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Wow, great job! EL had lack of map creation and thanks to you it became possible!

This is cool, thank you for making it!

Okay I managed to edit the values by opening every png in Tiled itself as a seperate file. I just edited them manually following the names from your given template of huge map model.

But even after all of that I can't play this map. I got this error message:

Do you know what is the cause of this? I tried to follow all the instructions from the file. I checked for any tiles on wrong layers, checked north and south most regions to be wastelands and checked all the rivers with their elevation. This one seems like I have a value pinned to a tile that is higher then the game allow it to be. The Anomalies numeration seems to be a bit off with missing numbers, but it was the same in your example map, so I followed it fully. Maybe something there is causing the error?

Please help.

Your error report screen usually is displayed, if an antivirus-software blocks game from execution. Do you have one (i.e. Avira, Avast, Kaspersky, Bitdefender) activated? This case create an exception for the Endless Legend folder(s) it refers to.

NEW ELCMT UPDATE:

Due to a small mix-up between myself and LeaderEnemyBoss, the "Random Facility" and "Random Citadel" points of interest weren't generating. That should be fixed now.

Download ELCMT here!

There are no new features in this update and the documentation has not changed. It's purely a bug fix.

Wikist wrote:

Okay I managed to edit the values by opening every png in Tiled itself as a seperate file. I just edited them manually following the names from your given template of huge map model.

But even after all of that I can't play this map. I got this error message:

Do you know what is the cause of this? I tried to follow all the instructions from the file. I checked for any tiles on wrong layers, checked north and south most regions to be wastelands and checked all the rivers with their elevation. This one seems like I have a value pinned to a tile that is higher then the game allow it to be. The Anomalies numeration seems to be a bit off with missing numbers, but it was the same in your example map, so I followed it fully. Maybe something there is causing the error?

Please help.

Hi Wikist!

Using my tilesets in the pre-existing Auriga map is going to cause problems right off the bat. For a start, Amplitude's PointOfInterests tileset has the tiles in a different order from mine, so a one-for-one replacement is going to substitute some anomalies with others, and that's almost certainly what's happened here.

If all you want to do is add more start locations to Auriga, I suggest you don't touch the PointOfInterests layer at all. Just add my images for Elevations, Regions, Terrains, Rivers and Spawns. You can edit the tileset and add custom properties to tiles like this:

Select the PointOfInterests tileset, then click the "edit tileset" icon below the tileset menu.

Select the tile you want to edit and click the little plus icon at the bottom of the properties pane to add a new custom property.

Can you send me your .tmx file and I'll take a closer look at it personally?

So I have made a little of progress. It seems that I have two major problems. First of all I managed to start the map without the points of intrest that I made. That one is okay, because later on I can just add new POIs one type at a time and see if one breaks the game or not. Something in POIs was causing the crash error that I showed here before for sure.

But there is another problem. I can not start the game with more than 8 players, even though I have ELCP installed. To make sure that this is not caused by my map, I edited the huge template and added one more start position in a new region with some luxuries to make it launch the game. It didn't. So for some reason I just can't start the scenario with more than 8 players. For the record I edited the Scenario.xml file and changed the three instances with max major factions from 8 to 13 as advised in the file and deleted "-->" signs. Later on I also tried to delete all the other size descriptions and leave only the huge one, but that also didn't help.

Of course Fluffiest. Thank you. I will send you the file with POIs layer still on. It will propably won't work, but if you delete the POIs layer, then add basic luxuries from each era and start the game up to 8 players then you will propably launch the map in game (I just surrounded every start position with the same luxuries and strategic to make the map work while testing). But with 9 or more players that is propably not possible without tweaking. That is my file:

BetterCanonAuriga.tmx

NEW ELCMT UPDATE!

Since several people have been wanting to modify the Auriga map, I made a version of that map that uses my tilesets, including the rearranged PointOfInterests tileset. It should work like any other map.

I also corrected the capitalization of "Village_Birdhive". Not sure if this was actually causing issues, but better safe than sorry.

As usual, download it here.

Wikist, you should upload your complete mod, as errors can occur in multiple places and its also easier for testers to just copy it in their mod folder and run the map this way.

Not an update to ELCMT, but a change to the documentation. See here for the relevent bit.

In summary, there are two user mapping folders. "Community" and "User Generated Content". The former just lets you drop mods into it and have them appear in game. The latter is used for if you want to upload your own mods to the Steam Workshop, and it require the --enablemoddingtools startup option.

NEW ELCMT UPDATE!

As usual, download it here.

I actually had the new Auriga map fully ready, but I stopped cause I needed to start it all over again in the newer version of your ELCMT to be playable. I even copy/pasted the terrain with some problems, but in the end I will maybe finish it up, once I have some more time.

Would my Auriga map from before your new editions be allowed to be ported into the newer version with the latest changes from yours?

NEW ELCMT UPDATE!

There's a new version of the Auriga map here, incorporating the changes made by Amplitude. It still doesn't have things like sea fortresses - it's just the free DLC Auriga map, but with the ELCMT tilesets added so it's easier to edit.

There's also a whole new feature, "Custom randomization", which allows you to have - for example - tiles that are randomly either Titanium or Glassteel. This feature is documented here but the documentation isn't that great. Fortunately, I did include an example map and tileset, which you should be able to figure out.

Wikist wrote:

I actually had the new Auriga map fully ready, but I stopped cause I needed to start it all over again in the newer version of your ELCMT to be playable. I even copy/pasted the terrain with some problems, but in the end I will maybe finish it up, once I have some more time.

Would my Auriga map from before your new editions be allowed to be ported into the newer version with the latest changes from yours?

I suggest that, when you finish your Auriga map, you just release it on Steam Workshop as a regular mod. Map mods are 100% playable without ELCMT (although some might require ELCP).

Technically, ELCMT isn't even an Endless Legend mod, because it doesn't modify anything in the game directory. It's just a set of tools.

The ingame world generator can also create negative elevations down to -5, which can often be seen in large ocean regions.

I've tried to implement them into the Tiled resources, but this seems to break the map elevations completely.

Is there a way to have a lower elevation than -2 for custom maps?

I used to use a Map Generation mod before MT broke it and remember setting ocean max depth (up to -5) as a choice .  I played around with lots of elevation settings to make giant mountain island war games and such but was never 100% on how much it contributed.

Wikist wrote:

I actually had the new Auriga map fully ready, but I stopped cause I needed to start it all over again in the newer version of your ELCMT to be playable. I even copy/pasted the terrain with some problems, but in the end I will maybe finish it up, once I have some more time.

Would my Auriga map from before your new editions be allowed to be ported into the newer version with the latest changes from yours?

Very nice man! :) It bugs me that an official map can't contain all official factions. 

Was really interesting reading this conversation. Did you succeed with the port? 

I'm honestly curious.