Modding tutorial project

[Gloo]

Hi to you all !

Here's a French complete version of this excellent Modding Tutorial, available for your perusal pleasure on Cyberstratège...

...as well as a full listing of all our articles, including a complete review, regarding this excellent war-game...

...and exclusive for our French readers, in association with Matrix Games, a unique opportunity to earn more than some victory points (free boxes of WW2 ToW spotted ahead !), right here !

Feel free to leave feedbacks, good or critical ; you're welcome anyway [;)]

[cracker]

hello doom i have a question i of course didnt look in the tutorials yet but if you can answer one question this would save me time and ill probably look later ok question lets say im playing germany in grand game if i wanted to change levels just say tanks to level 5 where would i find this info to change i know it sounds like a big cheat i just like tanks if you can plz give me best detail im not great at finding this info in folders but i do my best thanks so much for any help just to make sure its understood that im looking for the purchase as level 5 not technology unless you need to change both thanks

[doomtrader]

@overthehill64
Sorry for the late reply.
If you would like to change level of your already owned units (those on map or i deploy pool), go to land_units.csv file in your save game folder. Level of unit is in sixth column.

If you would prefer to buy new tanks with higher level, then go to countries.csv file and change entry sixteenth column.

[AH4Ever]

ORIGINAL: doomtrader

And here is next part.
http://forum.wastelands-interactive.com ... php?t=2028
This time about the weather

ORIGINAL: AH4Ever

weather.csv file tells you what kind of weather is at given hex and can it be changed by weather generator (1) or not (0).

Is it possible to use weather.csv to prevent weather from happening in a particular hex or group of hexes?


I figured it out. Types of Weather - Good = 0, Snow =1, Mud = 2

[8|] I was quite happy with myself when I thought I had figured out how weather.csv works.

I was baffled when I first opened it from within the 1939 scenario and saw just remarks and no entries. I played around with it and came up with what I assumed was a way to block mud and snow from generating in cities hexes.

Please take a look at the uploaded file which I renamed .txt so I could upload it.


To continue now that I've started testing my MOD, I discovered weather.csv in my saved game directory where it eventually generates it's own entries to effect the weather in specific hexes.

This leads me to another assumption that this file cannot be modified.

Is this correct?

[&:]

[doomtrader]

For good weather there is no entry in the file, so it wouldn't prevent to change into mud or snow as it was designed to keep 'bad' weather at the map.

The thing you might consider is to use events with those methods:
<effect method="New.StartWinterArea" param0="X" param1="Y" param2="X" param3="Y" param4="0/1" />
<effect method="New.StartMudArea" param0="X" param1="Y" param2="X" param3="Y" param4="0/1" />
<effect method="New.EndWinterArea" param0="X" param1="Y" param2="X" param3="Y" param4="0/1" />
<effect method="New.EndMudArea" param0="X" param1="Y" param2="X" param3="Y" param4="0/1" />
But let me warn you, they were not fully tested.

[Harbinger]

hex_cover.csv
Here are information about graphic changes at the map. If any of the standard hex graphic should be changed, here is the place to set it up.

This file does not appear in any of the scenario folders for my TOW folder.

[doomtrader]

@Harbinger
This file has been changed to eyecandies.csv

[Harbinger]

sea_nodes.csv
Sets up where are ports and sea zones on fleet screen and map screen.

Is there a limit to the number of sea zones and/or ports?

[doomtrader]

As far as I know there is no limit.
But please double check there is no empty line at the bottom of the file.

[Harbinger]

fer shizz....you knew exactly what problem i was having. Empty space. [&o]

[Harbinger]

hmm....for some reason I haven't found yet......whenever I make a change to the countries.csv the scenario refuses to load...

err....Help?

[cpdeyoung]

Just in case, I remind you that these files use semicolons, rather than commas, and are best edited in Notepad, rather than Excel.
&nbsp;
Chuck

[Harbinger]

It doesn't seem to matter which format i use, Excel or Notepad. I can however, make a copy of the file, edit that any way I want and then copy/paste to the other.

[doomtrader]

part 10 - http://forum.wastelands-interactive.com ... php?t=2299