Sure, please see the following 2 attachments.
The map making tutorial map, is a map that I made in less than 20 minutes. It has less than 10 territories, and it is very basic, however it works. Everything you find in that zip is the bare minimum needed to get a map working. Even better, because the map is so damn small, it is easy to look at everything in the map zip and see the purpose of it.
The map maker is the original map maker made by wisconsin. It runs only on windows xp, and needs .NET framework installed to work. If you are using windows 7 or some later version of windows, you will need to run it using compatibility mode AND run it as administrator. Before you go thinking that the ‘map maker’ is required to make a map, let me tell you that it is not. All the map maker does is run programs that are already inside triplea, which you could run with console commands if you wanted to. Anyway, it does make life easier to use wisconsin’s program.
Also, there are good text file instructions inside the map maker zip.
You should unzip both.
My advice would be to start with drawing the map.
You can use the map i posted in the first post of this thread as an example. The borders are black. The territories are white. The ocean is blue. There is NO antialiasing (anti-aliasing is when You make a line fuzzy in order to make it appear smooth), we do not want that, we want jagged edges. There is no art on this map (you get to add that later).
That is what you need to begin.
What’s in it for me? I feel this deserves at LEAST a US battleship or loaded carrier in our game. :-P
Seriously though, I’ll take a look at it and see if I can wrap my brain around this. No promises on a timeline though . . .
it is actually really easy
all you do is follow the instructions
i’ll give you a very high bid in our next game of napoleonic 1v1, but i can’t give you anything in our team games :-P
You can split your fleet again :evil:
I keed I keed
This would be awesome!!! I would play it all the time. Verq, Could add all the special units and rules?
I can help, but sorry, someone else is going to have to do most of the work on this one. I’m too busy making other maps, running literally everything, and coding the engine.
So noone can even do so much as create a simple OUTLINE?
Guess there just isn’t enough interest?
LOL.
There’s interest, we just need the right people.
I’ve personally played this game through, and it’s great! But definetly needs some workings…
I was playing around with the map to try and get the solid color thing going. I don’t have photoshop and have almost zero skill in editing. But I was trying. I can’t just use the bucket tool, at best it’ll only work on a couple dozen pixels at a time.
Anywho, I accidently got what I was going for. And I say accidently because I had the wrong layer selected at one point while I was trying to edit it. I gave up and started closing layers when I noticed what I’d done. I tried replicating it to no avail, but I’ll try again. I also shot an email to the developer, so we’ll see if they’re willing to provide a solid color map or a wire frame map.
Nice.
I’d love to get into this, and want the map. But I have absolutely 0 time… :S
So I figured out what I did the first time. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for every color. But I just halved the time it’ll take me … . still there’s a lot of busy work ahead of me before the map is done. Hopefully HBG comes through with the map.
As far as the game is concerned, I’ve played it twice and it’s pretty fun!
Subject: Global 1939 Map
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3/22/2013 9:26:42 AM We cannot give the file out at this time.
Thanks for asking though.
HUH?!?!?
Sorry, was rushed earlier. That was the response I got after inquiring about the map file.
@__seththenewb__: how is it going something new on this project?
Do you have now a good map file for global 1939?
Do you only make the grafic for this map, or do you programming the xml files for TripleA with all the rules too?
Don´t know what the problem is with finding the map:
Use the one from triplea:
ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tripleamaps/developer resources/other/deaths_head_world_map.jpg
Of course you can not use the Axis and Allies logo.
or use the original map for those Global War maps:
axisdomain.0catch.com/Supreme_Command_WWII.gif
btw, Total World War map was at start “inspired” by this one, too.
@ Babubaer - For now I’m only creating the map file as that’s the first step. I have no idea how to get the whole module going (haven’t really read that far ahead yet). I’d love to have some help and at the very least I’ll probably need some pointers from Veqryn and whoever else when I get stuck. I’m pretty much done with Africa, the Indian ocean, parts of the south Atlantic, and parts of the med as well.
@ RolfLarsson - Unfortunately that’s not the latest file and it also runs into the issue that I have with the other files. If you zoom in, you’ll see all the pixels are different colors. So you can’t easily change them all to a single uniform color needed for triplea without losing the oh so important borders. The second one looks like it’d work from a color perspective, but I’d have to edit a bunch of the borders. And with the progress I’ve made so far on this map, I think I’d end up doing more work if I ran with that one. Thanks though!
@__seththenewb__ I am willing to help the Global 1939 card installed in Triple A as a module.
I’m learning XML and parallel I develop a small test card to be familiar with the engine. I guess I need until the end of April to get a better insight into the engine to get.
Well, that you work on the map for global 1939, then we dont need to work with 2 people on the map.
What resolution or scaling do you want to use for the card, I’m all for the resolution of “Global 1940” or “Total World War”, the scaling of the “New World Order” is too small in my opinion? PM me if i you need help!
@ Rolf Thxs for the information
Veqryn, can you please tell me if this file would be sufficient for an outline map once it is completed? thank you.
