HoF Map Finder/Generator Utility 2016-10-05

[Moonsinger]

Just a tiny update:

1. Fix report to display domination limit of 10K or greater.
2. Adding C3C time delay counter; now you don't have to wait forever for C3C to restart. If you have very fast system, just set it to 4 seconds or something.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/MapFinder05-04-2004.zip

Btw, this version runs great on my system. Please let me know if you encounter any problem.

 

[Tzar Sasha]

How about adding the ability to track C3C added resources like ivory? I would love to know which saves have ivory so that I might have the chance to build the Statue of Zeus.

 

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by Tzar Sasha
How about adding the ability to track C3C added resources like ivory? I would love to know which saves have ivory so that I might have the chance to build the Statue of Zeus.

What do you mean? Are you saying that this feature doesn't work in the latest version or are you saying that you need to see ivory on the report?

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Anyway, I'm going to retire soon. I hope this utility has served some of you well. It has been nice knowing you all. Unless Firaxis releases another patch for PTW/C3C, you may not hear from me again. Farewell!

 

[Tzar Sasha]

Originally posted by Moonsinger
What do you mean? Are you saying that this feature doesn't work in the latest version or are you saying that you need to see ivory on the report?

It works with C3C, but not all available at start resources are shown on the report. Ivory is one that I know for sure does not appear on the report. I destinctly remember seeing one map with three ivory resources within the 9 squares, but the report did not list them.

Anyway, I'm going to retire soon. I hope this utility has served some of you well. It has been nice knowing you all. Unless Firaxis releases another patch for PTW/C3C, you may not hear from me again. Farewell!

Hope you'll check in from time to time to answer questions some of us newer players might have in reqards to your utility.

 

[boogaboo]

What do you mean? Are you saying that this feature doesn't work in the latest version or are you saying that you need to see ivory on the report?

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Anyway, I'm going to retire soon. I hope this utility has served some of you well. It has been nice knowing you all. Unless Firaxis releases another patch for PTW/C3C, you may not hear from me again. Farewell!

Moonsinger, don't go!!
What happened? Found a boyfriend??
We love u!!!

 

[Moonsinger]

Hi EMan,

I just increased the max for C3C restart delay from 25 seconds to 90 seconds or 90000 ms. You can download it here:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/MapFinder3v5.zip

I wrote you a detail PM, but your message box was full! Therefore, I'm posting a short link to the new patch here - Hope you see it.


@Boogaboo, I'm married.

 

[EMan]

Thanks Moonsinger for making that change to MF.

Please NEVER "Retire"!

 

[grognard]

I have just tried using your Mapfinder program, version 3v5. The program generates maps, but refuses to run more than the initial number of iterations. What happens is that when Mapfinder goes to reload C3C after 50 iterations of trying to find maps, the RUN command box appears with the correct path to the Civ3conquests.exe file, but it never "hits" the OK Button to execute it, so the Mapfinder program terminates because C3C isn't running, and the report is generated with no data, even though there are maps in the save directory. I have tried both increasing and decreasing the three timer values to no avail. My system CPU is an Intel Celeron running at 2.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. Help!!!

 

[Moonsinger]

I have just tried using your Mapfinder program, version 3v5. The program generates maps, but refuses to run more than the initial number of iterations. What happens is that when Mapfinder goes to reload C3C after 50 iterations of trying to find maps, the RUN command box appears with the correct path to the Civ3conquests.exe file, but it never "hits" the OK Button to execute it, so the Mapfinder program terminates because C3C isn't running, and the report is generated with no data, even though there are maps in the save directory. I have tried both increasing and decreasing the three timer values to no avail. My system CPU is an Intel Celeron running at 2.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. Help!!!

What is the OS of your system? Anyway, I will fix it to work around C3C once and for all this time. I will find another way to restart C3C once and for all. If there is no other working alternative, I will code it in assembly language if I have too. About the report, I think the path you give to the save directory of MapFinder is too long. If you direct the "output" directory to a shorter path (for example, "c:\mapsave"), it will work. If I have time, I will do something about the "long directory name" too.

