NEWB Mapmaker Questions

[oldbone]

I am using this guide to help with the mapfile commands:
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Mapmaking_manual

But, I haven't found a good guide on the TGA file yet. I think I read somewhere that a single WHITE border needs to exist between provinces so when you load the TGA into Dom3, it recognizes the provinces.

Is this my only choice? Make a TGA, then MANUALLY go in there to add the white lines? Are there any HEX generators that can do this easily for me? (kind of a side question)

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[LDiCesare]

It's not white borders, it's white pixels, one per province. And you have to place them by hand where you want the province to be.
You can, on the other hand, draw red borders between provinces in order to help Dom guess the neighbours.
That's quite ugly-looking if you keep them, however (even by my standards) so it's better to put them in a layer if you want to use the help and save 2 tga's, one with the red borders and one without. However, even the red borders stuff doesn't help that much and I usually do all province neighbour placement by hand anyway.

[oldbone]

OMG - that makes so much more sense... and WORKS!

Thanks!