Nakharar's Basics: Regions with Geomod

[Gigantus]

Give me your map_heights, map_regions and a pic indicating where you want the port and I 'll have a look.

[k/t]

Here are the original map_heights and map_regions. It doesn't matter where the port is, as long as it appears. I tried to keep the port away from the city because there is a river with two branches that surround the city and then flow into the sea and I was worried that would cause a problem.

[Gigantus]

That wasn't smart of me, I will need map_features then as well. I also don't know where (which region) the port should be. Please mark it prominently on a separate map_regions pic.

[k/t]

It's the orange one to the north-west of the Caspian sea, north of the beige one, and I added two black splotches to it.

[Gigantus]

I did the following:

• replaced all RGB 0,0,0 in map_heights with 3,3,3
• moved the port next to the settlement
• moved the two river crossings there slightly

Download here, don't forget to delete map.rwm

[k/t]

Thank you very much. Where is "here"?

Haha, I thought you might have forgotten to convert the words into a link.

map_features is now 23 KB, map_heights is 216, and map_regions is 27. Do I have to decompress them or something? The files I gave you were bigger. Will these work?

[Gigantus]

GIMP automatically compresses TGA files - it shouldn't give you a problem.

[k/t]

I got a crash and the log said the map_heights file has to be 841x547. I resized it, but now I'm getting descr_strat errors again. First there was one about a misplaced resource, and now there are some like this:

Settlement specifies port, but this region is not allowed a port - can be ignored,but port building will not be created for settlement!

These errors didn't exist before (before I started trying to change the map), and they're the same as the ones I got when I modified map_heights. I pasted your files in the "base" folder and overwrote, deleted map.rwm, but it's still not working.

[Gigantus]

My bad, I uploaded the resized map_heights - here is the correct size.

[k/t]

Awesome, it works now. Saqsin starts with a fishing village and I can build ports there. Thanks. But what was the difference between what you did and what I did to that map_heights file (the one you uploaded first, I mean)? I went to Scale, and made it 841x547, but it still didn't work. How else did you resize it?

[Gigantus]

In GIMP I set the 'interpolation' to 'none' when scaling. And enlarging it after reducing never gives the same result as the original - I simply used your original and then redid this step: replaced all RGB 0,0,0 in map_heights with 3,3,3

The reduced map_heights should have only been for comparison against map_region, not for actual use (even after rescaling).

[k/t]

I think that's what I might have done wrong, but I'm not sure anymore. I'll try to do everything again, so I can find out how to do it. And I'll read the GIMP manual first this time.

[Gigantus]

The resizing with the interpolation is described in 'Basic mapping from scratch' - and so is the RGB 0,0,0 issue. Curiously those values were to be found everywhere at the coast, it looks as if they were used in an effort to smooth the coast.

[Sky Walker]

Hello. I tried to start the program but it says that media folder couldn't be found. I don't know of any media folder. What should I do?

[Gigantus]

Download the latest version of Geomod.

[lerb21]

Hey all, I've been attempting to add an additional region to England. I remember trying to do this years ago, before this program was made, and I couldn't get it to work then either!

I'm getting two errors, which are as follows.

16:08:29.442 [script.err] [error] Script Error in data/world/maps/base/descr_regions.txt, at line 1014, column 1
Couldn't find region name 'Exeter_Province' in stringtable
16:08:29.482 [script.err] [error] Script Error in data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.txt, at line 566, column 12
could not create settlement at script line 566.

I've moved the city and port to 30 different places in the region, as to assure that it's not affected by the terrain.

If anybody could take a look I'd appreciate it immensely. Thanks!

[Gigantus]

Couldn't find region name 'Exeter_Province' in stringtable

This simply means that the name of the region (and most likely the settlement too) are not entered into text\imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt