Hacking the TBL files

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I was wondering, would it be possible to make a sea province where a old land province was?

i bet he wants to sink back the netherlands

 

[Van Engel]

i bet he wants to sink back the netherlands

Muhahaha. Nah I was actually thinking about a medival Suez Canal, I'm way to lazy to sail my portuguess fleet to India.

 

[Underhand]

i bet he wants to sink back the netherlands

Who doesn't?

(Just kidding! Spare me from your vengeance O mighty Nether People )

 

[WiSK]

Who doesn't?

(Just kidding! Spare me from your vengeance O mighty Nether People )

Actually, when I tested it earlier, I sank Anglia

 

[Underhand]

Actually, when I tested it earlier, I sank Anglia

Aaargh! You monster!

The Dutch wax wroth indeed. :rofl:

 

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Muhahaha. Nah I was actually thinking about a medival Suez Canal, I'm way to lazy to sail my portuguess fleet to India.

isnt that possible now?

 

[Hive]

isnt that possible now?

It is indeed, by using a tool that modified the adjacent file.

 

[Van Engel]

It is indeed, by using a tool that modified the adjacent file.

Cool, tell me how it works.

 

[jdrou]

Cool, tell me how it works.

Tool is available here. Haven't used it yet.

 

[WiSK]

Update; nothing special.

I spent the evening discovering the joys of the id.tbl file. I am using it for its intended purpose, hit-testing. In other words: you click the mouse on the map, id.tbl tells you instantly which province you clicked on. This will be useful for the connections editor.

 

[Inferis]

Update; nothing special.

I spent the evening discovering the joys of the id.tbl file. I am using it for its intended purpose, hit-testing. In other words: you click the mouse on the map, id.tbl tells you instantly which province you clicked on. This will be useful for the connections editor.

Also, the info in id.tbl is "duplicated" in the lightmaps... Where as the province descriptors of each block define to what province each pixel belongs, you get the same info using id.tbl. I would just take much longer.

I'm working on using the id.tbl info within the editor, but I'm sure what the impact on speed will be.

 

[Johan]

id.tbl is not used ingame really but is an artifact from map-creation process.

 

[Inferis]

id.tbl is not used ingame really but is an artifact from map-creation process.

So how do you do hittesting?

Hmm, this creates a sort of chicken and egg situation: I use the data in it extensively when recompressing them map...

 

[WiSK]

id.tbl is not used ingame really but is an artifact from map-creation process.

Does that explain why it has several 'empty' scanlines?

Also: boundbox.tbl seems also to be not 100% accurate. I'm using it to invalidate regions of my big scrolling map, but it sometimes misses a couple pixels here and there. Or am I just finishing my for-loops a little early?

 

[Van Engel]

Tool is available here. Haven't used it yet.

Muhaha:

 

[Chas]

Muhaha:

Excellent. But now I guess Hedjaz needs a navy to get its 2k from Sinai to Egypt?

 

[Hive]

Excellent. But now I guess Hedjaz needs a navy to get its 2k from Sinai to Egypt?

Nope, it doesn't work like a strait or anything. They can still move their troops around as usual.

 

[Chas]

Nope, it doesn't work like a strait or anything. They can still move their troops around as usual.

OK, so there is no sea there? It's just that the program thinks that the 2 seas are connected? So we could connect any 2 provinces we wanted e.g. the English Channel directly to the coast of Australia, in a single move?

 

[Nikolai II]

OK, so there is no sea there? It's just that the program thinks that the 2 seas are connected? So we could connect any 2 provinces we wanted e.g. the English Channel directly to the coast of Australia, in a single move?

Yep.

 

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Muhaha:

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