EasyEsf for NTW (30/11/2011)

[The Rt Hon. Daniel Ryan]

I would just like to thank husserlTW for this amazing program, had a few hiccups first time round but after reading through this thread, I'm modding away!

[Fonsy]

Great program But now I have a problem, Ive created a startpos from a savegame, and in this startpos no army can move from the region they are in, I never expected that problem

Can I fix it?

[husserlTW]

Have the army commander available movements points?

[Fonsy]

Yes, the blue color is in the other region but when I hold my mouse over it it becomes a X, just if I would try to move an army to the water.

[fishballkwan]

I did what you've mentioned, however, my esf files still remained unchanged. That's mean my esf file was still the old one, can anyone help me?

[Steph]

I have a somewhat similar problem.

EasyESF never actually save my changes

[Agamemnon]

Alright, after about 3 hours and a million tries, I swallow my pride Husserl and come to ask for help.


I am trying to make Scotland playable and a republic for a mod. They would hold the Scotland region and such. However, when I try to mod them to hold Scotland manually, the game crashes upon loading the campaign, and when I try to make them playable without switching any regions using EasyEsf, the game crashes upon loading the campaign as well. What am I doing wrong, number one (made them playable, made them un-emergent, made Austria unplayable, saved), and if I can't fix it, Husserl, can you please do it for me?

[RexJayden]

Would someone please help me. I installed this ESF editor and I cannot, for the life of me, find a way to open my darn saved game file. I can get these esf editors to work with Empire and Shogun, but this one isnt working for me. Please help. Ive downloaded jave, jruby, three downloads for this editor. After all of this, it has to work to make it worth the trouble and effort. Thanks in advance!

[Şeyhülislam]

Guy how can ı solve this problem

[The Lions Den]

Ok, everything is working ok. It says that it has changed the treasury to what I want and that it has updated the esf. I am the admin, so that is all good. But when I go to copy and paste my new startpos file over the old one and copy and replace. Get into the game and start a new campaign. The money is still 6500 instead of 10000. This is very confusing when I have tried so many things. The thing I notice is that it never changes the update date for the esf file. But shows under properties that it has changed it with todays date to the left of the old date. My brain is ready to blow up. Is there anything else I haven't thought of.

[The Lions Den]

Never mind. With alot of will and ambition. I got it to work.

[Kubos0]

I have a question. Which esf I have to use when I want to make an emergent faction playble (in coalition campain) change slots of emergent city and add special culture building?

[AL*42*]

Does EasyEasf_1_1_.7z patch also need to be run for Easy ESF NTW directory?

Last download attached EasyEasf_1_1_.7z and decompress it in EasyEsf for ETW directory, overwriting the existing files. This update fixes some problems occurred in FACTION page when changes were saved.

[Aomari]

I have a question. If I wants to change a province from 1 slot to 4 slots, and used it with Napoleon Total Factions All Emergent then what startpos.esf and regions.esf i should use ?
Sorry for my bad English though.
Many thanks.

[Lord Davn]

what startpos.esf and regions.esf i should use ?

Try using the Easy Esf editor that HusserlTW has provided, it's very easy to use if you spend a little time with it:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=498159

I tried to run it on my Win 7 x32 bit OS but I could not get the STARTPOS & REGIONS esf files to save.
I ran it on a Win 7 x64 bit OS and success

You must have the correct version of Java installed (64 bit) prior to installing East Esf
Then follow the install instructions and make sure jRuby installs and remember to add Nokogiri

[Steph]

Did you make some extensive testing?

I was told by someone who tried before you than adding slots to towns could create crashes, but not immediately, after a few turns.

[Lord Davn]

Did you make some extensive testing?

I did some testing today by adding slots to a couple British cities with Easy Esf. I rolled through about 6 turns with no problems recruiting units from the new barracks etc.
However the Easy Esf will NOT fill in an empty building slot. The city of Edinburgh in Scotland has a tax office and one open slot for a recruitment building but the Easy Esf will NOT put a barrack in there. This is easy to work around as you can either add it the old fashioned way with the Esf Editor 1.4.5 (after using Easy Esf) or just leave it for the player to fill in

Original NTW vanilla STARTPOS. file for mp_eur_napoleon ~Coalition Campaign


Saved Esf Build file with empty slot for recruitment building


In game NTW vanilla Campaign with new buildings & open build slot for barracks

[Steph]

That's not a problem, I'd be happy to just have empty slots anyway.
I want the player to be able to create buildings so he can recruit everykind of troops in every region.
Lelvel 1 building will be cheap and fast to build, it's to get higher levels that it would be expensive.

Have you tested if the AI can use the slots and recruits normally?

[Lord Davn]

That's a good idea Steph, I'll check the in game recruitment by the AI. I'm sending a boat load of my Prussian agents over to see what the Limes are up to today and I'll have them report back ASAP

[Steph]

Thanks for testing it.