[WIP] The War at Home - 17th Century Europe

Guardacostas · Gunner Posts: 968 **10056 Gold** -

Isnt this something! Keep up with the screens Smile

Guardacostas · Gunner Posts: 968 **10056 Gold** -

Would it be possible to add the western coast of africa? or even a scaled down carribean? By scaled down i mean it won't be like in the vanilla game, it's shairing the map and space with europe and the atlantic ocean so it would be a much smaller carribean map

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

Cheers for the interest and comments! Always good to know there are people using the content we're making here. Hmm, now you've got me thinking I should have included areas around Guinea-Bissau that held European forts in that era, but going all the way down to West Africa like that would stretch the map and make everything else smaller (with the knock-on effect of making certain passages and straits harder to navigate, and islands like Jersey no longer large enough to hold a city you can march to). An entire world map would be cool but have similar issues, although you could expand the passages in Photoshop/gimp before running jlangsdo's scripts.

There's definitely room for a future mod centred around Africa and extending to Oman and the west coast of India, part of the old pirate round. We can ignore timelines/eras at that point and just add whatever ports look cool.

jlangsdo · Cutthroat Posts: 400 **10932 Gold** -

You might want to look into customizing maplabel.dta to keep those labels from stacking up.

Guardacostas · Gunner Posts: 968 **10056 Gold** -

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Could add bikini teams along the coastlines handing out cold beer then we will be parked more than sailing.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

Guardacostas · Gunner Posts: 968 **10056 Gold** -

Its ok EIM is nigh on perfect to me. Just OCDing don't mind me. And good luck with this new project Very Happy

jlangsdo · Cutthroat Posts: 400 **10932 Gold** -

I'm almost done with my spreadsheet script, which will make this super easy to manage.

maplabel.dta has 24 columns, each with 44 cities. Confusingly, it lists the values for all 44 cities for each column, before going to the next column (I would have listed the 24 attributes for one city at a time).

The first 12 columns are X offset (for each zoom), Y offset (for each zoom), Magnification/Font (for each zoom), and Orientation(for each zoom).... and then it repeats those 12 for the Icons. All of the values are 4-byte integers, with least significant byte first.

The Orientation is measured in degrees counterclockwise from horizontal.

There are a few cities whose Orientation change as you zoom the map in and out, like Grand Bahama. Having lots of different orientations for different city labels is part of what makes the map look so cool.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

Brilliant, I need to fix the maplabel for my other mods like Louisiana/Belize/Guayana/Bermuda and the Dutch cities too.

Do you recall what more of the the city's entry in the exe represents? Say, Amboyna, which I now have as:

A9 01 00 00 6F 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 0C 08 02 01 00 00 00 23 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 11 01 00

Obviously the 'X' coordinate is A9 01 00 00, although cityloc (coordinate x1000) seems to override this.

'Y' coordinate: 6F 00 00 00

Has port (02 or 06 for yes, 00 for no): 02 00 00 00

Flag (00 is Spain, 01 is England etc): 03

Range: 0C 08 (is this shooting range? Growth range? Trade goods?)

Size/importance: 02 01 00 (02, 03 and even 04 for most important? Not sure what the latter two numbers are?)

range2 (? seems to affect trade goods?): 00 00 23

bunch of zeros: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

eras (11 for both listed eras, 10 for just the former, 01 for just the latter):
1660/80: 11
1640/20: 11
1600: 01

zero?: 00

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

Beta is up here, the more testers the better

fleetp · Boatswain Posts: 3735 **36119 Gold** -

I downloaded the Beta yesterday. Today I'll back up[ my custom files and install the Beta. I hope to play some late today.

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Sorry I would love to play it but havenâ€™t downloaded it yet or even been on the laptop. Itâ€™s kinda like being in a hostile environment where you just canâ€™t do anything. Kinda like being at work all the time with a boss looking over your shoulders and here you are modding SMP when you are suppose to be getting that report wrote up and out to a customer. Before I had all my free time outside of my job to play with the game and now Iâ€™m stuck with a mod I really donâ€™t have time to deal with. Jinglangsdo gave a detailed report of what he found. I would certainly trust his observations and Iâ€™ve no doubt itâ€™s going to be a good mod in the end and probably a decent one as it is. Even the OG isnâ€™t perfect so no mods will be either but your doing a great job.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

Thanks me hearties! No worries P, I definitely know the feeling of being distracted by modding when I should be working (especially from home now with my gaming laptop beckoning me over). No worries if you don't have time to test it out. Bookstore with family sounds like a good time too

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Yeah Iâ€™m at Barns & Noble. Itâ€™s a double decker meaning it has two floors. I took my oldest daughter here because she loves reading Japanese Manga . I was setting here playing 8 ball pool on my phone and looked and saw this young lady climbing upstairs in a mini skirt so hey that was fun.