BMP to WBS Converter

[tbear2520]

My signature below has a link to the map I created using this convertor from this thread. There was and is a learning curve but this utility proves to be a great assistance.

Granted it took me some manual editing of bitmaps in order for colors to properly sort for various little things that were difficult to extract out based on color, but that's more of an issue with the maps and not the convertor.

 

[tbear2520]

One of the hardest parts about trying to make an acurate map is placing resources. Well I came across the site below.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/israel.html

It helped me a lot in the locating natural resources for the map\scenario I am creating. See my signature for more information. I just thought I would share this site with those that might need it.

 

[vladeo]

I have been having the mountain problem too.

When I open the file in notepad, it tells me that I have grasslands in there but then when I open it with Civ IV all the land is mountain.

I have a problem that falls into the mountain problem category I guess. There are mountains all where the ocean should be on my map.

 

[vladeo]

Nevermind. I feel so stupid. I didn't use the right color for the ocean. I guess I dont have the same mountain problem after all.

 

[Good Sauce]

all I get are mountains, great concept for a tool, but it seems you need to be a programer to get it to work...
I've just been trying to get the height map to work and using 'blank' for the other, still mountains. resized one pixel per game tile, still mountains... i give up.

 

[Jon Shafer]

Can you post the images you're working from Good Sauce?

 

[Good Sauce]

Well after I gave up i scrapped all the old images i was trying to use. Of course I'm stubborn and can't truly give up on anything so frustrating... I got hr_oskar's BMPs hoping they would work. Tried to make a map of Denmark, instead of mountains I got ocean this time though with coast outlines. It seems to place ocean and coast okay, but when I open the WBS as a text all the squares that should be grassland have terrain=none. I'm using corel paint shop pro X (trial) as my image editor (if it has a resizing tool without anti-aliasing i can't find it, the 5 on the list it has all change some pixels colors). the BMP I used and the resulting WBS are atached.
edit: it's not letting me upload the WBS... [shrug]

 

[Rhye]

very simple answer. you are using just 1 bitmap! You need one for heights, one for terrains, one for features at least. And you might want to add the ones for rivers and for resources.

 

[Rhye]

I'm using corel paint shop pro X (trial) as my image editor (if it has a resizing tool without anti-aliasing i can't find it, the 5 on the list it has all change some pixels colors).

the 4th will resize by pixel

 

[Good Sauce]

hm, well I kinda feel like a moron now. Got it working, but still having some hiccups, good program but it's got one hell of a learning curve if you dont have experince with image editing. In the PDF it said once you had the height map you could skip the others, thats where my problem came from.

 

[Rhye]

oh, well the height map is the minimum necessary to make it work, not to make a good map...

 

[Grohan]

The help file says that I should turn anti-aliasing off but I have no idea how to do that with GIMP

 

[Grohan]

If any of you don't know how to do that with GIMP, I guess that help for any other image editing program is sufficient too. I'm just so impatient to see if my map works in the game

 

[alex9988]

Mmhhh... the link doesnt work for me, it says file not found or something.... HELP

 

[Rhye]

it works now

 

[jawz92]

I have a problem when im launching the Empty scenario.. It says in the tutorial that two windows should open up, but the only thing that happens is that a doswindow comes up for like a second, but then nothing more.. Is there anything u can do to fix it?

Thx

 

[Rhye]

There's nothing to fix, the program works perfectly.
try to read what's written in the dosbox to understand what you are doing wrong

 

[Osymandias]

i think you haven't installed python
you need it to work with the tool

 

[Jieff]

I'll try this here first even if the last reply is quite old.

I would like to use the converter so as to make warlords map instead of vanilla.

Anybody thinks it's possible?

 

[Osymandias]

in principle you just have to rename the ending from *.Civ4WorldBuilderSave to *.CivWarlordsWBSave.

but a dropdown to choose it would nevertheless be nice.