With the change in map rendering techniques, how can map modders cope with it? Is it still Mercator bitmap files but rendered on a globe by the engine, or is there anything new that we should know?
The future of map modding
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No change for the modders really.
The minimap image is a good example of how the mapfiles are drawn.
The minimap image is a good example of how the mapfiles are drawn.
If it works don't fix it I guess. Wonderful news that Rome 2 will most likely be as moddable as any other PDS game.
Is it convex? I can't see the curve on the screenshots I've seen so far. The earth was only mathematically proven to be a sphere in the 3rd Century BC, so it might be interesting if the Greeks (who proved it mathematically) and the Carthaginians (who allegedly proved it through travelling to the southern hemisphere) got events on the topic. The Romans seemingly thought the earth was some kind of disc, or at least that Europe/Asia/Africa was.
Or some sort of technique that distorts the map depending on the position of the camera?
See how the "viewbox" on the minimap is distorted and how the orientation of Corsica and Sardinia changes between the screenshots.
It's nice that there are no changes to map modding.
But what about map size? From minimap it would seem width to height is 2:1, so my guess would be 4046x2048.
Based on how small and detailed some of the city-provinces are... I would say it's rather 8192x4096 now.
Sorry for bumping again, but which projection is used? Is it Lambert conformal conic projection?