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  Map Maker Resources
  • Hepps  

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  I found this nice map of the 14 main terrestrial biomes: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274288653_Geographical_and_taxonomic_biases_in_research_on_biodiversity_in_human-modified_landscapes
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  Map Making Q&A
  • ff03k64  

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  @ff03k64 No, it defaults to whats considered the best AI so Hard AI right now.
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  How To Add Your Map To TripleA In-Game Downloads
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  Thanks for the replies.
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  CannotTarget not working
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  @Cernel I also wish, for example, 1 spearman attacking 10 walls alone (beside the city) could instantly destroy them all (like the v5 aa guns), but them still turning into wall_breacheds, like in the case I would keep rolling the battle until destroying them all (this is just for making the game faster and for the theory, as in practice experienced players can just edit the situation, in similar cases).
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  Activate support attachment by trigger?
  • Frostion  

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  Problem fixed (before I have seen @Cernels post) I removed the line with option name="players" completely from supportAttachment, and then it works fine. I guess it is not needed anyway as only humans have Arthur unit. Thx @Cernel and @wc_sumpton
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  polygon generator
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  @RogerCooper Here you can see in pure red all the pixels that were not pure black or white in your image. If you modified anything with the aim to have the utilities working, I suggest you go back and make purely black-and-white the original image (or post it here) (I use GIMP):
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  How to add political relations to your own map?
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  @redrum thank you very much, now more or less figured it out and managed to integrate the relationship into my game.
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  Variable lists do not seem to work
  • Frostion  

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  @wc_sumpton Yeah, I think you could do it with variable list + a trigger using it to essentially generate triggers to add to the unit attachment givesMovement list. But that is kind of messy for defining the unit attachment that isn't changing so decided it was worth updating the property to allow a list of unit types
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  suicide/munitions unit with support?
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  @Cernel Either way. It would depend on how many maps need updated but would probably deprecate it and just make it set the new properties to be safe.
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  Another ways to solve huge stack issue
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  First depucling incomes of all territories, starting Pus,tech costs but still keeping the original production capacities. Then cost/upkeep ratio becomes somewhat like this; Conscript: 20/2 Infantry: 30/3 Cavalry: 35/3 (m.warfare provides carrying inf ability) Field: 35/3 (with ww) Heavy 45/4 (with ww) Gas 30/2 (with ww) Fighter 80/5 (with ww) Trench 30/2 Zeppelin: 140/5 (new stats are 2/1/5 instead of 1/2/5) Colonial: 30/3 S.Trooper: 30/3 L.Fighter: 100/5 Transport: 60/3 Sub: 60/3 Destroyer: 80/4 Cruiser: 90/5 Carrier: 120/6 B.Cruiser: 140/6 B.Ship: 200/9
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  How to make a unit that does not require a factory to be built/placed.
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  @SLW2000 Please, take a look at the descriptions. "Maps & Mods" says: "Talk about and work on specific Maps and Mods". Moving this thread to Mapmaking. When you will have your specific map or mod, feel free to open a thread about that in "Maps & Mods" (though I still suggest opening threads in Mapmaking for the technicalities, to keep your thread cleaner for general feedback).
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  need help with error while loading my map
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  Next error message Sep 29, 2019 4:44:29 PM games.strategy.engine.data.GameParser parseMapProperties SEVERE: SAXParseException: game: XCOM, line: 3155, column: 8, error: An element with the identifier "XCOM" must appear in the document. Edit: Nevermind, found it!
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  Map/game making for newbies
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  The 'game' vs 'map' terminology is fundamentally confusing. It made more sense when we had actual games like 'chess.' These days, referring to individual XMLs as games and the collection as a map is not intuitive, only makes sense if you are really deep in the XML. @Windrunner21 does your reference to a 'game' refer to full-scope map making?
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  Error in loading centers.txt
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  @RogerCooper Since we have clarified that there is no issue here (except maybe the mapmaking tools being not very intuitive), I'm moving this to Mapmaking (and editing the title back @Lafayette).
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  Pruning image and sound assets distributed with the game engine
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  shouldn't all (as many as possible) heavy (sound/image) game assets be in the domain of maps?
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  map making questions
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  @RogerCooper @Cernel @Hepps As my ideas for this mod have morphed, those two are probably the closest ones yet. Thanks! I will probably still end up wanting to change them eventually, but I can definitely make some tweaks like impassible or 0 PU territories to make them work for now. Thanks again!!
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  Unit Flags - Are there any maps that would like to default it to on?
  • LaFayette  

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  @LaFayette said in Unit Flags - Are there any maps that would like to default it to on?: players who always turn on flags for specific maps. In those cases it seems there is evidence flags should be on. Then again, I suspect most people did not realize the flags feature was there or how to turn it on. I'd guess we won't know the answer to "for which maps do users turn flags on?" without adding feature usage tracking code. (Perhaps I'm wrong though and there are some maps that are clear candidates.)
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  Map Editing Programs
  • RogerCooper  

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  Irfanview works pretty ez
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  Image Help Needed
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  @Hepps Thanks Hepps !
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  Missing Image Trouble
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  Well I can take consolation in the fact that my stupidity actually had a beneficial side effect this time