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Hi!

I hope you would help me with one problem about eu2 map.

I and some others make map for EU2. The most land provinces are finished, but i found that borders(not red one) of provinces seems to be bad quality, however in PSD file everything is perfect. There was manual, but all links are broken. How do you draw borders of province?

Here two screenshots.

PSD screen: http://img831.imageshack.us/i/97517548.jpg

Game screen: http://img151.imageshack.us/i/89468776.jpg

I really need your advise, i have lost a lot of time doing my map and i cant solve this problem.

Best regards,
 
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I don't understand very well what do you mean for "borders of provinces seems to be bad quality", but I think do you mean that there are in your map unnecessary borders. You might add borders only between two land provinces, now between sea and land, not between two sea provinces.

Link you have added are broken.
 
I fixed links, i hope now it works.

I mean when i draw border of province(on shading layer) it seems to be rather good quality. Espesially when it in PSD format. But when i put PSD to the game, this border(that a few minutes ago was normal quality) become low quality. In screenshots you can see it.

Best regards,
 
I think the problem is IDs layer. Maybe if the border of a province don't take the same color in IDs layer it generate a problem like this one. You might add not both color but one of the two provinces.

Besides there is a biggest problem: your source map isn't very well. Maybe you used Eu2 vanilla with magellan sulawesi 2.2.1. I don't know why it doesn't work with Eu2 vanilla. You might use FTG demo, free downloadable here.
 
Magellan Sulawesi 2.2.1 doesn't work with FTG because it looks for province.csv, which no longer exists. I'm not sure how you're managing with FTG's demo.

I worked a bit with magellan using EUII's map this morning. I managed to successfully operate mextract and mview. Mimage is where my incompetence shows.
 
I tried mextract with FTG one again.

Code: 
*** Environment Info ***

Magellan Build Version: Sulawesi 2.2.1.*
EU2 Lib Version: 2.2.1.24676
Date: 2011/02/06 15:22:59
Tool: mextract, Version=2.2.1.24676, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null (v2.2.1.24676)
OSVersion: Win32NT - 6.1.7600.0
CurrentDir: c:\Games\For the Glory\Inferis Tools
SystemDir: C:\Windows\system32
CommandLine: mextract  test.eu2map /d:"C:\games\for the glory" /3
CLR: 2.0.50727.4952
EU2: (no install)

*** Error Info ***

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\games\for the glory\db\province.csv'.
File name: 'C:\games\for the glory\db\province.csv'
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options)
   at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize)
   at EU2.IO.CSVReader..ctor(String path)
   at EU2.Edit.File.Extract(Install install, String targetPath, FileExtractOptions options, FileProcessingHandler callback)
   at MapExtract.Boot.Main(String[] args)

As you can see, it looks for province.csv.

How do you manage to use it with the demo???
 
I am having problems importing an image file. (I'm using EU2 not FTG)

I exported an image file.
I opened it in photoshop and created some text in a new layer.
I merged the new layer with 'Shading'.
I renamed the merged layers back to 'Shading' and saved.

When I import I get the following error:


Code: 
*** Environment Info ***
Magellan Build Version: Sulawesi 2.2.1.*
EU2 Lib Version: 2.2.1.24675
Date: 2011/02/06 16:47:16
Tool: mimage, Version=2.2.1.24675, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null (v2.2.1.24675)
OSVersion: Win32NT - 6.1.7600.0
CurrentDir: c:\Games\Europa Universalis II\Inferis Tools
SystemDir: C:\Windows\system32
CommandLine: mimage  /c test.psd
CLR: 2.0.50727.4952
EU2: (no install)

*** Error Info ***

[B]PSD.InvalidAdjustmentKeyException: Invalid layer adjustment key 'shmd'.[/B]
   at PSD.LayerAdjustment.Construct(BinaryReader reader)
   at PSD.ProtoLayer.ReadDefinitionFrom(BinaryReader reader)
   at PSD.Layers.ReadLayers(BinaryReader reader)
   at PSD.Layers.ReadFrom(BinaryReader reader)
   at PSD.File.ReadFrom(BinaryReader reader)
   at PSD.File.ReadFrom(String path)
   at MapImage.QueryImage.Run(String source)
   at MapImage.CheckImage.Run(String source, PngLevel pngLevel, Int32 checkId, Boolean tolerant)
   at MapImage.Boot.Main(String[] args)
 
Therion said:
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How do you manage to use it with the demo???
Click to expand...

I explain you what I do exactly.
Firstofall I install FTG demo in C:\FTG, in order to have an easiest directory.
Then I open MS-dos and I write

cd C:\FTG

then

mextract SGLv005.eu2map /C /L /D:C:\FTG

Therion said:
I am having problems importing an image file. (I'm using EU2 not FTG)

I exported an image file.
I opened it in photoshop and created some text in a new layer.
I merged the new layer with 'Shading'.
I renamed the merged layers back to 'Shading' and saved.
(...)
Click to expand...

I don't know what is precisely the problem, but I suggest you to try with FTG demo...

Did you delete at least one of the 4 layers in test.psd?

IDs, Borders, Shading, and the last one?
 
Eraclio said:
I explain you what I do exactly.
Firstofall I install FTG demo in C:\FTG, in order to have an easiest directory.
Then I open MS-dos and I write

cd C:\FTG

then

mextract SGLv005.eu2map /C /L /D:C:\FTG
Click to expand...

But /C is to create a new map, not for extracting, no?

And what's /L?

Basially, I don't want to create a new map. I just want to modify already existing maps of the early modern period, like WATKABAOI, WATK or MyMap.
 
Therion said:
But /C is to create a new map, not for extracting, no?

And what's /L?

Basially, I don't want to create a new map. I just want to modify already existing maps of the early modern period, like WATKABAOI, WATK or MyMap.
Click to expand...

Ok, so both my advice is not useful: /C create a new empty map and /L don't exists because magellan made all three lightmap again in default.

I think do you know this link, but I'm not sure: http://www.inferis.org/eu2/magellan/

So I think the only way is to take the map by the FTG version of that ones (if there are that ones...), then to try with FTG demo. ;)
 
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