4tpy or more turns per year help!

[dzigi]

Can somebady help me with 4 or more turns script? How can i inplement text and wher in DTW?

[Silver Legionary]

A 4tpy script? I think those are usually part of background scripts, and D:TW
has a background script(I think.) My meager experience with modding tells me that
you should make a copy of the files you would change, just in case you
mess up. Also, WinMerge could help(google it.)

Anyway, start with this thing here(http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=52168),
download the .zip file, and follow the first few instructions on that page.

NOW, here comes the tricky part.

I personally have tried this before, without success, however;
maybe this time, we can get it working for the both of us.
Anyway, first of all, MAKE A BACKUP OF export_descr_advice!!!
Do that by renaming it to something, like, I dunno, export_descr_advice_old.
Then, take the export_descr_advice that is in the same folder as the
scriptgen.exe. Copy it, go to My computer, open C:\, go to program files,
go to The Creative Assembly, open the RTW folder, go to your DTW folder,
open Data, and paste the file there.

Now, run the scriptgen. Next, go to C:\ in My computer, again.
You should see a script file, in .txt format.
Take that file, and put it in the DTW\Data\scripts\show_me folder.
It SHOULD now work, but to start the script, you have to press the
ESC key in the campaign map, then click the "?" in the upper-right hand
corner. Then, click the "show me how" button on your advisor.
That should do it.


Good luck with this, getting it to work, and doing what I just wrote down
the right way. lol.

[Spartan 666]

I tried more than once to implement a 4tpy script in DTW, but with no success. I think that was because of the old BK_Script, which included all campaigns and for some of them it didn't even trigger. In the next release each campaign has its own script, so I think it will be much easier.

[RedFox]

Why would you want to play with 4tpy anyways? Making it work in this case wouldn't take more than a few seconds if you had the 4tpy script, why even assume it's anything complicated?? - DTW already has a background script, so you only have to populate the bk script.

Still, DTW is meant to be played with 2tpy.

[Spartan 666]

I know DTW is meant as 2tpy, but that's my personal taste to play with more than two turns...that's why I never proposed it, and tried to do for my personal playing.

Anyway, in theory it shouldn't be complicated to implement it, I agree. But the BK_Script, which included all campaigns, didn't trigger either, so maybe that's why a 4tpy script don't work. I haven't tried to do that after it was split into 4.

[RedFox]

The BK script always triggered, it was the complex conditionals that RTW didn't understand that made it not work.

[dzigi]

Ok ,can,sombady explane to me how to populate bk script or what must to be done to play xtpy per turn?

[RedFox]

That would beat the fun of figuring it out all by yourself.

[dzigi]

i used Myrddraal script and work fine. But i didnt touch bk script. Red Fox what i must to change there or not?

[Silver Legionary]

Wait, what? dzigi, xtpy works for you in DTW?

Anyway, in my first post in this thread, I was wrong on
some counts. It appears that the script generated by
Myrddraal's should be part of the BK script. I will test that
shortly, and let you guys know what happens.

EDIT: Nevermind what I just said, the only thing you have to change
is this:
1. put descr_script in the DTW\Data\scripts\show_me\ folder.
2. Search for this: AdviceThread Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Thread
3. That entry look like this currently:



;------------------------------------------
AdviceThread Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Thread
GameArea Campaign
Item Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Text_01
Uninhibitable
Verbosity 3
Threshold 1
Attitude Normal
Presentation Default
Title Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Text_01_Title
Text Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Text_01_Text1


;------------------------------------------


4. Make that entry look like this.

;------------------------------------------
AdviceThread Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Thread
GameArea Campaign
Item Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Text_01
Uninhibitable
Verbosity 0
Threshold 1
Attitude Normal
Presentation Default
Title Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Text_01_Title
Script scripts\show_me\descr_script.txt
Text Help_Game_Options_Scroll_Text_01_Text1

;------------------------------------------
The differences are: Verbosity 3->Verbosity 0
and the addition of the line
"Script scripts\show_me\descr_script.txt".

To turn on the script, go to the campaign menu(press ESC),
click on the ? in the upper right corner, and if the advisor
pops up, click the "show me how" button.
I will test this shortly.
EDIT2: Wow, I think it worked. If I start a campaign, and do the "show me
how" thing, I get another summer instead of winter after hitting the end turn
button. lol

[RedFox]

*sigh* If you just put it there as a part of the BK script it'll work fine. I don't understand why you guys need to complicate this so much.

[Spartan 666]

Silver Legionary: this method is correct, but since there are 3 different start years (328, 305, 279 BC) it would be better to find a way to implement it into the campaign scripts, because now there is no longer a single big BK script, but a separate script for each campaign.

RedFox, I had already tried to add a 4tpy script to the BK, but it didn't trigger. I haven't tried after the old BK was split, though...

[RedFox]

That's because you copy stuff into scripts without even having the slightest clue what it does. If you sat down and had an attention span longer than 5 seconds, you would have figured it all out already.

[Spartan 666]

You're wrong, because I tried lots of combinations. Not having a great experience on scripting I looked at the EB background script, I made something similar, I was careful with counters and monitors...I admit I didn't spend hours on it, but at least half an hour.

Well, doesn't matter. Now it should be easier to do.

[RedFox]

Since you guys don't seem to figure it out, you're supposed to put the script before the main loop. The conditionals in 1.06 are faulty, but I've attached 1.07 CmpMain_Script.txt for those who want it to work. I wouldn't play anything else than Imperial Campaign after replacing it though.

;========================================
;==============    Loop it continuously
;========================================
    
    >> Insert 4tpy script stuff here
    
    while I_CompareCounter loop = 1
    end_while

[dzigi]

I dont hawe separate bk script in dtw? where i can get it . or 1.7 patch if exsiste? and force diplomacy dont work when replacing aniclary with midral aniclary.txt.

[Spartan 666]

@RedFox: ah, BEFORE the loop? I thought it was a script activator or something like that...sorry, and thanks for pointing this out!

@dzigi: don't worry, download and install patch 1.07 and it will be all right!