This is (or should become) a translation of the german tutorial version, which can be found here.
At the moment it's later here, so i've only translated the last part, because there's an active thread with this question. The rest i'll translate in the next time. Also please forgive me typos and grammar mistakes, like said, it's late right now here. Just quote the faulty words/sentences to show me the problems, if you find some.
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This tutorial should show you the possibilities for map modding, which you don't have with the world builder, and should answer other often asked questions in the area of map modding.
Needed software: Nothing special is needed. Winzip, if it's not already installed, or if no other alternatives (WinRar, 7zip) are there.
Needed time: Not more than 30 minutes, probably less.
Needed abilities: Nothing special is needed.
Contents:
Credits for help: veBear for helpful comments, phungus for compiling the 50 civs .dll.
Exchanging civilizations
Prerequisite: A map with preset civilizations
Goal: You want to exchange one of these civs against another one.
1) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
2) Search for the civilization you want to exchange, e.g. CIVILIZATION_GERMANY. You can look up how the names exactly are in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\CivilizationInfos.xml, same for leaders.
This civilization entry looks then somehow like this one here:
How you can see, this is the holy roman empire.
Now we want to exchange it against germany. To do that, we have to edit the following parts:
1. is the leader
2. is the Name of the leader, out of the XML files
3/4/5. is the description of the civilization, out of the XML files.
6. is the used flag
7. you can ignore
8. is the civilization
9. is the player colour
10. is the graphical representation of the cities
To exchange the holy romans to germany, you have to look up in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\CivilizationInfos.xml, how these things are for germany. Missing tags you can either find in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\LeaderheadInfos.xml or Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Art\ArtDefines_Civilizations.xml.
Okay, in CivilzationInfos we can see now:
and now you change the mentioned entries, so that they look like this:
Then you save it, and the civ is exchagned, done.
How you've probably noticed, i didn't exchange the flag.
And that's quite no problem.
At this place, you can produce nice nonsense
. You can create an indian Mansa Musa with european looking cities and a japanese flag, this will work. Additionally, there's no limit how often a civ can appear, you can put in the same civ 18 times, if you want to.
Additional note (thanks veBear):
Only the entries for LeaderType and CivType are needed. You can delete the rest and only set these two, the game will automatically get them when you start the map.
Example can be found later in the thread, please see here.
Changing names of civilizations and leaders
Prerequisite: A map with preset civs
Goal: The name of a leader and a civ should be changed without changing the civilization itself.
1) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
2) Search for the civilization you want to exchange, e.g. CIVILIZATION_GERMANY. You can look up how the names exactly are in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\CivilizationInfos.xml, same for leaders.
An entry for a civ then looks e.g. like this:
Like you can see, you have the holy roman empire of german nation.
But this should not stay so, we'll change it to Otto I of germany (just as an example)
You have to chagne the following entries...:
So that here only text is displayed
and then you save, and see: Oh, Charlemange is now Otto I. He looks like before, the civ is still the same, only the names have changed.
This can be applied for scenarios, so that you don't have to change things in your mod when you want to model a special situation.
Clean up a map from preset civilizations
Prerequisite: You have a map with 18 preset civilizations (without cities)
Goal: You want to be able to play the map with random civilizations.
1) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
2) Scroll a bit down, until you see the entries for the teams, e.g. like this one here:
You will find entries from 0-17, afterwards you will find the civilization entries, like for example this ne here:
They have also numbers from 0-17.
You have to exchange these entries against "empty" entries.
An emptry entry for a team looks like this:
An empty entry for a civilization looks like this:
These entries then sure again have to be nummered from 0-17.
The best thing here is to exchange all the entries directly against the entries from an "empty" map, which you can find here in the spoiler (just copy the entries out and paste them in your map instead of the old ones):
save the map, done.
Additional note (thanks veBear): The team lines are not really needed, you can let them out, the game will automatically get the needed information when you load the map.
Making Vanilla/Warlords maps compatible with Beyond The Sword
Prerequisite: You have a Vanilla/Warlords map
Goal: You want to play it in Beyond The Sword.
What has to be done? Nothing
.
If you've put the Vanilla/Warlords map into the right folder (standard path is C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Civilization 4\PublicMaps, bzw. C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Civilization 4\Warlords\PublicMaps), then you should be directly able to play them, if you enter the "scenarios" menu in Beyond The Sword.
Maps with more than 18 civilizations/making maps compatible
Prerequisite: You have a map with 18 not preset civilzations, without cities, without barbarians on the map.
Goal: You want to play it with more than 18 civilizations.
1) Civilization 4 does only support maps with only 18 civilizations. To play with more, you need a mod.
