If anyone is interested in making a TripleA module of this….

[variance]

OK I should be able to manage the map part in a week or 2.

[suprise attack]

I cant wait!

[variance]

OK I made some progress. Here is an outline map I made out of the SektorInfo.map file that came with an incomplete ABattlemap module for the original Global War 1939 that someone posted I forget where.  I used the Paint.net magic wand and Photo Flood Fill to change all non-border area to pure white (FFFFFF or 255,255,255).  The next step will be to pencil the borders and sea zones to match the newer map from HBG.

[variance]

As far as I can tell, the same territories and sea zones that border each other in the old map also border each other in the new map so playing the game should be the same with either version.  The new map is better when playing with physical pieces because some territories are made bigger (e.g. the Atlantic sea zones have been moved around to fit in the giant UK), but that shouldn’t matter in TripleA.  Can anyone familiar with the old and new versions of the map please confirm if I am correct about that?  If there have been any map changes that actually affect game play can you point them out to me?  thanks.

[variance]

Here it is again with all the little stray pixels fixed and the contrast cranked up to 100% twice.  The only substantive changes I made were to clean up the tip of South America and the straits at Panama and Turkey.  Unless anyone can point out any map changes that affect game play, I think you can probably go with this.

I have no idea what to do next, but I do know how to colour in all the areas and how to texture them so they will look somewhat like the Global 1940 map.

[variance]

I am reading the tutorial….

[Veqryn]

sorry but you can not use a JPEG

JPEG (.jpg) compresses the file, and during compression the color of pixels change, which invalidates all that work you did to clean it up

you need to a filetype that does not have any compression: PNG (.png)

sorry but you will have to redo

when you are done, and you have a .png image with no screwed up pixels, post it here so i can double check again for you. 
after that, you will run TripleA and click “engine properties”, then click “run map creator”

from there, you will need to click the “tutorial” button, which will load a web page with the map making tutorial in it (you can also find this tutorial in the ‘docs’ folder where you installed triplea to)

[variance]

OK here it is in *.png format.

[ghr2]

Looking great so far Variance, keep up the good work.

[variance]

thanks ghr2.  I’m going to try and work thru Veqryn’s tutorial this Sunday.

[variance]

OK I am up to part 4 of Veqryn’s tutorial “Map utilities”.  This looks a bit technical but I will give it a try when I get some time.  Here is the map resized down to 40% of its original size so I could post it here (the full size one is 4806kb).  I am assuming that at some stage in the process it will get me to upload the whole directory to somewhere??

I also made 100/100 pixel roundel files for it with the same textures I used in this map as background.  You can’t see the textures on the reduced map so I will post a couple examples.  I also made roundels for it with the same textures as background so I will post a couple of those too.

So here’s the map so far (islands, convoy zones and other stufff are not done).

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USA roundel

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USA texture

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impassable texture (looks rocky to me)

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seazone texture (waves)

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proallies neutrals

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proallies neutrals texture

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Finland

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communist china

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small map 250 by whatever