How do you add units in the editor?

[Goldblooded]

Ive found everything else such as adding cities and mines , yet ive found the UNITS category but i cant seem to add them to the map? Can someone elaborate how i can do this?

[soh]

Ive found everything else such as adding cities and mines , yet ive found the UNITS category but i cant seem to add them to the map? Can someone elaborate how i can do this?

someone should make a u tube video on that great mystery

[Goldblooded]

Ive found everything else such as adding cities and mines , yet ive found the UNITS category but i cant seem to add them to the map? Can someone elaborate how i can do this?

someone should make a u tube video on that great mystery

So do you know how to get them or not?

[soh]

Ive found everything else such as adding cities and mines , yet ive found the UNITS category but i cant seem to add them to the map? Can someone elaborate how i can do this?

someone should make a u tube video on that great mystery

So do you know how to get them or not?

sorry i was joking i also wish to use the editor,but i cant get it to work so someone make a u tube video

[pzgndr]

See Part 3 of the basic modding guide at viewtopic.php?t=25299 below?

[Peter Stauffenberg]

Are you speaking about the vanilla CeaW or GS v2.0? We've altered the editor to support GS v2.0 and we use it to place units in the scenarios, change the map etc. The old editor is not compatible with GS v2.0 and will crash the game if you try to use old CeaW scenarios in GS.

We've decided to NOT release our modified editor so if you want to alter scenarios you need to edit the text files directly. You can find a description of these files in one of the threads in this forum. The reason we don't want to release the editor is because it will create more support issues. It's hard enough to help people getting the basic GS v2.0 up and running. Since we're fixing bugs it's good to know that all play the same scenarios and not modded ones.

I've used the editor quite a bit and it's a nightmare to work with. If you make one little mistake then the scenario you create will crash the game during compilation. So if we released the editor we would have had to deal with a lot of support for people having game crashes they created themselves. Unfortunately the game engine is not very robust. You can just try to add a blank line in general.txt and then the game won't load at all. If you miss a / * then it will crash as well. This problem is the same for all txt files. So trust me when I tell that you don't want to deal with the editor. It will only give you a lot of frustration until you finally manage to make a scenario that can be compiled without crashing.

[Rosseau]

As a novice modder with GS v2.0, the text files are a breeze to work with compared to the old editor.

I have to add that at CeaW's original release (when the wargaming bar was set lower, i.e., no WitE out yet), I was still disappointed in the game. But GS has me hooked. Nice job. Thanks.

[Goldblooded]

Are you speaking about the vanilla CeaW or GS v2.0? We've altered the editor to support GS v2.0 and we use it to place units in the scenarios, change the map etc. The old editor is not compatible with GS v2.0 and will crash the game if you try to use old CeaW scenarios in GS.

We've decided to NOT release our modified editor so if you want to alter scenarios you need to edit the text files directly. You can find a description of these files in one of the threads in this forum. The reason we don't want to release the editor is because it will create more support issues. It's hard enough to help people getting the basic GS v2.0 up and running. Since we're fixing bugs it's good to know that all play the same scenarios and not modded ones.

I've used the editor quite a bit and it's a nightmare to work with. If you make one little mistake then the scenario you create will crash the game during compilation. So if we released the editor we would have had to deal with a lot of support for people having game crashes they created themselves. Unfortunately the game engine is not very robust. You can just try to add a blank line in general.txt and then the game won't load at all. If you miss a / * then it will crash as well. This problem is the same for all txt files. So trust me when I tell that you don't want to deal with the editor. It will only give you a lot of frustration until you finally manage to make a scenario that can be compiled without crashing.

Not sure, I downloaded off here. Ive found a rather annoying glitch, when i click save or save as and save itinto a folder it doesnt appear when i go in game?