The Atlas Project

[tbear2520]

Junuxx, Very nice! I like the Atlas Project logo when hiding the map

The project is coming along very nice. A couple of suggestings I would make is

1) Obviously loading a map option would be sweet!

2) Prehaps a built in legend with a highlight option. Would make much easier locating what resources are where. A good example of this would be in perfmon. Goto Start - Run and then type perfmon and hit enter. Next click the Light Bulb icon along the top bar. Then select the various counter and watch the highlight switch. It makes for a great way to quickly view detailed things.

3) Everything looks really good. I think you can countinue to polish things up a bit to make it even better but the application is taking a very nice form.

4) Is it possible to make the save button remember the last directory you saved too? Possibly in an .ini file

 

[Smidlee]

Where are the rivers? or is rivers next on your list?
it would be handy if i didn't have to added in rivers manually for each map.

 

[Junuxx]

Rivers are the only map features still missing. They're the most difficult, too
I have a couple of important exams in 2 weeks, so I think that apart from some bug-fixes and the like, I am not going to work on Atlas a lot the coming weeks.
But rivers will eventually be added, for sure.

 

[Gr3yHound]

Nevermind Junuxx, i´ll cover for you
the next version of MapView has full support for rivers, bonuses, improvements so you can add rivers in just a second since the placement system is 100% idiot-proof =)

gj Junuxx, take your break and get ready for yor exams, trust me, i know what i m talking about, that´s more important atm.

 

[Junuxx]

Junuxx, Very nice! I like the Atlas Project logo when hiding the map

Thanks. The logo was in already in the previous version but I forgot to update the installer to copy it

2) Prehaps a built in legend with a highlight option. Would make much easier locating what resources are where. A good example of this would be in perfmon. Goto Start - Run and then type perfmon and hit enter. Next click the Light Bulb icon along the top bar. Then select the various counter and watch the highlight switch. It makes for a great way to quickly view detailed things.

I didn't check this out until right now, but I agree that this is a very useful interface. I could try it, I'll give it a thought.

3) Everything looks really good. I think you can countinue to polish things up a bit to make it even better but the application is taking a very nice form.

4) Is it possible to make the save button remember the last directory you saved too? Possibly in an .ini file

It's looking good because of great feedback like yours!
I'm currently looking into using an .ini.

Junuxx

 

[Junuxx]

Version 0.35 is now available!
I'll post the changes after I get some sleep.

 

[Junuxx]

Version 0.35 - Release date 14/12/2005
- Added fertility and productivity ratings
- Added resource abundance control
- Added layout presets glacial, deluge and sealess
- Added memory recommendation
- Improved starting locations to consider resources
- Improved resource placement, no more wine in jungles
- Improved text output
- Fixed issues with resource toggles

 

[Junuxx]

Atlas035.zip (69.4 KB, 4647 views)

Wow, what happened? Where did all those 4647 downloaders come from?
And no one dropped a line?

 

[Simmelan]

Sorry Junxxx,

Fairly busy this season, haven't got around to testing out v.035. Will see if have some spare time this weekend...

Anyway, keep up the goood work.... eagerly anticipating the release of the module with rivers generation...

 

[Gr3yHound]

hey fellow!
can we expect an update sometime? =)

would you mind leaving me a icq msg once you get on the pc again. I´d need some motivation for mapview again, mayb we can push the 2 programs again.

Greetings and a happy new year

 

[Junuxx]

Happy new year to you too!
I haven't had much time for Atlas, with the holidays and such, but I'll definitely go back to it in a week or so.

I am however proud to reveal a small change... The Atlas hompage can now be found at http://atlas.junuxx.net

 

[suspendinlight]

Great script. I'm waiting on rivers before I can use it in a game though. Also, have you considered clustering resources and terrain a bit more than the game currently does? Other than tundra and jungle, the terrain seems completely random. It seems to place a single huge peak in the center of a vast plain. I would like to see more earth-like maps where there are mountain ranges and some resources are located in certain areas, like oil and the middle east. Hope you will be updating soon!

 

[Aqtaca]

Mr. Kools,
Great job with Atlas Initiative, my brother and I have been making maps for each other with it lately and are very satisfied. We supplement the lack of rivers and resources for Green mode manually.

I rarely speak and ask, as I mainly find answers to my questions and dilemas by lurking through threads. However I have encountered a problem no one yet adressed. It is the conflict between set number of game turns within Atlas, which allows maximum speed of Epic, and patch version 1.52, that includes a new speed- Marathon. Instead of allowing 1200 turns per Marathon, or at least sticking to 660 per Epic, it drops the number of turns to 440, the Normal speed.
The general gamespeed, however, remains as selected within the main menu; that is to say that although i am in 12th century both in the term of years and technology, i have some 50 turns to go.

I tried stopping this with your Gamespeed utility, but it doesn't help.
Can i turn off the speed option in Atlas, so that it generates maps without it prejudging the number of turns in game?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Junuxx]

@suspendlight
Thank you. I'll be back in Amsterdam tonight and I can't wait to start programming on Atlas again. I have lots of fresh ideas. Mountain ranges, better continent shapes and different modes of resource clustering are on the list.

@Aqtaca:
I am glad to hear to you and your brother are having fun with Atlas. Good
I'll look into the the problem with Marathon speed and turns, thanks for mentioning it.

 

[RockStar-holic]

Sorry if I missed it somerwhere in the thread, but there should be no reason why you couldn't run this script on a mac, is there?

I'm hoping by summer I can stop lurking and start playing. Yeah for me!!!

 

[PermoGuy]

Well, I can't get it to run on Windows... I go through Start>Programs>Atlas Map Generator and nothing happens...

Any ideas why?

*edit*

Oh God... *head in hands*

it took me about 9 seconds to realise the problem... I forgot to install the Java required

 

[Junuxx]

Sorry if I missed it somerwhere in the thread, but there should be no reason why you couldn't run this script on a mac, is there?

I'm hoping by summer I can stop lurking and start playing. Yeah for me!!!

I haven't tested it on a Mac, but I suspect it won't work, because I used operating system specific pieces of code for specification of files and directories. Maybe I can fix it.

Do you have Java installed? Do you get an error?

Junuxx

 

[RockStar-holic]

I've got Java, haven't brought up the generator yet though I'll give it a try in the next day ot two and let you know of the results.

 

[Rhymes]

Keep up the good work, this is one of the most outstanding player community project ever made on civfanatics! I hope the fully operationnal version comes out soon

 

[Junuxx]

@Rockstar-holic: I think the program will run, but you won't be able to save your maps. That's just speculation though.

@Rhymes: Thanks a lot! Rivers are proving difficult, but I keep making progress

Showtime! Atlas is back, with version 0.36
For changelog and stuff, see the first post OR the website!

Junuxx