KoH Mapeditor

[Elvain]

let's hope that 1.04 (or how the patch version will be called) will solve it and make the Editor fully working and user-friendly :bday:

[mammix]

hm, it's great but i can't save any map...
and it exits sometimes unexpectedly...

[Elvain]

oh, would it be possible to make some kind of tutorial?

I understand Angryminer is busy, but the others who managed to create a map. we could share our knowledge...

[neotropius]

Ok,so it's pretty easy.
First you must make a new folder called "map" in the game directory ( like in my case D:\games\koh\map ) . Than coppy the file textures.dt in the folder map you have just made (the file textures.dt you can find in \europe\map ) .
So,the preparations are over.Now open the editor thingy.There are some textures,trees,and other fancy things.To place viliges and stuff you must make a new province.It's easy to do : just go to the "realm" menu,than click on "Create Realm" and select the size of you'r realm (to edit the borders,click on the "Edit Realm" in the realm sub-menu).
Now you'r ready to place viliges and other life-objects.
You totally must select a owner of the province.There is a flag-like button in the menu,and in it's sub-menu you may find the button for the realm properties.
How to save you ask?Simply click on the "Save Map" and select a name.
The load is a bit harder.You will NOT see the map name,but if you click "Load" it will apear.You may NOT make more than one maps in the same time :(
So that's all you must know.Good luck on "Eurovision" (you have not expected this,right :P ).

[knez]

in fact, I now think you can have more than one map, but I'm not quite s****

after you shift + left click to enter editor, try shift + left click load and see what happens

one conlusion: only largest maps are usefull, others are too small to be able to produce interesting game
I've made map with 20 realms and 10 kingdoms, boring result
most of the kingdoms had only one knight in the royal court for like hours, they didn't have gold for more :silly:

[neotropius]

And what about the political view ? I can never see the political map on a new kingdom :( Too bad . And when I try to make a new island on the Europe map , it does not apears on the political view,but the armies of the new island-kingdom are marked .... Pretty strange.

[knez]

at this point it would be nice if Furjin or someone else from BSS would tell us how to do it....

[Elvain]

Yes, it would. Yet I don't have time for the editor, but I'd like to put my map suggestion for KOH in HolyRome mod once

[Elvain]

I tried to name the provinces but nothing worked yet. Anyone has good experience?

Also Frujin, how to work with the political map? If I use any map will it work? I will try, but I'd like to avoid major crashes if possible. I made a map of middle east (from Constantinople to Iran, from Georgia to Mecca) but I never found a way how to name provinces.
I'd like to make effective political map, can I draw any map? how was the KoH politmap made?

Though I made a nice map which works nicely,but the provinces are all caller "realm":
Screenshot (http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4377/landeriaog1.jpg)

PS: anothr question: anyone could edi realms after the map was once changed? I'm curious if I could edit the europe map and extand it to Asia a little, that would be the ultimate version of Holy Rome mod, to extend the map to Baghdad and edit the realms... but the way seems to be long, though it's fun to play with the editor :wink:

[Angryminer]

Name the provinces the same way you rename them on the europe-map.

It's best to use the editor only for the most basic things. Create the map, place provinces, and do everything else manually. Create your own kingdoms manually, assign units manually, name provinces manually, assign cultures manually, etc.
That way you avoid all possible bugs that could destroy your work.

And no, you can't change the format height, width) of the map after it was created.

Angryminer

[Doux]

I thought I'd try this mapeditor - looks very nice. The Europe map loaded neatly and by left + right clicking on a town I was able to zoom into it. Also, kingdoms, religion etc. seem to be changeable, but I read that this can be better modded through notepad.
But how are the experiences with 1.05? Is the map editor just as stable as in 1.02, id est, can we create realms and such? Were there maybe improvements?

[Indonesia War Minister]

I wanted to use the editor.But why many options are blank? Like river tool.Mountain tool(?) .Why?
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noooooo wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy>it can"t save!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Elvain]

have you done what is said here?

only thing you need is to make Knights of Honor/map/ folder and put there textures.dt (copy from maps/europe/map)
then you can save maps (they will be in maps/Temp/MAPNAME)

it should work if you have patch 1.05

[Indonesia War Minister]

have you done what is said here?

only thing you need is to make Knights of Honor/map/ folder and put there textures.dt (copy from maps/europe/map)
then you can save maps (they will be in maps/Temp/MAPNAME)

it should work if you have patch 1.05
So MAP.Not MAPS??
Well,that's possible:go:

[SirPaladin]

How do you place rivers? I can't seem to figure...

[knez]

any developments?

[Elvain]

there is some development

I found out how to EDIT realm borders and make the changes appear also in political map.
http://forums.blackseastudios.com/showthread.php?p=413#post413