[Solved] Changing terrain ingame using Firetuner

Deliverator · Jun 5, 2018

Piruparka said:
Skodkim, this is awesome, thank you very much for your effort! It seems like there's problems with placing NWs that range over more than one tile. Do you have an idea on how this can be solved?

Has anyone looked at whether it is possible to update this to place 2-tile and 3-tile Natural Wonders? It would be super handy if someone can figure this out.

Gedemon · Jun 5, 2018

Deliverator said:
Has anyone looked at whether it is possible to update this to place 2-tile and 3-tile Natural Wonders? It would be super handy if someone can figure this out.

Example from YnAMP
https://github.com/Gedemon/Civ6-YnAMP/blob/master/Override/AssignStartingPlots.lua

Code:

TerrainBuilder.SetMultiPlotFeatureType(plotsIndex, eFeatureType)

Where plotsIndex is a table with the indexes of the plots and eFeatureType the type ID of the NW

Deliverator · Jun 5, 2018

Gedemon said:
Example from YnAMP
https://github.com/Gedemon/Civ6-YnAMP/blob/master/Override/AssignStartingPlots.lua

Code:

TerrainBuilder.SetMultiPlotFeatureType(plotsIndex, eFeatureType)

Where plotsIndex is a table with the indexes of the plots and eFeatureType the type ID of the NW

Thanks that's exactly the pointer I needed.

Deliverator · Jun 5, 2018

@Gedemon Is there anywhere to access .artdef data in Lua. It would be nice to avoid hard-coding the adjacent tiles for each multi-tile Feature. The data specifying the adjacent plots and terrains to force is in TerrainStyle.artdef - I'm just wondering whether it is possible to access that data from Lua.

Gedemon · Jun 5, 2018

Deliverator said:
@Gedemon Is there anywhere to access .artdef data in Lua. It would be nice to avoid hard-coding the adjacent tiles for each multi-tile Feature. The data specifying the adjacent plots and terrains to force is in TerrainStyle.artdef - I'm just wondering whether it is possible to access that data from Lua.

None that I know of.

Maybe there is, I've not explored all AssetPreview or other debug/console commands.

Deliverator · Jun 6, 2018

It turns that the Firetuner WorldBuilder tab *DOES* place multi-tile wonders - it's just that the conditions for placement are very stringent.

For example, to place Yosemite, I had to:
* Create an area of Plains
* Add Forest to it
* Remove any Natural Wonders within 8 tiles
* Remove any Rivers within 2 tiles

Then I could place it fine - I was also able to place Piopiotahi, Lyseford etc.

The rules for placement are roughly described here.

I did notice some strangeness with Everest - I could place it on 3-tiles of mountains generated by the mapscript but not when I placed the mountains by hand. Perhaps I didn't obey all the rules for it or perhaps there is an update process that needs to be run after placing mountains.

Winged Hussar · Jun 6, 2018

There's more to it sometimes. I did not have any mods installed, and I simply could not place certain wonders - Yosemite and Eyjafjallajökull were two of them. The conditions were met, the wonder was indeed there, but it just wouldn't show up. Turns out ice was the culprit, and I had to remove it is entirely from my map before these natural wonders showed up. This problem did go away eventually though, quite possibly with the subsequent patches.

Gedemon · Jun 6, 2018

yes, it was a bit frustrating to find out all rules, that's why I was really happy when I found the SetMultiPlotFeatureType function

as it places NW anywhere, it also leads to some interesting placements on the Terra Map with NW true (relative) positions...

skodkim · Sep 6, 2018

Gedemon said:
I think you'll have to call TerrainBuilder.AnalyzeChokepoints() after changing sea to land (and land to sea ?)

Not sure if it can be called from in game (must be in a script context) or if you'll have to add a script that will call it when relaoding a savegame after the change.

Just returned to Civ6 after a long break and this doesn't seem to work anymore. Can anyone help?

\Skodkim

danpat · Oct 20, 2018

LeeS said:
You might need to do an "AreaBuilder.Recalculate();"

I have not tried this method yet to see if it is valid outside of a map generation script so it might just throw up a nil function error.

But lakes are calculated based on the area-size of the water-body. Anything less than 10 contiguous tiles of TERRAIN_COAST are interpretted as lakes. The setting the number of tiles is in a global parameter. So if you connect an actual lake to sea but do not make the game recalculate the map's "Areas" it might not update itself for this.

As an fyi each lake waterbody and each sea waterbody is considered its own "area".

Continents are a little different in civ6. In civ5 each landmass was its own "area" (with each lake "area" contained on a given continent considered as its own animal), but I am not sure if this calculation of map areas holds true in civ6.

