EDIT: For anyone else with this problem. THE SOLUTION IS EXTREMELY SIMPLE. Thank god.

So, it appears that by leaving the positions.txt blank, the game is forced to define new positions. Somehow, though, they are all offset, so when the game calculates positions that way, it's junk.

But I went ahead and used a quick script to set every single province in the game to have positions x=5, y=5. This is somewhere in a wasteland province at the very corner of the map.

Automatically, the game was forced to calculate default positions, but this way the positions were actually valid and at the center of each province automatically.

DONE!

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Hello all,

The game is March of the Eagles, but functionally it's quite similar to EU3.

I'm making a map from scratch. I have a provinces.bmp with 3000 individual provinces in it.

The positions.txt just requires an X and Y pixel coordinate to tell the game where to place troops in the province. If I just leave it blank, the game automatically generates positions, but they are pretty badly offset, so that it becomes impossible to see which province your troops are in exactly.

I definitely cannot go back and manually get pixel coordinates for 3,000 provinces. Is there any way to somehow use the .bmp file, which has a collection of shapes of different colours, and do something in order to get pixel coordinates automatically? I could then manipulate it with excel and use that to define positions.txt

All help is appreciated !