 

[grognard]

Moonsinger - I am running XP on my box. The output directory is the default CivMap directory, so I don't think that it's a long path name proble. After some more tweaking, I found that a value of 9000 for all three Delay variables and setting the restart number to 40 produces maps, but I still can't get a report.

 

[Moonsinger]

Moonsinger - I am running XP on my box. The output directory is the default CivMap directory, so I don't think that it's a long path name proble. After some more tweaking, I found that a value of 9000 for all three Delay variables and setting the restart number to 40 produces maps, but I still can't get a report.

If you right click on the MapFinder Icon, there will be a popup menu with more options...does the "Generate Report" from the popup menu work? In any case, do you see any *.JPG (screen shot of the starting location) in the output directory along with the save games? Would you post a snapshot of your map directory? Just go to the "Command Prompt" or "DOS Shell" then change to your c:\civmap (or whatever name) folder then execute this command:

DIR *.* > filelist.txt

That would generate a complete list of all the files in that directory. Just simply post your filelist.txt here. That would me help to figure out why the report wasn't generated correctly. Thanks!


Anyway, this version should Restart any version of C3C:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/MapFinder3v6.zip

 

[spoonky]

hey, does anyone have a link to download this util not from the civfanatics server? this one keeps timing out on me..

 

[Tweedledee]

I've tried this program, but allways when it finds a map and wants to save it, there is an error message from civ3:

"WARNING - The filename you have requested contains illegal characters. Please try again."

Then it's browsing through my c:\ directories and tries saving in an endless loop, allways with the same message. Now I have a lot of JPGs with this error message in my output directory.

What can I do to get the program working?

 

[Moonsinger]

I've tried this program, but allways when it finds a map and wants to save it, there is an error message from civ3:

"WARNING - The filename you have requested contains illegal characters. Please try again."

Then it's browsing through my c:\ directories and tries saving in an endless loop, allways with the same message. Now I have a lot of JPGs with this error message in my output directory.

What can I do to get the program working?

At the moment, it would work only with the US keyboard layout. You need to switch to the "US keyboard layout" from the system control panel before starting up Civ3 and MapFinder.

 

[spoonky]

hey, does anyone have a link to download this util not from the civfanatics server? this one keeps timing out on me..

!!! if anyone has aim or whatever and can provide me a working link or send the prog to me my sn is stixnstownz

 

[Moonsinger]

!!! if anyone has aim or whatever and can provide me a working link or send the prog to me my sn is stixnstownz

The software is about 700K, not very big. I'm not sure why CFC is timing out on you. Anyway, if you PM me your email address, I will email it to you.

 

[grognard]

Here is the list of files that the latest run of MapFinder generated. Again, it only printed a report header without data for any files generated. At least it's generating maps. I created the directory "C:\RELA" to store the maps rather than the default of Civ3Map to see if a different directory name would make a difference. It didn't.

 

[Tweedledee]

Thank you for that information, now it works and is really great!!!

 

[Moonsinger]

Thanks Tweedledee!


@Grognard, the weekend is coming up, I may have some free time to look into your issue. Since your file list look great and I can't find anything wrong with the filename format in your "C:\RELA" directory, I will compile a special "debug" version for you to run on your system.

 

[Tuvok694]

Thanks for this useful tool! Unfortunately I wasn't yet able to get it to function properly. I use version 3.6 with C3C 1.22. New Maps and starting positions are automatically generated but none of them can be found in the "save directory for acceptable maps" after the process is finished although some of the starting positions had the desired terrain/ressources. A file called "index.htm" is generated and displayed but there are no other files in that directory. The Autosave directory location is correct.
Can anybody help me?

By the way: What does "domination limit" mean and what should be the values for "minimum" and "maximum" there?

And one more thing: I'm from Germany, so sorry for my possibly not so "perfect" English...