Map Editor

[Danijel]

I think there is lots of confusion here
Boar are you talking about Birth of the federation game? Cus this is Supremacy part, separate game, it is "like" sequel to BoTF.

EDIT:

There is also a map editor for BotF. It's part of the Ultimate Editor (Tools -> UE in the AIO Installer): viewforum.php?f=125

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

The users in this topic don't know how the Ultimate Editor for BotF works, that's why you got the link, so that you can ask the question where the right guys might read it and give you advice.

[toffeeblue]

I've decided to take on the task of creating a map editor and wanted to ask if anyone has any input on what this should include. My thoughts:

On the new game configuration screen, create an option to load map data from a file. The game would then load map data from a file which would contain:
-Map size
-Position of all empire home systems
-Position of all minor home systems
-Position of all uninhabited systems
-Position of all other objects (wormholes, nebulae etc.)

Does anyone have an opinion on whether each home system location should be specific (i.e. Sol in sector 5,10, Romulus in 20,25) versus having generic starting positions defined for empire home systems, then assigned to each empire at random?

To keep the scope of this project smaller, I think it would be best to leave the individual system properties (planets, population etc.) to be set by the game rather than in the map file. Thoughts on this?

Any other ideas are welcome.

I can see you can alter galaxy map size parameters e.g. "huge" = 150 x 150 squares in 'resources/tables'

How can I get a .gal file that has a "custom size" e.g. 150 x 150 ?

Just as I'm building a true canon map and think it needs more spacing out for systems etc within sectors

Thanks

[Misfire]

I'll work on getting that done. I'll probably have to convert maps to have their own numerical size, rather than use the values from the tables (that could cause issues when people have them set differently). Shouldn't be too hard to implement.

[toffeeblue]

I'll work on getting that done. I'll probably have to convert maps to have their own numerical size, rather than use the values from the tables (that could cause issues when people have them set differently). Shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Great stuff

Yeah, I saw in the tables that you can alter the galaxy size e.g. huge is currently 72 x 72.

A gigantic 150 x 150 generates some interesting maps ... LOL

I'm playing on a 120 x 120 with a higher minor spawn ratio, and have altered the ship lists slightly to be more canon like.

Game is amazing.

[toffeeblue]

I'll work on getting that done. I'll probably have to convert maps to have their own numerical size, rather than use the values from the tables (that could cause issues when people have them set differently). Shouldn't be too hard to implement.

I created a custom map from one of the pre defined maps.

What is this error referring to? Is it because there are too many systems in the game to start ?

21:23:25.451 [48] ERROR General - An error occurred while starting a new game.
Supremacy.Types.SupremacyException: An error occurred while creating a new game context. ---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(ExceptionArgument argument, ExceptionResource resource)
at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
at Supremacy.Universe.GalaxyGenerator.PlaceMinorRaceHomeworlds(CollectionBase`1 positions, IList`1 starNames, HomeSystemsDatabase homeSystemDatabase, List`1 minorRaceCivs, CollectionBase`1 minorHomeLocations, List`1 chosenCivs, Boolean respectQuadrants, IList`1 mapinfo) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Universe\GalaxyGenerator.cs:line 665
at Supremacy.Universe.GalaxyGenerator.PlaceHomeworlds(CollectionBase`1 positions, IList`1 starNames, CollectionBase`1& homeLocations, IList`1 mapinfo) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Universe\GalaxyGenerator.cs:line 996
at Supremacy.Universe.GalaxyGenerator.GenerateGalaxy(GameContext game) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Universe\GalaxyGenerator.cs:line 198
at Supremacy.Game.GameContext.Initialize() in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Game\GameContext.cs:line 828
at Supremacy.Game.GameContext..ctor(GameOptions options, Boolean isMultiplayerGame) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Game\GameContext.cs:line 772
at Supremacy.Game.GameContext.Create(GameOptions options, Boolean isMultiplayerGame) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Game\GameContext.cs:line 751
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Supremacy.Game.GameContext.Create(GameOptions options, Boolean isMultiplayerGame) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyCore\Game\GameContext.cs:line 755
at Supremacy.WCF.SupremacyService.DoStartGame() in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyService\SupremacyService.cs:line 255

[Misfire]

Can you post the map so I can step through the loading to see what's happening?

[Misfire]

Nevermind, found the problem and fixed. Haven't heard from Iceman in a while but he should be including it in the next patch.

[Misfire]

I can see you can alter galaxy map size parameters e.g. "huge" = 150 x 150 squares in 'resources/tables'

How can I get a .gal file that has a "custom size" e.g. 150 x 150 ?

Just as I'm building a true canon map and think it needs more spacing out for systems etc within sectors

Thanks

I have this functional in the game and editor, just need to add buttons in the editor yet to alter the size. Then I'll do a bit of testing to make sure it didn't affect anything else in the game, it should be coming soon.

[thunderchero]

Haven't heard from Iceman in a while

that is strange for him (last login was Sun Aug 14) hope he is just busy.

[Iceman]

Sorry guys, I should have posted about being away, but I wasn't expecting so much action in august and I thought I'd be back sooner.
I was busy with RL stuff, and taking some vacation time. Now with the beach stuff taken care of, time to get back to work

[Iceman]

@Misfire, since you're working on the map editor, one smallish detail. When loading a map, the civ list is built/ordered in the order the civs are found in the map file (by sector coordinates), instead of their CivID. This might cause some issues.
I edited the canon map so that the empires are listed in their CivID order, but when custom maps are made, the maker needs to be aware of this.

[Iceman]

Oh, and one other "bug" that affects custom made maps. When generating random systems, it can happen that Rogue planets are spawned in non-Nebula systems. I had to remove/replace them by hand in the canon map.

[Iceman]

Oh, and one other "bug" that affects custom made maps. When generating random systems, it can happen that Rogue planets are spawned in non-Nebula systems. I had to remove/replace them by hand in the canon map.

Fixed.
Also made it possible to add planets to Nebulae, fixed planet bonuses in GGs, semi-fixed Crystalline planets, and some other smallish fixes.

[kaiidth]

Hello,

First of all I want all of you to thank you for your work.
I have also discovered the fantastic mapeditor. But I have a problem. Every time I want to edit a saved map, I get an error.
Could you help me?

Thank you in advance. Keep up the good work.

bij Supremacy.Client.MapEditorDialog..ctor(IList`1 mapInfo, GalaxySize galaxySize, String fileName, String description) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyClient\MapEditorDialog.xaml.cs:regel 533
bij Supremacy.Client.LoadMapDialog.GenericCommandsDeleteCommandExecuted(Object source, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e) in C:\Projects\Supremacy\Mainline\SupremacyClient\LoadMapDialog.xaml.cs:regel 110
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