Modding Rome.LNT

[Roman_Man#3]

For any of those in need of such a thing, it is possible to create and link to new pages within the menu.

[The Roman Republic]

after redesigning the main menu and various buttons, I came back to editing the file again to redesign the way the imperial campaign setup looks like, and decided I would try changing the position of the faction info and so I place a random number, and so I saved the file and when into the game and nothing had happened. So I quit and then tried deleting the map.rwm file and like I though nothing happened.

Original

<UI piece>imperial_campaign_description
<identifier>UIP_IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_DESCRIPTION</identifier>
<Parameters>
<x>193</x>
<y>480</y>
<width>640</width>
<height>224</height>
</Parameters>
<object_id>empty_art</object_id>
</UI piece>

Edited

<UI piece>imperial_campaign_description
<identifier>UIP_IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_DESCRIPTION</identifier>
<Parameters>
<x>193</x>
<y>600</y>
<width>640</width>
<height>224</height>
</Parameters>
<object_id>empty_art</object_id>
</UI piece>

It's just strange as I've been able to re-position various other items in the main menu, and when this didn't work I tried editing the map preview and once again nothing happened.....

I though it might be because its for some reason related to the vanilla rome.lnt file, but it can't be as the file I am editing is in a mod and its the same file that I used to edit the other buttons,

[The Roman Republic]

for some reason it hasn't shown that I have posted here.....

[Paedric]

Does any other modification in this file work ?

[The Roman Republic]

yeah, I tested it on moving the historical battle back button and I was able to move it to another position on the screen.

[The Roman Republic]

^^^^(Not showing I posted in forum)

[Paedric]

Can you move it around?
Also, are you sure it's correspond to what you think it is? There are some entries that have a name really different from what they actually do.

[The Roman Republic]

yeah like I said I can move it in directions of X and Y.

It states it's the campaign description which I assume is the faction info when choosing any faction

<UI piece>imperial_campaign_description
<identifier>UIP_IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_DESCRIPTION</identifier>


For some reason editing anything related to the campaign menu just wont work....

[Paedric]

Oh, I think I know what the problem is.
There are several lpage called imperial campaign IIRC, you might not be editing the correct one.

[The Roman Republic]

yes!, I copied lpage and searched for each one in the file until I came across
</lpage>
<lpage>ImpCam_choose_faction_v2


and below were the same input datas and so I edited one of the values and it changed thank you.

Anyone stuck on this, go to line 17967

[The Roman Republic]

Another problem,

Ok, so I've redesigned everything on the imperial campaign, and I would like a sperate background asaposed to the menu main background. So I followed the small tutorial on page 1.

Firstly I created a new background in Menu/textures called backdropcamp.tga

Then in the rome.lnt file in the <UI object section I added this in,

<UI object>backdropcamp
<type>art</type>
<UI region>art
<page>textures\backdropcamp.tga</page>
<region>backdropcamp</region>
</UI region>
</UI object>

Then in the <texture section I added this

<texture>textures\backdropcamp.tga
<path>textures</path>
<region>backdropcamp
<left>0</left>
<top>0</top>
<right>1024</right>
<bottom>768</bottom>
</region>
</texture>

Then I looked for the main background code and found this

<lpage>background
<UI piece>backdrop
<identifier>UIP_EMPTY_ART</identifier>
<Parameters>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<width>1024</width>
<height>768</height>
</Parameters>
<object_id>backdrop</object_id>
</UI piece>

and a few lines down is this, and as I want the background only for the imperial campaign page I added the code their

<lpage>imperial_campaign
<UI piece>imperial_campaign_title
<identifier>UIP_EMPTY_ART</identifier>
<Parameters>
<x>758</x>
<y>31</y>
<width>43</width>
<height>29</height>
<UI text>UI_IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_TITLE
<font_id>arial_split_CAF</font_id>
<align>centre</align>
</UI text>
</Parameters>
<object_id>empty_art</object_id>
</UI piece>

This was the code I added in

<lpage>imperial_campaign
<UI piece>backdropcamp
<identifier>UIP_EMPTY_ART</identifier>
<Parameters>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<width>1024</width>
<height>768</height>
</Parameters>
<object_id>backdropcamp</object_id>
</UI piece>

I've check through the main menu background code and everything is the same except for the name of the file. I though it might have something to do with the image size but the new background size is the same as the main menu background size.

Thanks for any advice.

[The Roman Republic]

Double Post.

[Paedric]

Have you tried to just replace the old background image with your own ?

[The Roman Republic]

The old background is replaced anyway, what I wanted was a separate background just for the imperial campaign menu page.

[The Roman Republic]

anyone got any idea?
Post #91

[Squid]

You added a new imperial campaign section? You'd need to alter the existing one and not add a new one.

[The Roman Republic]

Doesn't matter now I fixed it, but thanks anyway.

[ThaBuddha187]

Hi mates!
does anyone knows what is the entry (if there is any at LNT) to get rid of the annoying videos (ATVI_Spinning_Logo_640x480 & rome_title) ?
I use a mod switch folder but those 2 videos run from the vanilla fmv folder.... any advise?

[Aradan]

Can't get rid of those from Rome.lnt. Just add " -nm" to your shortcut's Target line.

[ThaBuddha187]

ok but that will disable and the wonder-capture videos right ?
but what else can i do...
anyway thanx for your help my friend ! good night!