How can I add a Diplomacy Screen for my civ?

[NSM]

So I put in an AI civ with the new civ I created, and I realized that when I entered diplomacy I hadn't added a diplomacy screen (so it was just a gray screen).

How can I add this into my mod?

Also the AI civ didn't have the same civ icon as the one I was playing with (Is that just to differentiate the two since they were the same civ, or is that just buggy or something?)

Thanks! (haha I feel like I'm asking way too many questions but this community has helped me a lot! )

 

[LeeS]

You need to specify a leader fallback image.

Here is what JFD used for his Churchill mod: (NOT TO THOSE READING THIS IN FUTURE: do NOT add <GameData> -- </GameData> tags to the format shown below)

<LeaderScene FallbackImage="Churchill_diplo.dds">
</LeaderScene>

This needs to be in an xxx.XML file all by itself, and the file needs to be set to Import Into VFS = true, and no OnModActivated for the file.

You then need a xxx.dds art file for the leader image. But as actual artwork is beyond my ken I have no idea how big the file needs to be 'Hieght x Width' wise, nor what special settings if any are needed besides creating the file as a xxx.dds image.

 

[DarkScythe]

There are quite an awful lot of guides in this forum's Modding Tutorials and References subsection you can peruse.

The various guides in there were extremely helpful to me (especially between Kael's guide, and a more recent Newbie's guide in that subforum) in developing my first Civ, and more or less answered most questions I had before I even had to ask them.

I mention this since you say you seem to be asking 'too many' questions..

 

[NSM]

So, I looked at some more tutorials and still nothing's working. Every time I offer diplomacy I just see a gray screen with "There is no screen loaded!!" (or something like that I don't remember) in the corner.

<GameData>
	<LeaderScene FallbackImage="ZeldaDiplo.dds">
	</LeaderScene>
</GameData>

This is what I have. My artdefine tag under the ZeldaLeader page has the ZeldaDiplo in it as well.

 

[DarkScythe]

Please see this guide.
Per his step #5:

In your new LeaderName_Scene.xml file, add the following piece of code, and only this code, nothing else.

..in other words, remove the <GameData> tags.

 

[NSM]

Please see this guide.
Per his step #5:


..in other words, remove the <GameData> tags.

haha well that has to be worded differently for noobs like me

But I'll try that.