My map editor for TripleA
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Hello guys,
me again, I know. You asking yourself how can i post again. Well to answer that.
Work gave me Fable 5.2 to test and break it in my supa dupa giant ai workflow, and you know I can't keep my hands off this project and im not trusting it on my main projects yet.So I built something with it, and I'd like to show you: my map editor for TripleA. Its goal is to make map making more accessible. Thanks to @thedog for initial testing and for the feature ideas.
I would love some of the map makers and maybe some people that never build a map to try it. I actually want to throw you in relativley blind so you can explore this thing on your own, at the end of the day you guys know more about map making then i do. This project is not yet finished but @thedog already told me its helping him a lot so i thougt maybe it can help some of you guys aswell.
What you need
- TripleA from June 2026 or newer, installed. The editor runs with your installed TripleA
- Windows: download the zip, unzip, start Eddies Map Editor.exe. Java is included.
- macOS / Linux: the zip from the latest release plus Java 25.
- A backup of your map. It's still a test version.
Good to know
- Saving rewrites the formatting of the game XML. The content stays; your own indentation and line breaks don't.
Try it, break it, and tell me what's missing or confusing. A screenshot helps a lot.
( download is inside the readme)
https://github.com/xXEddieXxx/eddies-map-editor
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Nice! I’ll be checking it out when I have some free time
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It can do this
And then you move the placement boxes and save the coordinates. in place,txt
SO many cool things.
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I've opened the program now. So far, it's extremely intuitive and easy to use. That tab where it lists out all the attachments is a godsend, exactly what I was asking for in another thread.
Few minor glitches I've run into so far.
One, on the Nations tab, the search bar has a drop down list that always stays open and can't collapse. It'd be nice if that would collapse when you haven't typed anything to take up less screen space on the side tab.
One of the few things I haven't been able to find is an option to rename the existing factions (i.e. if I want to make the Russians into the Soviets instead). Otherwise you'd just have to delete and recreate them from scratch, which is more of a hassle than it's worth.
When I tried adding Canada as a nation for an experiment, it defaults to checking every single territory added to the country as a capital territory, which is annoying. Should default to off instead. Also, after unchecking capital and switching to another territory, it rechecks the capital box again. Haven't found a way to make changing that stick yet.
It also throws up that ! error marker by "Mark each nation's capital" in the steps to a playable map section on the home tab if you have factions like the Chinese, Dutch, Mongolians, etc. on the existing maps that don't use a capital. It probably has no effect on whether you can save and export a file successfully, but perhaps there could be a checkbox option for "no capital" on the country tab's that just tells the editor's engine that the absence is intentional and not an oversight, and has it stop pinging that as an error.
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@Vendetta thank you for the feedback, i got some valuable feedback from others aswell and will pushing out a release later. I will make a little update post when im finished
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@xxXEddieXxx One more little quality of life suggestion:
On the territories tab, it lists out existing units which each have a box to enter how many there are and a ticker you can use to raise the number up and down.
Right now, you get rid of units by entering a 0 or ticking down until it gets there. It doesn’t actually remove the old unit entry fully from your screen until you refresh by hitting something like Add New Unit or going to another territory or tab.
Having an X button next to each unit that just does a one click clear and refreshes instantly so it’s gone right away would be convenient. And perhaps a clear all button that removes all units from the territory, either above or below the whole list.
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@xxXEddieXxx this looks cool any hope of a mac build?
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@ubernaut sure i can provide one
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@xxXEddieXxx nice
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One more feature that would be helpful is a tab where it charts all the factions and their income, TUV, etc. Right now I can look them up one by by one on the nations tab and it will say how much their starting territories are worth, but I don't see anywhere that lists them all alongside each other, or that adds up TUV of their starting forces.
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@Vendetta goes straight to the list
Already thought about that but forgot it. -
Also, when adding new nations, would be helpful to have a shortcut that lets you copy all the rules of a production frontier from an existing nation
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me again, I know. You asking yourself how can i post again.
heh heh I thought maybe you had some bot offspring
Looks pretty cool. So this is basically an xml editor ? Such as most people use notepad++ I think, although I'm still stuck on emacs because that's what I know how to use lol
Anyway, I will check it out. Keep up the good work. It's appreciated.
🫡
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@beelee well its a bit more then emacs and notepad
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heh heh yea the screenshots seemed to suggest that. I guess I'll just start clicking buttons and see what happens
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@xxXEddieXxx
Versions
Time for version numbers now you have gone pulic ? (foolish boy ).
Draw Borders-
--I cannot modify 1941 Global Command Decision, GCD,  its too big, any chance to enable this ?
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Home page Problems/warnings
1941 GCD has 2 problems/warnings, To me they are warnings not problems
--I would like to tick them off as completed as intended ?
When I check the map, the circle does not change should I get a tick ?
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Connections
1941 GCD Islands are not islands, see below they are a different color to other land and Tazmania & New Zealand are Sea Zones
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Connections
--Map wrap around spans the whole width of the map.
--Can these wrap around connections be in a different color or maybe as dashes?
--or can you stitch the map together so its connections are more natural?.
TerrainÂ
--I cannot find the relief textures, where are they?
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Units panel
--Home/left hand pane is too wide, save its space for the map/the rest
--Units panel is too long, requires way to much scrolling, as too much space between options
--Move Cost Attack, Defence,Move etc drag North East, NE, on the same lines as Unit icon
--Then GIVES SUPPORT should be next to Combat, so between Movement, as it +/- to Atk & Def--Allied Support could be Green
--Enemy support could be Red--Air and Anti Air can also be used as Targeted Attacks and fires before Fires First/isFirstStrike, so the label should include that
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Novice/Expert mode for usage of map editor
--Maybe you need Novice mode, shorten option choices, keeping it simple
--Expert mode, show all options, thats me, yes its clutter, but it's all there, then no need to have expand/hide everywhere in Expert mode. -
Doh
Forgot, need an option to load current place.txt file (Please)EDIT When I picked a single space/loaction it looks like it loads the place.txt, is that correct ?
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Time for version numbers now you have gone pulic ? (foolish boy
)!!! I agree how could i even forget that.
--Home/left hand pane is too wide, save its space for the map/the rest
Right at the end of the side is a little button that collapses it.
The rest are good points they will go into my list
Draw Borders-
--I cannot modify 1941 Global Command Decision, GCD, its too big, any chance to enable this ?
image.jpegThat map's picture is 16,816 × 8,085 pixels, about 136 million. The editor refuses to hold pictures over 50 million pixels in memory, because one copy of GCD is about 540 MB and every drawn line keeps another copy for undo maybe i need to disable it on big maps.
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Oh so this is an overhaul of the "Map Creator Tools" not just an xml editor. Although I guess you still have to have the baseline image or whatever it's called drawn or copied by yourself
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@beelee exactly ! it was supposed to be a suprise this is why i used these screenshots
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