A way to view the settlements once captured

[Velo222]

I remember one of the modders said they would mention this to the Third Age modding team as a suggestion a couple months ago, so I'm just wondering if there is some mod or addon (like the oppida "view settlements" mod) in which you can view your settlements (as in the battle view) from the strategy map?

And, actually, if someone could just incorporate the "oppida mod" into this mod, it would be freaking awesome.

Being able to just zoom around Isengaard or other cool cities in a free look mode would be so cool. Btw the "view settlements" option was in Rome: Total War as I'm sure many people know.

[KnightsTemplar]

I remember one of the modders said they would mention this to the Third Age modding team as a suggestion a couple months ago, so I'm just wondering if there is some mod or addon (like the oppida "view settlements" mod) in which you can view your settlements (as in the battle view) from the strategy map?

And, actually, if someone could just incorporate the "oppida mod" into this mod, it would be freaking awesome.

Being able to just zoom around Isengaard or other cool cities in a free look mode would be so cool. Btw the "view settlements" option was in Rome: Total War as I'm sure many people know.

It's rather special about the RTW thing- I didn't saw it.... though I heard about it around.
How do you activate it?

[Velo222]

It's rather special about the RTW thing- I didn't saw it.... though I heard about it around.
How do you activate it?

Well in Rome: Total War, it was included in the game. All you had to do was go to your city panel, and then click on "view settlement", as it was somewhere on the buildings panel.

For the Oppida mod, which was created for the vanilla Medieval 2 TW, I will just copy the instructions straight from the Oppida mod:

"To enjoy the view settlement feature, you have to select a settlement on the campaign map, open the construction scroll (click on the construction button or press "b"), then click on the "Locate position of settlement on the map" button to the lower left of the scroll. This will fire up an advisor asking you to press "Show me how" if you want to view your settlement on the campaign map. Since you want to, click the "Show me how" button and you will be taken to the battle loading screen a short time after. After the battle is loaded, start the battle as normal and you can fly around your settlement without camera restrictions (except for the height and collision restrictions). When you have seen enough, simply hit the Esc button (on your keyboard) and wait a second until you see the message that the battle is over. Then click on "End Battle" and you will see the result. You will win your battle, but except for the stats that are displayed in your kingdom overview, this won't change anything in the game."

So basically what this is saying, is you click on "locate position of settlement on the map", the advisor will pop up asking you to press the "Show me how" button. Clicking on this will allow you to view your settlement on the battlemap.

[Emperor of Hell]

Baron Samedi made it already, look in his submod

[Velo222]

Baron Samedi made it already, look in his submod

If you are correct, that is awesome. I'm going to look now, thanks

[Emperor of Hell]

It is for his unreleased version 4.0, but he made a preview

[Velo222]

Ya I just viewed that killersmurf. Thanks for pointing me to it.

I hope he can get version 4.0 out fast then, I can't wait to be able to just view the settlements . Is that correct that version 4.0 is not out yet?

[Emperor of Hell]

Yep, but BS posted that he'll do only one more preview

[MasterBigAb]

Somethign that certainly would be a cool feature for main TA
And yes a few months ago this suggestion raised already, I honestly don't know though whether KK saw it, I'd guess yes since he also keeps an eye on the submods etc.