Jurassic v2.0

[TheDog]

@GREGOREK said:

How do I define the points in the 'polygons.txt' file?

You dont.

Also there are no negative coordinates, the map is treated as if no wrap around existed, except for below.

The wrap around map edges will share a vertical map line, one to the left one to right.
You then need to stitch the wrap around TT/SZ manually together with connections in the xml like so;
<connection t1="Chihuahua-Durango" t2="Mexico City"/>
<connection t1="Acapulco-Chiapas" t2="Sinaloa-Guadalajara"/>
<connection t1="064 Sea Zone" t2="011 Sea Zone"/>
<connection t1="064 Sea Zone" t2="028 Sea Zone"/>

In map.properties this must be true
map.scrollWrapX=true

That should work.

[GREGOREK]

<connection...> just facilitates the movement between separate territories.

Is there a way to declare two separate territories and then join them so the game treats them as a single territory?

This would get around the hard map borders limiting wrapped territory definitions, and getting rid of the ugly common vertical/horizontal map border lines.

For example a territory defined overlapping the top-left corner would get defined as four separate territories to fall completely within the map borders. Then a [join command] stitches the pieces back together making a truly seamless fully wrapped map.

[TheDog]

@GREGOREK

Is there a way to declare two separate territories and then join them so the game treats them as a single territory?

I don't think that is possible. Its the vertical/horizontal map border lines or no wrapping.
Maybe someone else can help?

[RogerCooper]

@TheDog You can't do it in the xml file. You need to do it in polygons.txt. Here is New Zealand in World War II v3.

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Note the angle brackets define each particular section.

[GREGOREK]

@RogerCooper THANK YOU

The polygons.txt defines the separate zones to get player-colored (will have a single pixel black border), and the overlay reliefTiles can hide that hard edge border to give the appearance of fully wrapped irregular territories.

[GREGOREK]

Frustration mounting. Carved up territories where they overlap map boundaries. All looking good with a few exceptions. The problem is no reliefTiles displaying. So, I purged the territory boundaries and just registered squares for each around centers. Just to get them out of the discussion, should an error there have some impact on the display not using the reliefTiles. All defined exactly like Jurassic, et al. Very simple map.properties file with a single player (alone) and game unit (nobody). The scroll works but no baseTiles or reliefTiles. All folders present and unzipped in downloadedMaps folder to get better debugging messages.

color.alone=ff9f40
color.Neutral=333333
color.Impassable=000000
units.scale=1.00
map.hasRelief=true
map.scrollWrapX=true
map.scrollWrapY=true
map.showCapitolMarkers=false
map.width=5120
map.height=5120

Note: If neanderthal is zipped in the downloadedMaps folder then I get an error polygons.txt cannot be found, even though it's in the map folder. Extract the zip in place and error goes away. I've basically cloned jurassic to make neanderthal. It has to be something simple overlooked. Any insights?

[GREGOREK]

[TheDog]

@GREGOREK
Just checking you have View> Show Map Details TICKED

[GREGOREK]

@TheDog
it's checked and debug console empty.
I ordered a Ouija board from Amazon.

[GREGOREK]

This is irritating.

I turned off the surrounding territories by replacing their boundary with a simple square. Then did all, except for the two offending cells. Removed duplicate pixels in other loops. Reduced all cells by averaging every three pixels (with an integer snap) to get rid of 'staircases'. Same Result.

Dumped their data into a separate display. Look fine. Bright light, crosses, I dont know what else to try. Note: these loops are the first in each of the associated territory's polygons.txt definition. One houses its territory center. The other does not. Doesnt seem to matter.

The reliefTiles also continue to annoy. Sparse forum posts on the subject. I'm going to try finding TripleA cache files with Neanderthal in the name and deleting them. Maybe some legacy data preventing their display.

[GREGOREK]

reliefTiles are now displaying.
I have once again brought shame to my family.

still have the two territories not displaying all their parts as posted above.

