Magellan in action

[Josip]

Well, after some toying with Inferis' beta Magellan, this is the result:
Sorry for the bad screenshots...

Hmm:

Although I'm having some problems with PTI shown in-game:

You can clearly see a line which shows a size and extent of image exported and imported into a map again...

 

[Inferis]

Strange indeed. I thought I had the TI pinned.

Could you specify the commands you used? (mextract, mimage, mimport)
Is this the 2020 version or the 1615 version?

 

[Josip]

Strange indeed. I thought I had the TI pinned.

Could you specify the commands you used? (mextract, mimage, mimport)
Is this the 2020 version or the 1615 version?

Ok, here goes:
I had reinstalled EU2 and patched it with 1.08 patch + Feb 2005 beta prior to the installation of Magellan. So the registry is okay. I am using the 2020 version. But I was within the 1615 limit, didn't add any new provinces.

mextract map.eu2map /1
mimage /e map.eu2map /r:9900,0,3000,3000 sample.psd
I think it was 9900,0; I'm not sure, you'll know better (the modified image checked out OK):

mimage /i russia.psd map.eu2map
minject map.eu2map /L

Oh, and a program and all the files were in the same folder...

 

[Hallsten]

WHOA!
That's friggin' sweet. Looking great there, Josip!
I've had a look at it myself, not that hard actually (big thanks to Inferis for the quick tutorial there!).
And for some reason I just think that the colour <=> map-id idea is the most beautiful thing ever...

 

[Inferis]

Could you try using mextract with the /G option? There might be something wrong with the detection code which decides to regen id.tbl or take over the copy in the EU2 directory.

I know you this means you have to reapply all your changes, but I need to make sure what goes wrong.

 

[Josip]

Could you try using mextract with the /G option? There might be something wrong with the detection code which decides to regen id.tbl or take over the copy in the EU2 directory.

I know you this means you have to reapply all your changes, but I need to make sure what goes wrong.

Here is what I did, step by step:
First I've used /g option, form separate EU2_backup installation, with original map files:

Extracted the portion of the map with these coordinates (they were 10000,0 rather than 9900,0 as I thought) :

Edited and checked the file(btw, TI had ID RGB#000000):

Imported the *.psd into the map file again:

And injected the files into EU2:

And the result

 

[Green Beret]

Say, would you put the map files for this up for download if possible? Im aware theyd be pretty big and we need to edit scenario files so that provinces are correctly matched, but it looks pretty impressive and Id love to play on a map like that.

 

[Josip]

Say, would you put the map files for this up for download if possible? Im aware theyd be pretty big and we need to edit scenario files so that provinces are correctly matched, but it looks pretty impressive and Id love to play on a map like that.

Well, glad you like it, but it is still far from finished, you should check thier progress in AGCEEP forum, in thread named "New Map: Russia"...
And also, I would be glad to host the files but my free server space is limited to 10MB, and the map files compressed are around 12MB