Questions about Unit Art Styles

[zulu9812]

With reference to Unit Art Styles:

can you only have Early, Middle and Late tags for each style?

Can you change which eras these tags refer to?

Currently, it seems that Early refers to Ancient & Classical, Middle refers to Medieval, Renaissance & Industrial and Late refers to Modern. If I am restricted to 3 era tags, I'd rather that they refer like so:

Early - Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Middle - Renaissance
Late - Industrial & Modern

Any thoughts?

 

[Shiggs713]

my thoughts are; to do what you want to do will require way more work than its worth

its possible, but probably only with SDK modification

 

[zulu9812]

I thought that it might be something like that. I'll take this over to the SDK sub-forum, thanks.

 

[Thomas SG]

You can change everything. And yes, you need the SDK to change it.

I know it because I've replaced the early, middle and late system with ancient, classical, medieval, renaissance, industrial, modern and future. I call it Unit Era Art and it is always part of CCV.

It's not difficult to do it. Most of the work is Copy&Paste. Here a hint what to do if you just want to change the link of a style to an era. The game uses an easy formula : era > max era / xy
So change xy!

Here the part of the code from CvInfos:

const CvArtInfoUnit* CvUnitInfo::getArtInfo(int i, EraTypes eEra, UnitArtStyleTypes eStyle) const
{
	if ((eEra > GC.getNumEraInfos() / 2) && !isEmpty(getLateArtDefineTag(i, eStyle)))
	{
		return ARTFILEMGR.getUnitArtInfo(getLateArtDefineTag(i, eStyle));
	}
	else if ((eEra > GC.getNumEraInfos() / 4) && !isEmpty(getMiddleArtDefineTag(i, eStyle)))
	{
		return ARTFILEMGR.getUnitArtInfo(getMiddleArtDefineTag(i, eStyle));
	}
	else
	{
		return ARTFILEMGR.getUnitArtInfo(getEarlyArtDefineTag(i, eStyle));
	}
}