@prussia
The method you are trying to use by switching the tech on and off has a terrible side effect. Anyone that uses the battle calculator won't get accurate outcomes while the tech is off. So advance planning will be very difficult.

@hepps Yeah the ww2v2 and ww2v3 will pretty much have to be code investigation as no one really has a grasp on what they control and it isn't documented any where.

@rogercooper Yeah, I'd like to eventually get rid of some of the properties as they are really unnecessary. Only benefit they provide is if you want to allow them to be editable game options and the map works well both ways but honestly that is pretty rare.

@hepps The area-movement WW2 game Blitz had an air-only connection across the English channel. I don't see how you could even do that in TripleA.

I created an issue to track addressing this: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/2538

ron-murhammer created this issue in triplea-game/triplea closed Unable to View Error Log When Game Doesn't Load #2538

Ha! That's the stuff.

It works. Thanks, guys.

@Cernel what a nice guy! 😜

@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 ☺

@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.

@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 😉

@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">

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.

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

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

@CrazyG gd stuff c

@Frostion said in Can someone make a video in which you create a map in github?:

@Cernel
I must say that I dont know 100% what this feature is and what it is for, but if I don't use that overwrite thing, then the files do not seem to upload and replace the old uploaded stuff. Instead an error just occurs and no upload happens.

I didn't use that setting for the latest world_at_war update and all seemed to work fine. Anyone knows better?

@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.

@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.