Map Mod Testing

[Yoshilin]

I've begun work on a total conversion mod. It will be my second attempt at one. After many hours of tedious trial and error and several do-overs I still cannot get the mod to a launch-able/test-able state. If any one who knows what they're doing would be kind enough to steer me back on course It'd be much appreciated.
(Ignore the map, it's very much a work in progress - I'm trying to get the mod to a state where I can launch it before going much further).

 

[Keanon]

If you don't have any idea at all what the issue might or could be, what you last changed, then it's really hard to help and would be faster for me say to just take your bitmap files and start over, and it's honestly what I'd suggest you do yourself.

When working on the basics of the map, you can just use the vanilla colours and definitions, saves you a lot of trouble.

Did your map ever load successfully? If not, you should probably try to have a mod with literally only the provinces map and keep at it till it loads, I could imagine the black should be white for an example without having touched your work outside of a quick glance.

 

[Yoshilin]

If you don't have any idea at all what the issue might or could be, what you last changed, then it's really hard to help and would be faster for me say to just take your bitmap files and start over, and it's honestly what I'd suggest you do yourself.

When working on the basics of the map, you can just use the vanilla colours and definitions, saves you a lot of trouble.

Did your map ever load successfully? If not, you should probably try to have a mod with literally only the provinces map and keep at it till it loads, I could imagine the black should be white for an example without having touched your work outside of a quick glance.

After posting that message I went back in and tried a few more things: It was suggested to me by someone that the map wouldn't launch without externals, a defined major river with an adjacency and a geographic-region. So I added them, to no avail.

When you say 'the black should be white', I'm assuming you are referring to the provinces.bmp? If so, changing that was unsuccessful as well.

I haven't been able to load the map at all. This is the third or fourth do-over I have done, I even completely re-did my map files for this latest attempt.

EDIT - I just used CK2 Generator to make a dumby mod that I knew would launch. Then began building my mod over the top of it (replacing the generated files with my own) and it is now magically beginning to work... Of course, I have no idea what I was doing wrong...

 

[Keanon]

I haven't been able to load the map at all.

Then do as I said, make a 'mod' that's literally only provinces.bmp

Edit:

To expand, since your map was square you'll need the full suite, but the rest can be vanilla just resized except rivers which should be entirely white.

My non-image terrain files here are because I change the graphics, so ignore them.

Make a mod like this and get it to run, before you continue.

Notice that my provinces only uses vanilla definitions.

Edit2: Read edits guys. I missed the edit, but I'm leaving this up for future people looking in.

The best way to begin with a map is to make it launch with vanilla values and then morph it from there, that way when it stops loading you know what last you changed and trouble shooting it possible.

 

[Fallofthepurple]

Upon loading up the game seems to ignore my terrain.bmp and CTDs if I try to launch.

Added the respective mod files, hope anyone can point out the mistake(s) i made.

 

[KPOT]

Hi guys. Immediately sorry for my English.
So. I have a fully working mod on a huge map. But the disposition of the provinces does not suit me. The size of the provinces corresponds to vanilla. The whole block of provinces is in the lower right corner of the map in the ocean. But the mod works. No problems.
So.
I move the provinces, starting with Iceland.

I delete the provinces in the lower right corner and add these provinces in the upper left corner of the map.
I launch the game with the mod after each change. Everything goes well until I get to the Faroe Islands.
If the sea near the Faroe Islands does not touch the islands, the game starts.


If the sea touches Faroe at least one pixel, the game crashes.

Once again I will repeat. If the provinces do not touch each other, the game starts and the mod works.
Also I do not understand why the game is launched, if in Iceland all the provinces touch each other.

I will be grateful for any help.

 

[PlatFleece]

So as a beginning map modder who just wants to launch a map and make sure it doesn't CTD, any useful guides out there for recent versions? I've checked up guides but they seem to be written 2012-13-ish, are they still relevant? If not, what's the most relevant ones?

 

[JonStryker]

Yes still relevant

 

[KPOT]

Yes still relevant

Hi, how to solve my problem? Any ideas?

The question above.

 

[PlatFleece]

Alright, well I followed the instructions and while it didn't really get my mod loading properly, someone did help me get the map loaded. I'm still figuring out why this is the case, but for now, I'm wondering why my map is all in black. My gut feeling says it has something to do with colormap.dds

I was told that there was a way to make it through Nvidia but the guide didn't really say how I think. My map has no real topography reference so I'm stuck there...

 

[Rhovandir]

How do I bring up the Nudge tool specifically with HIP installed? I can use it normally, but as soon as HIP is enabled the button disappears. I'm trying to make a personal sub-mod but the absence of Nudge is making it very difficult for me.

 

[Gohatwoono]

I just started making a total conversion mod as my very first attempt at modding (probably not wise, I know). I've managed to create a map and place the test character. I'm able to start the game as this character, but the game always CTDs after about 3 days. I've tried the September 15th 1066, and it always crashes on September 18th, when I tried the December 26th start it crashed on the 27th, I also tried to start on September 15th 1073, and it again crashed on the 18th.

Could the crash be related to the map at this stage, or am I in the clear and dealing with a non map related crash at this point?

 

[JonStryker]

Non map related, most likely.

 

[Gohatwoono]

I've decided to keep working on maps until I get one I like. Figured I should get a map that I can load in on before I try to resolve whatever makes me crash after a few days. That map I mentioned about was basically just a giant green island. I've now managed to make a map that looks pretty good and that I'd like to actually build my mod on.

The problem I'm having with it though is that provinces.bmp seems to get offset by about 40ish pixels when the game loads. I've checked all my files, comparing the same pixel in all of them, and it has the same coordinates in on every map, so I have no idea why the provinces are rendering 40 pixels to the right instead.

The other problem I'm having is that I can no longer select the test character. Their province just appears as a blank spot on the map with the wasteland boundaries around it.

I'm not sure whats going wrong with these two issues. I'm 90% certain I repeated all the steps from your map filler guide and your total conversion guide, it worked for that first map, but not for this one for some reason.

EDIT: I think I found my problem. I kept forgetting to to check "Do not write color space information" in GIMP when saying provinces.bmp. Everything seems to work fine now, everything is back to being in the right place. I'm back to CTDing after three days, so I guess its time for me to find out whats up with that.

 

[Samuel The Conqueror]

CTD on processing flags - is there a known solution or cause?

 

[Haravin]

This is the ocean provinces for my mod. If you look at the borders, they are all anti-aliased. What is the best way to fix this without having to purchase photo-shop? Do I have to manually fix everything with a brush?

 

[ngppgn]

This is the ocean provinces for my mod. If you look at the borders, they are all anti-aliased. What is the best way to fix this without having to purchase photo-shop? Do I have to manually fix everything with a brush?

I vaguely remember GIMP (which is free) having a tiol to smooth or sharpen color contrasts in an area. That might help. Or I might be misremembering.

 

[SkyGreen24]

Hi, I've recently started attempting a total conversion starting with a single province map.
I used to add provinces to the vanilla map so my logic was just slowly adding them would be better for me because I'm a bit confused by most tutorials.

Now, I created a mod, and it loads, but when I want to select a character the province terrain is black and there is no character to select.

Does anyone know what could be the cause of it? Did I perhaps replace something that I shouldn't have?

 

[DrewX]

How would I go about, lets say, turning the middle east into a grassland?

 

[sillent]

How would I go about, lets say, turning the middle east into a grassland?

Just edit terrain.bmp and change the color of the desert to another one.