Fog of War lift script

[Spoonfrog]

Is there any way of lifting the fog of war on the campaign map through scripting? The senate missions can reveal a settlement, so perhaps there is a way of scripting this?

[Ianofsmeg16]

press the ` button (above Tab) and it'll bring you into rome_shell, from there type in Toggle_fow then the fow should be lifted until you type it again. N.B this is on the campaign map, i dont know where the script for it is, this method seems easier.
Hope this helps ~:cheers:

[Epistolary Richard]

There's also a reveal_tile command, which is probably what the Senate are using. toggle_fow through RomeShell is a lot better way of just seeing the whole map.

[Spoonfrog]

Thanks for the help, what I am trying to do is to reveal the map just around a certain point...

A player needs to be able to 'see' a volcano for it to erupt. Because of the change in scale on the Sicily campaign map, it is very unlikely that a player will have units near MT Etna when it erupts, so the volcano effect is lost. Perhaps if I could use a script to reveal the volcano for the player (but not the rest of the map), the player would be able to see it erupting...

[Epistolary Richard]

Yes, in that case you'll want the reveal_tile script command. It's been used in vanilla so we know it works:

reveal_tile Sample use: reveal_tile 25, 43
Unless you're incorporating a background script then you'll need to activate it through an event script. If Mt Etna is erupting at a set date each campaign then this would be quite straightforward.

These entries would go in your export_descr_advice:
This would be your trigger:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger 3000_Etna_erupts_Trigger
WhenToTest FactionTurnStart

Condition FactionIsLocal
and I_TurnNumber = 1 ; insert turn number here

AdviceThread Etna_erupts_Thread 0
Here's your advice thread, also in eda.

;------------------------------------------
AdviceThread Etna_erupts_Thread
GameArea Campaign

Item Etna_erupts_Text_01
Uninhibitable
Verbosity 0
Threshold 1
Attitude Normal
Presentation Default
Title Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title
Script scripts\show_me\etna.txt
Text Etna_erupts_Text_01_Text1

Add the following to export_descr_advice_enums

Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title
Etna_erupts_Text_01_Text1
In your text\export_advice

¬-------------------

{Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title} Etna erupts!

{Etna_erupts_Text_01_Text1}
Click on the show me how button to see it.

Then create a new file in \scripts\show_me\ called etna

script
snap_strat_camera 25,43
reveal_tile 25, 43
end_script

If you want to know more about scripts and their terminology, then read this (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=46738).

[Epistolary Richard]

Hmmm.... actually the reveal_tile command doesn't seem to do much of anything at all....

Right, there's another way of doing this, but this is far simpler, so replace the script with this:

script
inhibit_camera_input true
zoom_strat_camera 0.8
snap_strat_camera 25,43
console_command toggle_fow
wait 5
console_command toggle_fow
inhibit_camera_input false
end_script
This works, but allows the player to see the whole map on the minimap for five seconds. If this okay for you, then great, if not there's another way.

[Myrddraal]

reveal tile does work I believe, it is used in sons of mars for sure...

[Myrddraal]

snap_strat_camera 21, 54

reveal_tile 8, 57


That comes straight from the suns of mars tutorial.

R u sure you got the right tile when testing...

[Epistolary Richard]

Yes, it's in the prologue, which is why I assumed it worked. But I tried it out and snapped the camera to the same position but nothing was revealed. I even put it in a loop so it would continue to fire while the advisor was visible, but nothing changed. Maybe I mistyped the parameters though, if anyone gets it working then let us know.

[Spoonfrog]

Thanks for the help guys I'll try those ~:)