Um... What do you mean by "AreaBuilder.Recalculate();"? What is IT?

LeeS · Oct 21, 2018

The game tracks lakes, seas, continents, etc. by "Areas". The AreaBuilder.Recalculate() function instructs the game to re-calculate all of a given map's "Areas". The result of this is generally only observable when adding/removing land/sea from the map and thereby creating or eliminating lakes. It is also usually necessary to save and reload a game in order for tooltips, map-graphics, etc., to reflect the changes made. In the case of altering base terrain (changing a flatland plot to a mountain, for example) it is necessary to save and reload: otherwise the game's graphics will not relfect the change even though the game "knows" the plot is now a mountain.

skodkim · Nov 1, 2018

LeeS said:
The game tracks lakes, seas, continents, etc. by "Areas". The AreaBuilder.Recalculate() function instructs the game to re-calculate all of a given map's "Areas". The result of this is generally only observable when adding/removing land/sea from the map and thereby creating or eliminating lakes. It is also usually necessary to save and reload a game in order for tooltips, map-graphics, etc., to reflect the changes made. In the case of altering base terrain (changing a flatland plot to a mountain, for example) it is necessary to save and reload: otherwise the game's graphics will not relfect the change even though the game "knows" the plot is now a mountain.

And how to you run the code?

EDIT: aaahh, just reread the thread and you run the code using GameCore_Tuner in the Lua console :-)

\Skodkim

Desanion · Dec 1, 2018

Thank you, @skodkim ! Worked perfectly for me, as well, but it needed to be unzipped to the Debug folder located in the Civilization VI folder (not Civilization VI SDK). Thanks to @djlethal for mentioning what he did, wouldn't have worked for me otherwise.

Such an amazing fix! Thank you so much for your excellent work!

mal_man · Jan 19, 2019

Does anyone know if there is a way to rename continents? For example, I am playing as England and I use the Perfect World map, which makes lots of mountains and rivers. Unfortunately, most of the time it starts me off on one huge continent that isn't split- it all has the same name. I want to change some of it to a different continent name, so I can actually benefit from England's trait.

mal_man · Jan 21, 2019

Anybody?

LeeS · Jan 21, 2019

The only way I am aware of to set a continent for a plot via lua is with

Code:

WorldBuilder.MapManager():SetContinentType( plot, entry.Type.Index )

But this may only work in Worldbuilder mode. I am guessing it will not be supported by Live (ie, Fire) Tuner.

mal_man · Feb 9, 2019

Thanks LeeS. Worth a try, anyway.

Now I have a different problem. I've edited terrain in my latest game with England, and now the game crashes the following turn. I changed some land to water tiles so that I have a few lakes spaced out in such a way that if I build canal cities, I can get my inland ships to the ocean. Anyway, I made sure no resource or terrain features were present after changing the land hexes to coast, and I made sure to run "TerrainBuilder.AnalyzeChokepoints()" and "AreaBuilder.Recalculate()" at the end. I've been digging through the lua.log and other log files, but they don't point me to the culprit. I've gone over the changes that I made, and I can't figure it out. I've made those same changes before in other games, and it never crashed in those.

Spoiler Lua.log :

I'm running a bunch of mods, but they don't cause the crashes. If I reload a few turns earlier, and I don't make those terrain changes, I'll be able to get past turn 90, and I have no problems. Any idea why changing terrain could cause crashes?

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mal_man
Feb 10, 2019

That lake you see on either side of Birmingham was added/expanded to make it a canal city, with room to place a canal city above it for ocean access.

mal_man · Feb 10, 2019

After looking closely, it seems to crash on or right after it's trying to process China's turn. China isn't anywhere close to where I made the terrain changes. I've gone back a few turns and got the game past turn 93 by simply not editing the terrain at all. I really don't get it.

evanaurora · Feb 15, 2019

sooo gathering storm broken the terrain editor for anyone else??

I wonder if this is a'purpose or no. like, with the naming of rivers and mountains and such (a wonderful feature ofc), i get why the terrain editor might break things.... otoh, I NEED a hill where there is currently Not A Hill RIGHT NOW, consequences be damned!

praetorian75 · Mar 10, 2019

Cannot change terrain (in either 3d or strategic view). Copied all the files from this thread to both folders with no results. The "Terrain Placement Enabled" box stays checked when I check it, but when I click on "GRASS" and then click on, for example, a mountain tile, nothing happens. No state change in strategic or 3d view, and saving/loading makes no difference.

Any ideas?

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