Mapmaking help

[Fenixx]

O.K.
Some of the trailblazers' posts (Y2002) left me with the impression that only 256-1 colors (the one being reserved for the purply-pink borders) total could be used, and in fact had to be to get the full 108+40 regions. Am I misunderstanding something??? (I know they were trying to decipher mechanics at the time. Its a nice history of modding MTW. They sure have left a legacy.)

[macsen rufus]

Ooops -- I did mean 107 not 108

Index 0 = pink, Index 1 = something else or possibly just unused, Index 2 = province 1, Index 3 = province 1 border, etc etc, with 216 to 255 being sea regions.

Note in the original MTW/VI palette the last four colours are the same, and need to be changed to make all 40 sea regions work - I've done this and it's fine - used the extra seas to divide the Black Sea into three and add a new zone along the Lebanese coast. It's the index position rather than the colour itself that defines the province association - some of the colours are actually repeated (how, I don't know...) so you may need to tweak the final map using the appropriate brush from the index - BMPs do know which index no something is despite being the same colour as another index number. (The actual colours are more for our convenience than the game's...)

[TosaInu]

Hello,

There are tools to help create campaignmaps:

Wellingtons LukeMapMaker http://www.mizus.com/files/files/MTW/Tools/LMM/

Other MTW tools: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local....php?catid=168

[Fenixx]

Thanks much Tosa!

I downloaded Duke John's MTW_tools_resources, it seemed to be recent and all-in-one (is that all???). Nice of him, or other, to put it all in one place. Just wondering about latest versions (LMM4v1beta, BifR 2.2, Gnome, and Mithrel v1.1???). Also, think I've got it, but noticed other downloads required to run some utils(JRE, VBRE, etc.). Thanks again!

[TosaInu]

Hello Fenixx,

VB runtime: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...hp?linkid=1016
Mithels requires Java runtime from Sun.

There are some BIFReaders by RSW, the latest afaik, is 23c. The file has the label Test, but seems to work fine. The Java Run Time can be obtained from Sun. I think this one: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

It doesn't contain all tools or versions, but it contains a very good range of tools that should allow to get any MTW mod job done.

[naut]

One final word: make sure your palettes are 100% correct BEFORE you start modding! NOT half way through.

[TosaInu]

Hello Rythmic,

Do you know whether this helps? https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...hp?linkid=1035