As always back up any changed files before proceeding. If you mess up a file with a syntax error it can be hard to trace the fault.
Ok in the location where you installed MTW/VI go to this path:
\Medieval - Total War\campmap\startpos
You'll see files of this sort:
early.txt
high.txt
late.txt
Personally I only play the early period anyway so I haven't modded the others but it works exactly the same way.
1) Open the early.txt file with the notepad text editor
2) Find the "SetNeighbours" for the region you want to disconnect. Next to this you'll find a list of other provinces e.g.
Code:
SetNeighbours:: ID_WESSEX ID_FLANDERS ID_MERCIA ID_WALES ID_ENGLISH_CHANNEL ID_IRISH_SEA
from this line, if you wanted to stop stacks and agents crossing directly to flanders without a port and fleet you would have to change as follows:
Code:
SetNeighbours:: ID_WESSEX ID_MERCIA ID_WALES ID_ENGLISH_CHANNEL ID_IRISH_SEA
After this you would need to find the line:
Code:
SetNeighbours:: ID_FLANDERS ID_WESSEX ID_NORMANDY ID_ILE_DE_FRANCE ID_CHAMPAGNE ID_LORRAINE ID_FREISLAND ID_ENGLISH_CHANNEL
And change it as follows:
Code:
SetNeighbours:: ID_FLANDERS ID_NORMANDY ID_ILE_DE_FRANCE ID_CHAMPAGNE ID_LORRAINE ID_FREISLAND ID_ENGLISH_CHANNEL
This stops stacks and agents crossing back in the other direction.
The next thing is to remove the little descriptions you see when you open the info parchment for, in our example, flanders when you have that parchment open and mouse over wessex. You see the "armies meeting here..." terrain type info.
Find:
Code:
SetBorderInfo:: ID_FLANDERS ID_WESSEX 8600 8184 0 LUSH AT_WESTERN_EUROPEAN COAST FLAT NO_RIVER
Replace with:
Code:
//SetBorderInfo:: ID_FLANDERS ID_WESSEX 8600 8184 0 LUSH AT_WESTERN_EUROPEAN COAST FLAT NO_RIVER
The two "//" comment out the line so that it is not parsed (read by the compiler) so that border info line won't have effect.
Next you need to do the same for wessex:
Code:
SetBorderInfo:: ID_WESSEX ID_FLANDERS 9208 8568 0 LUSH AT_WESTERN_EUROPEAN COAST PLAINS NO_RIVER
Change as follows:
Code:
//SetBorderInfo:: ID_WESSEX ID_FLANDERS 9208 8568 0 LUSH AT_WESTERN_EUROPEAN COAST PLAINS NO_RIVER
Britain is now a four province island.
Other provinces you may wish to disconnect using this method are sardinia/corsica, cordoba/morocco, granada/morocco and sicily/napes. don't forget to comment out the borderinfo for both directions and remove the neighbours for each direction.
-Edit, oh and I almost forgot, the little 'cosmetic' links on the campaign map graphic won't disappear as the whole thing is just one big .tga image. I had photoshopped these out myself a few years back (and did a pretty good job of it if I do say so myself!), and I use this all the time now. The only visual landbridge not erased is the denmark/sweden one, because I don't actually remove that anyway. I would host it but the "MapTex2.tga" file, as it's called, is near 37MB so that's not an option for me.
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