Fan-help needed: battle editor and text skills

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I have another side project for EB that shifty has been helping out with. This is a way to have oases in the desert that are of a good size and have a lake in the middle of them. We're pretty close to having it done - but we need someone who can text edit a file and then go in and take a look at the changes in the battle editor. If these are both foreign ideas, this might not be for you, but if you have used these before, we could do this a lot quicker.

Basically this involves the placement of palm trees in a text file, as we already have the lake in the middle about ready. Currently an oasis looks like this (excuse the purple-ish environment in the screenshots - these will only appear in sandy desert locales when we are through with it):



We want it to look more like this:



I don't know exactly how the coordinates work in the settlement plans, but this is how the entry is set up:

;				x,	y,	rot,	z,
tree_A,			-57,	-70,	50,	-4
tree_A,			62,	-80,	50,	0
tree_A,			34,	12,	0,	0
tree_A,			44,	50,	-75,	0

That only places four trees. We need a lot more. Enough to make it roughly look like the shot above. And currently, both of us are working on other things (pretty feverishly for me I know), so that's why I'm asking for help outside. So, is anyone skilled and patient enough to place these palms in an oasis for us in a grouping that looks something like a real oasis? An understanding of how those coordinates work would be a big plus. Otherwise it's just trial and error.

[cunctator]

The coordinates are measured from the center of the plan. I don't know the units but they don't have to be natural numbers, thus 5.375 is possible too. The rot value is in degrees not radians, -4 or 356 gives the same result. z value is height over the ground.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Nope? We could use the help - and this is going to be very nice in-game if the palms are placed around it in an attractive manner.

[tk-421]

I can do it. I am going out of town on Monday (Yay!) but I don't have much else to to from now until Sunday evening.

[shifty157]

Awesome! Thanks for the help. TA will give you the latest files.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Weird - I replied to this and said thanks, and I was PM'ing tk, but it's gone. I swear I saw it show up though...