Map balancing and editing tool

[SevenSpirits]

Some features I think could be useful:

I would focus on the sphere of influence bit (first). Block copy/paste can already be done e.g. in MapView.

[Krill]

I would focus on the sphere of influence bit (first). Block copy/paste can already be done e.g. in MapView.

Actually, that's a really kludgy program that is a pain to use. Yes it works for copy/paste but that's it, and it's a real pain to copy/paste in the first place.

[novice]

Nice! Though it's still crashing on many of the RB maps I happen to have lying around. (Because of the player colors?)

Also: It is erroneously not counting clam as a food resource (only as a health resource).

Fixed. New version uploaded, same link as before.

I added a few more player colors so PB2 and PBEM2 work now. I also added error handling, so if you get an error message, post it here and it'll be easier for me to fix it.

[novice]

What are you writing this in? I assume something .NET - C# maybe? I'm a professional Java developer, and haven't ever worked with C#, but I'd be willing to cut my teeth on it for a project like this. Would you be open to contributions from others?

C#.Net with Windows Presentation Foundation.

Is there a spec for the WBSave format? I opened one and it's just plaintext, which means it's easily parseable, but I'd really rather not try to reverse engineer the grammar.

I just reverse engineered the bits I needed and ignored the rest. More fun than looking for a specification.

[SevenSpirits]

Fixed. New version uploaded, same link as before.

I added a few more player colors so PB2 and PBEM2 work now. I also added error handling, so if you get an error message, post it here and it'll be easier for me to fix it.

Still need these player colors (at least):

MIDDLE_GREEN
LIGHT_PURPLE
LIGHT_GREEN

[darrelljs]

No one uses assembly any more .

Darrell

[darrelljs]

I would also like to point out that while everyone is congratulating Novice on his awesome tool, it was my terrible map making skills that provided the motivation .

Darrell

[novice]

Still need these player colors (at least):

MIDDLE_GREEN
LIGHT_PURPLE
LIGHT_GREEN

Thank you. I finally found the relevant xml file and lifted all the color codes from there, so there should be no more missing player colors now. New version uploaded to existing link.

[plako]

Excellent job Novice. Here is PBEM8 analysed.

edit. Here is PBEM16

[Krill]

To keep Darrell, happy, thanks for being a crap map maker