A question about LM Terrain
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embryodead
Caliph
You can do that with a hex editor but they'll be identical to the base terrain anyway.
embryodead
Caliph
I was about to say no but looking at the biq spreadsheet it seems possible. I'll play with the hex editor and see.
embryodead
Caliph
There you go. Sometimes I wonder if Firaxis programmers do some stuff just cause they hate modders 
Turns out the "missing" LM Terrains are there, with editable stats and all, you can even add a new graphic. They are just disabled inside the BIQ. After finding the relevant byte and changing one 0 to 1, not only you get a new terrain but you can edit it in the editor...
EDIT: Ok, so it's not a graphics problem, but map placement problem. Namely the editor won't add the new terrain to the map, you have to add the base terrain first (e.g. Tundra), then turn it into a Landmark with HexCmp (see link below for a tutorial).
If you want to try it for yourself, you need to learn the BIQ structure and hex editing. I've posted a little tutorial in the Deepwater harbours thread. It shows how to add Sea tiles "under" Coast tiles, but also shows how to use HexCmp in general. For enabling a disabled LM Terrain, you've got to find the second occurence of the terrain name, and move 33 bytes back, then change 00 to 01... that's more or less it
Turns out the "missing" LM Terrains are there, with editable stats and all, you can even add a new graphic. They are just disabled inside the BIQ. After finding the relevant byte and changing one 0 to 1, not only you get a new terrain but you can edit it in the editor...
EDIT: Ok, so it's not a graphics problem, but map placement problem. Namely the editor won't add the new terrain to the map, you have to add the base terrain first (e.g. Tundra), then turn it into a Landmark with HexCmp (see link below for a tutorial).
If you want to try it for yourself, you need to learn the BIQ structure and hex editing. I've posted a little tutorial in the Deepwater harbours thread. It shows how to add Sea tiles "under" Coast tiles, but also shows how to use HexCmp in general. For enabling a disabled LM Terrain, you've got to find the second occurence of the terrain name, and move 33 bytes back, then change 00 to 01... that's more or less it
embryodead
Caliph
To save others some work, I've created a BIQ with all LM Terrain tiles enabled. The new terrains are: LM Tundra, LM Flood Plain, LM Jungle, LM Marsh, LM Volcano, LM Coast and LM Ocean. All these appear in the editor so that you can change their names, stats etc.
You can play with it, or import this specific part of rules (Import->Rules->Terrain) into another BIQ (remember to make backups
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Note that you still have to use a hex editor to put the tiles on the map. Or rather, put the non-LM tiles with the C3C editor, then use HexCmp to turn them into new landmarks (explained in the link in previous post). It's easy though quite inconvenient. EDIT: Also, I recommed the excel sheet Shay posted. It doesn't work for me probably because I have OpenOffice not Excel but the equation there is good and lets you find the proper byte to edit based on X,Y values from the C3C editor.
A screenshot just to show it works BTW I've made a new stylesheet that will automate adding these new landmarks, so that it'll be much easier. Going to post it tomorrow with a tutorial maybe.. if anyone cares :S
You can play with it, or import this specific part of rules (Import->Rules->Terrain) into another BIQ (remember to make backups
)Note that you still have to use a hex editor to put the tiles on the map. Or rather, put the non-LM tiles with the C3C editor, then use HexCmp to turn them into new landmarks (explained in the link in previous post). It's easy though quite inconvenient. EDIT: Also, I recommed the excel sheet Shay posted. It doesn't work for me probably because I have OpenOffice not Excel but the equation there is good and lets you find the proper byte to edit based on X,Y values from the C3C editor.
A screenshot just to show it works
BTW I've made a new stylesheet that will automate adding these new landmarks, so that it'll be much easier. Going to post it tomorrow with a tutorial maybe.. if anyone cares :S
Shay´s file? I´m looking for it.
Do you mean this: http://civmods.com/CitiesAndPorts.xls? It´s his one and only post, so there can be no other...
