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Yep. that would not be bad...
 
Hello guys,

I've the same problem then the others. The map extractor crashes immediately after startup. I installed Framework 3.5, Jamie's Map Utility and edited the correct path and province number in settings.txt. Furthermore I copied the folder "map_1" to "map", province.csv to the vanilla folder "db" and province_names.csv to the vanilla folder "config". After that "lightmap2.tbl", "lightmap3.tbl" "and lightmap4.tbl" from the archive were pasted in "map". My operating system is Windows Vista.

Did I forget anything else? Is there anybody able to help me?
 
Dhrazul said:
Hello guys,

I've the same problem then the others. The map extractor crashes immediately after startup. I installed Framework 3.5, Jamie's Map Utility and edited the correct path and province number in settings.txt. Furthermore I copied the folder "map_1" to "map", province.csv to the vanilla folder "db" and province_names.csv to the vanilla folder "config". After that "lightmap2.tbl", "lightmap3.tbl" "and lightmap4.tbl" from the archive were pasted in "map". My operating system is Windows Vista.

Did I forget anything else? Is there anybody able to help me?
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I'm afraid that you're like everybody else here, including me, get a chair, get comfy and simply... wait and see!... until someone gets it done...
 
Dhrazul said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in a hurry. But I haven't seen any statements from the developers concerning this problem.
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I really thought I posted a reply to this a long time ago. :(
Probably in a pm or other thread.

The thing is that the mapeditor software, although it works sort of, is an incredibly weird acting piece of software, which errors and problems follow no clear logic I can recognize.
If it doesn't work you are probably doing something wrong, or not...
I know it is frustrating and I would love to give you guys a stepbystep guide on how to do it, but I simply can't. I regulary spent hours to figure out why the thing suddenly doesn't do what I want anymore.

And sadly I don't have the bandwith to upload the base files I use to create the individual Zoomlevels, it's multiple Gb's and I'm on a 40 kb/s line, so no chance.
 
First of all I want to thank you for your comments. In the last days I've been trying to solve the problem. I must admit that I probably failed, but there is the hope that I only did a little mistake. Maybe the entry for "AdjacentTableEntryCount" in settings.txt is incorrect for Darkest Hour. Is 14860 correct?

#The number of entries that should be in the adjacent table
#This is strictly optional
#Usually used only with HoI
AdjacentTableEntryCount=14860
 
If you wanna use the object editor to edit a new map in a subfolder, you need to move the db files to their vanilla location, province.csv to db, province_names.csv to the configfolder, and the mapfiles out of the subfolder directly to the /map folder.
!!Make a backup before you do that or mods using the vanilla map will no longer work!!
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ok so
Darkest Hour\map\Map_1\Province.csv ===> Darkest Hour\db\Province.csv
Darkest Hour\map\Map_1\province_names.csv ===> Darkest Hour\config\province_names.csv
Darkest Hour\map\{Map_1} ===> Darkest Hour\{map}
The object editor doesn't work with the topographic map for DH, it simply can't handled a patchwork of different maps without throwing errors around.
As a workaround you have to use a Zoom level 1 full map and use it for the work with the object editor. Remember I told you to save all your files from Zoom 1.

You can find the aditional layers of the DH Full map here:
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where?

You should alread have copied the mapfiles from the /map/map_1 folder to the /map folder, now copy the three layers in the archive into the /map folder aswell.
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What layers?
If you have setup your maptools right (pointing at the darkest Hour root folder).
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if i have setup my map tools right, what should happen?
If you have done everything right. you can now use the object editor, and the mapextractor again.
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it doesn't work. =\
 
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another question. Extracting the map with this command -extract(0,0,156,180,6,2) the MapExtractor doesn't create the images.txt file inside the exported maps folder. What should I do? Should i write it by myself?

edit: I wrote it by myself but then the MapMaker crashed due to insufficient memory
 
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ok i used the standard extract command because with the -extract(0,0,156,180,6,2) command i could extract the map but cannot reconstruct it with MapMaker
I made a black map, empty, with no provinces, just to check if everything works.
I have all colorscales.png grey and all id.png black (i choose black because in the ids.csv there is

0;0;0;0
1;128;0;0
2;0;128;0
...

so i choose the first one.

I run the MapMaker and press 1.
everything it's ok.
press 2
everything it's ok.
press 3 and..
Working...
Scanniong adj-mod.txt...
adj-mod.txt does exist, so now parsing
Done scanning adk-mod.txt!
Loading block headers...Done!
Thread 1:

RowStart: 0
LoadRowEnd: 11
ScanRowEnd:10

Thread 2:

RowStart: 10
LoadRowEnd: 21
ScanRowEnd: 20

Thread 3:

RowStart: 20
LoadRowEnd: 31
ScanRowEnd:30

Thread 4: ERROR: The max province number is 2608, but a province was detected with ID 16191

RowStart: 30
ERROR: The max province number is 2608, but a province was detected with ID 16191
LoadRowEnd: 41
ERROR: The max province number is 2608, but a province was detected with ID 16191
ScanRowEnd:40

Press any key to continue, which will probably result in horrible error messages...

ERROR: The max province number is 2608, but a province was detected with ID 8224

Press any key to continue, which will probably result in horrible error messages...

ERROR: The max province number is 2608, but a province was detected with ID 16160

Press any key to continue, which will probably result in horrible error messages...

