Jawn Henry
Chieftain
Is there a tool to convert Civ2 (straight) scens to ToT format? I can't open Civ2 scen with ToT... gives me an error message that says it's an older format.
JH
JH
Scenario conversion
- Thread starter Jawn Henry
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Catfish
Emperor
Yes, Angelo Scotto's CivConverter can convert FW/MGE scenarios to ToT. It can be found here. Be aware that occasionally you will run into problems. For example, major city objectives (ie, x3) from FW will not be read by ToT, so some Objective Victory thresholds may be unachievable. You may also find that units issued with Goto orders are instead building transport sites. Both can be fixed either by hex editing or opening the .scn file as you would a saved game, changing the scenario parameters/clearing all of the unit Goto orders and then resaving as a scenario.
CivConverter also places units too high in the tile (units.bmp). Move them down if it bothers you. Finally (at least, that's all I can think of at the moment), in ToT, any civ that has the Invention tech (Inv) will use the city graphics in the 7th row of cities.bmp. Older versions of Civ2 don't use this slot. So you may have to copy and paste one of the other rows there.
Edit: Something else I forgot to include (it happened to me again the other day): sometimes crashes are caused by a dodgy labels.txt. If your converted scenario crashes immediately, try removing this file from the scenario directory.
CivConverter also places units too high in the tile (units.bmp). Move them down if it bothers you. Finally (at least, that's all I can think of at the moment), in ToT, any civ that has the Invention tech (Inv) will use the city graphics in the 7th row of cities.bmp. Older versions of Civ2 don't use this slot. So you may have to copy and paste one of the other rows there.
Edit: Something else I forgot to include (it happened to me again the other day): sometimes crashes are caused by a dodgy labels.txt. If your converted scenario crashes immediately, try removing this file from the scenario directory.
Jawn Henry
Chieftain
Ok, good. Thanks.
JH
That's fine - i want to replace those images in what i'm trying out...
JH
Catfish
Emperor
I reread my post and realised that I forgot to point out that the 7th city row will only be used if the civ doesn't also possess Industrialisation (Ind) or Automobile (Aut) + Electronics (E2), in which case the civ will use the 5th and 6th rows respectively. I figure you probably already know that anyway.
