HELP NEEDED - Total Conversion Map Modding

[AidanBionicle1]

To put my situation up front and center, I am entirely clueless about map modding, in that I am trying to create a total conversation of the in-game map. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but having used the data from another mod as a test basis to the map, I keep getting CTD (crash to desktop), and simply put I do not know what is wrong with my map formatting, if anything is wrong with my maps' formatting at all.

For anyone who can help me, I will post the map files I have made so far. These images are the .png format, however I have .bmp format copies on my end that the forum will not let me upload it so seams, however hopefully formatting information can be gleamed from these... somehow. Honestly, again, I have no clue what I am doing, so please forgive me to this end.

 

[jonjowett]

Normally, the modding forum is the best place to ask such questions.

However, there was a similar post recently, which received no responses (probably because map changes are a very niche area of modding)... so you might be equally out of luck.

 

[Enferu]

To put my situation up front and center, I am entirely clueless about map modding, in that I am trying to create a total conversation of the in-game map. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but having used the data from another mod as a test basis to the map, I keep getting CTD (crash to desktop), and simply put I do not know what is wrong with my map formatting, if anything is wrong with my maps' formatting at all.

For anyone who can help me, I will post the map files I have made so far. These images are the .png format, however I have .bmp format copies on my end that the forum will not let me upload it so seams, however hopefully formatting information can be gleamed from these... somehow. Honestly, again, I have no clue what I am doing, so please forgive me to this end.

I suggest carefully reading through the entire "Map modding" page on the CK2 wiki, if you haven't done so already.

At first glance, the cause for your CTD might be as simple as the height and width of your images not being multiples of 256.

Also, be prepared for many more issues and CTDs; I have only recently gotten into it myself, but map modding in CK2 can be an incredibly frustrating (but rewarding) process.

 

[AidanBionicle1]

I recognize now that I messed up in terms of where I should have starting this thread. Forgive my dumbness to that end.

This all being said, alas. If only there only a recent thread or discussion where I could work off of to do what I need to in order to correct the error. More helpful would something like a discord I suppose, but I am personally iffy about that.

As for Enferu's post, I will think about that potential, if such needing to crop or add to the maps such posted.


edit: UPDATE

Having converted a number of placeholder textures, and yet even still getting CTD.

Elsewise, I would like to know the details of how I can add nations into the game, giving them specific provinces, coloring, how all of that necessarily works.