The new tool will do this:
You create a variaton tile etc, but this time the tile is not just a tile, but a group of tiles, for example, 4x4.
The tool will scan the 4byte terrain l2 file, and find the appropriate places (consisting of the selection set of tiles of your choice), and if the 4x4 place is all set with the tiles you put in the config file as REPLACABLE TILES, it will put the tile set completely to that 4x4 area.
Sorry for my poor english, I better try to explain this by a pictuıre and config example.
I've a big area of google earth tiles, the tiles set is layed like
2 tile (left trimmed)
4 tile
4 tile
4 tile
It is a big area. This area will randomly go into farm tiles, but you don't want to put it on Road or River tiles, or any transition farm tiles.
Config is like this:
[TilesToReplace]
96,97,121,134,155,156,157,158,190,191,192,193 (Those numbers are not real numbers, just examples)
[TilesToPlace]
2521,2522,-1,-1 (-1 means here that this tile place will not be changed, so it is not to be looked up in the L2 file).
2523,2524,2525,2526
2527,2528,2529,2530
2531,2532,2533,2534
And you will then choose the skip number, which means you dont want to put it in all appropriate places, but want to skip for example 2 places, then put it in the 3rd place and so on.
Why I'm writing this?
I need your toughts and ideas about how can we make this a more valuable tool for everyone. For example I like to see it works for 128 theaters too, and I think it will. What else can be done to improve it. ETA is 1 week or so.
Thank you.
Example of Auto Tiled 12 tile area:
