Adding rivers in settlements

[gennosuke43]

I have figured out how to add lakes and seas next to settlements so you can see them in the battle map. I somewhat figured out putting river too but on the battle map it is far away. I want to learn how to make them closer like this screenshot.

http://www.gamershell.com/screenpop.php?id=187543

Any modders got some pointers to teach me?

[gennosuke43]

Anyone? please?

[Ramashan]

The only thing I can think of is that they made a custom battlefield and placed their city on it.

I have not tried this. But I have placed cities right up against rivers and surrounded by rivers, yet they always appear far off on the horizon when entering battle mode.

This is something i hope to test some time, but not for a while.

[gennosuke43]

Thats exactly what I've got so far. I wonder how................

[Ramashan]

Here's is a tutorial on how to add a custom battle field

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=43149

and here's how to turn on the battle editor

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=52379

Read the tutorial and the following posts and play around with this and see what happens. I'm a bit busy now with work so I can't explore this, so, if this indeed is the answer, I would love to see what you figure out.

Good luck.

[Ramashan]

I spent the day playing around with the battle editor and that is the way you get a river on a city battle map.

Just pick the tile of your city on the chooser map (if your editing the vanilla, or pick a tile with a river, because when ever I had it pointed at my custom map it crashed. In the chooser there is a place where it tells you if a river passes through the tile)

Once you have the editor open, go to the settlement icon, then choose a settlement type, place it near the river. And follow this tutorial to get the custom tile to load.

Putting Custom Battle Tiles on Map

Here's what I was able to accomplish with just playing around.



Good luck

[gennosuke43]

Yah I figured that out. The only way is to make a custom map and implement them that way on custom_tiles text in the campaign folder. Thanks again.

[Thor the Bassist]

Here's what you're looking for.