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AgentX wrote:

El_Condoro wrote:What I did for my campaign that I'm working on is use the first Tutorial slot and just change all the result fields, prestige and briefings. Leave it as "Tutorial" because, as Ranta points out the name is important. Then use that first entry to point to all the following scenarios that have been added at the end of the list. The interesting thing with using the Tutorial name slot is that it must be hard coded to set the tutorial messages to on because every time I start this campaign they pop up.

Another drawback to using the Tutorial slot is that the player can't set the difficulty settings (or any of the other settings: fog of war, weather, supply). A couple of modders were doing that on their modded campaigns and that was the result. If you are releasing your mod, you may want to consider using the normal campaign slot, so we can have control over the settings. Most (really should be everyone) use the Generic Mod Enabler so there's no need to make backup files and the original files stay intact. Just something to think about, El_Condoro. It's nice to be able to set the difficulty level (I always play with the other settings on, but some may want to change those as well).

Xerkis wrote:I’m not sure about that…. Or am I again not reading a post correctly?


I have my campaign in the Tutorial spot and when I run it I can pick all of those options.

El_Condoro wrote:Yeah, editing gamesetup will fix it but it means another file to make available in the download. No biggie, especially with the mod-swapper app.

El_Condoro wrote:I haven't tried it but you may need to change the data\movement.pzdat entries for #Towed to something like -200 to prevent it. ATM they are all 1 which I assume allows them to move 1 hex unless there is no hex in which to move. Let us know if it works if you try it.

Ranta wrote:Hi

Thanks a lot for the effort you put into it, im highly delighted

1. As for adding new nations, why not work with the nations.pzdat, and maybe store it, so one can distinguish between beteen differet ones?
So a warning is thrown when working with different nation files.

2. As mentioned above ( by me), are you planning on a compare or merge concept or function, for different equipment files?

3. The thing with campaigns is, that the beginning scenarios are harcoded (I think in the .htm files). I was not able to start at another sccenario as poland (for the poland campaign). But this could be prevented by renaming my new scenario to "poland" and just loading my custom maps there (as .pzscn file). I realy think this is NOT dependend on the NUMBER of the scenario but on the NAME (though I am not sure).
So a workaround would be some renaming in the first scenario (check my campaign file for details viewtopic.php?t=26817). Essentially, if not dealing with the first scenario, just always add entries at the end of campaigns.pzdat, so that starting numbers are not disturbed (if I was mistaken ). Though for a sensible representation in the editor the scenarios might be temporary reordered (for visualisation only).

I think of something like:
- Allways add data/scenarios at the end of the file (standard case)
- For campaign beginning some workaround like shown above is needed (one time), in the campaign.pzdat (special case)
- Presentation in your editor is an ordered list of labes (scenario names), which can be dragged and dropped in the desired order, this is not the same order as in the .pzdat, but induced by the entrie's jumpoints
- labes consists of detail fields, for map names etc (entries in campaigns.pzdat)
- labes can be added (new entry appended at campaigns.pzdat)
If you save (or reorder, add something), the jumppoints in the campaigns.pzdat are modiefied, but the entries itelfe are not moved (maybe except for a new start scenario)

I hope you get my point and it is of any use

Best regards

Ranta

zombiehunter1977 wrote:I don't suppose there is any way that you could make the nations list editable on your editor? I mean I suppose both the reminder box next to nation flag box, and the one for the nation search filter. I've added several nations and it doesn't work well with your great editor. Ideas?

mgarnett wrote:

zombiehunter1977 wrote:I don't suppose there is any way that you could make the nations list editable on your editor? I mean I suppose both the reminder box next to nation flag box, and the one for the nation search filter. I've added several nations and it doesn't work well with your great editor. Ideas?

I'll have a look at that, I don't use the nations file at all (I didn't know it existed until ranta pointed it out to me), so at the moment, only default nations are shown. It shouldn't be too hard to add though, I'll keep ypu posted.

Cheers

Mark

mgarnett wrote:Hi Guys,

I've just uploaded a new version. Apologies for the delay in getting this out, real life intervened for a little while.

Cheers

Mark