Victory conditions

[Warlord156]

Can anybody please tell me 'exactly' how to change the % in the scenario victory conditions. I have spent two days 'tinkering' with the scenario script, and achieved nothing (except for one time, when the enemy army lost heart at 33%, no idea how that happened). I have studied the scenario template and tools etc, but unfortunately my tiny brain does not speak hieroglyphs. Any help will be greatly appreciated, but keep in mind that I need to be explained to as if I were a 4 year old. A working example would be extremely helpful.
Thanks guys......

[rbodleyscott]

It is fairly straightforward. Look in ScenarioTemplate.BSF lines 88-93. The comments above those lines give instructions.

FUNCTION VictoryConditions()
{
StandardVictoryConditions(60, 40, 60, 40, 2, 0); // The last parameter should be 1 instead of 0 for Multiplayer scenarios.

return 1; // VictoryConditions() must return a non-zero value so that the main program knows it exists and therefore not to use the default version.
}

The red numbers are the numbers to change. They are the 1st and 2nd breakpoints for side0 and the 1st and 2nd breakpoints for side1.

The counterintuitive thing is that they are expressed in % of troops unrouted. (Because that was the way the UI reported the situation until it was changed late in the development process to report % routed)

So if you wanted side0's first Break point to be 33% routed, you would change the first 60 to 67. (Because 33% routed = 67% unrouted).

[Warlord156]

Thanks for the info Richard....
At least I was on the right track. The key word there was UNrouted, everything I did was backward, ie I was using routed %.
Thanks again.

[Paul59]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but once you have changed the Victory Conditions in the ScenarioTemplate.BSF, how do you get the new conditions to display on screen?

[rbodleyscott]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but once you have changed the Victory Conditions in the ScenarioTemplate.BSF, how do you get the new conditions to display on screen?

You need to put the new victory conditions in a uniquely named IDS_ string in the campaign text1.txt or text9.txt and then replace the string parameter in

StandardScenarioUI("IDS_SCENUI_VC_STANDARD", 1);

in

DrawScenarioUI()

in

scenarioTemplate.BSF

with your string's name.

Change the second parameter to 0 if you don't want it to display the standard extensions. (You can check that out by trial and error).

Here is an example from the Lostwithiel scenario:

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FUNCTION DrawScenarioUI()
	{
		StandardScenarioUI("IDS_SCENUI_VC_LOSTWITHIEL_PARLIAMENT", 0);
		
		return 1; // DrawScenarioUI() must return a non-zero value so that the main program knows it exists and therefore not to use the default version.
	}

[Paul59]

Thanks for that Richard, I have got that working now.

Please can you also tell me how to implement a turn limit and how that is displayed on screen?

I have entered these values in the scenario.bsf, but to no effect;

FUNCTION PreBattleSetup()
{
// Set multiplier for unit strength reporting
SetUniversalVar("StrengthMultiplier", 100);

// Set counter for StartTurnPost AI routines
SetUniversalVar("TurnCounter", 1);

// Needs to be set if scenario uses deadline
SetUniversalVar("ScenarioDeadline", 26);


Regards

Paul

[rbodleyscott]

Thanks for that Richard, I have got that working now.

Please can you also tell me how to implement a turn limit and how that is displayed on screen?

I have entered these values in the scenario.bsf, but to no effect;

FUNCTION PreBattleSetup()
{
// Set multiplier for unit strength reporting
SetUniversalVar("StrengthMultiplier", 100);

// Set counter for StartTurnPost AI routines
SetUniversalVar("TurnCounter", 1);

// Needs to be set if scenario uses deadline
SetUniversalVar("ScenarioDeadline", 26);


Regards

Paul

SetUniversalVar("ScenarioDeadline", 26) sets the turn limit. (Note that player turns are numbered 0 2 4 6 etc for side0 and 1 3 5 7 etc for side1. So IIRC if you want a turn limit of 26 turns each, you need to set ScenarioDeadline to 51 (or maybe 52).

If you use StandardScenarioUI() the turns remaining should be displayed on the left hand side of the screen if GetUniversalVar("ScenarioDeadline") > 0.

If you can't make it work, send me your scenario .BSF file and I will see if I can find what is wrong.

[Paul59]

Hi Richard,

I can't get it to work. I do want a scenario length of 26 turns, but I was trying lesser numbers because I wanted to see if the battle would end at the deadline without having to play through so many turns, it did not. The turns remaining counter does not display either. I am using a custom ScenarioUI text, but I tested it with the StandardScenarioUI and it still did not work.

I will send you the .bsf file, to see if you can help. I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot see it myself.

Many thanks.