Map Making

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  Cernel's 8 Colours Rainbow
  • Cernel

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  @Cernel what a nice guy! ;p

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  Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file
  • Jim Parker

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  @Cernel : Thank you! That was the subtlety that I was missing. Works now.

  Cheers,
  --Jim

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  Why does this place.txt file not work?
  • Frostion

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  @sammysleeth
  I used the one that is built into the Triplea program.

  You find it here: Engine Preferences - Run the map creator - Step 2: Map Utilities - Run the Automatic Placement Picker.

  If you need tips about how to use it, just ask ☺

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  no more error codes will not load
  • sammysleeth

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  @sammysleeth
  I have learned that if you encounter that the map fails to load and there is no error pop-up, there is a big possibility of a graphical image name flaw. Double check your “flags” dir and see if all flags are present and that they have names that actually corresponds with the player list.

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  does anyone know of a working placement picker?
  • sammysleeth

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  @sammysleeth
  You should use the tool in the TripleA program. It works pretty well. But you will need to have an all black and white map image PNG, as well as your map’s polygons.txt file. When you got these two files ready, you can make a new placement file.

  Do like this:
  Open TripleA
  Press Engine preferences
  Press Run the Map Creator
  Press Step 2: Map Utilities
  Press Run the Placement picker
  Read the text (or maybe take a screenshot so you remember all the instructions) and press OK
  Follow the instructions.

  Tips1: Remember to save your placement work often. You can always save your work, close down the program and hold a break, and then return to your placement work later by loading the placement file.

  Tip2: You can play around with the three settings in the “Edit” menu of the window. At one point these options lead to errors and program freezing, but I don’t know if this is still the case. If you encounter an error that freezes the work you are doing, just don’t do the exact same thing again. Trial and error ;-)

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  think im almost there with my xml
  • sammysleeth

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  @sammysleeth The following line has an unnecessary space at the beginning of the unitattachment:
  <attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="militia" javaClass=" games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type=" unitType">

  Should be:
  <attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="militia" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type=" unitType">

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  Map editing software
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  Great tips @Hepps & @Frostion! Since the maximum amount of units I could ever have in each territory is limited to 8 (Infantry, Hepp's Highlander, Artillery, Tank, Factory, AA, Fighter, Bomber) that would mean I should consider each territory to have room for 8 x 54 pixels each. I think that's workable. Like I said the other day I am still working redrawing and scaling the map properly. But perhaps I should be drawing the 3 conflict zones first (Ontario, Quebec & the Maritimes). Again, thanks for the help. I will get back to you guys when I've made some progress.

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  Could not parse:file:
  • sammysleeth

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  Yes, empty lines are a good way to make the XML more readable and do some small organizing inside the XML.

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  best map creator to use?
  • sammysleeth

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  I just saw that on another post tgats a great place to start thank you for your input

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  How to convert text document to xml
  • sammysleeth

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  @CrazyG gd stuff c

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  What is Player canBeDisabled Used For?
  • redrum

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  @Frostion @Cernel Alright, thanks for the input. I was just thinking when would someone disable a player vs use Does Nothing AI. I'm planning to leave this option as is for now.

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  Map Making Help - SAXParseException
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  @VonnVary It appears that you potentially started creating the map with an older version of TripleA as you need to make sure in the XML that its "attachment" instead of "attatchment". Here is a list of potentially changes you need to fix when upgrading to TripleA 1.9: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/wiki/Upgrade-Maps-Information

  If you still see errors after fixing that then feel free to post your XML for us to look at.

