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

**Jason** · 05-07-2005, 17:33

Another random question from the modding newb.

I seem to have difficulties making ports. Well that is I can make a port and the port will show up in the view with all the other city buildings but the graphic of the port never shows up on the campain map. And when ever you go to make some boats (it does in fact give you the option to do so) the game crashes. I dont seem to have this problem with any of the other buildings I make. Just ports. I even use the same line from the other buildings just cut and pasted in and then take out the building name and put in port. ex:

console_command create_building Londinium port

I am aware there is show_err and I have put this in my shortcut but it never seems to show any errors.

Also as a side note, how do you upgrade a city and its population?

Jason the Newb

**LorDBulA** · 05-08-2005, 06:28

Also as a side note, how do you upgrade a city and its population?

I think that there is no simple way to upgrate city.
But you can try to add population with console_command add_population, and spawn apropriate Gavernor building.

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-27-2005, 19:47

How to: Change the Date

Code:

script
console_command date -220
console_command season summer
end_script

This will change the date to summer 220BC.
Note that you'll get all the historical event messages for the events between the date you jumped from and the date you skipped to.

This command is primarily useful for people who want to skip to the Marian Reforms or change their date altogether. It is also the foundation for Myrddraal's Multiple Turns a Year mod.

**Hans Kloss** · 05-30-2005, 15:53

Here is another quick question for Richard :

is there any way that script can be generated to speed up building process and recruiting for any settlements.So far I have managed to create units but current script only works for one character

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-31-2005, 09:58

No, building and recruitment times are determined in export_descr_building.

**Ianofsmeg16** · 05-31-2005, 18:53

Originally Posted by Epistolary Richard

How to: Change the Date

Code:

script
console_command date -220
console_command season summer
end_script

This will change the date to summer 220BC.
Note that you'll get all the historical event messages for the events between the date you jumped from and the date you skipped to.

This command is primarily useful for people who want to skip to the Marian Reforms or change their date altogether. It is also the foundation for Myrddraal's Multiple Turns a Year mod.

what file is this in???

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-01-2005, 10:02

Please read the first post in this thread - see Stage Three.

**Hans Kloss** · 07-02-2005, 20:31

Does "console_command create_unit" work for naval units too ?

I have experimented a bit but it does not seem to working

**Epistolary Richard** · 07-02-2005, 21:56

I've never tried it, but the problem I would see with it would be where are you going to put them? Scripting tends to be very blunt, and more than likely it's trying to put them in the settlements themselves rather than in their ports. Try creating them on an existing admiral as you would do on an existing captain or family member.