🏯 Shogun Advanced - Official Thread

TheDog

This is a collaborative map between Ebbe (Graphics, Code, Sound, Testing) & TheDog (Code, Testing)

A historical map set about 1561 Japan, intended for solo play or a Free for All with the balance being played by the Fast AI or Hard AI
15 playable factions, comprising 13 Samurai Clans and the Ikko Ikki and Wako Pirates
Factions typically start with 4 historically 'home' territories/cities and three random territories/cities, so each game is different. This simulates the minor clans changing their allegiances even they might get brave and start their own conquests
Large size map 11264x6290px=71MP, amongst one of the largest TripleA maps, with Unit size equivalent to 68x68px (54x54px x1.25 unit size) with 4K screens in mind.
The map has lots of Cities, Mountain Passes, uncrossable Mountains, Rocky Shores, Coastal and Open seas all channelling forces.
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Immersive Campaign
• Serious time & effort to provide suitable sound effects
• Tried to represent historical, economic, spiritual, geographical and natural events as the backdrop to the Sengoku period
• Monopolies, 11 historical commodities highly sort after in the Sengoku period
• Diplomacy/Politics you will need friends and foes to ascend the ladder to be Shogun
• Natural Disasters, like Blocked mountain passes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Storms
• Peasants will revolt
• Kami (Shinto Spirits of the world) will either aid or hinder your rise to power

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Available in game under Download Maps button

Also available for TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-maps/shogun_advanced
Click green <> Code button
Click Download Zip

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Get TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases

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How to have TripleA 2.5 & 2.6 installed at the same time
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3724/how-to-have-triplea-2-5-2-6-installed-at-the-same-time

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Please give feedback, so we can make the map game better.

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Lots of Help files like;

TheDog

Map Zoom
Remember to use map zoom ctrl+mouse wheel, to zoom out of the map, that is, to make it smaller.

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Our game needs more java RAM allocating to it …
If you have 8GB or more of RAM it is suggested that you follow this link to improve Shogun Advanced game speed. It changes the TripleA.vmoptions. It also shows you how to put it back.
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3133/get-ready-for-our-new-game-the-shogun-coming-soon

The above will also improve the following maps;
1941 Global Command Decision, 270BC Wars, Another World, Gundam (both), Shogun, Shogun Advanced, War of_the Relics, Warcraft War Heroes

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2K & 4K Screens
It is hoped that with a map size of 11264x6290px=71MP and effective unit size of 68x68px that Shogun Advanced can be played on a 4K screen properly in all their 3840x2160px glory. Please let us know?

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For Code Raiders
This map has the following code that is worth looking at;

The land territory Mon.png/flag unit uses a feature of the isAA that puts them in the 1st slot of the place.txt list to position the Mon/flag.
The sea zone _convoy.png/flag uses the little used convoy.txt file to position the _convoy.png/flag
Extensive use of foreach, with a count of 250, making it so much easier to maintain the xml
Politics of thousands of lines of xml code reduced to hundreds of lines with the use of foreach
16 Nested foreach for eg. $AllPlayers$^$RandomHighPU$, a complex-ish piece of code putting the correctly owned castles in the correctly owned random territories, saving over 90% lines of code
One of the first maps to use isAI. This allows the map maker to make the map do clever/obvious things or give bonuses to the AI without the player selecting anything. However it does require TripleA 2.6.14517 onwards.

Raville

@thedog It looks great, Congratulations! When will be in TA games?

TheDog

@raville
When some kind soul fixes the "map-server".

Raised here;
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/2999/2-6-release-getting-close-need-volunteers-to-help-beta-test-2-6/107

ebbe

@thedog said in Shogun Advanced - Official Thread:

Currently only available for TripleA 2.6 here

Minor issue with several Naval units' placement fixed;
Latest update: "SHOGUN ADVANCED V2.3"

Currently only available for TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-maps/shogun_advanced
Click green <> Code button then Click Download Zip

Get TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases

RogerCooper

@ebbe I am impressed with this mod. Most Japan mods try to play the Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa game while your mod seriously simulates the actual war, with mountain passes and fortifications playing key roles.

ebbe

@rogercooper

thanks to @TheDog and extra support from other heroes like @wc_sumpton ,for a very pleasant jolly good cooperation in this project... and we were serious digging deep in research
in old japanese maps for historical mount passes, locations of resources, cities and settlements and adding suitable army units and natural events....
creating extra matching sound effects and background sphere sounds, (check the arrows hitting wood or ships sailing away , haha ) adding extra sphere and strategy with partly random forwarding terr.'s and bonus or penalty "kami"
anyway, we had a lot of fun in creating! And we hope the ingame map downloads will be fixed sooner or later so that we can easier share it for players!

and if our TripleA improvement wishlist one day may become reality,
it will get closer to the result we had in mind

TheDog

Shogun Advanced is now available for Download within TripleA

Remember it only works with a certain certain version of 2.6 now its 2.6.14650 as this version is capable of downloading maps.
Download it here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases

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Thanks to Myrd/asvitkine for fixing 2.6 again

RogerCooper

@thedog Do versions after 14650 work as well.

Also, have the problems with 2.5 code been fixed.

TheDog

@rogercooper
Do versions after 14650 work as well.
They should do, I tested 14650

Some info, the fix, 2.6 now uses the same file for 2.5 maps so
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/blob/master/triplea_maps.yaml
So it will still have the same issues of old.

For the new proposed file download for 2.6, this is still waiting on @LaFayette, but his time is limited.

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Im not sure what you mean by;
Also, have the problems with 2.5 code been fixed.

RogerCooper

@thedog The 2.5 code did not work correctly either.

I have been posting my collection of scenarios on Github using 2.6 standards.

TheDog

@rogercooper
2.6 & map.yml is the future, but LaFayette is not a frequent visitor anymore and it would appear he is the only one capable of making 2.6 & map.yml downloads work, so your call as to whether to backtrack over all your previous uploads and put them in triplea_maps.yaml

Perhaps just put the new ones from now on in triplea_maps.yaml ?

RogerCooper

@thedog I am going to finish off posting everything in the 2.6 way and then backtrack with triplea_maps.yaml.

TheDog

@rogercooper
On balance that is probably for the best, delay updating the flaky triplea_maps.yaml till you have to. Do you have 30+ maps uploaded and with more to come?

RogerCooper

@thedog I don't have precise numbers, but I have uploaded most of the maps that I have collected.

ebbe

yessss! finally finished the update 2.5 of the Shogun Advanced -project...
now all new features and great possibilities of TripleA 2.6 implemented.... like the "<option name="isAI" value="true"/>" element, improving Ai-opponents gameplay......
and other minor updates...

as allways: feedback very welcome at this forum-thread....

thanks at @thedog for our long lasting >3 year "project-marriage ", all support, answering my hundreds of questions patiently &even uploading the update to Github!!
banzai!