Total Campaign Generator 1.0

[mtwgamer0]

Total Campaign Generator 1.0
App for windows

This app generates random campaign maps (including terrain and regions) for Medieval II: Total War at the click of a button.

Features

• Random world generation
• Generates multiple nations
• Choose alliances and wealth
• Map types: Inland, Coastal
• Small or Large campaign worlds
• Customize world terrain including rivers, hills and plains
• Explored or unexplored world
• Brief or long campaigns with many factions
• Generate campaigns for Americas, Britannia, Crusades and Teutonic expansion campaigns
• 5 climate types

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/totalcampaigngenerator/


Video and example map:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_TCSWZdwoc

[mtwgamer0]

A screenshot of the gui:

[The Holy Pilgrim]

This looks absolutely fantastic!

Can it be modified to work with mods, or no? Also, how does it handle character attributes and traits?

+rep, regardless

[mtwgamer0]

This looks absolutely fantastic!

Can it be modified to work with mods, or no? Also, how does it handle character attributes and traits?

+rep, regardless

It generates a new campaign and uses the default campaign switch(in the .cfg)so that it temprorarily overwrites the default campaign for whatever mode your running (Americas, Crusades, etc). You'd have to move the campaign manually over to any additional mods folder. It will only use vanilla units, but if the mod overwrites them I suppose it could work.

Characters are randomly generated, you get a random number of spies, diplomats and armies currently 1 princess. All chracters (including the faction leader) have random names assigned.

[mtwgamer0]

The regions are divided up equally between factions, no rebel provinces at the moment.

[mtwgamer0]

Hardest part was to divide the terrain up into regions and have random settlement locations. It was quite a coding challenge and took me 5 months.

[+Mr.Crow+]

Hi mtwgamer0,

your work is great!

I'm a java programmer and i'm really interested in image elaborations and filters.

I'm really interested to know something more about this:

Hardest part was to divide the terrain up into regions and have random settlement locations. It was quite a coding challenge and took me 5 months.

Can i ask you to show how this part of your code works?

Best Regards,
+Mr.Crow+

[KEA]

Looks really good

[Frunk]

Great work! I'm keen to try it out sometime.

[+Mr.Crow+]

Thx for your answer. I really appreciate it.

I know voronoi and i've immediately supposed that you used it in your code.

Which type of voronoi did you use? Manhattan or Minkovski?

[mtwgamer0]

Method I used was to add multiple random points to a bitmap, assign each point a color. Then loop through every pixel in the bitmap and color it depending on which of those coloured points is nearest to the current pixel.

[+Mr.Crow+]

Method I used was to add multiple random points to a bitmap, assign each point a color. Then loop through every pixel in the bitmap and color it depending on which of those coloured points is nearest to the current pixel.

This is the generic voronoi algorithm. My question is which type of voronoi did you use? In other words, I wish to know how you calculate pixel proximity.

There are 3 most common used voronoi type: Euclidean, Manhattan and Minkowski.

For example, let's take Medieval 2 map_height:

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Using a java code made by me, i've create 199 random regions using all this 3 voronoi types.

Euclidean:

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Manhattan:

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Minkowski:

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As you can see, the last type (Minkowski) seems to be the better voronoi type to create Medieval 2 regions.

All this 3 voronoi types work as you wrote. The only difference between them is the pixel proximity calculation. Calling the distance "d", this is how it's calculated:

Euclidean: d = Math.sqrt((x1 - x2) * (x1 - x2) + (y1 - y2) * (y1 - y2));

Manhattan: d = Math.abs(x1 - x2) + Math.abs(y1 - y2);

Minkowski: d = Math.pow(Math.pow(Math.abs(x1 - x2), p) + Math.pow(Math.abs(y1 - y2), p), (1 / p));

[mtwgamer0]

When programming I use the following function to calc distance:

//----------------------------------------------------------
//
//----------------------------------------------------------
float distance(float x1, float y1, float z1, float x2, float y2, float z2)
{
    return(sqrt (pow((float)(x2-x1),(float)2) + pow((float)(y2-y1), (float)2) + pow((float)(z2-z1), (float)2)));
}

[+Mr.Crow+]

If i'm not wrong, this is the Riemannian type, a 4th type of voronoi.

I've just used it in my application and it seems to work even better then Minkowski type:

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Good work mtwgamer0! And thx for your answers

[Hexdragon]

Great work
+rep


In order to allow people to find this tool more easily, I would suggest to move this thread to: Medieval II Mod Workshop - Tools, Tutorials, and Resources


Also add to this index:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...rces-amp-Tools

[mtwgamer0]

The latest version is soon to be released.

It currenty has the following features:

-Optional forts
-Merchants and map resources
-Early period start (no units or development)

[mtwgamer0]

Now released!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tot...aigngenerator/

[HG_SCIPCION]

oh... any chance for Rome Total war?
this tool looks extreme awesome!

[adivadi]

Hi, does anybody have a copy of this tool?

It seems that it's not available at sourceforge.net.

I'd like to try it.

[Virian]

Hi does anybody have a copy/ link of this? I'd like to try it out myself but all links are down.