Campaign Map

[knoddy]

I have been reading up on people trying to create mods and they have problems with replacing the senate in their mods. It was my belief that u did not need to include the senate or even a faction remotly like the senate in ur mod as long as u used a different campaign map etc.in fact i thought u didnt even have to have roman factions. is this true or must the game have some form of a senate???

[Myrddraal]

The game must include both the senate faction and the province of rome. Some people have worked around this by putting the senate surrounded by deep forest and things like that, but in theory they must exist.

[knoddy]

bugger eh oh well im assuming u could rename it an make it so that it has no influence on the game. Ie i could make it so that they were named REBELS and then just have them as unplable factions on a remote island in the middle of nowhere with no way to build a port lol. Also with the camp map i was wondering about the map_regions.tga and map_heights.tga. how do these 2 interact and by this i mean wot r the colours in map_heights that change the heights. i understand that black is like desert and varying degrees of white r mountains but does anyone know the RGB colours

[bouis]

The game requires that the senate faction be present, however, all that is required of it is a single character. If it has no cities and starts at war with all of the Roman families, the Senate's single character immediately becomes a rebel general and the senate is out of the game.

[Myrddraal]

Yes, but the province of rome must exist, even if not in senate control, as it is the objective of the game...

[knoddy]

ok well thanx for all the help guys i will look into it and try to find a way to work around it. one other question about editing the camp map, in paintshop pro 7 in order to add new provices, i was using the paint brush tool to add. but the paint brush tool not only creates a small dot(for example with cities) but also changes the colour of the pixels around the one i am changing so i try to place a city with a one piexl dot and it changes that one pixel as well as the ones surrounding it, but not completly they are a combo of the 2 colours. why is this and is there a better way to create new provinces/cities/ports