difference between historic_event and event historic

**Emperor of Hell** · October 24, 2011, 01:53 AM

What the title says, whats the difference between

Code:

historic_event random_event

and

Code:

add_events
event historic random_event
end_add_events

?

**Tsarsies** · October 24, 2011, 02:25 AM

This one was originally the only srcipting command for M2TW before being patched to kingdoms i believe. I think this version u can also add dates for it to be fired. With 0 being now and 1 the following turn etc. And i think it was supposed to be used in conjunction with the events.txt in the campaign folder. That is my theory anyway

Code:

add_events
event historic random_event
end_add_events

After Kingdoms was released they added additional commands etc, this was one they made shorter i guess...

Code:

historic_event random_event

I think the original idea was that u could add other event types as opposed to just 'historic'. Because there are other event types possible, Looking through one of the txt files i found a bunch of other event types which more or less have a different 'scroll' when the event pop up. Like storms and adoptions etc.

If u add true to the end of the one it becomes an interactive event... such as

Code:

historic_event random_event true

They more or less do the same thing.

**Emperor of Hell** · October 24, 2011, 03:20 AM

Ok thanks

**Gigantus** · October 24, 2011, 09:22 AM

One drawback with 'historic_event': you cannot use a position entry to enable that little looking glass that zooms you to the position of the happening, nor have a delayed event - for that you have to use 'event historic':

add_events
event historic [event_name]
date [numerical value(s) for turns to pass until event]
position [x, y]
end_add_events

**Withwnar** · October 25, 2011, 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by Gigantus

One drawback with 'historic_event': you cannot use a position entry to enable that little looking glass that zooms you to the position of the happening

Wow! I didn't know that this was possible at all. Thanks Gigantus.

**Emperor of Hell** · October 24, 2011, 12:02 PM

Oh, so there is a difference, thanks Gigantus

**Gigantus** · October 25, 2011, 03:52 AM

I usually make a combo with 'reveal_tile x, y' in case it is an object or character. Don't forget to hide the tile again!

**Withwnar** · October 25, 2011, 04:02 AM

On a related note, is there any way to reuse the same image for any number of historic events?

historic_event takes a movie parameter that will let you reuse the same movie for different HE's but I'd like to be able to do the same for images. At the moment I'm just making copies of the same image and renaming them to match the event name.

**Gigantus** · October 25, 2011, 04:04 AM

The only picture that gets 'recycled' is the default one (...\data\ui\[culture_name]\eventpics\historic_events.tga). All others you will have to copy and rename as they are linked to the event name.