Making battle maps

[Yggdrasill]

How to regarding the editor, but not just making custom maps but also historical battles (complete with those nice little intro movies) and also a guide how to modify settlement plans and forts. Most of the map editing stuff is pretty easy but a few things are bugging me, like how to enlarge the boundaries of the actual battlefield etc.


Perhaps if there are scripters out there who know how to do these things they can join the Citadel Total War team in making some custom maps and historical battles.

[Epistolary Richard]

There was some release documentation with the battle editor that should be available somewhere on the official site.

The special stuff about historical battles (including boundaries 'playable_area_dimensions') are controlled out of the descr_battle file in each folder - have a look at the existing ones for examples. The intro movies are done using scripted unit and camera moves in the script referenced at the bottom of the descr_battle file. It's not something I've ever actually tried out in practice.