4 turns a year with more than one winter - final release

[SigniferOne]

Adherbal,

dsyrow1 thats what is neat about the script. It has no user-defined variables. It only uses "I_TurnNumber" which is saved in the save file anyway.

so are you saying that if the script had something like counters ("declare_counter"), then you wouldn't be able to save? Or that upon reloading all the data in the counters would be lost?

[LorDBulA]

All data is lost when you load script.
You can use counters in script with no problem. But they are only stored in memory. So when you reload scipt all counters are zero.

[PROMETHEUS]

search for "MP_", not "MP".

Myrddraal, question: I can see how your script works, pretty tricky and neat, but here's the thing: people believe the prologue script can't be saved during because it'd be too hard to save all the variables running during a script. But isn't your 4ypt script running throughout the entire game, after you load it? And the game allows you to save during it.

Prometheus, I think a lot more seasonal variety can be in the game than already exists. For example look at the model for trees in the ITEM folder: there are the winter versions, and the summer versions. Yet in descr_settlement_plan.txt, only ONE name is used to place a tree in a settlement, and it's not called treeA_summer, or treeA_winter, but simply treeA. And so when you search for that treeA, you will see that it's actually specified which model of treeA to use, depending on the climate.

So u mean that we could script in a way what kind of models the game should use according to seasons? if so would u like to work with me on this?

[Myrddraal]

there are various work-around methods for storing variables tho...

[hellenes]

Is it for 1.3 also?
Because Ive tried it and all I get are CTD after clicking to start a campaign.

Hellenes

[Riothamus]

I made it work for 1.3 BI. Dl the 4 turn per year in a folder on your desk Then change the starting year within the script(4turn per year script) to 363 then for every year afterward..its in data/scripts/show_me /descr_scripts. then copy all data info into the 1.3 BI data. took me about 2 hours to get from 363 ad to 520ad lol. good luck

[Riothamus]

the 4 turn per year was from orb. I think his might be different from the one your talking about.

[Myrddraal]

the 4 turn per year was from orb. I think his might be different from the one your talking about.

What do you mean by that? The original four turns per year script was by me, so is this one...

[Riothamus]

Sorry Myddral if I may have confused things. I dl the rtw 6.0 4 turn per year and script it to 1.3 BI. It is 1 winter per 4 turns....thanks for this

[dclare4]

Got a question though. Some events fire in summer or winter - will they fire on the first summer turn or winter turn or fire all summer long?

Thanks,
Harlechman

[hellenes]

I made it work for 1.3 BI. Dl the 4 turn per year in a folder on your desk Then change the starting year within the script(4turn per year script) to 363 then for every year afterward..its in data/scripts/show_me /descr_scripts. then copy all data info into the 1.3 BI data. took me about 2 hours to get from 363 ad to 520ad lol. good luck

No I didnt mean that I meant can I play it in RTW 1.3 NOT in BI?

Hellenes

[SigniferOne]

Got a question though. Some events fire in summer or winter - will they fire on the first summer turn or winter turn or fire all summer long?

Thanks,
Harlechman

Remeber that the events are triggered not on years but on turn numbers.

[Myrddraal]

Sorry Myddral if I may have confused things. I dl the rtw 6.0 4 turn per year and script it to 1.3 BI. It is 1 winter per 4 turns....thanks for this

The RTR script is this script. Any mod is free to include the several turns a years script so long as they inform me and give credit where credit is due.

[Myrddraal]

Moved to the forge

[FB_Bob]

its taken me ages to find this post again

[Myrddraal]

If you're having trouble finding a mod, check the mods database, they're grouped by category and it should be easier to find it in there.

[Burns]

Hope you don't mind if I incorperate this into METW, Fade?

Strange, does this work with BI?

[Burns]

Seems Ive blown up the campaign again due to this. METW is built on BI 1.6 and this causes a game freezing ctd during loading. I mustve done something wrong...
Damn, I cant even delete the frackin file. What the hell is this.

[Myrddraal]

What file can't you delete?

You're welcome to use it in your mod, I'd appreciate credit, thanks

[Luciano B]

Hello

I added the script to my mod for BI; it works as soon as I start a new campaign, but every time I try to load a saved game previously started with the script activated, I get CTD.

Can you help me, please?

Thanks in advance.

[Myrddraal]

Since this doesn't happen to others, I think there must be more to it than the script. Do saved games load if the script wasn't running? Does the mod use any other scripts?

Does the mod save and load properly when you're not running the script?

Sorry for so many questions, but it's hard to help with little detail.

[Luciano B]

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

Since this doesn't happen to others, I think there must be more to it than the script. Do saved games load if the script wasn't running?

If I load a game saved when the script was not running, all works fine; but every time I try to continue a game which was saved with the script running, I get CTD during the loading phase.

Does the mod use any other scripts?

There isn't any other script, it is the only one ...I don't know if it is relevant, but there's the show_err on.

Does the mod save and load properly when you're not running the script?

Yes, all goes smoothly as usual.

I guess I'm using RTW/BI gold ...however it is the version included in Total War: Eras

[Luciano B]

...some further details...

My mod starts in 334 BC; I made some successive test savings of the same campaign game in different years: 333 BC, 332 BC and 331 BC; then I attempted to load the saved games.
Here the results:

333 BC - doesn't load
332 BC - it works, OK;
331 BC - OK.

Then I started another campaign game playing with a different faction; I made successive savings in 334 BC, 333 BC, 332 BC, 331 BC; here the results, after attempting to reload them:

334 BC - OK
333 BC - NO
332 BC - NO
331 BC - OK

After the installation of the script, everytime I exit the game, the show-err function tells me that there's an error in the file export_descr_advice: "faction type not recognised"; it appens becasue the file (copied from the package including the script) has coded in the factions and the cultures of RTW, and not of BI; is it possible that those problems encountered with BI come from that file?

[Luciano B]

I'm starting to think that there's something corrupted with my RTW/BI installation, rather than with the script... in fact random problems when loading campaign games now occur also with normal games which were saved without the script running... suggestions?

Thanks again and sorry for boring you so much.

[Myrddraal]

What have you modded?

[Luciano B]

What have you modded?

...almost everything :)

[HouseOfHam]

Here's my very own generator that does pretty much the same thing.

- Written in Java 1.5
- Because it's in Java, the download itself is really small
- Lets you choose if you want to create a thread for every turn (generates threads for export_descr_advice.txt and stubs for text/export_advice.txt)
- The generated script itself is about 1/3 the size of an equivalent script generated by Myrddraal's program
-Runs super fast

Download
Run via batch file.

ps: sorry for hijacking the thread.

[CPT Worsham]

House of Ham,

I tried your script generator and I'm having an issue with it. Every winter season causes the characters to age a year. What have i done wrong?

[Cretan]

Thanks so much for this Myrddraal, finally i can have an epic campaign like i've always wanted.


If you have a profile on TWC, tell me your name so i can + Rep you. :)

[Myrddraal]

Thanks Cretan, your thanks is more important to me than rep, but if you insist, I do have a profile on TWC, also called Myrddraal. You'll probably be the first person to 'rep' me there. That's not a sob story, I'm just not nearly as active over there. Plus I never really got 'rep'.


EDIT: for anyone have problems as CPT Worsham was having, the last release of my script generator avoids the winter ageing problem (hence the "more than one winter" in the title of this thread).

@CPT Worsham, sorry I didn't notice your message earlier.