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    Epistolery Richard reported opening this feature by adding

    [features]
    editor=true

    in the Med2.preferences.cfg file. This adds Battle Editor in the options screen and a map can be generated by selection. It works OK but no matter where I selected (even steppe areas) I failed to find a flat map or at least flat enough to be considered fun and fair in team battles. Every map generated featured considerable hills and a rock face or two. Nothing wrong with hills or impassable areas but in every map?
    Even Ukraine steppe, elevation 190 was hills. Having to 'iron out' every map to make it fair for a map pack is a bit of a pain.

    Another feature, Ctrl+F5 is supposed to show impassable and restricted areas but it would not work.
    (I do not know if this feature only works when armies and deployment are created. I would expect it would work anyway to prevent you from deploying on those areas)

    Booting up the PC the following day, restarting the game....no Battle Editor in the options list. Investigating the Med2.preferences.cfg file and the new lines are now missing, even though the changes were saved?

    ..........Orda

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    Default Re: Battle Editor Question

    Quote Originally Posted by Orda Khan
    Things....
    Ave Orda

    It would appear that you've discovered some... err... "features" of the new battle editor, which I can second after trying to do some of what you just did over the course of a few minutes. I would submit to you, that you should post these as bugs in the "bugs" thread. My advance response to "that's for official bugs only" would be that these are indeed bugs, and as such should be addressed. The battle editor, while not an "official" feature, is still one that was highly touted and hyped by CA, and as such there is an expectation that it is going to work in a clean and logical manner, with (relatively) few bugs.

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    Default Re: Battle Editor Question

    Strange, i've enabled it in my game. It didn't work the first time i added it, but that was because i was alt-tabbed out of the game at the time, as the game discards any maunal changes you make to the preference file whilst your alt-tabbed out of it.

    EDIT: No wait its gone, that is probably a bug.
    Last edited by Lusted; 11-17-2006 at 23:23.

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    Yes I thought it seemed odd.
    I didn't post this in the bugs thread as I wanted some clarity first. I may have done something wrong. If others post the same find then feel free to move it.
    Did you try the Ctrl+F5 feature, Lusted?

    .....Orda

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    No, i only had a quick dabble in the battle editor, which mainly consisted of me going "wow" at the Scottish highland map tile i chose to load in the editor. They really have doen a great job with terrain in M2TW.

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    The terrain is wonderful, I agree.
    Try to find a flat area though. I know you can flatten any map with editing but it is such a chore. I must have gone over the whole steppe area and the Carpathian basin.
    I found some decent maps this way in RTW, they were nice and fair as they were

    ......Orda

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    Request to Moderator.
    Please can you move this thread to reported bugs.

    Having added this feature numerous times only to find the addition has been deleted when the game is restarted convinces me this has to be a bug. I have to admit I did not edit any map to create a new one. Sometimes this can require quite a few tweaks to finalise and over a few days perhaps. Imagine doing all that to find the map has been deleted next time you start up the game? I have no idea if this is the case but since the preferences.cfg file is reverting to its original state, there is every possibility that map information will not be saved either

    ......Orda

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    Please move to Bugs thread

    ......Orda

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orda Khan
    Please move to Bugs thread

    ......Orda
    I've copied your original post and linked to this thread. Ideally I want to keep the bugs thread concise, with one post per bug.

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    Default Re: Battle Editor Question

    You have to change the properties of the cfg file to only_readable after the manipulation to avoid the overwriting by restarting the game

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    Default Re: Battle Editor Question

    Quote Originally Posted by repman
    You have to change the properties of the cfg file to only_readable after the manipulation to avoid the overwriting by restarting the game

    repman
    Good call... But it does prevent one from saving any changes to the game from the settings menu.

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    Thanks repman, I should have thought about that after reading basically the same with the descr_strats file

    ......Orda

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