it works great, it's amazingly fast. Nice work!

[paradoxharbinger]

sweet.

im going to remove the other attachments, and post a new zip with an updated readme in it.

[paradoxharbinger]

as far as how terrains are seeded, oceans, land masses and mountains are determined strictly by a height map, so everything below x is ocean, everything above y is mountains. rivers are created in a similar manner. the other terrains are sort of 'grown' in the space in between.

try using the tlevel command

the default is tlevel: mountain 120;

so try using a lower number

impassable terrains, border mountains and the other dom3 terrains are something that i intend to work on after i get the sprite functionality in.

well i'm glad that the thing is working, though i'm quite annoyed that it can't be simply copied to another machine.

[DrPraetorious]

Oh, I get it. That sets the water level! Okay, that'll work fine.

I think I found a bug in one of the maps it generated (attached). Provinces 10 and 11 appear to have their terrain assignments reversed. There are a few other terrain reversals.

If I had to guess, I think that the script is numbering provinces wrong whe the center (white) pixels have the same y-coordinate. That's just a guess though.

Thanks for the awesome tool!

[paradoxharbinger]

that may be. i will check it out.

btw, can you post the debug for this map? i'd be interested to see ho long it took to generate it