ERROR: The max province number is 2608, but a province was detected with ID 8224

then it crashes and in the log file there is:

Code: 
Log of MapMaker v2.2.5.0
Logging started at: 20/05/2012 10:05:46 UTC

Adj-mod.txt does exist, so now parsing


#################################
An exception has occurred.
#################################
Exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException
	Derived from System.ArgumentException
	Derived from System.SystemException
	Derived from System.Exception
20/05/2012 10:10:08
Message: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
Source: mscorlib

STACK TRACE
Void ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(System.ExceptionArgument, System.ExceptionResource)
   at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(ExceptionArgument argument, ExceptionResource resource)
   at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
   at MapEditor.AdjacentMaker.DoPair(List`1 adjancies, KeyValuePair`2 kvp1, KeyValuePair`2 kvp2)
   at MapEditor.AdjacentMaker.DoRows(Int32 rowStart, Int32 scanRowEnd, List`1 adjancies, OwnershipData[,] blocks, DoAdjacentTask task)
   at MapEditor.AdjacentMaker.MakeAdjacent(Int32 rowStart, Int32 loadRowEnd, Int32 scanRowEnd, ByteReader stream, BlockHolder[,] headers, List`1 adjancies, DoAdjacentTask task)
   at MapEditor.AdjacentMaker.DoAdjacentTask.TaskOverride()
   at CoreLib.Task.DoTask(Int32 index, TaskQueue tq)
   at CoreLib.TaskQueue.DoWork(Object value)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(Object obj)


I checked my ID.png and i know for sure (i used irfanview "number of unique colors") that there is only the BLACK 0;0;0; inside every ID files. So how can the mapmaker find more then one id? And how can it be 16160 or 8224? If i change the maxnumber of provinces to 10000 then the mapmaker says that the wrong id are different..something like 161600

Please HELP...I really want to make my mod with a new map... =\
 
mmh I tried to do it all over again and now it seems to work but I have another problem -.-'
with the mapmaker i press 1, 2, 3, 4, and everything is ok. but when i press 5 it crashes and in the log.txt there is


Log of MapMaker v2.2.5.0
Logging started at: 21/05/2012 14:04:46 UTC

Adj-mod.txt does exist, so now parsing


#################################
An exception has occurred.
#################################
Exception: System.IndexOutOfRangeException
Derived from System.SystemException
Derived from System.Exception
5/21/2012 2:09:22 PM
Message: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Source: CoreLib

STACK TRACE
Int32 ReadInt32()
at CoreLib.Io.ByteReader.ReadInt32()
at MapUtility.AdjacentTable..ctor(String str)
at MapUtility.Global.get_AdjacentTable()
at MapEditor.LightmapMaker.LoadData()
at MapEditor.LightmapMaker.MakeLightmaps()
at MapEditor.Program.BeginWork(String[] args)
at MapEditor.Boot.Main(String[] args)
 
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thank you.
hm let me ask you another question...
I'm making a brand new map and I'm starting cleaning ALL the map files so that i can start drawing my new map.
Should i start with the 0;0;0; color? I mean i want to fill all the provid file with one color and then start adding other colors for other provinces.
I'm wondering if i should use id0 then id 1, then 2 ... or can i paint randomly?

edit: Kaisermuffin tolds me that i could use the hoi2 vanilla map to make my new map because the old connections limit was no more a problem, but when compiling the map with mapmaker, pressing 4 it says that my connection are 0 and is not 14860. Should i worry about this warning or not?
 
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I'm really going crazy...
I have extracted the map using -extract(0,0,156,180,6,2)

I created a test map with a few provinces. A little island in the middle of the ocean. (I created a 29950x11520px file and i have imported all the pieces exported with the mapextractor)




the border file should be ok.





the ID map is a png 24bit rgb
the colorscale map is a png 8 bit (indexed 256)
scaled.php


then i cropped the map in pieces. I saved every piece overwriting the old map pieces.

I opened the mapmaker and I pressed 1.

the error is



#################################
An exception has occurred.
#################################
Exception: System.NullReferenceException
Derived from System.SystemException
Derived from System.Exception
17/06/2012 07:52:34
Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source: CoreLib

STACK TRACE
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String] ReadAndCleanLines(System.String, System.Text.Encoding)
at CoreLib.Io.File.ReadAndCleanLines(String path, Encoding encoding)
at CoreLib.Io.File.ReadAndCleanLines(String path)
at MapUtility.ColorToId.FromFile(String path)
at MapUtility.ColorToId..ctor(Boolean loadDefault)
at MapUtility.Global..cctor()



#################################
An exception has occurred.
#################################
Exception: System.TypeInitializationException
Derived from System.SystemException
Derived from System.Exception
17/06/2012 07:52:34
Message: The type initializer for 'MapUtility.Global' threw an exception.
Source: MapMaker

STACK TRACE
Void DoBlockOwnership(MapEditor.ProtoBlock)
at MapEditor.RadishMaker.DoBlockOwnership(ProtoBlock b)
at MapEditor.RadishMaker.DoBlock(Point p)
at MapEditor.RadishMaker..ctor(LineData data)
at MapEditor.RadishMaker.MakeFile(LineData data)
at MapEditor.MakeFileTask.TaskOverride()
at CoreLib.Task.DoTask(Int32 index, TaskQueue tq)
at CoreLib.TaskQueue.DoWork(Object value)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(Object obj)

Can someone help me? I'm losing the will to make this mod =\
 
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