Could we finally enable -strat_ed ??

**RedFox** · 03-18-2008, 22:32

I've been digging around the old RTW Demo rome.exe with an HEX editor and found quite a lot of stuff, mostly related to to all sorts of editing and overview tools that are embedded in the exe.
Even though the RomeTW.exe, RomeTW-BI/ALX.exe seem to give out less information, they too contain a lot of references to strat_ed and it's features.
The main proof of that is the huge amount of strategy map editor related options (and there's a lot more than just that..); and if they are embedded in the exe then there must be a way to enable it.

Apparently it looks for files in world/maps/campaign/custom/"mycampaign"/,
specifically for descr_strat.txt and for the first "campaign" entry followed by the campaign name.
It also seems to be able to generate most of the necessary files for the whole map and allows for almost complete edit of the campaign map.

Now, the -battle_ed command line option works quite simple (-battle_ed:trebia), but I haven't still figure out how to make the -strat_ed switch work. Perhaps it has been locked somehow and needs some other command line switch, or additional files.

I'd gladly hear the opinion of the community on this and their ideas on this feature. There simply must be a way to enable it.

There are also campaign map overview and model view tools, but that goes beyond the intended boundaries of this topic.
I'd also recommend visiting SigniferOne's ancient topic with command lines from demo exe.

**RedFox** · 04-02-2008, 16:20

As there don't seem to be many people interested in this, I'll just include some outtakes of code from the BI exe

Code:

cmd line switches:
sw  ne  ae  no_tnl  nm  na  force_default_hz    blank_ui_caches report_missing_images
validate_models 
unit_models 
encrypt 
sound   
animdb  
util    
fpex    
fperr   
fplog   
enable_editor   
disr    
bookmark    Can't have a name longer than 256 characters.   
imperial_campaign   .   
mod 
default_campaign    
multirun    
battle  
strat   
battle_ed     -battle_ed:Trebia
sprite_script   
show_err    
no_exit_error   
capture_video   
capture_audio   
movie_cam   
fbc 
enter_battles   
ai  
unlock_campaign 
output_con_cmds ;documentation/console_commands.txt  
sp  
engine  
custom  
engine_shadow   
rtm 
strat_ed  ??-strat_ed:campaign??  
all 
playable    
faction on  info    
speed   save    
daytime 

And some campaign options:
Rome    BI  Unknown 
defeat_text_bi_style    
ancillary_ui_bi_style   
defeat_movie_bi_style   
prebattle_night_battle_tickbox  
ai_can_win_campaign 
strip_unit_ability_text

Most of those haven't been tested and their effects are unknown.
Hopefully, someone who is interested in this will give it a shot at testing them?

**Squid** · 04-02-2008, 18:32

Gotthard over at twcenter was looking into it, and the -strad_ed makes references to files and folders that don't exist in retail release meaning it won't work unless you can recreate the files/folders.

**Flying Pig** · 04-14-2008, 13:13

However should you copy the Imperial Campaign into the afrorementioned directory it would work and you could then move the modded version?

**RedFox** · 04-14-2008, 13:33

That didn't work the first time I tried it. I think it's disabled in the public release and one would need a dev version of the executable to make it work.