[Mod] Magna Terra

Thanks for the fast help!

@lucaluca: The map is excellent as it has cities, that's very important for naming provinces.

@Cheexta: That's the site I've been looking for, I knew about it but I did not have looked for it yet. It shows what countries should be added.

Now, to be sure adding provinces is easy, I added one, in an ex-PTI place. I called it Carmatia, whatever.



Extremely promising as it is similar to EU III, as I'm used too. It's easy! I can turbo-create provinces now!

But unfortunately it looks good on all maps but the terrain, where I think colormap_hires makes it ugly:



I think I'll add the provinces first (I always play with the political map so screw the terrain! ) and deal with colormap_hires later, to make them pretty in the terrain-style map.

Has anyone worked with colormap_hires and wants to help?

This province was just a test to see if I could sucessfully create one, Carmatia will not be its definitive name.

i noticed that your cities look misplaced in the last screenshot, maybe an effect of the resizing?

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That's because I didn't treat positions.txt yet, I erased everything so it puts the cities in a default position. Because of that there are no ports too yet. But that part is easy, it's just need work to put it working, but without new provinces there was no Magna Terra so I'm seeing if the concept of adding Asia is possible. It seems it is

Of course later positions.txt will be treated. If the EU III tool, Positions Editor, worked, it would be awsome.

PS: Positions Editor works in Rome too (thanks God Paradox made all thing similar). Awsomeness.

I just want to post what I have done today: now Alexander's Empire may be put together.




Yes, I know there's a Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and a Maurya Empire where I put Seleucid territory. At this point I'm just building provinces, so I don't care who owns them, the history files will be done later (now I'm just making copies of Persepolis).

Yes, topology is not done yet. If you want to help you're welcome!

And the terrain mode map. It looks horrendous (that's why I did not show it ). But hey, the political map and the others are much better, right? You can help me, can't you?

@lucaluca I created these provinces based on the map you gave: the cities are primordial to accurate name provinces. Thank you very much.

Some mapping tools for EU III work with Rome (just need a small change here and there). Epic win. Positions Editor and Map Checker are two trump cards in this modding.

Again, all help is appreciated, specially flags for countries and regions, for the faces of indian and chinese guys, sprites, all kinds of things.

Ambitious... most ambitious. Yet oh so intrigueing.

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I know. I don't know if the sprites will be possible to mod, but anyway I prefer playing Indian or Chinese countries with roman-like guys running around than not playing them

OMG I'm in ecstasy

It looks amazing!!!! The provinces look pretty accurate, you can always modify them later with new/more inputs.

Thanks for your great work, if i can be of any help just let me know (I can't mod map or anything but can help with history or whatever).

Edit: the provinces name is yet not displayed in the map right? When it will be i can help you with topology of the region.

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I don't want you to drug yourself :rofl:

The province names are after the map you posted. They are as accurate in position as I tried to. Help will be needed for lots of things, but now I'm just adding provinces.

The provinces name is displayed, but as I erased everything from Positions.txt they are very small and you can't see them Editing positions.txt with Positions Editor will fix that.

This mod has an extreme potential. If you're as dedicated as I think you are, Camara, this will be the mod to rule them all. Good luck!

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Thanks! I'll try to transform the potential into reality.

A flag I made for a Indo-Greek or just Indian nation ages ago. I don't know how well a recoloring will fare, but hopefully it won't be that big of a deal.

And, of course, excellent work! This is the best thing I have seen since Imperium 2.0 was launched, and we have seen loads of modding since then

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Thanks! I'll not deal with the flag now but later when I'll mod most countries I'll need it.

Thanks! Actually I will say something that will look weird: I was hoping someone would add Asia to buy Rome. I waited for it, and nothing, nobody did it. So, some days ago I bought Rome, played a little, and quickly started to see what could be done. I modded Europa Universalis and from I saw in Rome forums it seemed the mapping part was similar. So I came up with the idea of scaling and when it worked I was very happy because everything would be possible.

To sum it up, I bought Rome to mod Asia in, and will only play with completely when this task is done. I'm crazy, I'm very aware of it, so it's not need to say it to me

Wow, this has epic potential.

I will certainly see if I can contribute a few countries and flags in the future.

While you are at it, you might want to look at fixing the positioning of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

Attached is a fix done by Lofman - hope he doesnt mind me uploading it.

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Any help will be welcomed! Ok, I will fix it, thanks, I just don't know when I'll do it

I tried the Positions Editor last night and got it working. When I changed the unit position in a sea province (down near egypt) it did not work properly, it appeared to put it at the top of the map. Can you tell us what tweeks you made to it to get it working for EUR ?

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In Europa Universalis III the map is flipped. So to make Positions Editor working for Rome you'll need to flip vertically the Rome map. I tried it and it worked

Thanks for your help and support. But today, in a miracle, I discovered something I was looking for: another big map with cities. So I'll present you with more stuff... now!

I think I will be the first to have the honor to say: Maurya Empire fans, put your hands up in the air! A map of India, indicating a lot of cities, in the Maurya Empire time that I discovered today too was a big plus and allowed me to mod India quickly!



PS: that line in the Indian Ocean is a bug easily removable, I'll remove it in the next "show"



Again, this is just to show the provinces, forget the Seleucid exclaves, the Seleucid-like Mauryans and the misplacing of flags.




Ironically, I was testing the game speed and a civil war broke up. I'll be the first to present a picture of the first Maurya Empire civil war too :rofl:




One thing someone can do (annoying, I know, I don't expect you to do it, but still it must be done by someone) is using Positions Editor to correct the positions of cities, units, and put ports in provinces.

Here are the map files I have up to now (the Indian line bug is corrected). To use Positions Editor you'll need to flip vertically provinces.bmp (MS Paint does it, select all the image and then right click, there's an option to flip, do it to flip vertically).

To try the mod in your computer here are the other files you'll need to run the mod (I'm lazy and you'll need to put all these files together, in a near future I'll do it).

One very important information: even with India added, speed is very good. That is excellent news, as with massive addition of provinces and countries it will slow down. Being fast now, even with India added, it's great as it gives more modding freedom to add much more things.

Again, many thanks,
Camara

No, the mod to rule them all is imperium

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+1. Magna Terra is a simpler mod: adds more map and countries, that's it. Imperium is way more deep.

I added China to the map. I based mostly in Qin and Han dynasties map, as Zhou dynasty maps... err... I found none.



Look the flag of the Zhou Dynasty. How original: the character means "Zhou" (vide Wikipedia ).



Here is central Asia, of course these provinces will not be Zhou's.



Another look of the empire, from Northeast.



A "closer" look of China in a large scale.



So the main objective of the map is done - India and China. But there is way more space for more provinces. The speed is good too. Of course adding countries will slow it down.