Reducing hills and mountains on battle maps

**wilddog** · January 20, 2008, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by SigniferOne

No no, what you need to do is descr_geography.txt. There's a parameter there called "scale", set to 1. Make it less, and everything will be lowered.

How do you use it without the game instantly crashing on a battle? I simply put in the .dbm no problem. put in the .txt and crash.??

**GrnEyedDvl** · January 20, 2008, 04:04 PM

The .txt causes the CTD for me as well, but not the .db. I even tried changing the timestamp on the file, but as I have no idea what date/times its looking for that would be a very long shot in the dark.

**wilddog** · January 21, 2008, 11:48 AM

The height scale is at adr_dec 905.
I am not sure of the iterations parameter if its the subdivision thats at 913. I wouldn't adjust that though as its a byte field and minor changes made a big difference (increasing the number means the battle map includes 'more' stratmap area and increases the heights (so much steeper) - reducing it obviously has the opposite affect - and its a big shift).

**Garnier** · January 21, 2008, 08:48 PM

I'm lost as to how to go about editing it. I can open the db with a hex editor and view it, but I have no idea how to find the place I want to edit.

**Garnier** · February 01, 2008, 12:20 PM

For some reason whenever I try to make the map flatter by lowering the heights in map_heights.tga, when I start a campaign it goes back to the menu, cause it can't generate the map. Has anyone else successfully done this before, who could either share their file or explain just what they did?

**wilddog** · February 01, 2008, 01:04 PM

This is guessing at what exactly you've done here. Presumably you've deleted the map.rwm and the heights.hgt and your crashing because you've lowered some heights to 0,0,0. so quickest fix is change 0,0,0 heights to 1,1,1.

**Hunter Makoy** · February 03, 2008, 02:53 AM

ok now that i've all of the sudden heard u can keep the .db file in. if u put back in the unmodded new_geography.db file will there be any change to the game? or does it only affect it if its modded?

**GrnEyedDvl** · February 03, 2008, 11:39 AM

If its not modded there will be no changes.

**Hunter Makoy** · February 03, 2008, 12:37 PM

ok thanx grneyeddvl

**Garnier** · February 03, 2008, 09:10 PM

Ok I sort of got it to work. I took all land that wasn't on the coast, and made it 1,1,1. So the map is flat. The battles still have rolling hills, but nothing like vanilla. I also removed all forest that armies can go into, so there are no more forest battles. (I couldn't stand those).