The World Map Community Project

[A1_Unit]

Everyone already knows that campaign_detail_mask.dds (note that it's .dds) is the water depth (color on campaign map)? Green=shallow


And campaign_snow_mask_winter is the area that gets a thick blanket of snow.


campaign_snow_mask_summer is blank of course.

[Jynx]

if it becomes world map, summer could be for southern hemisphere

[alex5152]

well as i think the green is the navigatable areas and the green passages are the links between the maps

[A1_Unit]

The way to add the rest of the map is to cut what you want out of the mesh, paint the .tga's/.dds's accordingly, Fix the camera, and then a whole lot of editing in startpos.esf and regions.esf.

[SODK]

Ho about new factions? when all of the map is unlocked, who is going to own it?

[sss]

please add antarctica

[major_payne]

is it really possible to add more regions to empire? i thought it was impossible cause the right mod tools aren't out yet.

[A1_Unit]

We are trying to find out mod tools or not.

[major_payne]

i hope that it will be possible! good luck!

[Moorish guy]

very cool idea guys hooray

[Krisz87]

How is it going ?

[A1_Unit]

I don't know, no one seems to post here anymore. I suppose you can check the mod workshop for startpos.esf and regions.esf progress...

[spiderman101]

3 cheers for a world map!!!

[erasmus777]

Unless we have someone with computer knowledge and parsing skills who wants to tackle maps, this project is dead.

[raistlinmajere8]

Thats a very discouraging last post..... You can't possibly be saying that we won't ever see a mod for ETW the caliber of Stainless Steel. Why won't King Kong like focus all of his abilities, and all of his friends abilities into solving this? I mean it can't be that hard?

(I know jack about computers, I just hope what the poster above said isn't true )

[Bella]

It's pretty disheartening to see CA just completely forget about the modding community like this. Not even a hint or a tip on how to simply edit the strat maps, much less add new regions and expand the map. Unless you're sitting in the middle of Europe, the campaign is boring now. All you do is wander around in huge expanses of uninhabited land and fight tiny battles with raiders. The strat map needs some fresh new locations to extend the replay value of this game, otherwise it's dead in the water. And why the hell did CA not add in those Warpath Campaign regions into the Grand Campaign? Hell, that would've at least been something.

[Geronimo2006]

It's pretty disheartening to see CA just completely forget about the modding community like this. Not even a hint or a tip on how to simply edit the strat maps, much less add new regions and expand the map. Unless you're sitting in the middle of Europe, the campaign is boring now. All you do is wander around in huge expanses of uninhabited land and fight tiny battles with raiders. The strat map needs some fresh new locations to extend the replay value of this game, otherwise it's dead in the water. And why the hell did CA not add in those Warpath Campaign regions into the Grand Campaign? Hell, that would've at least been something.

They probably figure that the less modding the more cash for them from expansions/DLC.

[raistlinmajere8]

It really is dumb. I hate SEGA. Hate it. Its just like Wal-Mart. It sucks the life out of everything.

This is all SEGA's doing. We never will have a Stainless Steel caliber mod for ETW because of SEGA.





Hopefully this decision, combined with the death of support for ETW will influence the sales of NTW, and hopefully it will be a negative. Then, maybe SEGA will realize that they just lost a lot of money and let CA completely control all aspects of the next game. But, alas, that probably won't happen. If NTW performs poorly sales wise..... who knows what the future of TW games will be. Maybe scrapped. Because of SEGA.

[Smeel]

They probably figure that the less modding the more cash for them from expansions/DLC.

Yes, at least they have limited modding in purpose, to what purpose. There surely is a trend in the gaming industry to make DLC's.... But I'm not that surprised. In the end, Gaming companies are like any other company, it's only about profit. Making customers/gamers happy are only necessary because it gives more profit. Any company who states anything else are just hypocrites and full of

[Geronimo2006]

Would it be possible to convert the mapfiles in ETW to their M2TW counterparts' format, mod them, and then return them to the ETW format? I know little about modding, but I just wondered could that get around CA's failure to release mapping-tools?