How to create map (Step by step)

[Wersjon 279]

Steps:
1. Download Map editor.
2. Clear all data.
3. Copy/Create bg.png (background for your map)
4. Create province.
5. Copy first province into new folder (Province is called PROV, and move it into folder that will be containing all provinces)
6. Rename your first province to 0 (second to 1 etcetera)
7. In game map folder (steamapps\common\Age of Civilizations II\map) copy template (and rename it), and clear "cities" folder.
8. Copy your provinces into update, \data\provinces (I'm not sure if you need to copy it into provinces folder, but It works too :P)
9. Edit config.json(in copied template folder) and change values:

{
    Map: [
        {
            MapName: "%Mapname%",
            Author: "%Yournickname%",
            BackgroundName: "%bgname%",
            ContinentsPackage: "Earth6"
            RegionsPackage: "Earth_AoC2",
            NumberOfProvinces: %numberofprovinces%,
            MapScale: 3,
            WorldMap: true,
            Scenario: "testScenario",
            Wiki: "Wikipedia:Unusual_articles"
        },
    ],
    
    Age_of_Civilizations: Map
}

10. Rembmer to create background files with name %bgname%_L and %bgname%_R
11. go back to map folders and add line to make game read that map:

{
    Map: [
        {
            Folder: "Earth"
        },
        {
            Folder: "Ashan"
        },
        {
            Folder: "Earth_AoC1"
        },
        {
            Folder: "Kepler"
        },
        {
            Folder: "template"
        },
        {
            Folder: "%mapname%"
        },
    ],
    
    Age_of_Civilizations: Maps
}

12. Run game and go to Editor>MapEditor>EditConnections and Provinces>Update every province you added. (EXAMPLE)
13. Congratulation you have created your first map 😛
Short video, if you still need help. (OS is in polish, rest is in english 😛 )

If you add new province check continent of this province in map editor, if it is "Ocean" the map will load lower scale of the province background
 

 

Extra: 

 

CREATING PROV FILES:

 

1. If you haven't saved your PROV files, no worries! you can bring them back 😛 , but it might take time here is how:
2. Open mapAoC2_v2.txt and search for line ID*2+1 (If you have id of missing province 100, search for line 201), this line, and line below are the lines that you need to recreate PROV file:

3. Copy them into file called ID (make sure that it isn't .txt file, because that might crash your game)
4. place after last number in first line semicolon - ;, and delete space between them.
4.1 - Before:
2020,2040,2055,2034
5000,2000,3000,4000
4.2 - After:
2020,2040,2055,2034;5000,2000,3000,4000
5. Congratulation's you have recreated your PROV file 😛
Short video (OS is still in polish language, rest is in english):

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by Wersjon

[ITurkishmapping 2,159]

Great Tutorial!

[setapdede 243]

I hope i dont crash the game next try (i dint even make one province to work 😞

[Wersjon 279]

1 minute ago, setapdede said:

I hope i dont crash the game next try (i dint even make one province to work 😞 

Have you deleted: scales/provinces folders? or any folders?

[setapdede 243]

4 minutes ago, Wersjon said:

Have you deleted: scales/provinces folders? or any folders?

no just edited the earth map but i think this time will work

[Wersjon 279]

58 minutes ago, setapdede said:

no just edited the earth map but i think this time will work

Okay, have fun with it 😛

[setapdede 243]

1 hour ago, Wersjon said:

Okay, have fun with it 😛

Thanks

[Cherpake 13]

What actualy you started doing on 4:15? I can't get, it is important or not?

And yeah, game is crashed tbh. I did every little thing like on video. 

 

Edited January 9, 2019 by Cherpake

[Wersjon 279]

13 minutes ago, Cherpake said:

What actualy you started doing on 4:15? I can't get, it is important or not? 

And yeah, game is crashed tbh. I did every little thing like on video.  

When did game crashed? on loading?

[Cherpake 13]

23 minutes ago, Wersjon said:

When did game crashed? on loading?

It's crashing when i'm trying to edit provinces. 

[Wersjon 279]

5 minutes ago, Cherpake said:

It's crashing when i'm trying to edit provinces.  

Is game crushing or editor?

also, I've changed name because indexing  is from 0 not 1 😛

Edited January 9, 2019 by Wersjon

[Cherpake 13]

4 minutes ago, Wersjon said:

Is game crushing or editor?

Game. I wanted to connect the provinces together, but it just crashed.

[Wersjon 279]

Just now, Cherpake said:

Game. I wanted to connect the provinces together, but it just crashed.

can you give screenshot of them?

[Cherpake 13]

2 minutes ago, Wersjon said:

can you give screenshot of them?

Provinces? Ingame or in editor?

[Wersjon 279]

Just now, Cherpake said:

Provinces? Ingame or in editor?

both

[Wersjon 279]

If anyone is intrested in helping Cherpake, problem is solved.

You can go home

go home, seriously, there is nothing more

go away! there is nothing more.

Łukasz can't count to IOS release

Joking he can't count to anything beyond bugs and 2

okay you wanted it...

[russl 145]

 Hi man i have a tro

uble  

 

Edited January 10, 2019 by russl

[Wersjon 279]

1 hour ago, russl said:

 Hi man i have a tro

 

uble  

 

 

can you share files to test it? (or even fix it)

[russl 145]

1 hour ago, Wersjon said:

can you share files to test it? (or even fix it)

 

1 hour ago, Wersjon said:

can you share files to test it? (or even fix it)

i fix it

[ITurkishmapping 2,159]

1 hour ago, Wersjon said:

can you share files to test it? (or even fix it)

is there wa to make dots smaller? (drawing dots)

[Łukasz Jakowski 5,206]

Great tutorial!

[Ubys 11]

Nadal nuie

[russl 145]

man I have another problem provinces in editor is in the continent but in the game is not

[russl 145]

and provinces looks like stains (you can see )

[Łukasz Jakowski 5,206]

@russl

Go to Editor -> Map Editor -> Map -> Continents Editor

These provinces are "Ocean" type, change them to anything else

 

And reload map