How To Add New Historic Events

[Gigantus]

turn zero is the first turn, turn 1 is the second turn

[Rudes]

hi, can someone please advise me? I would like to add titles to the region, so that after the occupation of the province, the general receives the title of province... I don't know where exactly and what subor needs to be adjusted?

[Gigantus]

That would be done via 'Traits & Triggers' - export_descr_character_traits.txt and data\text\export_vnvs
Terms in [] brackets will be the relevant region and settlement name - that one you need to look up in the data\text\imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt file - it needs to be the spelling in the curly brackets, example:

{London_Province}London Region
{London}London

export_descr_character_traits - traits at to the top of the file, triggers at the bottom

Trait Occupied[region name]
    Characters family

    Level Title[region name]
        Description Title[region name]_desc
        EffectsDescription Title[region name]_desc
        Threshold  1 

        Effect Attack  1 


Trigger Defeated[region name]
    WhenToTest OccupySettlement

    Condition SettlementName [settlement name]
        and IsGeneral

    Affects Occupied[region name]  1  Chance  100

export_vnvs - add entry at the bottom

{Trait Occupied[region name]}Title of Trait here
{DiploImmunity_desc}Short Description of title here
{DiploImmunity_effects_desc}Attack +1

[Jurand of Cracow]

in this context, instead of "OccupySettlement" it'd be better to use "GeneralCaptureSettlement", perhaps

I think "OccupySettlement" doesn't work if extermination / sacking occured

[Gigantus]

You got a point there, I mixed the two up. There is obviously is the 'exterminate' and 'sacked', settlement event, too.

[Jurand of Cracow]

example for full code:

historic_event [event name] factions { [faction name], } [fmv directory]\[movie name].bik

this works, but I've just discovered that coded in this way:

add_events
event historic EGYPT_MAKURIAN_BAQT factions { egypt, jerusalem, zengid, abbasid, }
date 0
position 304, 2 ; Faras
end_add_events

the message will be shown to all the factions, not only those 4. any idea how to fix it?

[Gigantus]

'factions' don't work with 'add_events' messaging, global only afaik. See here for formats.

I used to work around that with a 'regular' yes\no event where yes then moved the camera and if you want to be fancy you could highlight the object as well.

An example from RotK where you actually get a tour of settlements pertaining to a mission:

        if I_EventCounter little_conqueror_accepted > 0
            disable_cursor
            disable_shortcuts true
            ui_indicator_remove 0
            ui_indicator_remove 1
            snap_strat_camera 176, 74
            zoom_strat_camera 1.0
            reveal_tile 176, 74        ; Linhai
            campaign_wait 1
            ui_indicator 0 arrow_up_right track_ground_3d 177 75 10 colour 255 0 0 period 3
            campaign_wait 4
            snap_strat_camera 155, 56
            zoom_strat_camera 1.0
            reveal_tile 155, 56        ; Jianan
            ui_indicator 0 arrow_up_right track_ground_3d 156 57 10 colour 255 0 0 period 3
            campaign_wait 4
            ui_indicator_remove 1
            campaign_wait 2
            ui_indicator_remove 0
            enable_cursor
            disable_shortcuts false
            terminate_monitor
        end_if