kmart494 Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidwhitt Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthvader170 Posted November 5, 2021 Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 Kevin, Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfKDH Posted December 10, 2021 Report Share Posted December 10, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted January 18, 2022 Report Share Posted January 18, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart494 Posted January 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 Is your raw picture in the same folder as the map json file? It should appear there if the checkbox is set True. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted January 19, 2022 Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart494 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted January 21, 2022 Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart494 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted January 21, 2022 Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 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! 🙂👏👏👏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 Hi and thank for this excellent tool. Does exist a way to offset the background image? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart494 Posted April 27 Author Report Share Posted April 27 The background images were designed to be centered at (0,0) game coordinates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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