October 30, 20214 yr SimPlot MapMaker for Win10 View File This is a utility program that creates maps for use in SimPlot 2.3+ Please see the included Release Notes.txt file to get started. This is a Beta release. If you find any errors or bugs, let the author know either in the Harpoon forum or on the Discord Harpoon 5 Multiplayer channel. Submitter kmart494 Submitted 10/30/2021 Category Application/Tools/Mods/Docs
October 30, 20214 yr 50 minutes ago, kmart494 said: SimPlot MapMaker for Win10 View File This is a utility program that creates maps for use in SimPlot 2.3+ Please see the included Release Notes.txt file to get started. This is a Beta release. If you find any errors or bugs, let the author know either in the Harpoon forum or on the Discord Harpoon 5 Multiplayer channel. Submitter kmart494 Submitted 10/30/2021 Category Application/Tools/Mods/Docs There goes my weekend.
December 10, 20214 yr Indeed, thank you very much for all you've done for the community. My club are eager to have me run some H5 for them over the holidays. Think I'd like to try it this way.
January 18, 20224 yr Hi! Excellent applications. Anyway, is it not possible to use a raw picture as background? SimPlot doesn't load anything if in MapMaker I turn true 'Use image in Final Map'. Only if I turn it false SimPlot loads the lines and polygones I have drawn by hand (but not the picture). Or am I doing something wrong? I'd appreciate any help.
January 19, 20224 yr Author Is your raw picture in the same folder as the map json file? It should appear there if the checkbox is set True.
January 19, 20224 yr 18 hours ago, kmart494 said: Is your raw picture in the same folder as the map json file? It should appear there if the checkbox is set True. It is, yes. I have tried using formats PNG, BMP and JPG, in folder 'Maps' in SimPlot and in 'Map Projects' in MapMaker and with SimPlot 2.2.3 and 2.3. beta 18, but everything in vane. I attach the image and the JSON file, just in case. MedTS-EEZ.json
January 20, 20224 yr Author I think I discovered the problem. Your map image has a scale of .353 pixels/nmi, but the json file shows 353 pixels/nmi. This will not render correctly in SimPlot. I will look at the source code to see where the app went wrong.
January 21, 20224 yr 15 hours ago, kmart494 said: I think I discovered the problem. Your map image has a scale of .353 pixels/nmi, but the json file shows 353 pixels/nmi. This will not render correctly in SimPlot. I will look at the source code to see where the app went wrong. I noticed it, but I supposed it was an internal format. Anyway, I have replaced by hand 353 by 0.353 in the JSON file, but still the background map is not displayed in Simplot. Is there any restriction for the image files that could render them invalid for Simplot, at least to be displayed?
January 21, 20224 yr Author Actually, the discrepency with the decimal place is internal to SimPlot. Many decimal values are truncated to a certain number of places, then cast as an integer value to be saved. This saves file space as Xojo will save too many decimal places in JSON. I forgot I had done that. The value in your file is correct. What's not correct is the drawing routine in SimPlot. It turns out that a background image from MapMaker was being drawn first, then the background fill is drawn. That "covers up" the image. The next release will have the fix. I might release it this weekend, but the unit formations are not yet tested.
January 21, 20224 yr 3 hours ago, kmart494 said: Actually, the discrepency with the decimal place is internal to SimPlot. Many decimal values are truncated to a certain number of places, then cast as an integer value to be saved. This saves file space as Xojo will save too many decimal places in JSON. I forgot I had done that. The value in your file is correct. What's not correct is the drawing routine in SimPlot. It turns out that a background image from MapMaker was being drawn first, then the background fill is drawn. That "covers up" the image. The next release will have the fix. I might release it this weekend, but the unit formations are not yet tested. Excellent, thank you very much! 🙂👏👏👏
April 22, 20241 yr Hi and thank for this excellent tool. Does exist a way to offset the background image? Thank you
April 27, 20241 yr Author The background images were designed to be centered at (0,0) game coordinates.
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