Konnichiwa,

Unless the patch changed things there, I don't see any major new option for the campaign editor. There are only some minor issues, I mailed some of those to hecose san.

The folderbrowsing could be improved (it only recognises the c drive, I have games on any drive but not c), in program help function (excellent readme could be consulted in the program).

Perhaps the app should generate more files: in the case of any Mongol campaign it could generate the custom menu folder (create the folder and copy the required BIFs and TGAs).

Position text offers victory conditions:
remove_control_40::true
remove_eliminate::true
remove_survive::true

What is the exact syntax of the 4th, conquer all of Japan?

I like Zen_Blades implementation of predefined::false so one can put text inside the startposition.txt (also thanks to Target for confirming this).

The other thing is a historical battle and historical campaign editor. This should be something (one of the features) that can handle alliances (ruled by numbers in the BDF), placements of units on a 2D map (a grid layout with (hand)painted markers to help the user to remember what his map looks like, the gridcoordinate corresponds to the coords of a unit in one of the textfiles), unitproperty editing, victory conditions and some textfilegenerators (with extensions other than .txt).

If anyone is able to make such a tool, I think it's about the same as hecoses Campaigneditor, the variable map is the only 'hard' thing I guess (it could be done by providing 3 gridtemplates, a small, medium and large. The template can be edited in a paintapplication to resemble the 2D look of the actual battlemap (where's water/wood/road/hill etc?). The edited map can then be loaded into the tool and units be placed on it. A small map could be 1000*1000 pixels (a small map has 20*20 tiles). A zoom function is a must then.

The 'pixel location' corresponds to the coordinate in the adf file.

If someone will actually make such a tool I'ld be happy to provide some humble help if needed.

Ja mata
Toda MizuTosaInu

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Ja mata
Toda MizuTosaInu
Daimyo Takiyama Shi
http://www.takiyama.cjb.net

[This message has been edited by TosaInu (edited 10-01-2001).]