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Jamie550 said:
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Did adjacent.tbl fail to work even after being made with beta 1.1.1, or did you just not include it because it was unnecessary?
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It was unnecessary, but i have the same problem with the new beta 1.1.1

I will try again with beta 1.1.1
 
I get missing block when trying to make light maps

Code: 
Doing row: 0Missing block! xOffset: 0 yOffset: 0
Press Enter to exit...

and this message when trying to make adjacent.tbl:

Code: 
5/22/2008 11:32:25 PM
Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source: MapMaker
Target Site: Void EnsureBlockStreamLoaded(MapEditor.BlockHolder)
Stack Trace:    at MapEditor.RadishMaker.EnsureBlockStreamLoaded(BlockHolder holder)
   at MapEditor.RadishMaker.CombineRadishes()
   at MapEditor.RadishHelper.MakeOtherRadishes()
   at MapEditor.Program.BeginWork(String[] args)
   at MapEditor.Boot.Main(String[] args)
Misc

Also noted when the programs mapmaker.exe is running in full power, it takes up until 1.39gb of ram at the highest point where i saw.
 
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IndoEsia45: Did you already do steps 1 and 2?

What are the contents of images.txt?

MapMaker will take up to 2gb of memory, but if there is less free memory available, it will use less, as it only requires several hundred mb. The garbage collector decides when to run, and one of the major factors is how much memory there is available.
 
I have a doubt about your program.

I execute mapmaker and I do ster 1,2,3 (4) 5 and 6

(it is supossed that we musnt do step 4. I have tasted without do and doing it, and the same result)

Im going to map directory and I copy all the files that there are inside in Hoi2 map directory.

When i am going to execute hoi2 it appeared to me that message error:

"Please install the latest milestone"


What means that? what I have do wrong?'


Thank you for all
 
rommel_sniper said:
I have a doubt about your program.

I execute mapmaker and I do ster 1,2,3 (4) 5 and 6

(it is supossed that we musnt do step 4. I have tasted without do and doing it, and the same result)

Im going to map directory and I copy all the files that there are inside in Hoi2 map directory.

When i am going to execute hoi2 it appeared to me that message error:

"Please install the latest milestone"


What means that? what I have do wrong?'


Thank you for all
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The two possible problems are adjacent.tbl and tiles.bmp.

Try running with old adjacent + new tiles, new adjacent + old tiles, and old adjacent + old tiles, to find out which is causing the problem.
 
The problem was both. Although without changing "titles" I could execute perfectly hoi2.exe, in the map you were not be able to look the borders or the colour of the map.

Thank you very much


Then, when I finished all my modifications, will I always use old titles and adjacent? Or will I need to do something not to repeat that error?

Thanks




I have another 2 questions:

1) i am doing a scenario of SCW. My idea is to "destroy" france, portugal etc provinces, to create a unique province (called "france" "africa" "portugal)
to have free IDs to create a new spanish map (with at least 50 provinces)

It would be possibly? How I change borders and How I assignate new Ids? It is possible to make that using paint instead of photoshop? and if it is not possible or extremely difficult, where I get photoshop??


2) After tasting my new map, I have notised that some spots have been created (to be exacly, they are in belgium and in amazonas, between brasil and peru i think) I have heared that Quintelosky at first had the same error. There is a solution?


Thank you, your program is realy incredible :)
 
rommel_sniper said:
The problem was both. Although without changing "titles" I could execute perfectly hoi2.exe, in the map you were not be able to look the borders or the colour of the map.

Thank you very much


Then, when I finished all my modifications, will I always use old titles and adjacent? Or will I need to do something not to repeat that error?

Thanks




I have another 2 questions:

1) i am doing a scenario of SCW. My idea is to "destroy" france, portugal etc provinces, to create a unique province (called "france" "africa" "portugal)
to have free IDs to create a new spanish map (with at least 50 provinces)

It would be possibly? How I change borders and How I assignate new Ids? It is possible to make that using paint instead of photoshop? and if it is not possible or extremely difficult, where I get photoshop??


2) After tasting my new map, I have notised that some spots have been created (to be exacly, they are in belgium and in amazonas, between brasil and peru i think) I have heared that Quintelosky at first had the same error. There is a solution?


Thank you, your program is realy incredible :)
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The tiles has been fixed, but not yet released.

Could you upload adjacent.tbl if you downloaded adj-mod.txt? If you did not download adj-mod.txt (and also get the latest beta), download it, put it in MapMaker folder, and remake adjacent (step 3) and see if it works

1) Yes. To change the ids, edit the file called provinceid files. Each color corresponds to a specific id, and this is found in ids.csv (downloadable). Doing it in paint is possible, but difficult, as you have to make sure all the layers match. To get photoshop, I suppose you buy it somewhere.

