rmg.txt Maker 20050501
This program has several purposes. The primary purpose is to gather more information about rmg.txt design, especially treasure and monster strangth values. The secondary purpose is to make it easier for people to produce rmg.txt files thus making people more likely and able to help with the primary purpose. The third purpose is to get someone to say 'I could do better than that' in front of witnesses so we can get them to make an even better rmg.txt Maker.

	Map		Every Map needs a name, or at least some type of identifier. Every map need a size, otherwise there is no map. Every random map needs at least 1 human player and 1 other (human or computer) player. The reason the size numbers are weird is because the HoMM3 people made them that way. The template size is x*y*z where: x=map.width/36; y=map.height/36; z=number of levels. Silly, but simple.
Map Name:
Size Range:	1 Small No Under 2 Small 4 Medium No Under 8 Medium 9 Large No Under 18 Large 16 XLarge No Under 32 Xlarge	1 Small No Under 2 Small 4 Medium No Under 8 Medium 9 Large No Under 18 Large 16 XLarge No Under 32 Xlarge
Human Players:	1 Human Player 2 Human Players 3 Human Players 4 Human Players 5 Human Players 6 Human Players 7 Human Players 8 Human Players	1 Human Player 2 Human Players 3 Human Players 4 Human Players 5 Human Players 6 Human Players 7 Human Players 8 Human Players
Total Players:	2 Players 3 Players 4 Players 5 Players 6 Players 7 Players 8 Players	2 Players 3 Players 4 Players 5 Players 6 Players 7 Players 8 Players

	Zones
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Human Start
Computer Start
Treasure
Junction
Base Size
Owner
Minimum Owned Towns
Minimum Owned Castles
Owned Town Density
Owned Castle Density
Minimum Neutral Towns
Minimum Neutral Castles
Neutral Town Density
Neutral Castle Density
Towns are Same Type
Towns are Castle
Towns are Rampart
Towns are Tower
Towns are Inferno
Towns are Necropolis
Towns are Dungeon
Towns are Stronghold
Towns are Fortress
Towns are Conflux
Minimum Wood Mines
Minimum Mercury Mines
Minimum Ore Mines
Minimum Sulfur Mines
Minimum Crystal Mines
Minimum Gems Mines
Minimum Gold Mines
Wood Mine Density
Mercury Mine Density
Ore Mine Density
Sulfur Mine Density
Crystal Mine Density
Gems Mine Density
Gold Mine Density
Terrain: Match to Town
Terrain: Dirt
Terrain: Sand
Terrain: Grass
Terrain: Snow
Terrain: Swamp
Terrain: Rough
Terrain: Cave
Terrain: Lava
Monster: Strength
Monster: Match to Town
Monster: Neutral
Monster: Castle
Monster: Rampart
Monster: Tower
Monster: Inferno
Monster: Necropolis
Monster: Dungeon
Monster: Stronghold
Monster: Fortress
Monster: Conflux
Treasure1 Low
Treasure1 High
Treasure1 Density
Treasure2 Low
Treasure2 High
Treasure2 Density
Treasure3 Low
Treasure3 High
Treasure3 Density

Connections					From is first Zone. To is second zone. Value is strength of any guards (range:?-?). Wide is whether border opening is narrow or wide open. And Border is best left blank since most people seem to think it doesn't work properly.
From	To	Value	Wide	Border

Output

Okay... Since I cannot directly output a text document using HTML and JavaScript, here's where you get to do a little (a very little) of the work yourself. Press either the Do It!! Button below or the one at the top of the page. This will output all the info you've entered into the TextArea to the left. It will also focus on the Output TextArea and select all this newly-outputted text. This means all you have to do is right-click the highlighted text and select 'copy' from the drop-down menu. Then open rmg.txt and paste the info at the end. Simple, right?

Fnord mentioned that most people will have no idea how to extract rmg.txt, but that doesn't really matter. Just save the output from this program as a text document named rmg.txt (NOT rmg.txt.txt, k?) and put that text document in the Data folder that is in your main Heroes folder. Simple.

The obvious: if you make a template that only works on XLarge maps with underworld and then try to play a random map that is small with no underworld, naturally the program will tell you there's no template available.

Not so obvious: the rmg.txt seems fairly unlimited in number of zones and connections, but my program only gives you 8 of each. This is my limit, not the rmg.txt setup. I have seen zone numbers in the 40s in the original rmg.txt; For the connections area, it is best to draw a few numbered circles on a piece of paper and draw your connections. If you can draw lines or curves along each connection you want without them crossing, then the generator shouldn't have a problem with them. Each zone can have as many connections as you want. Want a central fight zone? use connection 1-8 2-8 3-8 4-8 5-8 6-8 7-8 and now zone 8 will be connected to all others and will be a total battlezone.

Oddly enough, in the rmg.txt i saw values like 5.9 and 7.5 used in the from Zone area... weird.

Will start listing treasure ranges here once i've obtained any. You may wonder what the hold-up is... Make a template that has the same minimum and maximum values for all 3 treasures. Make sure all 3 have same density too. Do this for all 8 zones. Play the map and look at the wide range of visitable objects that appear from just one value... And then remember that we apparently have over 40000 values...

If what i've read is accurate, lower treasure densities are better because it reduces chance of shared guards. Seems that the min max values are actually the guards' strengths... Odd, hunh?

The big duh: I barely have any idea what I'm doing here. There is so little known about the rmg.txt that you only get a very few hits on google when you search for it. Very little info out there. The main purpose of all this was to make it easier to make templates so more people would do it so more people would talk about their results so more info could be gained.