Tutorial: creating new vegetation for battlemaps

**Dol Guldur** · 06-07-2006, 22:22

I do not think is as simple as a regeneration. I changed some of the text files and then deleted the db file. It regenerated but the battlemap showed a more-or-less sky terrain. So I copied the vanilla files back in and deleted the db file. It regenerated but the sky terrain (blue ground) remained and would not revert.

This would lead me to believe that there is something in the db file that does not exist in the files, or does or does not regenerate - wasn't there a discussion on this topic in the earlier days of r:tw modding? I am not au fait this area.

**shifty157** · 06-07-2006, 23:17

So what we're saying is we need someone to make an editor. It wont be an easy task at all because the file is so complex unlike descr_items which just a simple list.

I dont nearly have the necessary skills to even guess at what would have to be done.

**Makanyane** · 06-07-2006, 23:18

Dol Guldur - would be really interested in what you deleted / changed to get geography.db to regenerate at all. If I just re-name it I definitely do not get a new file in /data (in 1.5)

Have just done proper test on a woodland area, painted large area in ground_types on gaul/julii border to woodland and set up two armies in descr_strat in middle of woodland, same battle with 'descr_geography.db'

with 'xdescr_geography.db'

Teleklos Archelaou, is it possible that grass we are seeing in close up comes from another file i.e.
descr_grass.txt? - Not sure about boulders, could that be a special tile thing?

**Dol Guldur** · 06-07-2006, 23:26

I recently had a big spring clean on my pc and no longer have the test files. I cannot be certain which db file it was. But it defintely regenerated because I had to keep on deleting it.

I have a feeling it may have been descr_vegetation.

**shifty157** · 06-07-2006, 23:31

Makanyane. When you delete DG and go into battle do the units still move around spaces where trees would ahve been or can they walk unhindered?

descr_vegetation does regenerate as normal. It seems DG is only .db file that does not regenerate.

**Makanyane** · 06-07-2006, 23:55

Shifty, troops seem to move in line without avoiding invisible trees, the bouldery bit that you can still see still counts as an obstacle though.

**shifty157** · 06-08-2006, 00:00

So basically the conclusion is that we're completely stuck until someone comes along and manages to create a descr_geography.db editor.

Its really too bad considering how much that file controls.

**iberus_generalis** · 07-31-2006, 15:59

when can we expect this mini mod out to the public??

any ppl who have done more trees is welcome to post them...=) i tried adding this two trees to the game but it won't load...must have done something wrong...but i tryed twice, in separate occasions and the game CTD....=(

**iberus_generalis** · 08-04-2006, 22:57

i've got new trees in game...yupi!!!! lol

i got a question to someone who knows a bit about the vegetation and the trees...is it possible to include more than one kind of tree in a type of forest?

for example, pine trees of diferent kinds, or oaks, aspen, and yey trees in the same forest? just to give a little more diversities to this already awesome forests....