2) Has been fixed. Try downloading the latest beta
 
Mapmaker does not start

Hi Jamie,

I will try to explain my problem. Sorry for my bad English :(

I tried MapMaker v 1.1 and 2.1.1 for HOI2 and v 1.1.1 beta, have downloaded ids.csv and adj-mod.txt in the same folder as MapMaker. I want to work on HOI2-maps.

MapViewer I can open. I saved a map and get four png-files:
borders, colorscale, provID, tiles
There was NO images.txt created. I have made my own one and put the four png-files in. After finished I wanted to open MapMaker but it chrashed with an error-message.

- I installed .NET Framework 3.5 befor donloaded MapMaker
- MapMaker and MapViewer ARE in the same folder
- My OS ist MS Vista Ultimate
- The error message sounds:

"Message: The index was outside the area. It must not be negative and less than the listing.
Parameter name: index
Source: mscorlib
Target site: Void ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException (System.ExceptionArgument, System.ExceptionResource)
Stack Trace: at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException (Exception argument argument, Exception Resource resource)
in System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException ()
in System.SZArrayHelper.get_Item [T] (Int32 index)
in System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection `1.get_Item (Int32 index)
in MapEditor.SimpleImageData .. ctor (String line)
in MapEditor.LineData.Interpret (String line)
in MapEditor.Program.LoadFiles ()
in MapEditor.Program.BeginWork (String [] args)
in MapEditor.Boot.Main (String [] args)
Misc"

What's the fault? I hope you can help me.

Best regards.
Stephan
 
Luftikus said:
Hi Jamie,

I will try to explain my problem. Sorry for my bad English :(

I tried MapMaker v 1.1 and 2.1.1 for HOI2 and v 1.1.1 beta, have downloaded ids.csv and adj-mod.txt in the same folder as MapMaker. I want to work on HOI2-maps.

MapViewer I can open. I saved a map and get four png-files:
borders, colorscale, provID, tiles
There was NO images.txt created. I have made my own one and put the four png-files in. After finished I wanted to open MapMaker but it chrashed with an error-message.

- I installed .NET Framework 3.5 befor donloaded MapMaker
- MapMaker and MapViewer ARE in the same folder
- My OS ist MS Vista Ultimate
- The error message sounds:

"Message: The index was outside the area. It must not be negative and less than the listing.
Parameter name: index
Source: mscorlib
Target site: Void ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException (System.ExceptionArgument, System.ExceptionResource)
Stack Trace: at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException (Exception argument argument, Exception Resource resource)
in System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException ()
in System.SZArrayHelper.get_Item [T] (Int32 index)
in System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection `1.get_Item (Int32 index)
in MapEditor.SimpleImageData .. ctor (String line)
in MapEditor.LineData.Interpret (String line)
in MapEditor.Program.LoadFiles ()
in MapEditor.Program.BeginWork (String [] args)
in MapEditor.Boot.Main (String [] args)
Misc"

What's the fault? I hope you can help me.

Best regards.
Stephan
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From help:
To extract files: you must run MapViewer from the commandline (unless you want to do it in the GUI by pressing Export 65 times).
mapviewer -help will give you the arguments.
The various extraction options will create a folder called extracted maps. In the folder will be the extracted images.
Also, if you use -extract, a default images.txt will be created.
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And then it should work

For more information about images.txt see your 1.1 download, in folder Information. Look for the latest specs (it might still be called psd.txt).

By the way, MapMaker and MapViewer do not have to be in the same folder, its just that CoreLib.dll must be in both of their folders

And thanks for giving plenty of detail about your problem :)
 
Oh..it's a success ! I changed Beiping into Peking for my warlords mod.

screeniegt8.jpg
 
Download beta 1.1.2 here!

Changelog:

Global
-Now supports different map sizes, lightmap offset sizes, and numbers of lightmaps, and method of reading different id formats, all set in settings.txt (though support is not complete)

MapViewer v6.2
-Fixed GUI title
-Logfile at log.txt
-Tweaked sizes of displaying and exporting images
-Can view CK lightmaps (BETA)

MapMaker v2.2
-Changed recommended MAXPROVINCE number for HoI to 2608, as that is the correct one.
-Fixed message reporting lack of images.txt
-Fixed minor problem with finding adjancies
-Now will read a file called adj-mod.txt to change adjancies
-Errors will be logged to errorLog.txt
-Fixed problem with creating tiles.bmp, now the original palette is used
-When making lightmaps, shading is slightly more flexible
-Now after creating initial lightmaps, will automatically check for block existence, and removed corresponding option 11
-Now supports varying numbers of lightmaps (3 or 4)
-Support for CK-type province ids, excluding rivers
-Can make CK maps (BETA)
 
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