Toggle Campaign Map Hud

[bɑne]

Toggle Campaign Map Hud
aka T.C.M.H.

This submod for 6.4+ implements a script in your campaign script that enables you to hide and unhide the entire stratmap user interface by simply pressing the "SCROLL_LOCK key" whilst ingame on the stratmap.

Preview:

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Credit:
Goes to Userpro for releasing this in his tutorial Miniscript to hide/unhide stratmap-ui whilst ingame and with him the REDEO AD EXORDIUM - Team.

If you experience any problems with this submod manager conversion post in this topic

Installation:

Installation is pretty straightforward:

Download the attached file and extract it on your desktop

1. Place the txt in Medieval II Total War\mods\SS6.4\data\campaign\sub
2. Run Medieval II Total War\mods\SS6.4\SS_setup.exe
3. Select your era of choice, Toggle Campaign Map Hud and any other submod you wish to use with it.

Note: You will need to start a new campaign in order for this to work

Compatibility:
Standard (vanilla) 6.4 (and the versions above), everything else is untested as of yet. Should work with every campaign and submod that keeps the same comment structure as vanilla 6.4 (and the versions above).
Not savegame-compatible, a new campaign is needed.
If your ss_setup generates errors report your submod config here.
Then simply rerun ss_setup without selecting this submod and wait for the fix

This little first-time-feature script is able to hide & unhide the entire stratmap user interface by simply pressing the "SCROLL_LOCK key" whilst ingame on the stratmap.
I've initally created this nice script only, to make better campaign-map screenshots for our mod. But i think some people out there would appreciate, to add this little feature in their game, also to increase the overall visibility on the stratmap, so i decided to make it public.

But if anybody would like to use this inedited feature in a public mod, it would be only sane, to leave a little note and/or credit, maybe in favour to our RAE-mod, or the RAE-team (see signature), coz our mod is still in development and this script its a inherent part of it!
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Add the following little piece of lines to your campaign_script.txt located in ...
X:\Games\Medieval II TotalWar\mods\your-mod\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\

declare_counter ui_showing
monitor_event ShortcutTriggered ShortcutTriggered object_manager hide_gui
        wait 0.1
            if I_CompareCounter ui_showing = 0
                hide_ui
                disable_movie_view
                set_counter ui_showing 2
            end_if
            if I_CompareCounter ui_showing = 1
                show_ui
                set_counter ui_showing 0
            end_if
            if I_CompareCounter ui_showing = 2
                set_counter ui_showing 1
            end_if
    end_monitor

Not savegame compatible!

[SoulBlade]

Quite interesting. Definitely worth a try!

[bɑne]

Thanks Added preview.

[Scandal]

Great simple effective mod! Thanks

[bɑne]

Below you see a small composition out of several screenshots created with the help of the script above:

[Caesar Clivus]

Dude that is awesome. I had been wondering if this was possible. Unfortunately I can no longer remember why I wanted to hide the entire interface

[SoulBlade]

Probably for better screen shots of the campaign map.

[el Cid]

Nice work, +rep.

[bɑne]

Thanks everybody I'm trying to make a complete composition of the actual campaign map and got tired of cutting the UI out of the screens - so I went hunting and thankfully found this great script by Userpro

[Fair Prince]

Just downloaded the stuff because I'll need to make some pics for SSMAP, excellent work once again bane! (+rep)

[Domenis Lupus]

say you don't have a scroll lock key on your keyboard, can the hotkey be changed or am SoL?

[eldorien88]

Excellent little sub-mod!!! [+rep]

[Legio XV Apollinaris]

excellent! very useful! thanks and +rep

[bɑne]

say you don't have a scroll lock key on your keyboard, can the hotkey be changed or am SoL?

If you are playing on a laptop you should be able to trigger scroll lock when using your "Fn" key, if that isn't possible I suggest hunting down the files in which m2tw stores the keybindings. Couldn't find anything on that after I looked it up, if you have more luck post it here