I'm thinking that they try to keep the monster population steady, and when the untamed spaces start to shrink alot, it starts to get a little goofy. Keep in mind though that they are the only way outside of warfare to level up your guys.
[quote who="Murteas" reply="84" id="2762167"] On topic. Love the map generation. I would love to see the ability to make islands or other configurations in the future. Granted, I realize the AI may not be able to handle this yet, so for now. This is great. [/quote] You can create islands by turning up the noise frequency and rasing the sea level a bit. [quote who="AM_Shark" reply="85" id="2762216"]Awesome Love it. One question.
[quote who="TheSAguy" reply="77" id="2761912"]The download link seems to be down. [/quote] Yes it does.... I hope it comes back... Their whole site is down it seems.
Hmm, I was hoping there would be some XML tag I could use in the map file to stop that. It's really strange that they allow you to place resources and then throw it out when the game starts.
[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="75" id="2761424"]One minor issue I have noticed is that the land transformation that takes place in the area of influence (turns into grassland or dead land) does not work well at all. The beaches and high mountains makes the transformation look really weird... Beaches turn white for example. [/quote] I used the terrain types that you get when you use the cartography room and place basic barren land. Some of the pre-made maps use other terrains like
[quote who="assets73" reply="70" id="2761188"]forgive my ignorance. I have played with the sliders and I keep getting forests everywhere. I just want a large 256x256 map that has a few mountains, lots of open space to build and few forests...what settings would you recommend? Thanks in advance [/quote] Turn the "Percent Below Open Land" slider to a high number close to the "Percent Below Forest" setting, and that will increase the open lan
[quote who="Baleurion" reply="66" id="2761051"]Nope still the same. The only other difference between it and the vanilla map files is that the vanilla files have 1 "tab" before each line, while your files have 2 spaces. Surely that has nothing to do with it since it works for 95% of you all, but frankly im running out of ideas lol. Ill wait and hope an Elemental patch indirectly fixes it. [/quote] Did you get a chance to eliminate swamps?
Lately, and this just started happening recently even though I've been playing the same patch for a while, the UI backgrounds are not showing up. The text is visible but the window background is missing. Can't play like that really. The problem appears upon startup, and only a restart will sometimes fix it. Sometimes it's very stubborn and takes two or three restarts for the main menu to display properly.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="61" id="2760920"] Quoting cephalo, reply 60 Ok, new version up. The encoding should match now. Let me know if it works... Just Dl'd the new version, will test tonight. A question Cephalo, does that hosting site there keep track of how many time it's been downloaded? I'm looking for a new host for mine but I want to be able to keep track of my downloads as well. [/quote] Yes! 191 downloads so far among
I'm noticing that when I make a map in the cartography room and place resources, and then try to play the map, all the resources are randomized anyway. Does anyone know how to make it so that the initial resources are fixed to what you specify? Otherwise there's no reason to place them. I know that some leaders have resources that spawn in with them and that's fine, but beyond that i would like to control this.
Ok, new version up. The encoding should match now. Let me know if it works...
[quote who="Baleurion" reply="32" id="2759799"] I just noticed the top header in the rmg maps are different than any other maps the game creates. Could that have something to do with it? Perhaps its worth noting im running on non-english OS. Your rmg maps: Vanilla maps: Changing the header to the vanilla, and opening the file in notepad++ and re-
[quote who="Baleurion" reply="55" id="2760662"]What swamp slider? Definetly some kind of version mismatch here, i'm using the latest 1.07 (from impulse) yet it loads all the generated maps totally wrong. No desert anywhere, nice submerged swamps though, but roads on every tile, yes roads! Haha so wierd No hill or mountain textures either, just pure flatt Barren land everywhere. I bet its a bug with the game loading the maps, i dont see what else could cause it. It
[quote who="Baleurion" reply="43" id="2760308"]Tried generating a map without water, hills or mountains, no luck :/ I edited my first reply with some info on the xml headers and such, in case you missed it. I dont know why, but that's my best guess as to why some of us (well, the two of us so far lol) seem to have this issue. Perhaps it only affects those of us with non-english OS, due to varying unicode-junk and such? Vanilla maps are saved as ANSI with <?xml ver
Actually Janusk has an option to turn off his advice. It's in the options screen.
After playing a few games, I have to say that global resources have some negative consequences. It certainly eliminates some micromanagement, but it completely trivializes the value of real estate and infrastructure. I can build whatever I want, my most advanced military units, even on a brand new outpost without any concern for logistics. It matters not that I had to escort my pioneer to this place with half my army because of the deadly expanse of forest filled with terrible monsters, and i
[quote who="Baleurion" reply="34" id="2759965"]Any size, small, big. And i can load other ingame-created maps just fine no matter how huge they are (The Real Faege, Darien and such) Tried opening it in the ingame map editor and re-saving, still no luck. By the way, are the maps supposed to have just barren lands, no grass snow or fallen terrain randomly placed? [/quote] Dang. I'm surprised that re-saving it from the editor didn't work. I don't know what to do! Ma
I don't know the maps all work for me. What size map are you genning? You're the second person reporting a freeze, I wonder what's going on there. If you would try genning a small map, like 64x32 or so, and see if your results are better. The way I'm writing the XML is not terribly efficient, I wonder if the file is too big for some people.
[quote who="Mighty_NJS" reply="19" id="2759410"]ok yea it created the map folder on its own...i made a tiny map but now how can i use it? [/quote] Make sure you have the 'use mods' option checked in your options screen. Then if you press the 'load' button on game start you should see it in the list. EDIT: Also, the 'world size' box is ignored if you load a map. It will be the size you made it.
[quote who="nexus991" reply="18" id="2759404"] cephalo @ when generating a map with your tools, there are certain objects (rocks and similar stuff) that end up on the mountains, stuff that doesnt belong there, looks strange , odd to see those things there ... Is it possible to make so that they dont spawn there (long shot i guess but oh well, worth the try )? [/quote] That stuff seems to be thrown up there automatically. I'm not sure if it's possible to con
[quote who="Mighty_NJS" reply="14" id="2759380"]there is no maps folder to save the generated map to...should i make one? [/quote] Are you sure? try making a quick map with the cartography room and see where it ends up.
[quote who="EviliroN" reply="11" id="2759376"]noob question: can you give us a run down on what a 128x128 is in game terms, please? 64x64 small? 128x128 med? 256x256 large? otherwise very cool [/quote] I prefer tall, grande and venti. JK! Doesn't matter. Do what your computer will handle. The map size defies categorization! (Ahem, I didn't actually test all the sizes.... I assume they will all work..
[quote who="sagittary" reply="6" id="2759345"]Would it be possible to have a few of the cliff shores? They do make for some nice city placement at times, if only for looks. And they can make for interesting island plateaus as well. At any rate, very nice. [/quote] There's a few things I don't like about the cliffs. For one thing, they tend to flatten the coast contours and take up a lot of space. Another thing I don't like about them is that they assume that all the non-mountain/
Announcement: This map generator has been updated. Go here for the new version. Hi all, I have here probably the first random map generator for Elemental! Follow the link below to download. Elementerra random map generator - mirror
There's gotta be some super secret method only highly trained technicians can... oh.