hi there,
After posting "the map editor is easy to understand" I tried to figure out how easy it would be to create a custom map. Well, it seems not easy enogh for me.
I used the standard scenario to start modifying a map. Its was just a idea I have had as a little child:
A standard scenario with more major powers and corrected boarders for germany and, of course, the nederlands).
I did this:
modified the german borders (berlin, prussia and added bavaria)
splited the "ottoman empire" in 3 coutrys (its a major now)
splitted spain into 3 countrys and "majorizied" it
splitted italy into 3 c. and maked it major!
...same with austria hungary as well
the new ids for the countrys are from 131 to 140.
I added the "group id" with right group areas for the new majors.
...gave them new major ids
I added some colors to the "major colors"-tag
changed the flag locations by hand (the cellx/celly attribute)
and changed the major-id tags like this:
<Name>Austria-Hungary</Name>
<DefaultFlagIndex>9</DefaultFlagIndex>
<DefaultColorIndex>9</DefaultColorIndex>
<DefaultGroupId>9</DefaultGroupId>
of course, i changed the "adjectedAreasId"-tags as well but i did NOT changeed the ZoneIDs (this is just to display the ships, or not?)
I changed the map.png and the flags.png.
Did I forgot something? The map does not work at the moment. The map editor as well as the game crashes when I try to load the map. It would be nice to have a little debug tool build into the mapeditor.
Greetings
Stine