Gents, here is a very early alpha release of MAPGEN (for lack of a better name).
It's not a fully featured set, but it should work on a lot of things.
Current feature set is:
Link to my website for 24~ MB ZIP download
I apologize if the download size is a bit big, but I included the exact Win32 installer binaries for the programming development environment I used to make it to assist with others who may want to work on it; and/or to reduce bug issues from incompatible builds.
Anyway.....
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Description of MAPGEN:
Gents, here is a very early alpha release of MAPGEN (for lack of a better name).
##########REALLY BIG NOTE#####################
## REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR ##
## PWZONE.DAT ##
## PWZLINK.DAT ##
## PWHEXE.DAT ##
## FILES BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE ##
## TO AVOID A REINSTALL\REPATCH OF WITP:AE! ##
##############################################
It dumps WITP:AE PWHEXE.dat information to a graphics file, where it can be easily edited with
Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop (and seamlessly overlaid over satellite maps etc so that everything
all matches up), and then it repacks the information back into PWHEXE.dat via analyzing certain
pixels of interest on the graphics file.
It's written in Python 2.7 using the PIL image library for image manipulation.
This release currently requires a Python 2.7 with PIL development environment installed
on your computer.
##########REALLY BIG NOTE##################################################
## If you have a virtual machine, you should install Python into that VM
## and execute MAPGEN and Python from the VM, to avoid pooping up your
## main computer OS with various programming language call-outs in the
## registry. It's what I do when I program.
############################################################################
I would have liked to do a repackaged EXE file using a Python to EXE program that's out there,
but there are some bugs involved with PIL and that program.
Long term objectives:
1.) Add more DUMP/REPACK files (see MAPGEN_FEATURES.gif for what's not done etc)
2.) Maybe make it into an executable, so it doesn't require installation of the Python development
environment and PIL on a target computer.
3.) Maybe run it off my website, as it's a python script, meaning it could run on a webserver? But I don't
know about that, as it would require 15 MB of uploaded graphics files to repack a map. :-\
**************FILE FOLDER LAYOUT**********************
\Dev
A primitive early development item for procedural map generation "Drunkard's Walk" is here.
You may disregard this.
\Docs
Some useful documents are here. (AE Map Documentation, some hexfile information and RGB color information).
\Libraries
This includes the Windows-32 installation binaries for the Python development environment I used
to develop MAP GEN. They are:
PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe
python-2.7.12.msi
If you don't trust the files in this download, you can download them from the following places:
PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/)
http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe
Python:
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1 ... 2.7.12.msi
\PreDumped
This folder contains already pre-dumped graphics images from the latest
official PWHEXE.DAT.
\Scripts
This contains the programs for dumping and repacking the map(s).
Once you've installed Python 2.7.12 and PIL 1.1.7 you should just click on a Python file to run it:
e.g
MAPGEN_COASTWATCH_JAP_DUMP.py
##################################################
############BIG NOTE##############################
At this current level of development, there's little error protection.
it assumes you have
WITP_AE_Grid_Black_32Bit.tif
WITP_AE_Grid_Blank_32Bit.tif
and
pwhexe.dat
inside your /Scripts folder.
If not, it probably breaks.
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############BIG NOTE II###########################
Because users are users; I've included a copy of the latest
WITP:AE map files in:
PWHEX_Pristine.zip
in /Scripts. I'm unsure of the legality of this; but it
should help save you from having to reinstall your game
should something mess up.
