Magnar's Modding Video Tutorials - Decode PFM tables (11/08/17)

[Baltizar]

Hi Magnar you are the best. I want to thank you for creating these tutorial they have really helped me. One thing I would like to asked, and I am not sure if you have noticed this also, in the variant editor assembly tool there is a section for blood pack. Would I need to incorporate that into my models for them to show beheadings, lost limbs etc in battle or is that not necessary. If I do need to include them where would I incorporate them in to my model. Your advise would be much appreciated

[Magnar]

I dont think it is necesary with the actual model (.rigid_model2) as it will be done via the slot, so if its a helmet and the head gets cut off the helmet should stay attached to the decapitated head.

[AnthoniusII]

Magnar you have my admiration.
Its rate people share their knowlege! For that you have my congratulations!

[perifanosEllinas]

Great series of tutorials! Thanks for all the info.

If you are OK with a little bit of criticism,I would suggest slowing down a bit at your tutorials to help the beginners in modding (like me) follow without confusion.

Something I would like to see added to the list is how to mod faction emblems.

Keep it up!

[Magnar]

Cheers for the feedback perifanos, Ill try slow down a bit for future episodes.

Faction emblem modding is on the lists of tutorials to be recorded. Its a long list so not sure exactly when it will be done though

[perifanosEllinas]

Good to hear it's in the list.That's OK.Take your time mate,we all have real life too anyway (shocking,I know ).

Just a question about the unit animations episode: have you tried to give the javelinmen animation to hoplites for overhand grip? Does it work with their spears or the throwing messes that up?

[Magnar]

you can make hoplites only use overhead by removing the under arm animations. Also the faction flag tutorial will be today as ive had a few people ask for it.

[perifanosEllinas]

Cool!Thanks and keep it up

[perifanosEllinas]

you can make hoplites only use overhead by removing the under arm animations.

Could you please tell me which tables I need to edit to make this work?

[Magnar]

no sorry i havent documented all of the 400-800 seperate animations so am not sure which ones to exclude. I believe there is a mod that does it already though and would take a significant amount of time to document all the animations.

But for how animations work, best to check my tutorial on animations which goes through how its all put together.

[perifanosEllinas]

Steam for some weird reason doesn't let me download this mod and there's no non-steam link.I've been trying and trying to give overhand animations to hoplites for a long time but I had failure after failure on this specific subject.Hoplite phalanx is one of the major Rome 2 issues for me.Anyway,I guess I'll have to keep trying different things out and be patient until something works...Thanks for your time

[Brivime]

Can you show how to make a Historical Battle?

[Magnar]

Historical Battles? Id have to look into that, never tried it before. Ill add it to the list and if/when i figure it out ill do a tutorial on it.

[perifanosEllinas]

Magnar,I think a good addition to the list would be an episode about how to mod menu and loading screens.

And once again thanks a lot mate,your tutorials have helped me very very much!

[Magnar]

sure ill add that to the list as well

and will look to put another tutorial up tonight after i upload the first episode of my new lets play for Magnar Mod

EDIT: Ive actually run out of time to put a new tutorial up tonight so will try to do it tomorrow.

[neoiq5719]

is there a way to merge 2 different startpos?

[Magnar]

short answer: not possible. Startpos' need to be named "startpos.esf" to load which means that only 1 can exist.

long answer: if you do it with assembly and can get access to the raw data of the 2 startpos' you want to merge, then you can merge the 2 tables into 1 and then create a combined startpos with BOB.

[Causeless]

Do you know anything about scripting, Magnar? I'm specifically wondering on how scripting can modify or access tech tree data (such as locking/unlocking certain techs, checking if a tech or set of techs have been researched, etc), but I've found very little even after reading and re-reading many of the vanilla lua script files. My knowledge of accessing the tech tree is essentially limited to knowing the research started/completed callbacks, which isn't much, to say the least!

[Magnar]

Unfortunately I've not had a chance to get into the scripting side of things just yet.

I know there is a function with regards to tech but not sure of its arguments or what it actually checks for or if it even works. I know exactly what you are trying to do I had our scripter (back when we had one) look into doing the same thing If you get it working let me know

[Causeless]

It's somewhat reassuring to know I'm not the only one in pain over this!

The only things I've found in regards to tech are:

1. The callbacks "TechnologyInfoPanelOpenedCampaign", "MissionEvaluateResearch", "ResearchCompleted" and "ResearchStarted". These are good to have, but are useless when I can't already find out what is being researched, or what has finished being researched. They all return a "context" to the callback function, which could be very useful... but I have no idea of how to use it in any tech-related way.

2. Some UI stuff for hiding the technology button. Not greatly useful...