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

[Magnar]

Strange...In this mod review this guy shows new stats with new effects from about 14:03 to about 16:26.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=vQhLBM78Qvs

The renaming makes sense but what about their new effects?

Ah you mean how to change the units stat values.

I kind go over that in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-dfZOyACHM

But i can do a whole episode on it if you want

[Magnar]

What it would be nice to do would be a complete tutorial on how to create a starpos and how to change any starting condition. Take that and turn it inside out ´cos it´s still difficult to understand. How to change region ownership, resource condition, trading requirements and how to link that to the specific db files.

A complete startpos tutorial would be way too long as there is too much stuff in the startpos.

I will breaking the startpos stuff into smaller tutorials which i'll be starting either today or tomorrow

[Geiseric]

Thanks for making a video for this!
I just cant see it on your youtube channel...

[Magnar]

yeah i made a mistake with the video format so have just changed the format and reuploaded it now

[Geiseric]

Ah ok

[perifanosEllinas]

Ah you mean how to change the units stat values.

I kind go over that in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-dfZOyACHM

But i can do a whole episode on it if you want

Yes,I'd appreciate that.Thanks

[neoiq5719]

can starting resources be changed? like changing oil for stone? and can also more than one resourse to one settlement be assigned? if yes where can that be done? thx

[Magnar]

can starting resources be changed? like changing oil for stone? and can also more than one resourse to one settlement be assigned? if yes where can that be done? thx

In the startpos. Ill do a tutorial on it in a few days.

[Cpt. Cortes]

So much thanks Magnar!!!! Im working in my culture right now!! Only one question, when i change the REGIONS_ARRAY, i must add the new line to all factions right?

[Magnar]

yes i think you must add a new line to all

[Cpt. Cortes]

Hello again, i have some problems, i added the custom culture (egyptian culture) to ptolemaics, in his lands and cyprus lands, the appear without problem in a new campaign, but the influence drecease with turns, generals, agents, and buildings still have hellenic influence, i change the temple of Amon Zeus efect to conversion_to_state_culture, but still have the problem, in a few turns the regions have hellenic again and the custom culture disappear. Any idea?

Anyway thanks a lot!

[Magnar]

you'll need to change the culture of those agents and buildings and the base culture of the regions to the new culture. Otherwise there is nothing promoting the egyptian culture

[Cpt. Cortes]

I made all these things, but wasnt work, the buildings dont promote the new culture, other time even the faction havent any building, i added the buildings to the new culture, but dont work anyway

[perifanosEllinas]

Mag,I'm a bit confused by a specific unit stat which the game doesn't say what exactly it does and it doesn't show changed during battles.That's "bonus vs infantry".Is it added to melee attack? To weapon damage? To both? To charge? Could you please clarify this to me?

[Magnar]

Mag,I'm a bit confused by a specific unit stat which the game doesn't say what exactly it does and it doesn't show changed during battles.That's "bonus vs infantry".Is it added to melee attack? To weapon damage? To both? To charge? Could you please clarify this to me?

added to weapon damage against attacks vs infantry

[perifanosEllinas]

added to weapon damage against attacks vs infantry

So,it's weapon damage.Thanks

[Magnar]

been a while since my last episode as ive been spending more time working on my mod

Was hoping to do a tutorial on creating character names as per a previous request, but there is one thing i need to figure out before hand ie: what the numbers in the character allocation details in the startpos reference.

If you know send me a PM so i can finally put the tutorial together

[neoiq5719]

Hi MAgnar refering to video 15: Update A Mod For A Patch if u compare the two of them and one or two of the entries have changed what do u do? u keep the new one, the old one or both of them? And another thing which I dont understand is why did u give in the video the values of the new pack to the magnar patch? By doing so u r giving up the mod values and restoring the original ones right?

[Magnar]

If an entry has changed then usually I will update my mod where I use vanilla values to have the new values. If a value that I have already modded changes, then I will make a decision on whether my value is still better or if i want to refer to the vanilla values.

Eg I had increased spacings many patches ago, then CA increased spacings even more than i did. So where CA had increased spacings beyond what I had increased spacings I changed mine to vanilla as I had not put much thought into the spacings at the time

[neoiq5719]

When Can u add entries ( if possible) that are not in the original Rome 2 file?