MapTruncator v01 (pre-beta)

Hallo Lads and Gents

ive make a little tool to truncate os crop maps...

Features:

• u can crop a area from a bigger map: example => u have a 100x100 plot map and crop an area of NNxNN on each position

• this tool reads the plot-section of a CivWarlordsWBSave or Civ4WorldBuilderSave and get folowing values:
  
  • x/y pos
  • isXOfRiver
  • RiverXXDirection
  • FeatureType and FeatureVariety
  • TerrainType
  • PlotType
• all other values would be deletet in this version...

• + u get at the end a picture of ur crop erea, Shor Map Infos (grid width, grid height, num plots written) and the PlotList...

• what u must do is...
  
  • copy PlotList from MapTruncator-Output (below the crop picture) and reaplace the PlotList in ur CivWarlordsWBSave or Civ4WorldBuilderSave File.
  • copy relevant Map Infos in ur file
  • dont forget ur civ-start-positions...
  • think thats all

ToDO:

• needful things

REQUIREMENTS:

this tool ist a php and javascript tool... u NEED:

• an apache server or other server with php > 5.0 and the gd-libs (get XAMPP)
• FireFox 1.5.0.9 (i only test in it, but try others)
• activated javascript1.2 (?)

INSTALATION:

1. install XAMPP (apache destr)
2. unzip the View attachment MapTruncator.zip to the HTDOCS folder (Expample: c:\xampp\htdocs\MapTurncator\)
3. start ur browser with URL: "http://localhost/Maptruncator/".. lets go

ATTENTION:
a file u will upload is only a copy, the result is on screen

UPDATE: 6. Jan 2006 (version 05)

ADDED:

* graphical outfit updated
* all WBFile-Data will be read an write (improvements, units, citys...)
* map-legend
* terrain: all standart terrain-types and hills and mountains added
* map-data will be updated... grid width,grid height and num plots written
* starting position not supportet (u must look for right positions in player data)

Next Steps:

* map cleaner (u can delete some things u dont need...)
* set starting positions...
* ... needful things

ATTANTION: please delete the old version from ur htdoc folder... and extract there this View attachment MapTruncator.zip version...

Thx

GoodGames

greets

Kalderus

PS: sorry for my bad english... i work on it (since 20 years )

Sounds great!

I'd been thinking about how great something like this would be recently.

I can't say I understand perfectly from the above how to use it, but I'll see if I can give it a shot sooner or later.

ok here some screens...from version 05

Great tool! (Well I have to say, I didn't test it until now, but it sounds great. This is, what I was looking for allready for long time.).

thx,

current i work on next steps:

* display all map informations like hills, units...
* read and output all WBFile-Data
* clean up a map i.e. deleta all improvements or roads or TeamReveals
* set start positions

in future i want add:

* edit/add Teams and Player data
* edit/add map data
* edit/add game info data

and i want to make this tool mouse usable... its posible with javascript

new version 05 updated... see first post...thx

umm.. how does this work now? i see a box in the upper left and i cant seem to get it to select an area to "truncate" the map. it just remains there OFF the map. map cleaner doesnt work either. also save features, i see none. HELP!!!

EDIT: internet explorer obviously wasn't the browser you were talking about. hehe i feel stupid.

Hi Fiend777Fits

im sorry, but i dont more work on this browser-tool. current i make a new version for windows and primaly for bts...

but for this version u use, its important to use the firefox browser and u must make javascript ON in the browser...

then u can move with the arrow-buttons the truncate-area and press then the button to truncate this area...

then u get a plotlist of this area... if u copy only the plots in ur map-file u can use it very good... it works only this way

im sorry for stop this project, but a new is comming in the near future...

Kalderus said:

Hi Fiend777Fits

im sorry, but i dont more work on this browser-tool. current i make a new version for windows and primaly for bts...

but for this version u use, its important to use the firefox browser and u must make javascript ON in the browser...

then u can move with the arrow-buttons the truncate-area and press then the button to truncate this area...

then u get a plotlist of this area... if u copy only the plots in ur map-file u can use it very good... it works only this way

im sorry for stop this project, but a new is comming in the near future...

Click to expand...

yeah i figured it out. thanks for this tool. and keep up the good work