Topic: Landbridges - how to change

barocca WebSite Group: Administrator Joined: Dec. 2000 Australia the landbridges appear to be defined, i can link rhodes and nicaea, but i can't see how to display the landbridge! here's how to link rhodes and nicaea edit this line SetNeighbours:: ID_RHODES ID_DODECANESE_SEA to this SetNeighbours:: ID_RHODES ID_NICAEA ID_DODECANESE_SEA then edit this SetNeighbours:: ID_NICAEA ID_CONSTANTINOPLE ID_ANATOLIA ID_TREBIZOND ID_AEGEAN_SEA ID_DODECANESE_SEA ID_EASTERN_MED to this SetNeighbours:: ID_NICAEA ID_CONSTANTINOPLE ID_ANATOLIA ID_TREBIZOND ID_RHODES ID_AEGEAN_SEA ID_DODECANESE_SEA ID_EASTERN_MED then FIND this line SetBorderInfo:: ID_DODECANESE_SEA ID_RHODES 24904 21848 0 ARID AT_SOUTHERN_EUROPEAN COAST HILLY NO_RIVER COPY IT, paste it immediately under the existing line THEN it edit the new line to this SetBorderInfo:: ID_NICAEA ID_RHODES 24904 21848 0 ARID AT_SOUTHERN_EUROPEAN COAST HILLY NO_RIVER now Rhodes and Nicaea are linked, but still no visible landbridge!!! do not cut and paste above, formatting was removed Anyone have a clue where the landbridges are listed/defined for display??? Back to top

barocca WebSite Group: Administrator Joined: Dec. 2000 Australia never mind, found it D:\Games\Medieval\Textures\campmap it's on the tga map itself.. so if you wanted to make such a change permanent you'd have to edit or suppy for download an editied tga set... ==== YIKE!!! just checked the file siz for the 2 TGA's - 45MB!!! I'll see if i can edit the files, then make a patch which will auto-edit the files when run... Back to top

barocca WebSite Group: Administrator Joined: Dec. 2000 Australia rightio then the PatchIt utility (shareware) available from TuCows makes a nice tiny 175k patch for a quick edit on the MapTex file - which is 9 MB, so a similar patch for both should be around 1MB, a substabtial saving on 45 MB! so if anyone Wanted to make similar changes to the map you could easily share the new map with everybody ==== i tested 3 others before i found this one, all the others either spat the dummy at the file size, or created a patch that was same size or larger than the maptex files... doh!!! Back to top

Lord Krazy The Dungeon Group: Moderator Joined: July 2002 Elephant Free State will this work for changing names or just the linking thing.I'm full of stupid questions tonight. We changed the names of places in the maptex but not the other one it took effect .Don't know how sound this is but still trying to see where it glitches and no joy yet or is that a good thing. LK Back to top

barocca WebSite Group: Administrator Joined: Dec. 2000 Australia From Target Nothing's stopping you from editing the names of the provinces, since these are all found in the translation files. These can be found in the loc directory and are completely defenceless, allowing you to hack them to bits to your heart's content. ==== then we simply need to edit the startpos script to match   Back to top

GilJaysmith Programmer Group: Senior Member Joined: Aug. 2002 Creative Assembly / Littlehampton Quote Originally posted by barocca: the names of the provinces are in a text file in locand we can edit these names to our hearts content, then we simply need to edit the startpos script to match Note that the names of the regions on the campaign map are embedded in the graphic; changing the .txt files won't change what appears on the map. This is because the region names had to be localised but still had to look nice. The only way to do that was to do a different TGA for each language version. Gil ~ CA Back to top

+DOC+ Duke Group: Junior Member Joined: July 2002 Athens of the North, Scotland Regarding deletion of landbridges: I'm interested to know how the AI will deal with these changes since it, presumably, won't understand the necessity of quickly building a navy...? With this in mind, i assume that if one isn't playing the English or Almohads then one might find the need to give them a shipyard and a boat to start with, otherwise they could stagnate. Take the English and crusading for example....when they decide to launch their first crusade from the UK how will this crusade reach it's destination if their is no navy present? Similarly, this will also be the case for any of the crusading European countries attempting to crusade to North Africa and for the Almohads sending Jihads to Spain. There are a lot of difficulties associated with this, particularly with the Spain/Morocco border and launching crusades/jihads, and therefore i'm interested to know how anyone playing the game this finds the AI...?? Cheers Doc Back to top