Need a little help here.

[BobTheBull]

I have been working on my modmod (starting with AOD2). One of the things I want to do is make it so that expert planters can "plant" their resources on a suitable tile. Got this from another thread somewhere, and it made sense to me.

I have done this, starting with corn, adding a corn improvement and making that something the expert farmer can build. I have all that worked out. The problem is with the graphic.

I have set this up just by copying the farm improvement and renaming it to corn, leaving all the text keys and the art key the same as farm. When I then add this into a square, I don't get the same graphic as the farm improvement. I get a much bigger barn without the house and fields. Same thing happens if I use a copied corn graphic or just point to the bonus corn art. I get something like corn but not the same as if I put a corn bonus on a tile. The corn bonus covers the whole tile like weeds, but when used like I am you get only a few stalks.

For the life of me, I cannot think why the farm art does not work the same when used for something other than farm. Anyone know the answer to that one?

 

[Dale]

Did you check for any mesh configuration in Civ4BonusInfos.xml? I haven't myself, but usually you configure the graphic via mesh details in the xml file.

 

[BobTheBull]

I don't see any mesh infos in BonusInfos unless they are hidden with obscure tags. Nothing that looks like any mesh config. a
And that certainly would not apply to the farm improvement art; there is certainly no mesh info there.

Could mesh info be tucked away somewhere else? Maybe in python or SDK?

 

[Dale]

Not usually. Take a SS of both and it might twig my memory of something from the last 4 years.

 

[BobTheBull]

Not sure what you mean by SS. Should I send some samples of the xml mods and screen graphics resulting?

What I still don't get, if I just copy the farm improvement and rename it, and add/rename all the other xml objects necessary, but still point the art_def to the farm, how it could be displayed any differently.

 

[Dale]

SS == screenshot.

Hit PRTSC on the keyboard, paste it into paint and save as a jpg.

 

[BobTheBull]

Yeah. Well, it was pretty late here when I read your post.

I made some screen shots which are attached. Number 1 shows the result of copy/paste farm improvement and rename improvement_farm to improvement_corn, with no other changes. In all SS the original improvement farm is on the left, the results of placing the new improvement corn.

So, #1 is ic with col farm graphic; #2 is ic with medieval farm graphic from Civ4; #3 is ic with col corn graphic copied to art improvements folder; #4 is ic with corn from Civ4.

 

[Dale]

I've worked it out.

It had to do with Civ4PlotLSystem.xml in XML\Buildings folder. I've attached one that works (when the bonus is called BONUS_CORN2) but you can change it to whatever.

Just search through the file for my sections (search on "Dale:"). There's three sections you need to add for the bonus for it to show as big as the original corn.

A pic showing both BONUS_CORN & BONUS_CORN2 next to each other with this file.

 

[BobTheBull]

Ahh, good on yer mate. I knew I could count on you.

Won't look at it until tomorrow, but I'm sure I'll figger it out.

BTW: I could explain it out like this: vegemite is like Aussie peanut butter.

Eh? LOL

 

[Dale]

vegemite >> peanut butter (especially after Kraft was bought out by USA)