Is there a tutorial on adding new provinces?

[Undead Martyr]

The wiki is sadly lacking in information and the Map Editor 101 is not particularly helpful, it seems in any case that new provinces must be added by hand. So I am currently adding new provinces a la EUIV, having gone through the definitions, the provinces.bmp, province_setup, and province terrain and area files, but I am getting an error message and CTD off of the locators- do I need to just copy paste data for the locator files and then go in with the editor a la nudge? What happens if I give a coordinate out of bounds? The coordinates seem off based on what GIMP is telling me anyway.

 

[crownsteler]

Yes you have to change province borders manually in the /map_data/provinces.bmp file, just the way you are doing. To set object data you should indeed add your province to the locator file and then give them a nudge in the editor (it is the way I do it anyway). The game uses a different set of coordinates than GIMP (don't ask me why). You can see the game defined coordinates if you enable debug_mode (ctrl + shift + P).

There is a bit of a bug I think in that the game doesn't properly read the modded map files from your mod folder. I am not sure which one(s) is(are) bugged. Till paradox fixes this I keep my modded map files in the vanilla file structure (but be sure to backup often, you don't want an update to accidently overwrite your work).

 

[Undead Martyr]

AH, thanks. Got the provinces to work but the terrain is being a pain.

 

[crownsteler]

Terrain is best edited in the map editor. One thing I only noticed (much) later is that you can set the brush strength and, by manipulating this, create more blended terrain. Though some terrain textures don't mix very well (and I feel the game could do with more terrain textures anyway)