The Atlas Project

hi,

i understand

i just wanted to know what there will be, since there are some values shown without telling what for

what i wasn´t able was to check the difference of coastal waves like wild or so - may be the fault of my gk though, cause i´m testing on a notebook - my wife is using my pc for playing civ IV .. :p

i´ll have a hard night to try
 
The coastal waters setting controls how much water is made 'Coast' (Galleys and Ironclads can only navigate coastal waters).

Normal means every square adjacent to land is coast.
Calm means the coastal waters extend farther into the sea, sometimes connecting to other islands and continents
Wild means the sea is rough and dangerous even near the shore. If you look closely you'll see that often a galley will not even be able to sail around its home continent.
Varied is, well, varied. Calm in some places, normal in most places and wild in some others. ;)
 
Say.. can peaks have ice/forests/jungle/hills on them? I'm not quite sure :o
 
Junuxx said:
Say.. can peaks have ice/forests/jungle/hills on them? I'm not quite sure :o
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At least with my experience so far in map making, it's doesn't matter what's there. A peak is a peak, I haven't seen anything different from one terrain type to another as for terrain goes.

Tbear2520
 
Junuxx said:
Say.. can peaks have ice/forests/jungle/hills on them? I'm not quite sure :o
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well it depends on the height of the peak - lets say about 1500meters you may see forrests as well - but there is also the glaciers over 2500meters the are seen in austria, switzerland, france new sealand, usa ...

jungle will not be found there at all i´d say.

and a hill on a peak? wouldn+t understand ...

have a nice day


Latitude appr. height of tree limit Notes
(m) (ft)
Sweden 68 ° N 400 1300
Swiss Alps 46 ° N 2100 6900
Wyoming, USA 43 ° N 3000 9800
Japanese Alsps 39 ° N 2900 9500
Yosemite, USA 38 ° N 3200 10500 Westsside of Sierra Nevada
Yosemite, USA 38 ° N 3600 11800 Eastside of Sierra Nevada
Himalaya 28 ° N 4400 14400
Hawaii, USA 20 ° N 2800 9000 low rainfall above Passat-Winds
Costa Rica 9.5 ° N 3400 11200
Kilimandscharo, Tansania 3 ° S 3000 9800

well - i found that under wikipedia,com

maybe it can help u

sry for how it looks like - lost the formating ...
 
I've seen peaks with temperate forests on them. Look a bit weird, but it's possible. Also, they can have ice on them too, but it doesn't change the look that much it seems.
 
Thanks for the comments on peaks. It's fun to see that you're all correct in a way.

Sindelar is right about the real world, but since Civ4 lacks a real height model I can't do much with the info. Aeric is right about what you normally see in-game I guess. Peaks can be forested or covered by jungle.

But not only does it hardly change the look, it also doesn't affect a peak's properties, as tbear points out. So I'll stick to just peaks for now. If it turns out it doesn't look very pretty, I can add mountain vegetation later.

Anyway, I finally have a complete color scheme (for the preview, that is).
 

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Excellent tool, this is great. I'm having some trouble with it though.

It appears that its not updating the window enough. when i change something I need to click the area again to get the change to show up. Also when i generate a map... it does not show it. While it does generate it as i can save it a load it up, but i can never see what it looks like before actually playing in civ4. Any ideas on this?

Thanks again
 
Hey MadHatr,

Yeah, the updating/out of focus issue was quite annoying. Was because I have a solution now :D. It was the same problem that caused the heap to keep growing, eventually crashing the program (if you kept on generating like a hundred maps).
I'll put the new version up for download soon.

But you can't see the preview? That's rather odd, I haven't heard of that problem. Any other people having the same problems? I hope the problem gets fixed with the new version.

Other changes in v0.25:
- Hills!
- Optional map preview (toggle on the Misc tab)
- Readme file now includes a color legend
 
Junuxx, I just downloaded the .025 version. I don't have time tonight but with the upcoming holidays, I should be able to give it a good look over. Keep up the good work. :goodjob:

Tbear2520
 
Craig_Sutter said:
Can the Atlas be used to generate random resource placements on an already created scenario map. I've made a premade map, and would love to sprinkle the resources at random rather than placing every single one.
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At present it doesn't place resources at all.;)
But it is the next thing I'm going to add. Loading existing maps is a bit more down the list though.
 
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