To do that, go to C:\Program files\Firaxis Games\Civilization 4\Beyond The Sword\Mods (this is the standard path and can differ for Vista/Win 7, also when you installed civilization somewhere else) and create there a new folder, name e.g. "MyNewMod". In this folder, you create another folder "Assets", and you copy this file in that folder.
Attention: This is a .zip-file. It has to be unpacked, you can use Winzip (no payment needed) to do it. It should be preinstalled on most computers.. WinRar or 7zip will work, too.
Attention: This mod needs the patch 3.19 and will not work with any other patch.
Attention: This mod does not work on a Mac.
2) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
3) Scroll down, and you will see the entries for the teams, which look like this:
Beneath you'll find the civilization entries, e.g. like this one here:
All entries have numbers from 0-17 (= 18 civilizations).
To make this map compatible with the more-civs-mod, you have to add entries to all the civilzations until the maximum (in this case 50; this is set by the mod you have downloaded) is reached, so that at the end you should have entries from 0-49 (if the maximum was 30, then you would have 0-29, and so on).
You can just copy one of the existing entries, and change the number, and do this over and over again, until you have the entries until 49.
Or you can just paste in already done entries, like the ones in the spoiler here.:
After you've pasted these entries in, you save the map, copy it over to "MyNewMod\PublicMaps", you start Civilization 4, start "MyNewMod", go to "Custom Scenario", search for your map, choose the number of AI civilizations (between. 1-49), and start it, done.
At the moment it's later here, so i've only translated the last part, because there's an active thread with this question. The rest i'll translate in the next time. Also please forgive me typos and grammar mistakes, like said, it's late right now here. Just quote the faulty words/sentences to show me the problems, if you find some.
----------------------------------------------------
This tutorial should show you the possibilities for map modding, which you don't have with the world builder, and should answer other often asked questions in the area of map modding.
Needed software: Nothing special is needed. Winzip, if it's not already installed, or if no other alternatives (WinRar, 7zip) are there.
Needed time: Not more than 30 minutes, probably less.
Needed abilities: Nothing special is needed.
Contents:
- Exchanging civilizations
- Changing names of civilizations and leaders
- Clean up a map from preset civilizations
- Making Vanilla/Warlords maps compatible with Beyond The Sword
- Maps with more than 18 civilizations/making maps compatible
Credits for help: veBear for helpful comments, phungus for compiling the 50 civs .dll.
Exchanging civilizations
Prerequisite: A map with preset civilizations
Goal: You want to exchange one of these civs against another one.
1) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
2) Search for the civilization you want to exchange, e.g. CIVILIZATION_GERMANY. You can look up how the names exactly are in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\CivilizationInfos.xml, same for leaders.
This civilization entry looks then somehow like this one here:
Spoiler :
How you can see, this is the holy roman empire.
Now we want to exchange it against germany. To do that, we have to edit the following parts:
Spoiler :
1. is the leader
2. is the Name of the leader, out of the XML files
3/4/5. is the description of the civilization, out of the XML files.
6. is the used flag
7. you can ignore
8. is the civilization
9. is the player colour
10. is the graphical representation of the cities
To exchange the holy romans to germany, you have to look up in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\CivilizationInfos.xml, how these things are for germany. Missing tags you can either find in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\LeaderheadInfos.xml or Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Art\ArtDefines_Civilizations.xml.
Okay, in CivilzationInfos we can see now:
Spoiler :
and now you change the mentioned entries, so that they look like this:
Spoiler :
Then you save it, and the civ is exchagned, done.
How you've probably noticed, i didn't exchange the flag.
And that's quite no problem.
At this place, you can produce nice nonsense
. You can create an indian Mansa Musa with european looking cities and a japanese flag, this will work. Additionally, there's no limit how often a civ can appear, you can put in the same civ 18 times, if you want to.Additional note (thanks veBear):
Only the entries for LeaderType and CivType are needed. You can delete the rest and only set these two, the game will automatically get them when you start the map.
Example can be found later in the thread, please see here.
Changing names of civilizations and leaders
Prerequisite: A map with preset civs
Goal: The name of a leader and a civ should be changed without changing the civilization itself.
1) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
2) Search for the civilization you want to exchange, e.g. CIVILIZATION_GERMANY. You can look up how the names exactly are in Beyond The Sword\Assets\XML\Civilizations\CivilizationInfos.xml, same for leaders.
An entry for a civ then looks e.g. like this:
Spoiler :
Like you can see, you have the holy roman empire of german nation.
But this should not stay so, we'll change it to Otto I of germany (just as an example)
You have to chagne the following entries...:
PHP:
LeaderName=TXT_KEY_LEADER_CHARLEMAGNE
CivDesc=TXT_KEY_CIV_HOLY_ROMAN_DESC
CivShortDesc=TXT_KEY_CIV_HOLY_ROMAN_SHORT_DESC
CivAdjective=TXT_KEY_CIV_HOLY_ROMAN_ADJECTIVESo that here only text is displayed
PHP:
LeaderName=Otto I
CivDesc= German Empire
CivShortDesc= Germany
CivAdjective=germanand then you save, and see: Oh, Charlemange is now Otto I. He looks like before, the civ is still the same, only the names have changed.
