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January 4th, 2007, 12:41 AM
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Re: Tackle the Tower
That's what I use my work computer for, the internet. I have to switch over to laptop when I want to download anything. Really though, I have little trouble and not terrible delay running even 1500 province SP games.
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January 4th, 2007, 12:56 AM
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Re: Tackle the Tower
Thanks for sharing the link Gandalf. Nice articles!
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January 4th, 2007, 02:46 AM
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Re: Tackle the Tower
I made a smaller version at something like 6000 x 100, and its a fun game. my only complaint is the game was having trouble zooming out on a map with these dimensions.
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January 4th, 2007, 10:04 AM
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Re: Tackle the Tower
Yes, i made lots of tower or row map with 100-150 provinces (usually something like 500x5000 or 5000x500, to prevent the provinces to be too small - it's not fun when the castle + temple overlap with other provinces-), and it seems that zooming out stops as soon as one of the map dimensions take ~ half the screen.
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January 4th, 2007, 11:58 AM
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Re: Tackle the Tower
For people with lesser machines (or even average ones) I will give a hint that I recently realized. When I was creating maximum 1500 province maps I was also setting the map size really huge. It turns out that you dont need to do that. They dont affect each other at all.
I probably should have realized it sooner. It sounds dumb to put it in print now but I hadnt thought about it. Setting the map size (heighth, width) larger only increases the amount of detail. On a smaller map the trees and mountain features are fuzzier and dont zoom in well. Actually Ive decided that I like that effect since it makes the gaming features (fort, units, arrows) stand out more.
It also helps the game process faster. So now instead of 10000x10000 maps of 1500 provinces Im messing with 1000x1000 and 1500 provinces. Im still trying to decide where to leave it.
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January 5th, 2007, 09:45 AM
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Re: Tackle the Tower
Gandalf, I like to use Height 2400 X Width 3600 with 1500 provinces. That seems to work out fairly aesthetically, and doesn't crash my computer. I can get a map in maybe 20 minutes tops, with Antialiasing.
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