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Python/Script FAQ - Help

Version 2.10 will allow you to run custom python scripts that will allow a lot of things to be changed by script. This section is intended to supply a decent overview of how this works. I hope i can get a decent documentation and a lot of examples done so you can learn about it easily. MapView 2.10 will ship with 10+ example scripts that will get you started. There's already a little article about it available here.

Plugins

Most of the features in MapView are realized as plugin. Those plugins can be found in the main application folder. You can identify them by the filename that is something like 'plug_<name>.dll'. Without any of those plugins, MapView will still let you view a map but all other features are very limited. Most of the really useful things are parts of the editor.

Editor

Purpose: most editing functionality
Current Version: 1.3.1

CreateCoast

Purpose: advanced coast features
Current Version: 1.0
Author: GreyHound

Remover

Purpose: advanced removing capabilities
Current Version: 1.0
Author: GreyHound

RiverPlace

Purpose: adds functionality to place and delete rivers
Current Version: 1.0
Author: GreyHound

TileToText

Purpose: previews how a certain tile will look after saving (this might be a little inaccurate since i made changes to the saving algorythm depending on the file extension, but it will basicly be correct)
Current Version: 1.0
Author: GreyHound

LandscapePlacer

Purpose: let's you place hills, peaks, flatlands and below sealevel
Current Version: 1.2
Author: GreyHound

TeamReveal

Purpose: for teamreveal editing
Current Version: 1.0
Author: GreyHound

Pic2map

Purpose: converts Images to maps
Current Version: 1.0
Author: GreyHound

Pic2map offers the opportunity to take a picture. (A satellite photo or such) and generate the basic continent shape with accurate terrain matching easily. It works best with JPG files, bmp has often given bad results.

Map Size

UPDATE: MapView 2.0.10 will allow to define the size via Gui.

Currently the size of the generated map is hardcoded but you can trick the plugin to generate other mapsizes too. I'll explain how this works. Remember, the whole image will currently represent a 130 x Y sized map. (Y is adjusted to fit the src picture aspect ratio, a 100 x 100 px source generates 130x130, 100x50 px generates 130 x 65 etc. ). This example shows how to get a map with 65 tiles in width.

Open your source image.
Resize the CANVAS to 200% x 200% (Don't scale the image, just enlarge the working area)
Your image now consumes the same amount of pixels as before but relativly to the image size it's only half the size.
Use the new picture in MapView and generate a map.
Select and Copy the relevant part of the generated map.
Create a new map (should be 65 x Y/2 in this example) and paste the copied area.
Be Happy ;D

With this system you can basicly get any size you want to.

History

The first Version of MapView was released November 17th, 2005 and has been downloaded arround 10000 times. Due to the lack of features and horrible programming a new Version was released January 6th 2009. It has had arround 2300 downloads by June 1st, 2009.

Versions

MapView 2.x official Thread MapView 2.x official Download

MapView 0.x official Thread MapView 0.x official Download

Motivation

The first version, written in 2005 was highly inspired with Junuxx's application Atlas. The first intention was to create an application that let's you look at a scenario without having to start Civilization, thus, save time. That's also the origin of the applications name. It's been designed to let you 'view' a map. By the time features were added until MapView became an editor for WorldBuilderSave files.

I had a few attempts in rewritting MapView from 2006 to 2008 but always stopped halfway through. In Autumn 2008, when i had one month off and finally pushed out another version.

Used libraries

MapView

Forgot

MapView 2

DevIL 1.7.8 (Image library)
wxWidgets 2.8.9 (GUI)
FreeType 2
TinyXML (parsing)

MapView 3 (in development)

DevIL 1.7.8 (Image library)
QT 4.6.1 (GUI, XML)

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-= FAQ - Frequently asked questions =
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-Here you can find a list of frequently asked questions.
-=== Maps (BTS, mayb others too) created with MapView crash ===
-Read [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=8601140&postcount=230 this] and [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=8881786#post8881786 this] to learn what causes this problems. Also have a look arround the pages [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=305168&page=9 9], [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=305168&page=10 10], [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=305168&page=11 11] and [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=305168&page=12 12] of the MapView Mainthread to find out more about this issue. A few valuable links and threads are mentioned. Also, feel free to enhance this article according to any issue you solved. Also have a look at the next solution in this FAQ.
-=== Civ Crashes when i try to load the scenario i made ===
-Especially for, but not limited to, BTS and BTS Mods this might be common. The BeginPlayer/EndPlayer parts in the scenario files are not saved properly. A few things might need to be changed. You need to set the Handycap and other things. Look at [http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=8395570#post8395609 this thread] where someone had a the similar problem. The best way to solve this is using [http://winmerge.org/ WinMerge] and compare a working file with the file MapView created and try to fix proplematic areas.
-The next Version (2.10) will fix some of the problems.
-=== How to move the view or zoom? ===
-Press and Hold the 'Space'-Key then press the left mouse button to move or the right button to zoom. The mousewheel should also allow you to scroll.
-If this does not work for some reason, press the "Mouse" Button in the Toolbar. (The big mouse pointer image). After you pressed it you should be able to navigate as explained above
-=== MapView crashes when i load a map ===
-This should NOT happen. If the map works fine in Civilization, please let me know.
-=== MapView crashes when i change to a certain Mod ===
-Since MapView learns from the xml files that come with any mod it's very likly that something went wrong while MapView parsed those files. I still have to come up with a more clever way to handle this. Please report such behavior in the main thread and provide a link to the mod so i can try on my own.
-=== MapView crashes when the application starts ===
-If you are using the Editor Version that came with MapView it's very likly that you modified something in the xml files that come with Vanilla.
-=== How to work mod depending? ===
-Go to 'Plugins' -> 'Editor' -> 'Mods' and find and select the Mod you want to work with. After selection, the mods xml files will be parsed and the toolbars will be re-filled with all available data. You will probably see A LOT of question marks after loading an unofficial mod.
-=== My toolbars are full of question marks ... why? ===
-MapView get's it's knowledge from the xml files that define the content and behavior of a mod. Whenever MapView can't display an image for a certain bonus, feature, etc. it will display a question mark. If you want to, you could create your own image to get MapView to show a nice little image. (See Video Tutorials)
-=== My map view is full of question marks ... why? ===
-See: 'My toolbars are full of question marks ... why?'. It's the same reason, just for the OpenGL renderer.
-=== I want to edit the TeamReveal, where are the functions? ===
-When you right click on the Team Reveal Button you get a drop down box that let's you chose from several advanced ways to handle team reveal for the selected player.
-=== How to delete Cities or Units? ===
-Whenever you click on a field that contains a city or units the 'Tile Inspector' will show those. You can right click on the City or Unit Nodes and delete it from there. Units can also be deleted by pressing the delete key on your keyboard.
-=== How do i delete a River/parts of a river? ===
-Make sure you have the river editing tool selected. Press and hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse over the fields where you want to delete the river fields.
-You can also delete whole rivers from source to mouth by pressing shift, and the left clicking on a river.
-=== I want to use Pic2Map Plugin with another Map size ===
-Currently the dimensions are hardcoded so you need to trick the plugin to get to the goal. To learn how, look [[#Map Size|here]].
-'''Update''' 2.0.10 will allow you to define the size.
-=== Can i use MapView on Computers that don't have Civ installed? ===
-Yes, of course. MapView basicly looks up the Mods folders of Civ, Bts and Warlords and will learn from the "Assets/xml" folder that is available in those game-types. In Short words: If you make a copy of your Civ folder and delete everything that is not an xml file, you will have a folder that contains all MapView needs to fully operate.
 = Python/Script FAQ - Help =

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