Map Finder Help

i just installed Map-finder on my pc and i cant get it to generate any saves by using ALT_M ingame - do i need to install another mod or am i doing something wrong?

 

Nevermind.

 

Hi

I just installed map finder - great idea, brilliant tool.
I have one problem though. I can use Map Finder inside BTS with the newest buffy mod, but I can't see the screenshots/saves inside the map finder program. I can find them manually in the save folder.
I think it is because Map finder cannot detect BTS as I am unable to choose it inside the program (in the file menu 'version' Beyond the Sword is greyed out).
Does anyone have an idea why it is unable to detect BTS?
Is there anything I can do manually?

If not, I'll just have to check the screen shots one at a time.

Thanks
D

 

Oh, and it would be cool if Map Finder could make the settler build a city, so that you could see the whole area. It is after all possible to regenerate manually after having built your city.

 

OK, I have re-formatted my hard drive, reinstalled everything, CivIV, Warlord, BTS, using the "buffy" HOF mod, etc. etc. Everything works fine.
When I press [Alt]-[m] in the game to start map finder, I get this thing asking me to tell it in how many turns do I want an alarm to go off.

I apologize if this has been covered already.

Also, I tried to install the .net 2.0 thing, but got an error because I already have later versions than that installed.

The map finder program seems to work fine, but I can't activate it when in the game.

 

Map Finder now both starts/stops via pressing the CTRL-ALT-G key combination.

Newer versions of .NET should work fine. Denniz or another staff person please confirm.

Sun Tzu Wu

 

Don't know where to post this...

I find MF really useful for the HOF like everyone but one thing bugs me. When I've chosen a game to play, I click the load button with "Move First" on and have to navigate through the directory tree every time to locate my Bts save folder, which is where I want it.

So, in a future update of MapFinder, would it be possible to have it remember your target from last time or have a setting for a default location? Please?

 

hi, not sure if this should be here - i've installed mapfinder to the default location (my civ4 installs are on a different hard disk), and when i load beyond the sword with buffy 002, and hit CTRL+ALT+G, i get a message saying "mapfinder path is invalid: C:\Program Files\Civ4_Map_Finder"

Anybody any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

 

cheers, that's worked.

 

I generated a load of maps for the modern age so I tried to add oil to the columns displayed in the main map finder screen. When I did this, all the values in the screen disappeared, so it no longer displayed for each map how many of each resource type it contained. The boxes were all blank, but it still displayed the thumbnail view of the map.

Since I'd messed up mapfinder, I reinstalled it hoping that I'd get the proper display back, but I didn't. I deleted the old files before reinstalling and took the opportunity to download 1.8 and install that. I get thumbnails, but no values in the boxes. They are all blank. What did I do wrong? I've always been able to fix problems like this in the past by reinstalling ...

 

I did as you suggested - 1 file found on my system with a datestamp of 9/17/2006. Anything else I could try?

 

I have reinstalled yet again and tried running mapfinder - no improvement unfortunately.

Here's the main screen:


I wasn't sure what you meant by the column dialog - do you mean the screen where you change which columns are displayed? (Sorry for being dense). If so, that's in its default state, I haven't touched it since I upgraded to 1.8 in an effort to sort out the problem. It looks normal to me but I can post a screenshot if that's the screen you mean.

The save files are fine - the text is in the file and anyway, you can see that the values for each resource type are displayed as normal in the box on the bottom right of the main screen but, confusingly, not in the grid. The thing is that it was working absolutely normally, all the correct values were displayed fine, until I added the oil column. When I did that, all the values that had previously been shown correctly disappeared, leaving the blank boxes you can see in the screenshot. It happened immediately - I hadn't exited the program. So I wouldn't have thought that the problem lies in the .txt files generated by MapFinder? (But then, what do I know )

What I don't understand is why the problem persists despite a reinstall. I've tried reinstalling several times now with no joy so it looks as if something has changed that isn't contained within the MapFinder files. Could it be something in the .ini file for example? Or ...

I keep thinking that I must have done something really stupid, but I can't imagine what Thanks for your help Denniz

 

I changed the ini file as you suggested. Instead of blank boxes, every box now shows "0" as the value

I've reinstalled yet again but still no joy. I am using Buffy 3.19.002. BtS is patched to 3.19.