Improvements, features etc.

[<Nexus>]

I have also tried switching back the models to original farm's:

The normal Farm improvement works as it should - so I at least didn't break the original thing. But in the circles are the new Preserve. It's the same throughout all ages.
Any idea what to try?

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

You missed the entry of the orginal farm that actually assembles the crops and the buildings into a single improvement so that your ART_DEF actually references something; this one is from mine, but your should also have something very similar:

        <ArtRef Name="goal:IMPROVEMENT_FARM">
            <Attribute Class="Era">ERA_ANCIENT,ERA_CLASSICAL</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Bonus">NO_BONUS,BONUS_ALL,!BONUS_RICE,!BONUS_WHEAT,!BONUS_POTATO,!BONUS_CORN</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">NIF:Art/Structures/Improvements/Farm/an_eu_farm01.nif</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">KFM:Art/Structures/Improvements/Farm/an_eu_farm01.kfm</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">szExtra:art:IMPROVEMENT_FARM1</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">szExtra:art:IMPROVEMENT_FARM2</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">iCropAreaMultiplier:4</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">bCutTrees:1</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">bZMode_Ground:1</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">fTwist:-0.7853981633</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Scalar">bIsPartOfImprovement:1</Attribute>
            <Attribute Class="Rotation">0,90,180,270</Attribute>
            <Scale>0.5</Scale>
        </ArtRef>

Obviously, IMPROVEMENT_FARM1 and IMPROVEMENT_FARM2 are the farm buildings to be thrown into the mix, and you decide whether you need any of those and specify accordingly; those bits can be omitted.

 

[<Nexus>]

No matter what I try I can't get the game show other than this:

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

From looking at it, it feels like you're almost there. What you seem to be missing is the pointer to 4x4 leaf; search for this in your file:

    <LProduction From="Node_4x4">
        <Attribute Class="Improvement">IMPROVEMENT_FARM,IMPROVEMENT_VERTICAL_FARM</Attribute>
        <Attribute Class="Bonus">NO_BONUS,BONUS_ALL,!BONUS_RICE,!BONUS_WHEAT,!BONUS_POTATO</Attribute>
        <Attribute Class="Scalar">bNotBFS:1</Attribute>
        <To Name="Farm_4x4"/>
        <To Name="GNode_4x4"/>
    </LProduction>

And do something similar but pointing to PRESERVE_4x4 rather than Farm_4x4. You even have the PRESERVE_4x4 LProduction in place already, but nothing points to it.

 

[<Nexus>]

Like this?

I'm still missing something :-/

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Post the nif of the improvement itself - I'd like to check if it is actually functional internally.

 

[<Nexus>]

Post the nif of the improvement itself - I'd like to check if it is actually functional internally.

Thank you so much for looking into it.
I have also uploaded the related xml files, just in case.

 

[<Nexus>]

And I always forget to say that you were right about the XML:

Deleting the <ShadowDef> part in the xml for lynx (not only commenting it out) seemed to work for me...

So that's solved