How To: Enable year and season display

[alpaca]

Well I stumbled upon this nifty little config setting:

[misc]
show_hud_date = true

What it does is displaying the season and the year over the minimap in addition to the turn number, instead of replacing it.

Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about:




So here's the actual how-to part:

1 - Open your medieval2.preferences.cfg file (or your mod's .cfg file) in a text editor, such as notepad
2 - Copy the above code into it at the top
3 - Save the file (and in the case of the vanilla config file you might want to set it to read-only, too, or the game will overwrite it again)
4 - Enjoy

[Chim]

wow good to know! very informative

[Dimitri_Harkov]

Not quite new, but thanks anyway!

(This was in the 'Retrofit Mod' already).

[alpaca]

Not quite new, but thanks anyway!

(This was in the 'Retrofit Mod' already).

Was it? Interesting.
It works with the medieval2.exe, too, though. And I don't think everyone played the retrofit mod (including me)

[Brancaleone daNorcia]

wow great job!! I was just lookin' for it!

[Dimitri_Harkov]

Was it? Interesting.
It works with the medieval2.exe, too, though. And I don't think everyone played the retrofit mod (including me)

Well, of course not, sorry for my comment.
Great news that it works with the medieval2.exe too.
And thanks again for sharing this.

[alpaca]

Well, of course not, sorry for my comment.
Great news that it works with the medieval2.exe too.
And thanks again for sharing this.

Sorry if I sounded a bit testy, it's sometimes difficult to express what you mean over the internet, I wasn't offended by your post in any way.

[SigniferOne]

Nice, alpacster. Fruits of patient .exe sifting?

[alpaca]

Nice, alpacster. Fruits of patient .exe sifting?

Yeah, I hadn't looked at the config settings before.

[Mersk]

Nice. I've never tried a four turns per year setup, stick to two, but I wonder if it would show spring and fall.

[alpaca]

Nice. I've never tried a four turns per year setup, stick to two, but I wonder if it would show spring and fall.

No, it only shows summer and winter (these are the only seasons the game knows)

[Kishiro]

hi,

I wonder is it possible to change seasons cycle
from: winter-summer-winter-summer
to: winter-winter-summer-summer

Would be very glad of receiving any reply
thanks

[alpaca]

hi,

I wonder is it possible to change seasons cycle
from: winter-summer-winter-summer
to: winter-winter-summer-summer

Would be very glad of receiving any reply
thanks

There's a four turns per year script in my script-o-rama. I believe that what you want isn't possible though, you can only have summer->summer->summer->winter because the game will change the year on the transition from the winter to the summer turn

[Evil_Dane]

Thank you so much this is very nice to have

[Jacobus Rex]

There's a four turns per year script in my script-o-rama. I believe that what you want isn't possible though, you can only have summer->summer->summer->winter because the game will change the year on the transition from the winter to the summer turn

Could you provide a link to this script-o-rama? I want to have a 4 turns per year! Also, would this work with Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers? Or only with Vanilla?

EDIT: I found the files I want to change, but any time I change them, and hit to save, it tells me that it cannot create the path. Why is this? I checked the file, and it is not read only, but I still cannot save any changes. Why is this?

[Evil_Dane]

Thanks