Modding the demo

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 02-23-2009, 15:01

Has anyone tried to take away the scripting in the battle of Brandywine? The naval battle has a template for an "unscripted" scenario, and I was wondering if something similar could be done for the land battle...

**Mailman653** · 02-23-2009, 15:26

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Has anyone tried to take away the scripting in the battle of Brandywine? The naval battle has a template for an "unscripted" scenario, and I was wondering if something similar could be done for the land battle...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228100
Looks like it's been done, I'm gonna give it a try myself.

**pevergreen** · 02-23-2009, 15:39

It has been done.

Check TWC, all the modding progress is being done there. (edit: thats what not refreshing gets me)

**Mailman653** · 02-23-2009, 17:29

Great news! "new map"

It's actually the battle tutorial map, heres how,

Open up the brandywine.xml and change the following:

<battle_map_definition>
<name>BattleTerrain/presets/battle_tutorial/</name>
</battle_map_definition>

Change brandy wine to battle_tutorial. Thats it. The only problem is having to guess the unit placement, as it is the Brits spawn behind the town while the US are spread out across the valley.

I'm going to try to replace the unit placement #'s with the ones from the tutorial, maybe that will help. Oh, I also made it rain, but it's hardly noticble in the screen shot.

**Judge** · 02-23-2009, 18:37

Rain = wet gunpowder = mellee

**Mailman653** · 02-23-2009, 18:41

Originally Posted by Judge

Rain = wet gunpowder = mellee

The Spanish did at one point but I think it was a last ditch effort because after I repelled their charge what was left of their army routed.

Update:Alright, this is the file AS IS, I've provided some instructions on how to compensate for the bugged locations, if anyone else wants to try to give them proper spawn locations, go right ahead.

Backup your files, this will overwrite your orginal brandywine.xml and script!

**lenin96** · 02-25-2009, 09:42

Has anyone seen this before?

I saw it at TWC.

**pevergreen** · 02-25-2009, 10:17

Look about 10 posts above yours.

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 02-25-2009, 22:29

Originally Posted by lenin96

Has anyone seen this before?

I saw it at TWC.

That is already old news. There is a screenshot of 10,000 men in one unit and someone even tried 15,000 bit that made the game too laggy.

And there is more! Some guy modded the demo so he had more then twenty units he could control. He had only twenty unit cards but he had more then twenty units.

**Mailman653** · 02-23-2009, 18:39

I zipped up the Brandywine-tutorial map for everyone to enjoy, it has the default US and England factions with their Brandywine units, the only change is the map.

Update: There are some placement issues so I removed the download. As the English you spawn behind the town and can deploy almost anywhere but the Americans spawn partly in front of the town and in the valley below. As the Americans you fix this problem by just moving all your units in front of the town and the English will spawn behind it.

Update1:I've given up for now, I've copy and pasted the positions of the English units from the tutorial to the Americans but there are so many units that most of the army spawns in the valley below. I tried tweaking the #'s for everyone else but now I'm just crashing my game.