Map Mod Testing

[WildPeacock]

Modding takes a certain passion, it's not enough to dream.

May God have mercy on me. The only fun part as of now is drawing counties on the map, I never get tired of doing it.

Anyways, what exactly I need to do with the .dss (in Map/terrain) files to get a working Non-Vanilla Map?

(Also, do you have Skype, MSN, or something like that? Cause I will ask maaany questions. )

 

[Wolfgang Pauli]

May God have mercy on me. The only fun part as of now is drawing counties on the map, I never get tired of doing it.

It can be fun and creative, but by christ it can be tiresome getting it all to work ingame.

 

[Keanon]

You can add Hrafnirhamarr to Skype or join the IRC.

Strangely enough, I've already helped someone start on a Tamriel map.

 

[WildPeacock]

You can add Hrafnirhamarr to Skype or join the IRC.

Strangely enough, I've already helped someone start on a Tamriel map.

It's a race then

 

[gsp_rooster]

Anyways, what exactly I need to do with the .dss (in Map/terrain) files to get a working Non-Vanilla Map?

Ditto to this question.

 

[rickinator9]

Is there any easier and simpler way of modding a new map with characters without having to...

- Drawn Topography Map.
- Drawn Terrain Map
- Drawn River Map
- Work around those .dss
- Write in "Definition.cvs"
- Write in "Positions.txt"
- Write in "Landed_Titles.txt" with detailed hierarchy
- Add an .txt file on History/provinces with baronies and such
- Write in "Bookmars.txt"
- Write in "Dynasties.txt"
- Add an .txt file on History/characters
- Write EVERYTHING in "Localization.cvs"
- Add .tga files on "GFX/flags"
- Set up Mod Directory
- Multiple In-Game tests
- Have I forgot anything?

If I really need to do all this (The exeption being the firsts steps, that are related to the whole map) everytime I want to add a single county, then I really hate this job.

Right now, I write something into the definition file when I create a new province. Does anyone know what the dark-green color in siberia does(terrain map)?

 

[Arko]

Right now, I write something into the definition file when I create a new province. Does anyone know what the dark-green color in siberia does(terrain map)?

IIRC it is arctic.

arctic = {
movement_cost = 1.0
max_attrition = 0.1
color = { 235 235 235 }
supply_limit = 1
}

 

[duinnin]

I am looking into making the CK2 map just a bit bigger so small provinces will be bigger, and allow me to split up currently small areas, like Cyprus, into more provinces (2 into 3 or 4). So 2560x2560 should work? Just 512x512 larger, nothing crazy. As such my trees.bmp should be 320x320, right? Gonna test this out and see how the current map looks enlarged to those deminsions.

 

[Keanon]

Why not just go all out and maxit to 3072x3072? You can just pixel resize all the bmps and it'll work, though with some less pretty borders.

 

[Wolfgang Pauli]

Has anyone tried to write their own terrain.txt yet? All you'd need to do is make a new color table and define the new types.

 

[Keanon]

Has anyone tried to write their own terrain.txt yet? All you'd need to do is make a new color table and define the new types.

I have, it worked, but the limit is 16 textures.

 

[Wolfgang Pauli]

I have, it worked, but the limit is 16 textures.

It might be hardcoded, but it also might be in some fx file that can be extended, like the icon files.

 

[Keanon]

It might be hardcoded, but it also might be in some fx file that can be extended, like the icon files.

I had no luck finding such, be sure to tell us if you find it.

 

[unmerged(445219)]

As I said, no longer relevant.



No it won't. I already have that activated. It'd still mean manually redoing all thousand of them. The problem isn't to do with that. It's to do with the coordinates not making sense. I don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to duplicate the regular coordinates exactly on the pixel by adding 1536 to the original X-coordinate sums of positions.txt. I don't want to "eyeball" similar results by re-doing the map. I want to go through the text-file and make it exactly the same. Not to mention it wouldn't actually be faster to use the "Nudge" tool, since it requires more cross-checking than just doing the math in the file itself with potentially worse results.

The Nudge tool only becomes relevant when making positions for the new provinces west of the line for the 1584 new pixels in this case, since those don't have original positions to begin with.

(FYI you activate it in the settings.txt file in My Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK2/ModName. But it doesn't support mods, so it'll be overwriting your vanilla positions.txt-file. Remember to switch that one out with your mod's, otherwise it doesn't do any good.)

Why is it no longer relevant? Have you found a way to automatically nudge every single province over?

 

[duinnin]

Why not just go all out and maxit to 3072x3072? You can just pixel resize all the bmps and it'll work, though with some less pretty borders.

Precisely because I don't want less pretty borders, ha. I may go bigger depending how it looks and how easily I can edit. Of course if anyone has already done the work of enlarging the default map that would be an awesome resource to post for others to use. Hint, hint, wink, wink.

 

[duinnin]

What is "nudge"? What does it do and how do I use it?

 

[Nuril]

Why is it no longer relevant? Have you found a way to automatically nudge every single province over?

Not even close. I'm doing them all by hand one-by-one. I'm up to Province 632 at the moment and it's taking ages. I was just being an idiot earlier.

 

[gsp_rooster]

Bllaaargh. This takes forever. I just hope I can get it all to work when I'm done with it. I'm nearing the halfway point of being done with just the provinces.bmp from scratch for a brand new map. >.< Currently at 338 provs.

 

[Wolfgang Pauli]

Bllaaargh. This takes forever. I just hope I can get it all to work when I'm done with it. I'm nearing the halfway point of being done with just the provinces.bmp from scratch for a brand new map. >.< Currently at 338 provs.

Just wait until you have to do the history files.

 

[WildPeacock]

What's the relation between the Baronies in Landed_Titles.txt and the Baronies in "history/provinces"?