The E3 Map Project for Darkest Hour - 1000's of New Provinces

[mumia]

I thought I had assigned owners/controllers for all the provinces in a mod that's using the most recent release of the E3 map, but savedebug.txt gives me this error:

Scenario Validation (provinces)...
Province 767 (Saint George) is a landprovince without owner.
Province 1588 (Terekti) is a landprovince without owner.
Scenario Validation End

Where are those provinces? I seem to have difficulty finding them.

I checked it and it looks like you found bugs on the map as those provinces are not presented on the map anymore, but are listed in game files. Saint George should be in Utah and Terekti in western Kazakhstan. Both provinces IDs will be reused in next release.

Any chance that Chernobyl, Tyuratam and Plesetsk will appear in the Soviet Union? Tyuratam and Plesetsk were both major launching sites used in the Soviet space program. And so hold historical and VP value.

I'm not sure if there will be enough place to add Chernobyl as it is in the area of already small provinces Korosten' and Kiiv. Tyuratam and Plesetsk are more possible.

LOL, hehe

Well, i have no actual clue, what changes are You planning and how many provinces You want to add, but if there are going to be rather cosmetic changes, then i could help with current updates. So, if You ever need any help in this area, feel free to PM me.

P.S. Do you use any GIS software for map editing ? I'm geography graduate, but i don't know any tools for "direct" editing (like for .tbl files), so it's real pain with those extractions and assemblies.

[POLISH_MODE] Obecnie pracuję nad Kanadą (kompletna zmiana), potem wyspy Pacyfiku, w międzyczasie jeszcze zrobię mniejsze zmiany w różnych rejonach świata. A co do tego "GIS", to nawet nie jestem pewny co to więc przypuszczam, że odpowiedź na twoje pytanie brzmi: nie, nie używam. [END_POLISH_MODE]

 

[K W]

[POLISH_MODE] Obecnie pracuję nad Kanadą (kompletna zmiana), potem wyspy Pacyfiku, w międzyczasie jeszcze zrobię mniejsze zmiany w różnych rejonach świata. A co do tego "GIS", to nawet nie jestem pewny co to więc przypuszczam, że odpowiedź na twoje pytanie brzmi: nie, nie używam. [END_POLISH_MODE]

For my favourite mummy: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Informacji_Geograficznej

 

[bosman]

@ mumia
You put me to shame with this, because You do such a thing without some useful theoretical knowledge and do it perfectly, while i'm too lazy to even try
Well, in fact i did try, but it's still too much time consuming task. However, if You are interested in trying this kind of software i've got something from my studies, which i don't use anyway, but it's quite useful, even for strict map painting.

 

[LouiST]

Even if I completely don't speak Chinese, and had to use rather incomplete Google Translator to understand anything, I must say it's very interesting. Also what I spotted there is a series of historical maps of Sinciang province. If any one could say more what represent all those colors on the maps uploaded (eventually translate names on those maps to English, if any one has time) and if there are any other series of historical maps of other provinces or even whole China where we could see how situation changed during the XX century (World War 1, World War 2, Chinese Civil War, Sino-Japanese War etc.)? As I don't speak Chinese at all so I was rather limited in designing map of China to incomplete 'western sources', so it could help me improve the map in future.

These photos are about Sinkiang before the 2nd Sino-Japanese War basically. And like the whole China there were several factions in Sinkiang. I think I can try to translate some of the words in the map and the poster's words.

 

[Kretoxian]

could we get any news (accompanied by eye candies if possible) about the progress on Canada please?

 

[mumia]

These photos are about Sinkiang before the 2nd Sino-Japanese War basically. And like the whole China there were several factions in Sinkiang. I think I can try to translate some of the words in the map and the poster's words.

Yes, please, it would be really helpful. Are there such maps of other areas of China?

could we get any news (accompanied by eye candies if possible) about the progress on Canada please?

I don't post anything because it's in rather boring stage when I try to put all needed source maps in correct place so I could start proper map redrawing. Also I need to decide which concrete of tons Canadian rivers and lakes should be included on the map. So current look of Canada is (nothing special):

 

[Kretoxian]

^^ Hehe, you're right, nothing new under the sun...

 

[Samwell]

If you add new lakes in Canada, be sure that they're not reservoirs resulting of modern dams.

 

[mumia]

If you add new lakes in Canada, be sure that they're not reservoirs resulting of modern dams.

So additionally I'll need to spend few next weeks on checking this. My head... So I think, maybe I'll just add the biggest and after that I'll add other lakes 'on demand'.

 

[Samwell]

So additionally I'll need to spend few next weeks on checking this. My head... So I think, maybe I'll just add the biggest and after that I'll add other lakes 'on demand'.

Don't worry, here the biggest (Afaik) that could be mistaken for lakes

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Smallwood+Reservoir&hl=en&hnear=Smallwood+Reservoir&t=m&z=6
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Caniapiscau+Reservoir&hl=en&hnear=Caniapiscau+Reservoir&t=m&z=6
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Rober...07959&hnear=Robert-Bourassa+Reservoir&t=m&z=7
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Willi...679349,33.815918&hnear=Williston+Lake&t=m&z=5

 

[Lyrecryer]

Is the E3 map playable to some degree?

 

[hoi2geek]

Maybe you could include the areas that Quebec claimed but we're given to Newfoundland.

 

[mumia]

Maybe you could include the areas that Quebec claimed but we're given to Newfoundland.

Do you mean the area on the south of today Newfoundland, marked here?:

 

[Ofaloaf]

Is the E3 map playable to some degree?

Yes, although there's some resource reallocations that could be called for eventually.

 

[hoi2geek]

Do you mean the area on the south of today Newfoundland, marked here?:

Probably the areas of Labrador that are shaded black (you could also include everything in the dotted line though)

 

[Leobama Bama]

In order to represent one of the last Villa´s provinces split Villa Ahumada in a new province and maybe give some territorie of Ciudad Juarézto this new province to make the shape like in the map. The south one should split Cuauhtémoc and Ciudad Obregón to make it appear. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...15.svg/800px-Revolución_mexicana_1915.svg.png

 

[mumia]

In order to represent one of the last Villa´s provinces split Villa Ahumada in a new province and maybe give some territorie of Ciudad Juarézto this new province to make the shape like in the map. The south one should split Cuauhtémoc and Ciudad Obregón to make it appear. http://OKupload.wikimedia.org/wikip...15.svg/800px-Revolución_mexicana_1915.svg.png

OK, added to my list. Do you have any other suggestions in Latin America or other areas?

 

[Leobama Bama]

For the cities with names of revolutionary heroes. change the name for example Ciudad Obregón wasn´t called like that in 1914 and Delicias was founded in 1933.

 

[mumia]

For the cities with names of revolutionary heroes. change the name for example Ciudad Obregón wasn´t called like that in 1914 and Delicias was founded in 1933.

I use city names from 1936, but those suggestions may be useful for 1914 Mod names pack. We will need complete list with names from 1914.

 

[K W]

Would it be possible to create a province for Sopron? Considering that we already have a separate Prekmurje province with Murska Sobota, this would complete the set of "ethnic/irredentist dispute" provinces in the area.