Creating a World - Implementing custom campaigns for single player and hotseat

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The principle

Custom Campaigns have as common base all the files outside the world folder. These can then be used to to create any number of campaigns, the diversity of which is only limited by the common files.
A very good example is the Custom Campaign Mod 2 which was actually the inspiration for this resource.

File Setup

Create a folder structure for your custom campaign: ...\data\world\maps\campaign\custom\Mod_Name
You will have to add these basic map files to the Mod_Name folder, they would normally be in the base and imperial_campaign folder:

campaign_script.txt
description.txt - simple text file containing a description of the campaign
descr_disasters.txt
descr_events.txt
descr_mercenaries.txt
descr_regions.txt
descr_sounds_music_types.txt
descr_strat.txt
descr_terrain.txt
descr_win_conditions.txt
descr_faction_movies.xml - required with relevant entry if you use custom factions (packed file, not included in download)
map_climates.tga
map_FE.tga
map_features.tga
map_fog.tga
map_ground_types.tga
map_heights.tga
map_regions.tga
map_roughness.tga
map_trade_routes.tga
radar_map1.tga
radar_map2.tga
radar_map_background.tga
water_surface.tga

For better immersion you should add faction maps, victory maps (short and long campaign) and, if desired, faction leader portraits.

- The data\text\imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt file from your mod needs to be copied and renamed to My_Mod_regions_and_settlement_names.txt and placed in the data\text folder.
- The data\text\campaign_descriptions.txt file requires some additional lines for your custom campaign. You will note that most files in there have the prefix of IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN, on the same principle you have to add your mod's entry, Example:

{MOD_NAME_TITLE}My Mod
{MOD_NAME_TURKS_DESCR}The Turks may very much...
{MOD_NAME_TURKS_TITLE}The Turks

Finishing touches

All that is left now is to download the supporting files, simply place the ZIP file into the mods\My_Mod\data folder and extract there. This will add the mt2w.lnt file that controls the menu lay out plus required graphics files. Please make a back up of your data\menu\textures\fe_texture1.tga file if you have customized it. After extracting compare the layout of your file with the new file - there are two versions of the file and you will have to use my file's layout.

Remarks and Download link

The downloadable files as well as two sample set ups have been included in my Bare Geomod set up as of version 2.0