Australia

[exotic bison]

This is a map of only Australia, surrounded by water. There are 7 nations - the seven main provinces in Australia.

(460, 720) -> Western Australia
(965, 340) -> Northern Territory
(920, 915) -> South Australia
(1435, 1220) -> Victoria
(1490, 555) -> Queensland
(1605, 1025) -> New South Wales
(1595, 1380) -> Tasmania

This is how the terrain looks in game

Flag of New South Wales

Flag of Northern Territory

Flag of Queensland

Flag of South Australia

Flag of Tasmania

Flag of Victoria

Flag of Western Australia

[exotic bison]

All 7 nations with their flags in game

[sand comet]

https://tenor.com/view/kisses-kangaroo-outback-australia-viralhog-gif-13819603

[exotic bison]

Would this be a small, medium or large map by the new update's standards?

[radiant birch]

how do you do this?

[exotic bison]

Download the game's files from github, add your grayscale map and join in on singleplayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5CqjsW5OIA

[radiant birch]

i dont have a clue on coding xd

[radiant birch]

also idk where the github file is

[exotic bison]

https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/

[radiant birch]

so i just paste my map in, load the game up on my computer (not in browser) and play singleplayer?

[exotic bison]

You just need to import the github project, and from then on just watch the video about adding new maps.

[radiant birch]

i have no idea on how to make a json

xd

[radiant birch]

my brain doesnt work well when it comes to coding

xd

[exotic bison]

Well, i think this Australia map is pretty much ready

[exotic bison]

@cosmic turret Is there any chance of this Australia map getting into the next version of the game?

[cosmic turret]

Did Evan say anth?

Honestly it should

Idk if next update or not

I think if you publish it it will most likely get added in the next update

Lemme check

@rain orchid

[exotic bison]

You mean making a PR?

[cosmic turret]

Yop

No idea how that's made

[exotic bison]

Me too lol. I'll figure it out

[exotic bison]

https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/pull/306

@cosmic turret I think i got the pull request right

[cosmic turret]

maybe 😅 i have 0 experience

you can compare it with other PRs

[exotic bison]

What do i do now?

[cosmic turret]

hmm you dont have access to the #🔧┃development channel
ig go DM Kiwii, he'll help you more than me
tell him you want to contribute to the game and already finished the Australia map (make sure the PR is ready)
maybe he'll redirect you to Evan himself

[rain orchid]

Nikola123, from a cursory glance it looks like you have all the files I would expect to see. Have you run a local dev build to confirm it's all working?

I'd recommend doing so (or doing again) taking screenshots of the Map/thumbnail in the UI, and play a single player game all the way through to the win message to confirm no issues

Some screenshots during the game too

Add those to the comments on the PT

PR*

Once you PR is accepted (or am exception made, as sometimes is) you'll be given the contributor role and have access to Dev and Meta as a participant

[exotic bison]

I uploaded all of the screenshot on the PR's page.

[rain orchid]

👍

When I get home I'll test it myself and see if I have any feedback, if not I'll indicate I've reviewed it on GitHub and flag to Evan. He may get to it before then, but if not

[rain orchid]

@exotic bison alright man, I've tested your map in game, and I think people are really going to like this map. Especially the ones who like to snowball up and inflict a bruising beat down of an endgame.

Evan mentioned wanting to have the base png colorized like the rest, but that shouldn't even change the binaries. I've a PowerShell script to run that conversion if you're on windows, or can run it for you and just send you the colorized file

I really oughta rewrite it and put it in the scripts folder soon

[exotic bison]

So, i just need to edit the PR to add the colorised file?

[rain orchid]

yea, if you update the branch this PR is from it will update the PR

[exotic bison]

Ok, could you send me the colorised image if you've ran the script?

[rain orchid]

there you go mate, just want to run it through the terrainMapGen to make sure the binaries didn't show as changed

yea I think people are going to have a good time with this one

[exotic bison]

I think the colourised map is just the thumbnail with the blue water instead of transparent

[rain orchid]

I also recolored the large global map for starting from, and the old map files, it any subsequent edits to the base files easier to assess. Slightly more yellow tinted than what's seen in game

🤷‍♂️

I didn't think it was necessary but I think evan wants to keep the core files cohesive and consistent

makes it easier to tell at a glance if something has gone wrong along the wau

script is also potentially a good way to convert over heightmaps that arent from the big greyscaled earth to see how they are going to be interpreted and then make manual corrections by hand or a similar script

its avialable here #1350917721444847639 message

but again currently requires windows System resources

[exotic bison]

Ok, i think i added the coloured image correctly

[rain orchid]

you did as far as I can tell

commented on your PR indicated I approved it (which doesn't actually do anything) and let evan know I thought it was ready to merge

Not sure when it will be on dev, and he may hold it back from prod until V0.21, but good work 👍

[radiant birch]

why does the mountains look so yellow?

[rain orchid]

because the input image has to retain the blue levels expected by terrainMapGenerator. Red and Green levels get set as they would in the game, but the blue levels don't. The thumbnail generation script within the terrainMapGenerator does set everything as it will appear in game.

[exotic bison]

Because most of the yellow part isn't mountains, but rather steep

[sinful rampart]

Is it possible to add the ACT (Australian Capital Territory)?

[exotic bison]

It is but i think that it'll get too crowded with nations in that part of the map. In that corner there already are New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania

[sinful rampart]

Fair enough.

[rain orchid]

Yea I almost suggested adding another Nation to the Northwest corner.

[exotic bison]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6h_L7ioho yay, Enzo posted on my map!

[cosmic turret]

well deserved
i like the Austria map tbh
unique

[radiant birch]

Austria map?

bet lets do it

[exotic bison]

lol