[GREGOREK]

Here's an interesting wrinkle. I have a memory fault. something I've done or omitted, is trashing memory.

I associated a territory with one of the players simply to mark it in the game, and suddenly a working territory cannot find the forest factory image which is used everywhere.

The gray box is the new anomaly. All forest territories have an invisible 16x16 factory. Nothing special about this one. Defined exactly like all the others. This error does not happen when the larger polygon loop described above is not assigned a player owner.

[TheDog]

@GREGOREK
These version will ignore the missing image and then tell you which image is missing.

2.7.15256
Technology tab split from players tab on to its own tab. (Really good for 1888a & Total World War as they have lots of Tech)
Shows any map missing icons as a placeholder square icon.
Shows on status bar the relationship(war, neutral, allied) of territories (Really good in FFA maps)
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/2.7.15256

and
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/2.7.15570

So upgrade.

[GREGOREK]

@TheDog
Upgraded to latest. Now experiencing squint font with no way to change it. (?)
Problems persist. Factory Image is loaded and used everywhere. XML is script generated so any typo would appear everywhere.
Getting new error behaviors by simply adding owner to a territory suggests memory trashing somewhere.
I probably gutted too much out of Jurassic to make a bare-bones XML. Jurassic works with no change to management image files like factories. All carried over to Neanderthal.
I suspect a missing initializer in the XML.
Thanks for the help. I'll keep digging.

[GREGOREK]

Note: in this latest version, I dont see the debug window. Latest screen error:

NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.awt.image.BufferedImage.getWidth(java.awt.image.ImageObserver)" because "fromFile" is null

Who is this 'Observer'? and are they watching me now?!

[TheDog]

@GREGOREK
Just checking you know about triplea.log
It is located here
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\triplea

The console looks very similar to triplea.log

[wc_sumpton]

@GREGOREK said:

Who is this 'Observer'?

Cheers...

[TheDog]

I will guess this maybe the Observer

[GREGOREK]

@TheDog
Thank you for noting location of LOG file.
Observer is set to false.

26343 13:08:20.484 [pool-4-thread-1] ERROR o.t.game.client.HeadedGameRunner - java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.awt.image.BufferedImage.getWidth(java.awt.image.ImageObserver)" because "fromFile" is null
at games.strategy.triplea.image.TileImageFactory.loadUnblendedImage(TileImageFactory.java:220)
at games.strategy.triplea.image.TileImageFactory.getImage(TileImageFactory.java:132)
at games.strategy.triplea.image.TileImageFactory.getBaseTile(TileImageFactory.java:116)
at games.strategy.triplea.ui.screen.drawable.BaseMapDrawable.getImage(BaseMapDrawable.java:17)
at games.strategy.triplea.ui.screen.drawable.MapTileDrawable.draw(MapTileDrawable.java:37)
at games.strategy.triplea.ui.screen.Tile.draw(Tile.java:72)
at games.strategy.triplea.ui.screen.Tile.drawImage(Tile.java:57)
at games.strategy.triplea.ui.panels.map.MapPanel.lambda$paint$9(MapPanel.java:779)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)

The error seems to stem from a baseTile being null. All are good. Including reliefTIles. The map does have a width that aligns exactly to the 256x256 tile size, thus 20x20 tiles, name 0_0.png through 19_19.png. (5120x5120 map width/height in properties) The small map in upper right corner does not display right and bottom edge correctly.

The border slicing may have created zero area islands, island chains, and two-pixel spurs. Only noticed two candidates for that, but they display correctly. Get observer error, even with single polygon boxes around territory centers, hasRelief set to false (reliefTiles folder must be removed to not display reliefTiles). I'm going to recreate the XML script from scratch. Maybe missed an initializer, version, or other element that is not optional.

Note: map/smallMap.jpeg is 300x300. Is it supposed to be a particular scaled size of main map (which is 5120x5120)?

[GREGOREK]

Just for a sanity check. Please load this and see if you get the same error.

http://john.gregorek.com/Games/neanderthal.zip