Editing the menu

[Zhuge_Liang]

How can you edit the RTW/BI menu? For example, if i wanted to remove the quick battle button or historical battle button.

On a side note, is it possible to change the small red picture which appears after clicking on the BI exe at the game start up?:hmmm:

[makanyane]

The file you need is data/menu/Rome.int
I've managed to delete the historical battle option from the single player screen, you need to figure out which page is being referred to then delete relevent section, think it was this:

<UI piece>new_game_historical_battles
<identifier>UIP_HISTORICAL_BATTLES</identifier>
<Parameters>
<x>256</x>
<y>319</y>
<width>513</width>
<height>38</height>
<menu_id>historical_battle</menu_id>
<UI text>UI_NEW_GAME_HISTORICAL_BATTLE
<font_id>arial_split_CAF</font_id>
<align>centre</align>
</UI text>
<tool_tip_id>UI_NEW_GAME_HISTORICAL_BATTLE_INFO</tool_tip_id>
</Parameters>
<object_id>empty_push_button</object_id>
</UI piece>

the co-ordinates give you the placing on the screen, so if you remove something note them and move one of the other elements into its place so you don't end up with funny gap. Clever people (the FATW team) have managed to quite comprehensively move round the menu elements to get an entirely different look, think doing that would be down to trial and error experimentation with the co-ordinates.

The small red picture I don't think anyone has managed to change, last time it got discussed no-one could find it - so assumption is that its called from the CD only.

[Zhuge_Liang]

Once again this is what i needed to know, thanks.

Removing the coordinates results in the button going to some random/default coordinates but the button can be removed altogether by deleting the entire entry for it.