[Guide]Stainless Steel General Modding Topic

[Feldspar]

Possible to mod the Vanilla arrow trails back in? I think I'm the only person here who likes them. Just the arrows, wanna keep the javs etc as they are now in SS.

[Silver Legionary]

I'm not exactly sure how you would do that, Feldspar, but I am sure that it would be done
in the descr_projectile file.

[bɑne]

if you want your arrow trails back delete descr_flaming_projectiles.txt

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in Crimson Tide 4.2 (blood,sand,dirt,snow) -Medieval combat isn't pretty

[Silver Legionary]

Does anyone know of a EDU editor that works with M2TW EDU files?
The Caligula unit editor messes up M2TW EDU files, so...

[Ishan]

Does anyone know of a EDU editor that works with M2TW EDU files?
The Caligula unit editor messes up M2TW EDU files, so...

There is only one and you already know how it works.
Use notepad++ and do all the things manually it's a simple text file anyways.

[Silver Legionary]

Yeah, I guess so...bleh. Takes me ages.

[Gorrrrrn]

a quick reminder for those who aren't aware of it, a few years ago Tornnight wrote a neat little prog (requires java) called name verifier.
quite simply it checks for discrepancies in various name files,and descr_strat.

if you want the name verifier follow the link here;
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...87#post3887087

it's free to use and was (I believe distributed with previous versions of stainless steel but not SS6.3 so new peeps may not be aware of it.

[warman222]

Sorry if this is the wrong spot, but does anyone know where the banner carrier deaths are in the descr-skeleton file? I need to know for a submod idea.

[Paladin94610]

Can I mod the siege time limits? That's forts need 3 turns to starve out. Castles need 6 turns to starve etc.? or is it hardcoded.

[Ishan]

Can I mod the siege time limits? That's forts need 3 turns to starve out. Castles need 6 turns to starve etc.? or is it hardcoded.

Hardcoded.

[Paladin94610]

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[Paladin94610]

In 6.3, we can build stone forts right? How can we revert back to wooden fort?

[bɑne]

In 6.3, we can build stone forts right? How can we revert back to wooden fort?

Forts: Everything you need to know about permanent, stone and/or buildable forts
How to: Change Fort model on Campaign- and Battlemap
Change forts into wooden castles

Check the Mod Workshop for more

[Paladin94610]

Informative threads. Well, one more question pop up on my mind. Can we know if the Campaign Script is broken at the very start of the game.

[Meneth]

Yes. Ireland will be cut off on the mini-map, and the start-up events won't show.
The log will usually show exactly what's breaking the CS, too.

[Paladin94610]

Haven't give you some rep for a time. I am eager to give. ++rep
Just gonna play with emergent scripts.

It is annoying to see Teutonic Knights emerging even Pagan lithuanians are gone. And Bulgar revolt should only happen if the settlements are owned by Romans.

[Meneth]

Good luck.
If it works well, make a sub-mod out of it. SS needs more sub-modders

[Ishan]

It is annoying to see Teutonic Knights emerging even Pagan lithuanians are gone. And Bulgar revolt should only happen if the settlements are owned by Romans.

Emergent script can blocked with a event counter which will not fire if Lithuania is destroyed prior to the emergence of Teutons.
About the Bulgar script that can be blocked by the same if like 2-3 specific settlements are not owned by Byzantium.

[Gorrrrrn]

For those who want to experiment with changing settlement buildings our own King Kong has written a tutorial on using wilddog and makanyane's IWTE = world editor prog.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...81#post8500981

(Prog itself from O/P of thread.)

You'll need milkshape 3D (free 30 day trial after that you pay for a license) from these people: http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/

The tutorial has only just been released so early days yet.

[Ishan]

By changing you meant editing battle building structures or creating them from scratch(in MS3D and then IWTE), right?
Coz for changing existing ones or swapping etc one only needs to fiddle with .pkg files which is fairly easy in comparison.