I pointed this out in a separate post. There may be a problem with the borders files. It doesn't depend on colorscales. I checked them all and it always appears on the third zoom. Perhaps I understood the problem with the too dark palette of the topographic map. The fact is that the original DH images are gray, E3 is white. The gray color shades the topo map and prevents the image from being too dark. But this is just a theory. In general, the color of the topographic map in DH and E3 was 100% the same. I don't have time to check this yet
Use default red color in Colorscales for Darkest Hour and lightmap4 without borders - map is too fadeyep. also, whoever picked the shade of red to use for enemy nations in that GC mod, it works kind of okay on the lower levels, but on upper levels with topo it becomes almost black. Look at that Germany, it basically became a black hole haha. I might need to change the colors slightly.
Anyway, if you find time to make an English version of the map and fix minor things like stitches and misaligned rivers, that would be awesome and greatly appreciated
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Interesting! Yes, I see what you mean. Why do you think that is? The vanilla DH topographic map doesn't seem to have the same problem. I know next to nothing about topography mapping - what do you think they're doing differently? Also, somehow it feels like it became even darker than before lol.
What if you keep the opacity at 50 for layer 4? Or at least 60? I don't think it really needs to be much more pronounced than it is in layer 3 necessarily.
Hello! I'm in the tundra now and can't compile the map and fix errors. But they exist. Now I am making an ID card using DH ProvinceEditor from Bizon, 80% completed.
Good, and this is one of the closest thing to a blank map of e3 everyone has ever posted, thank you. These maps are rare. I found only one a year ago but now it seems it was removed. I used it to paint it for fun.
Interesting. I'm glad to see people are still working on this project.
You don't happen to have a mapping spreadsheet between the provinces in the vanilla DH with the corresponding (or closest) provinces on the E3 map, do you? There's one particularly big file i'm trying to get through where being able to automatically map from old province to new one would save me a lot of manual work, if there was such a mapping.
I don't have one. Such a file exists, I remember Novapaddy mentioned it when they ported the DH scenario to E3, ask him or Bizon (mmc Bizon's - conventer scenario from DH to E3).You don't happen to have a mapping spreadsheet between the provinces in the vanilla DH with the corresponding (or closest) provinces on the E3 map, do you? There's one particularly big file i'm trying to get through where being able to automatically map from old province to new one would save me a lot of manual work, if there was such a mapping.
Thanks, this is actually very helpful! While the translation table linked there is an E3->E3FN mapping file, separately I also have another translation table for DH->E3FN. Putting those two together, I should be able to translate DH->E3 fairly accurately.
Fine! How to make a DH-E3 conversion file, please post it, I will attach it to the appropriate topic. I think it’s better to post working materials on such a little-studied map.
This is what I got when I put them two together. Land provinces are 100% covered. For sea provinces there are some gaps - the reason is because the "DHtoE3FNmapIDs.ods" file that came with the FN map didn't cover all the sea provinces for some reason, I don't know if they just didn't get around to finishing that spreadsheet or something. Either way for my purposes this result is more than sufficient because I was mostly interested in land province mapping only.