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  Unit Shows As Invisible No Matter What I Do
  • RogerCooper

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  @RogerCooper It appears this map was a separate mod of hearts of iron which are no longer supported in 1.9. The reason it doesn't find the images is that its only looking here:
  Loading resources from the following paths: [C:\maps\hearts_of_iron.zip, C:\Users\ron\Documents\GitHub\triplea\assets]

  To resolve this you should either do:

  Merge this into hearts_of_iron (copy game XML and any needed images into it so you have just 1 zip with 2 games) Copy all assets from hearts_of_iron to HeartsofIron_Fatherland so its a standalone map and then update the name property in the game XML so it no longer points to hearts of iron:
  <property name="mapName" value="Hearts of Iron" editable="false"/>
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  Is there a simple mechanism?
  • Hepps

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  @Cernel I was actually looking to use this as a control mechanism rather than as a method of up-grading a unit.

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  Unit repair no longer working
  • BeorntheBold

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  I have found the problem. These are new lines of code that need to be there:

  <property name="Units Repair Hits Start Turn" value="true" editable="true">
  <boolean/>
  </property>
  <property name="Units Repair Hits End Turn" value="false" editable="true">
  <boolean/>
  </property>

  The old ones referring to battleships repairing at start or end don't hurt anything if they are there but they no longer work for units in 1.9.

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  Query about the Engine
  • Hepps

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  @redrum said in Query about the Engine:

  I went back and looked at the old forum. The 2 main threads I found talking about features/priorities/etc are:
  http://tripleadev.1671093.n2.nabble.com/Development-To-Do-list-tp7582044.html
  http://tripleadev.1671093.n2.nabble.com/Your-Wish-List-for-Top-Two-TripleA-Improvements-tp7588933.html

  Some of those ideas are in the github issues list:
  https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues

  As partially said in the linked post, my first 3 items I wish some developers would do are:

  Allow for deliberate retreating; in that when you win a battle you get asked how much units you want to consolidate and can somewhat retreat all the others (it is dumb that in dice you cannot retreat if you were "too" lucky or in LL you have to pile up exactly that power to get the "hit-all-but-one" result).

  Having units that didn't move at all gaining a (settable and unit distinctive on board) defence bonus (related to the above, as it would be silly that if you attack and retreat then all your stack is just as ready to defend as if it stayed there on the ready).

  Having ammunition consumption; in that you have a "suicide" unit that can actually attack only as long as there is another unit in the same battle, in a 1:1 or more ratio for suicide:suicidator (shells:artillery) units; this should also work that you may require such a "suicide" unit for AA attacks (like your AA guns fire only as long as they have a "shell" unit to use, that suicides).
  I want to point out that in WW2 the cost of shells was normally much higher than the cost of the artilleries firing them (especially for AA guns) and in medieval times the cost of a warbow was about the same as 24 arrows, which you can loose in a couple minutes.

  But having a way to deliberately surely strafe in great superiority, without having to play Low Luck in order to be safe to do so, is really almost a fix, as Low Luck basically already allows it, and dice should allow it too.

  Also, another item would be fully supporting the ability to have units moving faster during non combat than combat move, as that is very important, for realism (already supported and possible, as you can give bonus movement in non combat, but there are a few issues).

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  Error while loading map
  • thephalanx1453

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  @thephalanx1453 Np. FYI, most XML editing tools can be used to validate the XML against the "game.DTD" to ensure its valid before trying to start a game: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/blob/master/src/main/resources/games/strategy/engine/xml/game.dtd

  This will often give you hints on what the issue is.

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  12 sided dice combat
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  Thanks all.

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  Specific unit type attack trigger
  • Frostion

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  I think what needs to be added to the game at some point is "attack animations or cut sequences". These, by default would be on, but could be turned off by a user. Right now the only way to approximate this is in specific scenarios using kamikaze type attacks or pre-programmed choices.

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  Lets make a new Map Making Guide
  • Frostion

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  @theredbaron So I actually think the part that needs documented better is the "process" and what tools people use today. While documenting the different mechanics and the POS 2 XML would be useful, I think we really need to evaluate map making process as a whole before sinking lots of time into something like that.

  I'd really like to vastly improve the map making tools but currently don't even have a good feel for how folks actually create maps.