Quick modding questions

[Fishman786]

Being that I am using the St. Lawrence to connect the lakes to the Atlantic, I had to cover up an entire river. Is that bad?

I am not using a brush, I use the pencil tool. It takes the exact color I want, and adds it in on exactly the pixel I click on. I edit each pixel one at a time, to ensure no goof-ups. But the tool/program are not to blame for the issue, this I know. I have edited dozens of province shapes, with no problems whatsoever. I even changed the coastlines in provinces.bmp with no issues at all; my boats can go into the great lakes with ease. The only issue is the jagged pixel-looking coastlines. It is almost as if the ocean is drawn in squares on top of the land, and it is extremely ugly.



This is what I am trying to fix. To make it pretty. The game works fine, but the aesthetics for my custom provinces are horrible

Rivers have specific colour-coded pixels at the mouths and confluences. If you haven't taken them into account, that could be the problem.

Somebody posted a guide to river pixels over here:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...-version/page4

[jdrou]

Since our resident modding expert jdrou is here, I have a question which relates to Sincleric's: why does the rivers.bmp file always crash?

I've never really done anything with graphical/map changes.

[17blue17]

Since our resident modding expert jdrou is here, I have a question which relates to Sincleric's: why does the rivers.bmp file always crash?

Since Jdrou declined I will try to help.

EDITED TO FIX SOME TYPOS

Problems with rivers happen in two different ways:

1) the game loads but a river or rivers don't display - this is caused by the river not having a correct green start and a correct pink or red end or because the river has a missing piece breaking the connection from beginning to end.

2) the game crashes due to rivers. This can happen due to four things

a) you saved the file upside down ( probably not a problem when using DW as the file is saved with North at the top unlike older versions)

b) one or more of your rivers is more than 1 pixel wide. The rivers have to be 1 pixel and only 1 pixel wide.

c) you used invalid colors. You can only use the colors already on the map and the colors have to be exact.

d) The most common problem is that the file uses an index and some graphic programs turn the file to normal rgb mode by default. The same problem happens when you want to use layers so you can trace your province.bmp borders to get your rivers or terrain borders to match. You can't use layers on a index file - you have to change to rgb mode to use layers and then when done delete the layers and change back to index mode and connect the correct index data to the file. I have a post in the map mod guide on how to do this when using photoshop cs2.

[Sincleric]

index

This is probably the problem. According to this thread in the PDN forums, all I have to do is save as a PNG and then change the extention to BMP, which will index it. Or something. I'm gonna give it a shot and report back.

[Fishman786]

This is probably the problem. According to this thread in the PDN forums, all I have to do is save as a PNG and then change the extention to BMP, which will index it. Or something. I'm gonna give it a shot and report back.

In Photoshop standard saves with ctrl-s will keep the index intact.

[Sincleric]

This is probably the problem. According to this thread in the PDN forums, all I have to do is save as a PNG and then change the extention to BMP, which will index it. Or something. I'm gonna give it a shot and report back.

Didn't work. I made sure not to use layers, and saved as a BMP, and that didn't work either. Is there any free program that indexes BMP files for me?

In Photoshop standard saves with ctrl-s will keep the index intact.

Is Photoshop Standard free? Where can I get it?

[Fishman786]

Is Photoshop Standard fre? Where can I get it?

Heheh, it's not Photoshop Standard. I meant 'standard saves with photoshop'.

Try Gimp? Most people seem to use that. Just make sure to turn on safe search on Google, lol...

[Sincleric]

Heheh, it's not Photoshop Standard. I meant 'standard saves with photoshop'.

Try Gimp? Most people seem to use that. Just make sure to turn on safe search on Google, lol...

I've got Gimp. Of all the image editing programs I have used, it is by far my most hated. For some reason it stayed on my computer and I still have it... I'll give it a try.

[Sincleric]

I've got Gimp. Of all the image editing programs I have used, it is by far my most hated. For some reason it stayed on my computer and I still have it... I'll give it a try.

It works! I am so happy!



Maybe too happy. Thanks for all your help guys!

