The south west of Scotland

[gronak]

For years now in EU:IV the south west of Scotland has always bugged me. It looks like this:

Smooth and curved on the top, with an island below. This is completely different form reality:

(link to the map incase the map gets removed)

I would love if this update fixed this part and made it a peninsula at the tip.

 

[Brynjolf]

The problem is that the borders are loaded from a very small bitmap that has not been updated since at least Vic2. I attempted to fix a lot of borders but ultimately gave up since the low resolution bitmap made it impossible and added to the bordergore.

The first step towards better province borders would be to update their province and elevation bitmaps to a bigger resolution. I tested this and even a 20% increase would yield great results. Sadly, this is something that cannot be done by a single person since it would take months to complete.

Edit: The same small bitmap is also used for HoI4 so it's unlikely that it will be changed anytime soon. If I can assemble a small team of modders I will try to do it myself, but it will never be as good as actual devs could make it.