How to: Semi-automatic real world scenario generation

[aDe]

The patch appears to be working fine with 1.4.0-RC1 and 4096x4096 maps! Here's an updated build for win32

[Wahazar]

Trying to compile import_towns_v4.patch with trunc, but:

console_cmds.cpp51: error: 'SAFEGUARD_DO_NOT_USE_THIS_METHOD' was not declared in this scope
char *sign_text = (char*)malloc(strlen(buf)+8);

Excluding safeguards.h solved problem, but maybe there are more elegant solutions?

[Alberth]

Don't use malloc ? See also r26479

changeset: 21380:49812123c062
user: rubidium
date: Mon Apr 21 18:31:06 2014 +0000
summary: (svn r26479) -Codechange: use MallocT instead of malloc

[Leanden]

Does anyone have the latest compiled bundle for this? (Windows)

[Wahazar]

Does anyone have the latest compiled bundle for this? (Windows)

I developed this modification and now it is possible to import not only towns, but many other landmarks.
Examples, source code and 1.4.1 windows exe was published here:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=70846 post 2 and 3.

[skummel]

Does this works with import of cities in the JGR patch pack ? or only in the version in the first post ?

[moki]

Holy moly, his is no thread necromancy, this is archeology

I didn't even know there was a version of import towns patch in JGR's patch pack, so I have no idea if it's still the same. You can still use the old patch and method and open the map in JGR's pack, though.

There's also the slightly less outdated and more powerful patch from McZapkie here and a lovely tool that generates city lists without all the manual filtering, sorting and converting of tables. You might want to try that one instead, because my old method was interesting for the time, but is really complicated and inefficient. You may have to do some research for yourself, though, because I didn't really continue the work from 5 years ago and have no idea how everything moved on.