A Beginner's Guide to Scripting & Scripting "How To"s

[Tombstone]

The "show me how" button on the advisor should be dark (un-ghosted) until you click it. Is this what you see?

Please explain "Dark" and "Ghosted/Un-Ghosted", and how this corresponds to 'greyed-out' vs. 'active'.

I (as far as I can tell) did everything correctly according to Richard's instructions. My problem is; The "Show Me How" button is greyed out and un-clickable.

I reset the advisor in the options, as well as changing the Advice Level to 'High', but the Show Me How button is still greyed out (and now that snotty wench pops up to tell me everything she's told me once before already).

I'm trying to do the force_diplomacy accept thing. Here's my files:

data\export_descr_advice.txt:

;------------------------------------------
AdviceThread Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Thread
    GameArea Campaign

    Item Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Text_01
        Uninhibitable
        Verbosity  0 
        Threshold  1 
        Attitude Normal
        Presentation Default
        Title Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Text_01_Title
        Script scripts\show_me\forcedip.txt
        Text Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Text_01_Text1

data\scripts\show me\forcedip.txt:

script

command_console force_diplomacy accept

end_script

Now, I added this script while in the middle of an Imperial Campaign, and I'm just wondering if that's the problem...

On another subject;

Where does this game hide the Targas? I've looked for them everywhere. There are data files that refer to them, but the targas themselves don't appear to exist anywhere. Like "roman_official_ancillary.tga" for example.

[Atilius]

Please explain "Dark" and "Ghosted/Un-Ghosted", and how this corresponds to 'greyed-out' vs. 'active'.

Dark, Un-Ghosted=active
Ghosted=greyed-out

Your export_descr_advice.txt looks OK.

As for the script, you have

command_console force_diplomacy accept

This should be

console_command force_diplomacy accept

Where does this game hide the Targas?

You need to unpack the files in the packs folder. There's a link to Vercingetorix's xpak in this post. Usage info here.