Any chance to parse in the map ???

**alexrain** · 03-15-2006, 15:49

Hi guys,
first, I would like to thank everyone for this beatiful mod !
Its really astonishing what you have done already....

At the moment I am currently trying to develop an internet based strategic game like www.ferion.com with a real map using the roman empire setting.
I would like to use the map from EB. Is it possible to extract some kind of flat file (no picture !!!) with something like the tile information for each coordinate ?

Does anyone knows a way to do that?

I am planning to read it into an OracleXE DB using SVG for displaying a map....
Also a way to extract the province, resource etc. would be helpful.

At the moment I am using the map from gladius et pilum -> www.quirxel.de (in german) but that map is not realistic...

any feedback or suggestion is welcome! Any format like csv/txt or and database format,even a sql dump would be helpfull...

**LorDBulA** · 03-15-2006, 17:33

Informations about map are stored in multiple TGA files.
So its just a question of converting this data to format you need.
Sorry but i dont know anything about OracleXE DB and SVG so i dont know what data it needs (and what you plan to use in your map).

**alexrain** · 03-15-2006, 22:08

Thanks for the information but I cant parse data out of an image file....
at least I cant see a way to do that....
What I just need is just a format to insert the information for tile xx:yy into a database. May I ask how you create your map? Do you use something like Coreldraw?

What I am planning to do is to create some kind of EB online ... (ok, real time battles cant be done ;) but most of the rest ....

**LorDBulA** · 03-16-2006, 07:16

Well basically you would have to write program that would extract this data for you. I dont think you can find ready program that can do it for you (its very unusual task).
How complicated you want to make your map?
What data you need?
City , Port positions, province positions (quite obvious), rivers, river crossings, ground height , climate, ground type, cliffs positions, volcanos etc...

**alexrain** · 03-16-2006, 14:52

I takle everything what I can get....
But just the outlay with the basic terrain would be ok.
To create a map on my own would take months.
Who created the map in the EB team ?