jerseymike25
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I've been looking around for a definitive "you can't do this!" list, and haven't found one. (I am realizing after the fact that it might be in the "Issues with Civ5" thread, but that would deal with the entire game as whole, not just the Mods).
Hopefully, some of the experienced modders will also add to this list and then at some point, we can transfer it to the wiki. Of course, if I or anyone lists a "can't" and there's actually a way that you "can", that information would be very much appreciated. I'll attempt to keep this first post updated.
The "As far as I know, things you cannot do right now" list:
Cannot change the current Quest of a Minor Civ
- I have looked around for a way to do this, but it seems that for each Player "object", there is no public property to set the current quest of a Minor Civ. You can retrieve it via GetActiveQuestForPlayer(playerID), but there does not appear to be a "Set" version of that function.
- I had hoped that there was even a way to "hack" this in - somehow obtaining the address for that value returned by GetActiveQueustForPlayer, but I think that even if I knew it, updating it in Lua may be impossible.
Mountains are hardcoded to be Impassable
- Or more correctly, when PLOT_TYPE = PLOT_MOUNTAIN, it's going to be an impassible plot for any unit that does not have the Hover promotion (Helicopter).
- Of interest: The TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN type doesn't appear to ever be used, as best I can tell. If you edit a plot to use TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN, that plot becomes impassable to all units, even those with the Hover promotion.
- Similar to the Quest issue, you can query for the Impassable value (Plot:IsImpassable()), but there's no "Set" equivelent. If you change the Plot Type to HILLS or LAND, the Impassable value changes as a result.
Cannot Add New Terrain Textures
- I've found it's possible to add a new Terrain, but haven't been able to add any new Terrain texture. The Nexus importer appears to be broken.
Cannot Change the Attitude of 1 Player towards Another
(Full Disclosure: I think this is so, that you can't alter this. There might be a way to do it, and I'm just spacing on it at the moment).
- It seems most of the "InGame" stuff relating to the players attitudes, current focus, etc, cannot be changed on the fly.
From Xysplosion:
Cannot load new UI files & graphics at boot_runtime via the usual MOD process;
The main issue why Z-UI (below) files must be transfered into Resource/DX9 folder to be indirectly activated.
Cannot edit any GR2 models to change - for example - the Trading Post layouts & 3D assets;
That in itself prevents everyone from creating huge supplemental stuff. Some workaround can be achieved for units, though. But the proprietary Firaxis system isn't standard like 3DS. Even free Blender won't allow conversion to a valid CiV item. If Nexus *must* be used, then they might as well hand over the real capacity to alter what we want.
From Cope:
Events.SerialEventHexHighlight() ignores the alpha value
When using a custom hex highlight color for Events.SerialEventHexHighlight() the alpha value does nothing, the color is always (r,g,b,1.0). Setting alpha to 0.0 does work though, so it seems like the game just does (r, g, b, floor(a)) for some strange reason. I take it this is a bug because the devs defined some custom colors with alpha values less than 1 too, and they don't work either. This is too bad because I can think of a dozen things that could be done with hex highlights if they weren't stuck in full-alpha-obnoxious-mode.
From Whys:
I've read the FontIcons can't be changed.
Hopefully, some of the experienced modders will also add to this list and then at some point, we can transfer it to the wiki. Of course, if I or anyone lists a "can't" and there's actually a way that you "can", that information would be very much appreciated. I'll attempt to keep this first post updated.
The "As far as I know, things you cannot do right now" list:
Cannot change the current Quest of a Minor Civ
- I have looked around for a way to do this, but it seems that for each Player "object", there is no public property to set the current quest of a Minor Civ. You can retrieve it via GetActiveQuestForPlayer(playerID), but there does not appear to be a "Set" version of that function.
- I had hoped that there was even a way to "hack" this in - somehow obtaining the address for that value returned by GetActiveQueustForPlayer, but I think that even if I knew it, updating it in Lua may be impossible.
Mountains are hardcoded to be Impassable
- Or more correctly, when PLOT_TYPE = PLOT_MOUNTAIN, it's going to be an impassible plot for any unit that does not have the Hover promotion (Helicopter).
- Of interest: The TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN type doesn't appear to ever be used, as best I can tell. If you edit a plot to use TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN, that plot becomes impassable to all units, even those with the Hover promotion.
- Similar to the Quest issue, you can query for the Impassable value (Plot:IsImpassable()), but there's no "Set" equivelent. If you change the Plot Type to HILLS or LAND, the Impassable value changes as a result.
Cannot Add New Terrain Textures
- I've found it's possible to add a new Terrain, but haven't been able to add any new Terrain texture. The Nexus importer appears to be broken.
Cannot Change the Attitude of 1 Player towards Another
(Full Disclosure: I think this is so, that you can't alter this. There might be a way to do it, and I'm just spacing on it at the moment).
- It seems most of the "InGame" stuff relating to the players attitudes, current focus, etc, cannot be changed on the fly.
From Xysplosion:
Cannot load new UI files & graphics at boot_runtime via the usual MOD process;
The main issue why Z-UI (below) files must be transfered into Resource/DX9 folder to be indirectly activated.
Cannot edit any GR2 models to change - for example - the Trading Post layouts & 3D assets;
That in itself prevents everyone from creating huge supplemental stuff. Some workaround can be achieved for units, though. But the proprietary Firaxis system isn't standard like 3DS. Even free Blender won't allow conversion to a valid CiV item. If Nexus *must* be used, then they might as well hand over the real capacity to alter what we want.
From Cope:
Events.SerialEventHexHighlight() ignores the alpha value
When using a custom hex highlight color for Events.SerialEventHexHighlight() the alpha value does nothing, the color is always (r,g,b,1.0). Setting alpha to 0.0 does work though, so it seems like the game just does (r, g, b, floor(a)) for some strange reason. I take it this is a bug because the devs defined some custom colors with alpha values less than 1 too, and they don't work either. This is too bad because I can think of a dozen things that could be done with hex highlights if they weren't stuck in full-alpha-obnoxious-mode.
From Whys:
I've read the FontIcons can't be changed.
no, they did it again 
