Modders Guide to Orbis

[Opera]

Hm, I don't know. To be honest, I'm not sure how the Contrib thing works. I'd have to look at it.

 

[Valkrionn]

Actually, summoning the Mercs causes the AC to rise 5 points. Something to do with them not caring about innocent bystanders?

 

[Pazyryk]

OK. So if my code change gives +5 AC credit to Mercs then it is probably working correctly. (I'm not sure if the Merc effect is appropriate. However, I do think it is good for the active player to get AC credit/blame for killing evil/good civs.)

 

[arcticnightwolf]

just to be sure: if I kill civ, it's contribution to AC is annulled ??

 

[Pazyryk]

arcticnightwolf,

No, not if I understand your question correctly. Whatever a civ did in the past stays done. If an evil civ is eliminated, that causes -5 at that moment (in addition to possible - or + changes if you raze the city). If good civ eliminated, that causes +5 at that moment. My code change works exactly the same, except credit for the AC change is given to the "active player" (whoever's turn it is). So if evil Sheiam die during your turn, -5 to AC and you get credit for that change.

 

[arcticnightwolf]

arcticnightwolf,

No, not if I understand your question correctly. Whatever a civ did in the past stays done. If an evil civ is eliminated, that causes -5 at that moment (in addition to possible - or + changes if you raze the city). If good civ eliminated, that causes +5 at that moment. My code change works exactly the same, except credit for the AC change is given to the "active player" (whoever's turn it is). So if evil Sheiam die during your turn, -5 to AC and you get credit for that change.

i mean generally in Orbis modmodmodwhatever,
When I kill civilization, number of civs changes therefore RAW value cap of AC lowers therefore if I destroy Sheaim AC percentage will rise

 

[xienwolf]

Raw cap should be set at the start of the game for the number of Civs selected, it should not dynamically adjust to the number of civs currently active.

 

[sputnik323]

After seeing some of the yields of some of the improvements I decided to look into doing some custom tweaking on the improvements. Example: Ivory has kind of crappy yields compared to other improvements, and its rare. So... to my question.

If I were to use the editor to change some of the yields, and allow some bonuses to give happiness, and I wanted to send those changes to a friend, what files would I send? Should I just send the whole Assets folder to be safe?

Thanks I'm new to all of this...

 

[Opera]

The files you'd modify would likely be ImprovementInfos.xml and/or BonusInfos.xml, both of which you can find in Assets/XML/Terrain

 

[thursday]

What files would I mess around with to change the percent-based chances of Scion awakened and Grigori heroes to a counter that builds over time (like a separate GP counter). With both civs, it annoyed me when I got a whole lot at the very beginning and basically won from turn 40 and also when I'd only get, say, 1 awakened for the whole first 70 turns. Or is it even possible to change this?

 

[Opera]

You'd need to mess with Assets/python/CustomFunctions.py for the mechanics and Assets/Screens/CvMainInterface.py for the percentage display.

What you plan to do is doable; not sure how yet, but it is.

 

[thursday]

Thanks a bunch--both for the tip and for all the hard work you've put into modding! I might take a stab at it sometime tomorrow.

 

[xienwolf]

You'll have to read some of Lutefisk Mafia's old posts about pickles since this would require that you save data in python to load up between savegames, and pickles are the keyword for saving python data (or scripting)

 

[Schwarzbart]

How can I reduce the number of Vulcano events or if not posible disable his event? Because in my last Orbis b/c games nearly every NPC city with some Peak next to it haved a Vulkano at a time wenn the NPCs at max haved 2 or 3 citys.

 

[Belizan]

Is there no Orbis DLL source for modmods?

 

[Opera]

It comes with each installer

 

[Pazyryk]

There is a unitCannotMoveInto function in CvGameUtils.py. Does any one know whether this works with AI path finding? I'm afraid that if I tried to use this then the AI would just walk up to an un-allowed tile and sit there.

 

[Opera]

What do you want to do? Such a callback seems like a performance eater.

 

[Pazyryk]

Isn't it already a performance eater? It's just sitting there empty right now in GameUtils. If it's getting called all the time anyway, it doesn't seem like a couple if statements would add much time.

	def unitCannotMoveInto(self,argsList):
		ePlayer = argsList[0]		
		iUnitId = argsList[1]
		iPlotX = argsList[2]
		iPlotY = argsList[3]
		return False

 

[Opera]

You have to check the Assets/XML/PythonCallbacks.xml file to see if it's set to 1 so it's called. If it's set to 0, then it isn't called.