[discoarsonist]

I'm trying to figure out how to change the missionary chance. I've poked around and can't find it, let alone ways to modify it.

What I'd like to do ideally is make it so missionary chance in a certain region is, say, doubled, if you're Muslim or Catholic. Possible? Impossible?

[Fishman786]

I'm trying to figure out how to change the missionary chance. I've poked around and can't find it, let alone ways to modify it.

What I'd like to do ideally is make it so missionary chance in a certain region is, say, doubled, if you're Muslim or Catholic. Possible? Impossible?

Create a modifier which increases missionary chance, and have it appear by event in the regions you want. Make sure to create a flag so that it can quickly re-appear after changing hands.

[ANO1453]

FYI

Several posts back we discussed bad pixels and you mentioned you cropped and maybe ended up with bad pixels.

I learned something yesterday that is maybe useful. I use photoshop CS2 and when I free transform (and also for crop?) the program defaults to bicubic rather than nearest neighbor which goofs up all the colors. If you open photoshop CS2 and maybe other versions and choose the edit tab then preferences then general you can set the program wide default to nearest neighbor rather than bicubic at which point free transform and hopefully crop will no longer goof the colors up.

Yes, I think I answered to that saying that the colours match. What the game does now is to refer provinces which I already deleted from the game and from the map. I deleted all references to province 725 in the mod folder, yet the game still says it is missing. I will make some more investigation in the weekend - I have to study for an exam now

I think I will open a thread to keep track of my map experiences.

[George LeS]

What does "major = yes" mean in the triggers?

[17blue17]

What does "major = yes" mean in the triggers?

I think it means all tags hear the event happened. Like Protestant is available.

[Fishman786]

I think it means all tags hear the event happened. Like Protestant is available.

Do undiscovered countries hear about it? eg. if a 'major = yes' event happened in the capital of France in 1420, would Japan hear about it?

[DanubianCossak]

It works! I am so happy!

Maybe too happy. Thanks for all your help guys!

Just one small warning: seas in EU3 are not meant to be used as rivers or canals. Although that might look like what you want, if you use the nearby sea province to paint the river/canal in provinces.bmp, it will cause some weirdness. For example, enemy will be able to land their troops via sea in ANY land province bordering the sea province you used.

Do undiscovered countries hear about it? eg. if a 'major = yes' event happened in the capital of France in 1420, would Japan hear about it?

Did you ever play as one of the American nations? If you did, were there notifications of things like peasant wars, time of troubles etc from Europe? If there werent, then i guess only discovered countries get the pop up.

[17blue17]

Do undiscovered countries hear about it? eg. if a 'major = yes' event happened in the capital of France in 1420, would Japan hear about it?

The Paradox script docs from HTT say major = yes means that quote:

Syntax: major = yes / no
When yes, thisevent is major and all players will get a popup with information about it.

So it is more an informational message received by all "Players" by which I assume human but I am not sure.

[discoarsonist]

Just one small warning: seas in EU3 are not meant to be used as rivers or canals. Although that might look like what you want, if you use the nearby sea province to paint the river/canal in provinces.bmp, it will cause some weirdness. For example, enemy will be able to land their troops via sea in ANY land province bordering the sea province you used.

This could be pretty easily solved by just making a new sea province for the river, couldn't it?

[Sincleric]

Just one small warning: seas in EU3 are not meant to be used as rivers or canals. Although that might look like what you want, if you use the nearby sea province to paint the river/canal in provinces.bmp, it will cause some weirdness. For example, enemy will be able to land their troops via sea in ANY land province bordering the sea province you used.

Oh yes, I know all that. I split the St. Lawrence river between Lake Ontario and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to make the landing abilities more believable. I'm too lazy to add a whole new province just for the river at this moment in time, and it doesn't really make much sense to do so anyway. If you want to stop landings, just occupy the gulf.

I might make the river its own province when I get back to modding the map, but for now it works fine as it is.

[Fishman786]

Just for fun:

Can a global 'comet sighted' type event be made? Or regional natural disaster events?