ANCIENT TW - MAPS

[dimitrios the samian]

A thread about Maps .
From day dot I have been a big Hellenic Total war fan & I continued on supporting Macsens work in releasing the Bronze Age & the others that followed .
After a very long hiatus , we have seen the Beta of Eastern Empires & how fantastic it is .
From the beginning I found that Alexandrian Map difficult on my eyes , distracting & disorientating especially if playing a Faction in the Hellenic sector .
I realize to others it is not a problem , but for me the Campaign map gives me headaches .

I quickly knocked up this typo to give my thoughts on how it should look .
All those interested , please comment & share your thoughts , nothing is in concrete as yet .
cheers

[macsen rufus]

That map has all the right areas on

I've tried a similar map to see if I could get it to line up with the LBM overlay, unfortunately it was too disimilar in terms of projection, and it would be a very complex re-alignment (not to mention that the modern coastlines won't all align even if the projection was fixed). The only way forward would be to redraw the overlay... and for this, as I said in another thread somewhere, is a BIG job. 'First, set aside three months...' - okay, this was for starting entirely from scratch, and allowing for necessary de-bugging, much of which shouldn't need to be repeated, but even so it would take quite a while.

So, probably do-able, but not quick

[Leith]

Wow! That looks great dimitrios! As I said earlier, it would be a huge loss to this community if you were to stop modding MTW. For the record, I didn't know you helped MAC in releasing the Bronze Age mod. You are full of surprises aren't you ?

[dimitrios the samian]

Breifly , its like this Leith ....

Mac did all the hard work on the Bronze Age Mod himself ...

It all started when we met , bcoz of our love of "Hellenic Total War" and the excitement surrounding their next project the "Bronze Age Mod"

I was full of ideas but very green , I actually got started by making simple Bif for the Brothel Review Panel Icon & macsen liked it , it was used in HTW & again in Bronze & we are still using it .
It went on from their & I continued supporting & encouraging him "to keep the modding mac rolling along" hehe .

Anyway , fast forward decade or so and I'm finally able to contribute ( despite my slow start) in a graphical way , with my newly discovered skill in creating & re-skinning troops .

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Mac ,,, so sorry my friend
I had no idea , Maps take so long , I wish we could have did all this 10years ago and not now .

But Im patient and in these coming three months we will see many re-skinned and completely new troop types !

Just take your time , i understand your busy schedule .

The final result will be so very valuable were perhaps far into the distant future the Bronze Age/Biblical pieces can finally be put into their proper Scenario .

Psss ... mac , My history on Roman Britain has tripled from nothing to a little .
Leith ... no worries mate my modding is only in its infancy & I have no plans to go 3D .

[Stazi]

I like maps so if you provide me with TGA and province breakdown/outline I'll see what I can do. Making a map that works from the engine point of view (LBM overlay + startpos province list with all connections) it's not that hard or time consuming. I've made one from the scratch for Middle-Earth mod in about a week. Filling startpos file with all the details like terrain, income, goods, rebels factions, etc. for each province it's a different story. It needs historical knowledge which I don't have.

[dimitrios the samian]

Thanks Stazi ...
That would be fantastic !!