Fog of War lift script

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?

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:

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.

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...

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

Code:

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reveal_tile                Sample use: reveal_tile 25, 43

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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:

Code:

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Trigger 3000_Etna_erupts_Trigger
    WhenToTest FactionTurnStart

    Condition FactionIsLocal
            and I_TurnNumber = 1 ; insert turn number here

    AdviceThread Etna_erupts_Thread  0

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Here's your advice thread, also in eda.

Code:

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;------------------------------------------
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

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Add the following to export_descr_advice_enums

Code:

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Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title
Etna_erupts_Text_01_Text1

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In your text\export_advice

Code:

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{Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title}        Etna erupts!

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

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

Code:

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script
snap_strat_camera 25,43
reveal_tile 25, 43
end_script

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If you want to know more about scripts and their terminology, then read this.

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:

Code:

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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

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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.

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

Code:

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        snap_strat_camera 21, 54

        reveal_tile 8, 57

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That comes straight from the suns of mars tutorial.

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

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.

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