World Generator modding

[YaroslavUSSR]

Is it possible to create worlds that consist only of certain types of ecoregions? For example, I would like to create Arctic worlds or Tropical worlds (or Desert worlds like Tatooine) selecting "Cold" or "Warm" temperatures in advanced settings. I tried to edit Grassland.xml, Savanna.xml and Tundra.xml setting latitudePeak, latitudeRange and occurrenceModifier to zero but I had no success: they are still created but without features of ecoregions and look like black tiles. I got the same result deleting Grassland, Savanna and Tundra from WorldGenerator.xml.

[mrowka]

Did you try deleting ecoregions that you dont want from worldgenerator

[YaroslavUSSR]

Did you try deleting ecoregions that you dont want from worldgenerator

Yes, I tried. Regions are still created but they look like black hexes without grass/trees/etc. textures.

[YaroslavUSSR]

I found the solution. For example, you want to generate tropical world.
You should edit Tropical.xml:
latitudePeak="0.0" latitudeRange="1.0"
Now the tropical ecoregions will be from equator to the poles.
To exclude other regiones from the world generating process you should edit appropriate features setting occurrenceModifier to zero. In my mod I excluded arctic, savanna, tundra and grassland. Now when I select warm temperature the world consists only of tropical and desert ecoregiones.

[mrowka]

I found the solution. For example, you want to generate tropical world.
You should edit Tropical.xml:
latitudePeak="0.0" latitudeRange="1.0"
Now the tropical ecoregions will be from equator to the poles.
To exclude other regiones from the world generating process you should edit appropriate features setting occurrenceModifier to zero. In my mod I excluded arctic, savanna, tundra and grassland. Now when I select warm temperature the world consists only of tropical and desert ecoregiones.

Well its like the old days of pandora modding, you mostly sit and change various settings to see the results

Thanks for info btw

[YaroslavUSSR]

Well its like the old days of pandora modding, you mostly sit and change various settings to see the results

Thanks for info btw

Not at all. I think it will be great if some day the developers add the option to let a player to choose between "arctic", "desert" or "tropical" worlds in the start menu. These worlds look amazingly in their first game Conquest: Divide and Conquer. Just now we can only choose climate.

[stiefelss]

Relevant to the discussion topic: I'd really like to increase the maximum amount of factions for a map. I want to make a 64x64 map with 12 factions (6 vanilla plus six from the extra factions mod). How would one go about this?

[eddieballgame]

Make the adjustments in the Data/World-WorldParameters xml file & the Data/Core/Languages/English-WorldParameters xml file

This is the "readme" for my Bigger Worlds Mod:

BIGGER WORLDS:

WAS:
<tiny dimension="24 24"/> <!-- 576 tiles / 3 factions = 192 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 5.33 cities per faction -->
<small dimension="32 32"/> <!-- 1024 tiles / 5 factions = 204.8 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 5.69 cities per faction -->
<medium dimension="40 40"/> <!-- 1600 tiles / 7 factions = 228.57 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 6.35 cities per faction -->
<large dimension="48 48"/> <!-- 2304 tiles / 7 factions = 329.14 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 9.14 cities per faction -->
<huge dimension="56 56"/> <!-- 3136 tiles / 7 factions = 448 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 12.44 cities per faction -->

NOW:
<tiny dimension="40 40"/> <!-- 1600 tiles / 7 factions = 228.57 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 6.35 cities per faction -->
<small dimension="48 48"/> <!-- 2304 tiles / 7 factions = 329.14 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 9.14 cities per faction -->
<medium dimension="56 56"/> <!-- 3136 tiles / 7 factions = 448 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 12.44 cities per faction -->
<large dimension="64 64"/> <!-- 4096 tiles / 7 factions = 585.14 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 16.25 cities per faction -->
<huge dimension="72 72"/> <!-- 5184 tiles / 7 factions = 740.57 tiles per faction / 36 tiles per city = 20.57 cities per faction -->