Modding disasters

[Dol Guldur]

No, not awful failures in creating mods!

Has anyone successfully modded the descr_disasters.txt file? My coding of it just seems to be ignored by the game and it does what it wants, paying no heed to the regions etc. that I try to limit it to. I think having a flood in the sea is something I would like to avoid ;)

SPECS: BI 1.6 modfolder provincial

Thx.

[Quinn Inuit]

I think Marcus Camillus knows how to, since he fixed/helped fix the Mt. Etna bug RTR-PE was having.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Did you guys get anything figured out on this matter? We've been wondering the same thing but with no luck.

[Dol Guldur]

No, any help from anyone would be appreciated - I've not actually looked back into it yet as I have been so busy with other aspects.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Well, there are four files I see:

1. descr_disasters in the data file: Just a few entries
2. descr_disasters in the world/maps/base file: lots of entries that seem to make them random
3. descr_events: allows plagues and volcanoes to be placed according to when they historically happened
4. disasters.tga: for some reason in the imperial_campaign folder. Has dots of different colors in places on the map that would seem to indicate where they should take place.

#2 seems to be the one to work on. Here is the example with their info:

; event			event_type
; frequency		in years
; winter		only occurs in winter 
; summer		only occurs in summer
; warning		provides a one year warning
; position		position event can occur in strat coords [can specify multiple positions on consecutive lines]
; region		region event can occur by region name [can specify multiple regions on consecutive lines]
; climate		climate event can occur by climate name [can specify multiple climates on consecutive lines]
; min_scale		minimum size for event
; max_scale		maximum size for event

event		earthquake
frequency	20
winter		false
summer		false
warning		false
climate		rocky_desert
min_scale	2
max_scale	5

Now I will say that disasters.tga seems to match exactly the size of regions.tga, so there may be a way to get it to work using that. But I really don't know. I see that EB has storms set at very frequent in the text file we use but they never occur. Would really wish someone who has had some success could enlighten us.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Actually, just opening up descr_disasters (the one in base folder) and increasing frequency to "1" for earthquakes, storms, floods (which should be in every year), I can go a decade in vanilla without any events. I don't see any .db files for it though - I can't understand why it's not working.

edit: also tried 2, 3, 4, and 5 as possible frequency values, in case there was a threshold and 1 was ignored, but I see nothing occurring after a decade still. Gah.