Tutorial: Placing Palms on the Battlemap

[Dol Guldur]

It's been a while since I did it, but as best as I can rememeber you follow your (great) tutorial but edit in Adherbal's bit:

In CI's case the 2 text file excerpts look like this:

descr_vegetation.txt (part 1)

;4a palm forest trees - thx to Shifty and Teleklos of EB

model sa_tree_01
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_1.CAS
}

model sa_tree_02
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_2.CAS
}

model sa_tree_03
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_3.CAS
}

model sa_tree_04
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_4.CAS
}

model sa_tree_05
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_5.CAS
}

model sa_tree_06
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_6.CAS
}

model sa_tree_07
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_swamp_shrub.CAS
}

model sa_tree_08
{
    level ../bi/ci/data/models_vegetation/palm_shrub.CAS
}

descr_vegetation.txt (part 2)

vegetation 4a_near_harad_forest
{
    layout 120 palm_layout.tga
    radius 2
    height_range 0.4 0.8
    aspect_range 0.7 1.3
    lod trees
    model sa_tree_02
    model sa_tree_03
    model sa_tree_04
    model sa_tree_05
}

;4a
vegetation 4a_near_harad_dense_forest modifies 4a_near_harad_forest
{
}

and descr_climates.txt as:

climate semi_arid
{
	colour	0 114 188
	heat	2

	strategy	summer	sparse_tree	olive_a.cas				10
	strategy	summer	dense_tree	olive_a_impassable.cas	10
	strategy	summer	canopy		olive_a_canopy.cas		12

	battle_vegetation
	dense_forest	4a_near_harad_dense_forest
	dense_scrub		semi_arid_dense_scrub

	battle_winter_vegetation
	dense_forest	4a_near_harad_dense_forest
	dense_scrub		semi_arid_dense_scrub
	env_map			data/battlefield/envmaps/grass.dds
}

Then, when all is generated (.vege files, tgas and db), simply copy the veg db file, desc_vegetation.txt, descr_climates.txt into your mod folder's data folder; and then make a vegetation folder in your data folder and copy the *new* sprites into the sprites subfolder, and the *new* textures into a new textures folder, and the *new* generated .vege files (I had 41 of them) direct into the new vegetation folder.

Restore all rtw data files (which should have all been backed up) to vanilla (not least to test your modfolder is working and not drawing from above!)

Does this help?