Map Checking Tool

[17blue17]

Sorry for digging out this thread, but,...


Cabezaestufa, my friend, your tool is marvellous, i can't mod without it. However, with IN changing how it deals with "sea_starts", your tool doesn't work anymore. Could you be kind enough to adapt it please ?

Regards,
Gilles

I sent him a PM on 6-21 and he replied it was on his list to do but might be a while.

I think you can still get it to run by using a temporary default.map file using the old format. Be sure to remove the new regions.txt line and use the old sea_starts = with no {}. Using this method it still works for me.

One note I don't have any land after sea - if you do you might want to tell it that sea_starts is equal to your last province and hopefully it will treat all the sea like land - which I think would be ok.

Best Wishes

[Sute]{h]

A bit of thread necromancy I know, but I could really use a tool like this for EU: Rome. Anyone know where to find one?

[Cabezaestufa]

And suddenly, after many months...

I just remembered Map Checker didn't work with In Nomine, so I finally updated it so it can read the new default.map. It should now work with all maps, regardless if they are vanilla, NA or IN. Sorry about taking so long!

BTW, sorry, Sute]{h, but I don't know of any similar tool for Rome. If anybody wants to do one and would like the source code of this, he just has to ask. But as I say in the readme, he shouldn't expect the code to be actually intelligible

[gigau]

Thanks a lot,my friend. I'll test it tommorrow

[Teurlinx]

- edit - misposted

[17blue17]

FYI

I sent a PM today to Cabezaestufa asking him to update his great map checker tool for the new trade winds position in postions.txt as currently the map checker will not run with trade winds in the file.

HTT and map checker 

Would you please make a simple easy (I hope) update to map checker to tell it to ignore one new addition for the HTT expansion?

There is a new item in positions.txt called

trade_wind_direction =2.356194

which you can just have map checker ignore as there is nothing to test it against. 

All that you need to do is not have map checker crash due to not understanding what it is:

ERROR ('positions.txt', line 42218): Unrecognized object in province 1963: 'trade_wind_direction'.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Thank you

[Solmyr]

Trying to run this, but all it gives me is this:

Loading files...
================

Error trying to parse 'default.map'.
Exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: default.map (The system cannot find the file specified)

Do I need to put the program into some specific folder? My EU3 folder is C:\Europa Universalis III\

[17blue17]

Trying to run this, but all it gives me is this:

Loading files...
================

Error trying to parse 'default.map'.
Exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: default.map (The system cannot find the file specified)

Do I need to put the program into some specific folder? My EU3 folder is C:\Europa Universalis III\

Yes put it in the map folder (if a mod then put in the mod's map folder).

Also remember it will not work if your positions.txt file has any trade_wind lines as it has not been updated for trade_wind. I asked the author to update but apparently he has lost the source code. As a work around

1) make a backup of positions.txt and name it positions.bak in case you goof something up

2) edit positions.txt and move all the { } sections containing trade_winds to the bottom.

3) make a copy of your edited positions.txt

4) remove all the trade_wind sections from the original in step 2 but leave them in the copy

5) run map checker

6) fix any errors found in both the copy and the original positions.txt

7) repeat steps 5 and 6 until all the errors are gone.

8) delete the original positions.txt and replace with the fixed copy that has the trade_wind lines in it.

I hope that all makes sense.

[[B@W] Abominus]

FYI

I sent a PM today to Cabezaestufa asking him to update his great map checker tool for the new trade winds position in postions.txt as currently the map checker will not run with trade winds in the file.

HTT and map checker 

Would you please make a simple easy (I hope) update to map checker to tell it to ignore one new addition for the HTT expansion?

There is a new item in positions.txt called

trade_wind_direction =2.356194

which you can just have map checker ignore as there is nothing to test it against. 

All that you need to do is not have map checker crash due to not understanding what it is:

ERROR ('positions.txt', line 42218): Unrecognized object in province 1963: 'trade_wind_direction'.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Thank you

Does he said anything?

/me got the same problem...

[17blue17]

Does he said anything?

/me got the same problem...

Last I heard he lost the source code so you need to use my instructions to work around the problem.

[[B@W] Abominus]

Last I heard he lost the source code so you need to use my instructions to work around the problem.

With kicking out the trade_winds, it worked well for me. .

[gigau]

Last I heard he lost the source code so you need to use my instructions to work around the problem.

Too bad ... i hoped he would be able to make a version with which we wouldn't have to manually delete the lines each time...

[17blue17]

Too bad ... i hoped he would be able to make a version with which we wouldn't have to manually delete the lines each time...

I think it would be fairly simple to do - if someone understood how to work with jar files. I found a free Java Class File Editor Program that was able to open the jar file but I don't understand the syntax to make the fix. All that is needed is to tell it to ignore lines with trade winds.

Anyone know how to work with jar files?????????????????

[Cabezaestufa]

I think it would be fairly simple to do - if someone understood how to work with jar files. I found a free Java Class File Editor Program that was able to open the jar file but I don't understand the syntax to make the fix. All that is needed is to tell it to ignore lines with trade winds.

Anyone know how to work with jar files?????????????????

Don't worry, I finally found the source code and I'll try to make an update to fix the trade wind issue this week or so (if I forget, feel free to remind me ).

[gigau]

Don't worry, I finally found the source code and I'll try to make an update to fix the trade wind issue this week or so (if I forget, feel free to remind me ).

Thank you, thank you so much !

[Cabezaestufa]

As promised, I just updated the program to work with Heir to the Throne. Sorry again about taking so long to do it, it was a combination of me changing computers and temporarily misplacing the source code and simply that I kept forgetting to do this for some time.

As always, please tell me of any problems you might find trying to make it work.

[gigau]

Thank you so much, my friend. Works very fine with me

[17blue17]

Thank you !!!!!

[gigau]

Hi Cabezaestufa, a new expansion has arrived, so i'm back

I don't post here often because... well your tool works great

With the arrival of DW, there are three main things i' like to report :

• The map isn't flipped anymore. This doesn't prevent the tool to work properly, but makes finding faulty colours a bit more tedious.

• There are new lines (and the topology map line has been removed) in the default.map that cause an error each time i forget to remove them (or cause the game to crash if i forget to put them back ).

• As you may know, the size of the map has increased (for about the same number of provinces), which slows the tool a great deal. Is there a way to make it quicker ? It takes usually at least 10-15 minutes to perform a test

[Kalelovil]

Sorry for the thread necro.

Is there any equivalent tool for Victoria 2 or is it possible for this tool to be adapted for Victoria 2?
When using it on Victoria 2, it outputs:

Error trying to parse 'default.map'.
Exception: java.io.IOException: ERROR: 'default.map' has an error in row 35: 'region_sea' is not a valid property.