Cultures

Azgaar 2018-08-12 14:09:02 +03:00
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This feature does not seem me especially interesting since it apparently does not allow you to export the image with quality. We can see the map in perspective, but as I already said it doesnt seem very interesting yet. Consider it a concept of a planned 3d preview feature.
### Countries
When we go into this submenu a list with all the countries is displayed. For each country we have information on its name, capital, number of burgs, number of cells, area and population.
When we go into this submenu a list with all the countries is displayed. For each country we have information on its color, name, capital, number of burgs, number of cells, area and population.
Almost every parameter is editable. In the lower part of the menu we have the controls that allow us to do many changes, which are outside of the scope of this tutorial.
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![Screenshot_10](https://i0.wp.com/azgaar.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/quick_start_10.png)
### Cultures
This option works the same way as Countries Editor. For each culture we have information on its color, name, number of cells, area and namesbase. To edit a culture placement we can simply drag the displayed _culture center_ circle, but this will not allow any precision. For small changes we can manually re-assign cultures using _paint brush_.
![Screenshot_12](https://i0.wp.com/azgaar.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quick_start_12.png)
A namesbase is a thing that makes one culture different from others. Namesbase defines a set of data to be used for a procedural name generation. For example _German_ base contains a list of citynames in real-world Germany and some basic generation rules like preferable name length and generation method. We can also create our own namesbase or edit an existing one.
![Screenshot_11](https://i0.wp.com/azgaar.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/quick_start_11.png)
### Scale
Finally, we can change the unit of measurement, the distance represented by each pixel of the map (2 miles per pixel, for example), the population density and the degree of urbanization of the countries.