Some of the maps don't work

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The default maps, like Berlin-Spandau and Grundorf, work flawlessly. Others do not allow for the roadmap to be created (not enough ram error), e.g. Glenbeck or Bremen.
Some of them work good, like Hafencity Hamburg.
Some of them load a map, like Achen, but the bus stops and bus positions are read incorrectly. The only fix is to go through them manually, which im not going to do for now.

[kk-se]

Maybe it would be possible to divide a big map into parts, load them separately, generate whole.map.jpg for these parts, and then join these files into one. There were a Microsoft program for that task, but it's discontinued and I don't remember its name.

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Thanks for the idea! Unfortunately, OMSI editor, the program that generates wholemap.bmp, is very very old. When it runs out of ram, not only is wholemap.bmp not generated correctly, but the separate .bmp pieces of tiles also get corrupted...
I thought about trying to parse the individual .bmp files myself, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it, and then I didn't have much more time to finish the project.
Maybe I'll return to it one day, by now i don't even have OMSI installed anymore...

[kk-se]

I could try to do such thing I propose on Ahlheim-Laurentzbach, which I have installed and which I checked, that doesn't work. If I find a working solution, which wouldn't require doing manual work, I will let you know.
BTW, how did you found addresses of the bus' coordinates from OMSI memory? I wonder if that could be used to have influence on passengers, especially making them entering the second section of the articulated buses on bus stops or/and adding some features during ticket selling.

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I appreciate it, if you find a working solution - let me know.
Ahlheim-Laurentzbach is a modded map, if I understand correctly, and i've tested my program only on official maps. Also keep in mind, that if the map uses real life coordinates (longitude/latitude), then my programm will be very inconsistent with bus stops placement.
Regarding OMSI memory - I used CheatEngine to locate them. The only way to find a variable in memory is to know the values in advance, so I heavily relied on the values listed in OMSI editor (like bus stop coordinates, but spawn coordinates, tile x and y coordinates). So, to answer your question - yes, if the values are listed, for example, in the Debug line (Which you open with ctrl+z ingame if I'm not mistaken) or in OMSI editor, then there is a very good chance you can find the corresponding addresses and modify them. I do not think that you can necessarily "make" the passengers change their pathing however, because it is probably scripted and for that you need to know exactly how the code works or reverse engeneer it. Or at least I assume so. Regarding adding some features - unfortunately, my knowledge of modding is very little and I don't know what is possible in the game. But you can definitely read the values during ticket selling, or even slighty modify them. Depends on the difficulty of the task, really.

[kk-se]

Thanks for all the information. I'm going to get acquainted with CheatEngine and check the code and see, what I can do in order to improve the program.

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I've stumbled upon a project that can hook to OMSI and retrieve all sorts of data.
https://github.com/space928/Omsi-Extensions
Maybe you will find this usefull if you want to mod the game yourself.

[kk-se]

Thank you very much! I'm going to definitely check it out. My study of OMSI Route Advisor, unfortunately, stalled for now (but I plan to return to it), since I have concentrated on modding inside the existing scripting system. Thanks to your mod, which gave me inspiration, I have learned how to code plugin for OMSI.

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Im glad to hear that! If you ever make your plugin publically available on github, I would be interested to check it out. Best of luck!

[SHIMANTO117]

Hello, we really live in a great era now. I’ve created a program that uses Google Gemini to combine the .map.roadmap.bmp files from OMSI2 into a single map. You can use it once you install Python and Pillow.

Please click to open the OMSI2 roadmap combination.txt file before renaming it to combine.py. Specify the location of the map.roadmap.bmp file. (For safety, please create a new folder and copy the map.roadmap file there.)

Depending on the map, the combined image may be quite large, so please use the Photos app included with Windows to resize the image to PNG or similar.

Feel free to upload this to any of the various OMSI2 mod sharing sites.

https://sharemods.com/rvzs1chg7ljq/OMSI2_roadmap_combination.txt.html

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Hey, thanks for the idea!
I haven't touched this project in a while now, but from what i remember, the biggest problem was that some of the .bmp map pieces were corrupted aswell...
The memory overflow happened even before they were parsed and created individually, at least that's what happened on some bigger maps.
At least that's what i remember from my notes that i've taken.
Since then i've tried to understand the map parsing logic to create the wholemap myself, but i couldn't figure out a way.
I sunk a lot of hours into that, but trying to comprehend the text files with nonsensical coordinates is pretty tough XD
I really want to return to this project and finish it one day, i just didn't have much time to invest in it.
Anyways, thanks for checking it out!

[kk-se]

That's really clever, congratulations!
I was thinking about writing a program which would analyze splines in map files and draw a map, but I knew I won't be able to do it properly even before I started.