Modding Q&A

thanks for the information . Terrain stuff is totally beyond me and ı think ı would like to have the coasts appear different in the "main" scenario ı am on and off for years ... To use seas , do ı write over the relevant thing as units in the editor are referenced Psometing_unit name , so that ı look for the lines in txt file and replace Pcoast with Psea ? ı would actually look them up but surfing in a web cafe has its limitations ...

 

To change the look you just replace the original graphic file ( .pcx extension). This is how people do so many different terrain sets. If you wanted to change the effect of terrain - travel speeds, etc - then you should use an editor such as Quintillus' .

 

r16... as Blue Monkey said in the above post, to change and test what you want, backup your files, move the Coastal Terrain to save it and make a copy of the Sea Terrain somewhere then rename it the same name as the Coastal Terrain.
You can play around with this and change what you want by simply renaming the .pcx file and you can change those Files as you like with color, etc...... you won't lose anything in the process.

 

thanks for both answers , will try as soon as time is available .

 

I've got a question, in a scenario I'm working on, I have a few civs that I've marked to skip their first turn in the custom player data tab, and for some strange reason it doesn't seem to be working. Only when I play as one of those civs does the first turn get skipped. And I have had some other issues with the custom player data and other tabs, "resetting" to standard defaults. Has anyone else ran into this problem?