Do you mean this: http://civmods.com/CitiesAndPorts.xls? It´s his one and only post, so there can be no other...
embryodead
Caliph
Yes, that's the one. Note that it calculates the map tiles offsets. The LM tile offset is 6 bytes farther and has to be changed from 00 to 20 for each tile.
embryodead
Caliph
It will use the existing LM pcxs that are actually there, e.g. tundra is in lxtgc.pcx, ocean is in lwOOO.pcx and lwCSO.pcx and so on. It doesn't always look good, but it's the same case as with plains/grasslands.
As for the Jungle, Marsh and Volcanoes it seems there's no way to use different graphics.
embryodead
Caliph
It will use the existing LM pcxs that are actually there, e.g. tundra is in lxtgc.pcx, ocean is in lwOOO.pcx and lwCSO.pcx and so on. It doesn't always look good, but it's the same case as with plains/grasslands.
As for the Jungle, Marsh and Volcanoes it seems there's no way to use different graphics. There seems to be a way to have new graphics for the forest though - by using Pine Landmark Forest.
EDIT: What also came up, is that in the BIQ with new LMs enabled, the editor gets confused with old LM tiles as well and kinda shifts them... nothing bad, you just have to do some acrobatics, like selecting LM Hills to add LM Forest
embryodead
Caliph
Yay.
So I was right, you can add a new graphic for the forest, by placing a pine forest and turning it into a landmark with the hex editor. It'll use the 5th and 6th row from the LMForests.pcx ; it will still be LM Forest though, in terms of stats.
As seen below, with Sn00py's marsh-forest in the middle, as opposed to Palm Trees LM Forest below and LM jungle above. Note the LM Volcano too, can be a named landmark
So I was right, you can add a new graphic for the forest, by placing a pine forest and turning it into a landmark with the hex editor. It'll use the 5th and 6th row from the LMForests.pcx ; it will still be LM Forest though, in terms of stats.
As seen below, with Sn00py's marsh-forest in the middle, as opposed to Palm Trees LM Forest below and LM jungle above. Note the LM Volcano too, can be a named landmark
embryodead
Caliph
One more screenie showing Tundra vs LM Tundra with new graphic, as well as as Jungle-on-Plains:
I've got a small problem with posting the stylesheet, namely my OpenOffice sheet won't read properly in Excel... and I guess majority of people have the latter.
I've got a small problem with posting the stylesheet, namely my OpenOffice sheet won't read properly in Excel... and I guess majority of people have the latter.
embryodead
Caliph
Tutorial and calc sheet for LM terrain editing posted:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=5704999
I'm not sure how clear the tutorial is, so let me know if it was of any use.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=5704999
I'm not sure how clear the tutorial is, so let me know if it was of any use.
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
I take it you mean there's no way to have different graphics for the base & LM versions. But isn't possible to use one of those terrains like this:
Say I'm making a map of Tibet and don't need Volcanoes. I swap out the volcano graphics for mountain graphics. Now I've got four sets of stats/rules for variability with the mountains (the original standard & LM mountains + the standard & LM volcanoes). In this specific example I know I've seen posted the way to virtually "turn off" the volcano eruptions, and also a way to use "snowstorm" animations in place of the eruptions.
Similarly, if I don't need jungle, couldn't I use the standard & LM jungle with graphics that would give me four variations of forest (2 graphics sets with standard & LM of each)?
EDIT: Oops! Question accidentally double-posted. The answer is here, posts 3-7.
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I think, he meant my "Thunderstorms in the mountains" (based on Len´s work): http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3763030&postcount=13
In this thread we had a discussion about volcanoes.
And ED: It´s such a great work you are doing.
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
@BadKarma: Yeah, that's the one.
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
I was just thinking - if we edited the eruption animation and made the whole thing the magenta/green "invisible color", even the rare eruption would "disappear". The problem of the lava remains: even while invisible it would have an effect on the terrain. Or can its effect be "zeroed out" in the editor?
