Integration of TeD maps with single player campaign

[Lord Baal]

Ok, I think there's no "official" thread about this, to post outgoing discoveries (if any) on how integrate TeD maps with the single player campaign of Shogun Total War 2.
I would start digging into this as soon as I'm able to do it, not tonight for sure, but maybe tomorrow.

[The Hedge Knight]

Almost certainly your best bet would be to pack them like a standard custom map then use scripting to add them
This would hopefully work.

local function OnNewCampaignStarted()
	new_game = true
	scripting.game_interface:add_custom_battlefield(-131.1, -133.1, 3, "battlelocation")
end

Pretty sure the format here is x,y, radius

If you want to find out the coordinates the best bet would be to grab them from campaigns_maps/campaign_name/template_map.xml.

[MathiasOfAthens]

Does that script link it to a city at those coordinates The Hedge Knight?

[The Hedge Knight]

No idea whats at those coordinates tbh, they are the location of the custom battle used in the tutorial.

[T.C.]

That script might not work in every scripting file, particulary ones with no event callback for OnNewCampaignStarted. A far safer version would be as follows:

events.NewCampaignStarted[#events.NewCampaignStarted+1] = function(context)
	scripting.game_interface:add_custom_battlefield(-131.1, -133.1, 3, "battlelocation")
end

Note that most files will have the relevant callback, but it's still far safer to use the above example (in case you overwrite something by mistake, which could happen with duplicate functions).

Would be great to see this put to use for custom sieges in every city

[The Hedge Knight]

I was rather imagining people would just use the campaign script but fair point!

[T.C.]

I was rather imagining people would just use the campaign script but fair point!

Even so, if they're not careful (ie just lob that code randomly into the file) my version will do less damage than yours. Just a little

[.Mitch.]

That scripting doesn't do what you think (want) it to do.

See it's usage in the scripting.lua of the tutorial campaign. [Those battles that have random armies nomatter your army in the campaign]

It links to (has to link to) a battle with preset armies and the result and the forces in the battle have no bearing to the campaign itself.

Sorry, was planning to use this waaaaay back when I was making mods for the demo, and was disappointed in its function too.

[Lord Baal]

So, it's impossibruu??

[other mitch]

I didn't find a way to integrate them but I did find a way to access the siegemap files themselves for editing...