This can be applied for scenarios, so that you don't have to change things in your mod when you want to model a special situation.
Clean up a map from preset civilizations
Prerequisite: You have a map with 18 preset civilizations (without cities)
Goal: You want to be able to play the map with random civilizations.
1) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
2) Scroll a bit down, until you see the entries for the teams, e.g. like this one here:
PHP:
BeginTeam
TeamID=0
Tech=TECH_MYSTICISM
Tech=TECH_HUNTING
ContactWithTeam=0
RevealMap=0
EndTeamYou will find entries from 0-17, afterwards you will find the civilization entries, like for example this ne here:
Spoiler :
They have also numbers from 0-17.
You have to exchange these entries against "empty" entries.
An emptry entry for a team looks like this:
PHP:
BeginTeam
TeamID=0
ContactWithTeam=0
RevealMap=0
EndTeamAn empty entry for a civilization looks like this:
PHP:
BeginPlayer
Team=0
LeaderType=NONE
CivType=NONE
Color=NONE
ArtStyle=NONE
Handicap=HANDICAP_NOBLE
RandomStartLocation=true
EndPlayerThese entries then sure again have to be nummered from 0-17.
The best thing here is to exchange all the entries directly against the entries from an "empty" map, which you can find here in the spoiler (just copy the entries out and paste them in your map instead of the old ones):
Spoiler :
save the map, done.
Additional note (thanks veBear): The team lines are not really needed, you can let them out, the game will automatically get the needed information when you load the map.
Making Vanilla/Warlords maps compatible with Beyond The Sword
Prerequisite: You have a Vanilla/Warlords map
Goal: You want to play it in Beyond The Sword.
What has to be done? Nothing
.If you've put the Vanilla/Warlords map into the right folder (standard path is C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Civilization 4\PublicMaps, bzw. C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Civilization 4\Warlords\PublicMaps), then you should be directly able to play them, if you enter the "scenarios" menu in Beyond The Sword.
Maps with more than 18 civilizations/making maps compatible
Prerequisite: You have a map with 18 not preset civilzations, without cities, without barbarians on the map.
Goal: You want to play it with more than 18 civilizations.
1) Civilization 4 does only support maps with only 18 civilizations. To play with more, you need a mod.
To do that, go to C:\Program files\Firaxis Games\Civilization 4\Beyond The Sword\Mods (this is the standard path and can differ for Vista/Win 7, also when you installed civilization somewhere else) and create there a new folder, name e.g. "MyNewMod". In this folder, you create another folder "Assets", and you copy this file in that folder.
Attention: This is a .zip-file. It has to be unpacked, you can use Winzip (no payment needed) to do it. It should be preinstalled on most computers.. WinRar or 7zip will work, too.
Attention: This mod needs the patch 3.19 and will not work with any other patch.
Attention: This mod does not work on a Mac.
2) Take the wanted map, open it with a text editor. This means, you make a right click on the map, go to "open with" and choose there wordpad or notepad (or any text editor with is available for you; the both mentioned to are preinstalled on every Windows version). Do NOT click in the box "always open this file with that program".
3) Scroll down, and you will see the entries for the teams, which look like this:
PHP:
BeginTeam
TeamID=0
ContactWithTeam=0
RevealMap=0
EndTeamBeneath you'll find the civilization entries, e.g. like this one here:
PHP:
BeginPlayer
Team=0
LeaderType=NONE
CivType=NONE
Color=NONE
ArtStyle=NONE
Handicap=HANDICAP_NOBLE
RandomStartLocation=true
EndPlayerAll entries have numbers from 0-17 (= 18 civilizations).
To make this map compatible with the more-civs-mod, you have to add entries to all the civilzations until the maximum (in this case 50; this is set by the mod you have downloaded) is reached, so that at the end you should have entries from 0-49 (if the maximum was 30, then you would have 0-29, and so on).
You can just copy one of the existing entries, and change the number, and do this over and over again, until you have the entries until 49.
Or you can just paste in already done entries, like the ones in the spoiler here.:
Spoiler :
After you've pasted these entries in, you save the map, copy it over to "MyNewMod\PublicMaps", you start Civilization 4, start "MyNewMod", go to "Custom Scenario", search for your map, choose the number of AI civilizations (between. 1-49), and start it, done
.
i've also somewhen seen this, but i think it causes problems in the "custom scenario" menu, but i'm not sure at the moment.
