ToTPP: Additional terrain

For anyone interested, this is how I got the additional terrains working in a scenario.

First, you need to have this in the rules.txt file:

@COSMIC2
NumberOfTerrainTypes, 16

For, example, four different maps, you would change it to:

NumberOfTerrainTypes, 16, 16, 16, 16
(I have only tried it out with one map though)

You also need to edit @terrain like so:

@TERRAIN
Desert, 1,2, 0,1,0, yes, 1, 5, 5, yes, 1, 5, 3, Pln, no, ; Drt
Plains, 1,2, 1,1,0, yes, 1, 5, 1, For, 0,15, 0, Grs, no, ; Pln
Grassland, 1,2, 2,1,0, yes, 1, 5, 2, For, 0,10, 0, Hil, no, ; Grs
Forest, 2,3, 1,2,0, Pln, 0, 5, 5, no, 0, 0, 0, Grs, no, ; For
Hills, 2,4, 1,0,0, yes, 1,10, 0, yes, 3,10, 1, Pln, no, ; Hil
Mountains, 3,6, 0,1,0, no, 0, 0, 0, yes, 1,10, 6, Hil, no, ; Mou
Tundra, 1,2, 1,0,0, yes, 1,10, 1, no, 0, 0, 0, Drt, no, ; Tun
Glacier, 2,2, 0,0,0, no, 0, 0, 0, yes, 1,15, 3, Tun, no, ; Gla
Swamp, 2,3, 1,0,0, Grs, 0,15, 6, For, 0,15, 0, Pln, no, ; Swa
Jungle, 2,3, 1,0,0, Grs, 0,15, 6, For, 0,15, 0, Pln, no, ; Jun
Ocean, 1,2, 1,0,2, no, 0, 0, 0, no, 0, 0, 0, no, no, ; Oce
Bbb, 1,2, 1,0,2, no, 0, 0, 0, no, 0, 0, 0, no,no, ; Bbb
Ccc, 1,2, 1,0,2, no, 0, 0, 0, no, 0, 0, 0, no,no, ; Ccc
Ddd, 1,2, 1,0,2, no, 0, 0, 0, no, 0, 0, 0, no,no, ; Ddd
Eee, 1,2, 1,0,2, no, 0, 0, 0, no, 0, 0, 0, no,no, ; Eee
Fff, 1,2, 1,0,2, no, 0, 0, 0, no, 0, 0, 0, no,no, ; Fff
Oasis
Buffalo
Grassland
Pheasant
Coal
Gold
Game
Ivory
Peat
Gems
Fish
Bbb1
Ccc1
Ddd1
Eee1
Fff1
Desert Oil
Wheat
Grassland
Silk
Wine
Iron
Furs
Glacier Oil
Spice
Fruit
Whales
Bbb2
Ccc2
Ddd2
Eee2
Fff2

I realize most of you would not have any kind of trouble getting thorugh this, but personally I sopmehow managed to take a bit of time figurng this out. I have tested the attached terrain file, and everthing seems to work perfectly.

It's quite amazing! A few extra terrain types can bring so much life to some scenarios, especially ones which use terrains for very special roles.

(I used the terrain1 file from Eivinds First Strike, just chosen at random.)

Edit: Seems I can't upload the terrain file, it being too large.

Thank you. I didn't realize you had to add to also do a bunch of stuff manually. It's not indicated in the Readme. What about a copy of the expanded Terrain.bmp file? Where can I find one?

Here comes the file. Winrar is the only compressing tool I have.

I made a 256 color version, it's small enough to upload, but I donðt know if it's usable at all after compression. I guess the actual format of the green frames around the graphics is the only thing anyone actually needs.

Thanks. I can easily convert it to 16m colors.

In-game, I get a lot of green lines where different terrains meet.

I expect this is cause by one of the lines being a pixel too high. I had similar issues with the terrain1.bmp I edited, but with a bit of double checking it now works perfectly.

Does that also happen with the .rar file? I guess it must be an artifact of me changing the resolution. It's more or less entirely impossible for us to have versions that read the terrain files differently.

Yes, I used the rar file. There does seem to be an unusual sensitivity to resolution here. What zoom setting did you use under TOTPP Configuration. Mine is 6.