Worldbuilder Questions

[henryMCVII]

Hopefully anyone can help. While map making in WB there came up some questions. The Guide doesnt help very much here. Maybe its dumb, maybe not... so here is goes:

1. What exactly does the Continents Tab do?
"This is where areas can be distinguished as continents (Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe)." - thats what the giude tells about this tab. But what does this mean?
1.1 Is this just for Terrain graphics?
1.2 Does this Continent thing have any connection to the game - beside the gfx? (for example to random starting positions: all European Civs start on ... "Europe terrain" if the room and other conditions allow. Or... the random spread of [some special] ressources is based on the continet as well. Such sort of things?)
1.3 Will it lead to some crashes or other glitches, if one land mass is splitted into different "Continents"? (Just imagine Eurasia divided into 2 Continents, then you know, what sort of thing I want to do)

2. What does the Mod Tab do?
I can't even guess for now. And I couln't find any info.

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[Kruelgor]

My guess is that it's for graphics only.

 

[Asylumer]

Continents determines what graphical tile-set the body of land is. You can either use the Continents tab to change entire continuous land masses or the Paint tool to cover only select parts. Basically the Continents tool is a 'Fill' while the Paint method is a 'Brush'.

I'd imagine that modders could use terrain type to specify spawn locations or do other neat things with it, so long as they could read the tile's continent type.