Fog of War lift script

**Spoonfrog** · 06-10-2005, 21:36

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?

**Ianofsmeg16** · 06-10-2005, 21:49

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

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-10-2005, 22:16

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.

**Spoonfrog** · 06-11-2005, 10:00

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...

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-11-2005, 11:33

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

Code:

reveal_tile		Sample use: reveal_tile 25, 43

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:

 ;------------------------------------------
Trigger 3000_Etna_erupts_Trigger
    WhenToTest FactionTurnStart

    Condition FactionIsLocal
            and I_TurnNumber = 1 ; insert turn number here 

    AdviceThread Etna_erupts_Thread  0

Here's your advice thread, also in eda.

Code:

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

Add the following to export_descr_advice_enums

Code:

Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title
Etna_erupts_Text_01_Text1

In your text\export_advice

Code:

¬-------------------

{Etna_erupts_Text_01_Title}	Etna erupts!

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

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

Code:

script
snap_strat_camera 25,43
reveal_tile 25, 43
end_script

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

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-11-2005, 12:08

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:

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

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.

**Myrddraal** · 06-11-2005, 12:10

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

**Myrddraal** · 06-11-2005, 12:12

Code:

	snap_strat_camera 21, 54

	reveal_tile 8, 57

That comes straight from the suns of mars tutorial.

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

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-11-2005, 12:24

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.