Startup Messages

[Flying Pig]

How do you make a message display when you start the game, a la RTW? I looked at their code, but I can't make out which bits make the message and which bits will crash my game if I copy them in.

 

[The_J]

You want a simple popup?

In CvEventManager, onGameStart:

		if (gc.getGame().getGameTurnYear() == gc.getDefineINT("START_YEAR") and not gc.getGame().isOption(GameOptionTypes.GAMEOPTION_ADVANCED_START)):
			for iPlayer in range(gc.getMAX_PLAYERS()):
				player = gc.getPlayer(iPlayer)
				if (player.isAlive() and player.isHuman()):
                        popup = PyPopup.PyPopup(-1)
                        popup.setHeaderString(CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_HEADERTEXT",()))
                        popup.setBodyString(CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_BODYLTEXT",()))
                        popup.launch(True, PopupStates.POPUPSTATE_IMMEDIATE)

That will produce popups like these.
Took my a long time, to find out, how they work .
I don't know, how to get more complicated popups to work, didn't have the time to dig in deeper.

 

[Flying Pig]

Can you replace the TXT_KEY stuff with just what you want to write? If not, where do you put it?

 

[Senap]

I suppose you could write whatever you want instead of TXT_KEY, but using TXT_KEY allows you to edit actual text in XML instead of messing with Python which would be the preferred way of doing things I think.

It's just a matter of creating a file called whatever.xml under <civ>\Mods\<modname>\Assets\XML\Text with the following format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Civ4GameText xmlns="http://www.firaxis.com">
	<TEXT>
		<Tag>TXT_KEY_WHATEVER</Tag>
		<English>Your text here</English>
		<French>Your text here</French>
		<German>Your text here</German>
		<Italian>Your text here</Italian>
		<Spanish>Your text here</Spanish>
	</TEXT>
</Civ4GameText>

 

[The_J]

Senap is right .
Especially important, if maybe somebody in the future will try to translate your mod.

 

[Flying Pig]

Do you need to make one for the 'START_YEAR' ?

 

[jessiecat]

Do you need to make one for the 'START_YEAR' ?

A bit off-topic I know, but I just spotted your reskinned Spanish knight in the Downloads database. Very nice. Can we use it in our RFC Europe Mod/mod for BTS? And would you interested in contributing other figures for
the mod on request?

 

[Flying Pig]

Yes, sure, and I'll do more - I can't use Blender yet, but I'm trying to learn. At present I do all the stuff in the little tutorial on my sig. If you people have a python expert I'd be grateful if they could give a hand round the Falklands Mod

 

[jessiecat]

Yes, sure, and I'll do more - I can't use Blender yet, but I'm trying to learn. At present I do all the stuff in the little tutorial on my sig. If you people have a python expert I'd be grateful if they could give a hand round the Falklands Mod

Great! 3Miro and Sedna17 are main modders. Maybe one of them can lend you a hand.

 

[Flying Pig]

I'll announce myself down in their thread.

 

[The_J]

Do you need to make one for the 'START_YEAR' ?

START_YEAR is a number in the GlobalDefines.