Tool for high detailed maps of Civ4 games

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Hello guys,

to analyze a Pitboss game, I've wrote a small Mod component to automatize the 'ingame screen shooting procedure'. It could be used to create big, high-resolution images of a Civ4:BTS game.

I never found such a tool here and like to share it for scenario makers and others.

Here, you see an example image of our latest PB game. The image was embedded in an OpenStreetMap like environment and I've zoomed two levels out.



A script to merge the output screenshots with ImageMagick is included.
The code could be found on Github https://github.com/YggdrasiI/Civ4Mapper
Example implemenation: http://civ.zulan.net/mapviewer/

 

[vktj]

I wish this existed back in 2014 when I made this high resolution map of a Legends of Ancient Scenario I like (I made the map with some help from Totestra, my modified PerfectWorld map script): https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...of-ancient-arabia.249649/page-5#post-13399212

To make that map, I took about 100 screenshots of the map I made in the world builder, converted them in Gimp to have the tiles be squares, then used an image stitcher to combine the images together in to a single large map image — a rather laborious manual process.

 

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Hell vktj,

yes, to take and combine such screenshots manually cost a lot of nerves/time. Without automatisation probably I would still pressing "PrintScreen" for our maps at http://civ.zulan.net/mapviewer/
Your post was occasion to rewrite a few parts of the readme. Hope it could help you and others to automates the process.