Oppida (aka the view settlement mod)

[zxiang1983]

We could make him invisible with alpha textures, couldn't we?

yes, we can. but all rebel generals will be invisible, too.

[GODzilla]

yes, we can. but all rebel generals will be invisible, too.

We could just create another general unit that is not buildable (not inside export_descr_buildings.txt), not accessable in custom battles ("no_custom") and that cannot be spawned by the game (not inside descr_characters.txt), am I right? And we could use this general being spawned as the attacker of the city. And then we could give him invisible textures.

Just my five cents, I'm most likely not able to do it myself so easily. Would've to look up some tutorials...

[Little Legionaire]

yes, we can. but all rebel generals will be invisible, too.

Maybe we make a brand new unit for city view. A generic unit and invisible. I'll make some experiments about it. If i success then i'll inform you about it.

Shoulder to shoulder we're walking through a bright future. For ze Reich!

[GODzilla]

Maybe we make a brand new unit for city view. A generic unit and invisible. I'll make some experiments about it. If i success then i'll inform you about it.

Shoulder to shoulder we're walking through a bright future. For ze Reich!

Well that's a great idea. How did that cross your mind?

[repman]

1.0.1 works like charm with DLV, will be in the next enhancer_01

Only the first kill commands are generating errors without effects (because there is no rebell before the spawn)

I don't understand the discussion about unvisible rebells. What for ? The rebel catapult is far away from the settlement and not attacked by the towers as in 1.0

repman

[alpaca]

@repman: The kill commands are only in there in case the player deselects the settlement before pressing show me, so you can remove them for debugging, or, if you have a space where they won't cause problems, completely.

@godzilla: The changes are all right at the bottom of the files

About the invisible rebel thing: Well if you code it, I'll put it into the mod. Otherwise it's too much work for too little gain.

[GODzilla]

@repman: The kill commands are only in there in case the player deselects the settlement before pressing show me, so you can remove them for debugging, or, if you have a space where they won't cause problems, completely.

@godzilla: The changes are all right at the bottom of the files

About the invisible rebel thing: Well if you code it, I'll put it into the mod. Otherwise it's too much work for too little gain.

Thanks. But....I don't see what you've changed for the "imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt"!?!

[alpaca]

Thanks. But....I don't see what you've changed for the "imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt"!?!

Nothing, I just forgot to remove it (I'm still used to putting it in there because it was required for a mod folder in BI)

[Little Legionaire]

I don't understand the discussion about unvisible rebells. What for ? The rebel catapult is far away from the settlement and not attacked by the towers as in 1.0

repman

Yeah, true repman. We can survive without it.

[Garnier]

Would it be easy to make a view army feature then? Since you could script a rebel unit to spawn and attack the army?

That would be cool, especially for AAR's so people can take real screenshots of their armies marching across their empire.

[zxiang1983]

I think it would be difficult, if not impossible. Because settlments names are definite and it's easy for the attacker(rebel catapult) to locate where to attack and so we can enter the battle screen. But characters names are uncertain so we cannot locate them in script. Maybe it's possible to give this function to some of those generals at start. But still that's a large project and again "too much work for too little gain"

[Garnier]

Ah yes I didn't think about the fact that you need a reference point to place the army.

[alpaca]

Ah yes I didn't think about the fact that you need a reference point to place the army.

What you actually need is a name of the character the army should attack, so for us it's impossible to code.

[Garnier]

What you actually need is a name of the character the army should attack, so for us it's impossible to code.

Yeah thats what I meant.

[Request a new user name]

I couldn't get it to work. Is this compatible with vista?

[nerazzurri]

I used the installer and then used the oppida.bat file to launch it. If you're using it with an existing mod then you'll need to follow the instructions in the first post on incorporating the two together.

[Request a new user name]

I used the installer and then used the oppida.bat file to launch it. If you're using it with an existing mod then you'll need to follow the instructions in the first post on incorporating the two together.

Which version though 1.0 or 1.01?

[nerazzurri]

1.01

[Request a new user name]

1.01

Okay, I just uninstalled, so I'll reinstall and get back to you guys

[alpaca]

Uhm are you talking about Vista versions or M2TW versions or versions of the mod? For the last two cases: The mod is designed for M2TW 1.2 and you should go with the mod version 1.0.1

Your army disappeared? Uh that shouldn't happen. Can you try to reproduce it?