Assasination Videos are back! (STW Style)

[Myrddraal]

Kagemusha has worked out a way to bring back STW style video messages:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=60881

Very nice find

He's also let me know that he'll soon be writing a tutorial on how to do it yourself

[Epistolary Richard]

It's done in the following way:

The file you want is descr_event_images there you can reference which images you want to appear when a particular event occurs, even converting between a still image and a video.

This example is taken from EB:

faction_defeated
	icon	diplomacy
	heading_items	3
	format
	{
		title        center verdana		black	
		string		 center verdana_med	black
		switch
		{
			case 0
			{
				image		 center	data/fmv/lose/seleukid_eliminated_eb.tga
			}
			case 1
			{
				image		 center	data/fmv/lose/baktria_eliminated_eb.tga
			}
			case 2
			{
				image		 center	data/fmv/lose/hayasdan_eliminated_eb.tga
			}
			case 3
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/lose/SPQR_eliminated.wmv

Here the case 3 (SPQR) is unchanged from vanilla. It specifies what file it is to play when the SPQR are defeated, in this case the video file SPQR_eliminated.wmv. The others have been converted for the new EB defeat images by referencing the new file (in this case a still picture data/fmv/lose/hayasdan_eliminated_eb.tga) and changing 'movie' to 'image'.

Sadly, new events cannot be added, nor the criteria for the existing ones changed nor the cases redefined to my knowledge.

[Kagemusha]

Here is how i put the Assasination video to the assasination message:
Here is the original message in SHOGUN/data/descr_event_images.txt.To avoid any misunderstandings the SHOGUN is the mod folder we are using for the Ran no Jidai mod:

mission_assassinate
    icon    agent
    format
    {
        title        center verdana        black
        string         center verdana_med    black        
        title_image     center                    
        spacer         8
        bodystring  left verdana_sml khaki left
    } 

I replaced the original assasination message code with a an wonder movie code that we know uses movie file:

mission_assassinate
        icon    historic
    heading_items    2
    format 
    {
        title        center verdana        black    
        movie          center 320 240 
        spacer         8
        string         center verdana_med    black                        
        bodystring   left verdana_sml khaki left
        spacer         8
        multistring  center   verdana_sml khaki left
        spacer         8
        multistring  center   verdana_sml khaki left
    } 

I just renamed a STW movie into RTW movie and copied into in my SHOGUN/data/fmv mod folder becouse Bi can use all the movies both in Bi and RTW.

Then added the the path of the movie into the code:

mission_assassinate
        icon    historic
    heading_items    2
    format 
    {
        title        center verdana        black    
        movie          center 320 240 SHOGUN/data/fmv/lose/julii_eliminated.wmv
        spacer         8
        string         center verdana_med    black                        
        bodystring   left verdana_sml khaki left
        spacer         8
        multistring  center   verdana_sml khaki left
        spacer         8
        multistring  center   verdana_sml khaki left
    } 

And Voila the movie works in the assasination message.Ofcourse this is just the main principle.I didnt yet change the icon to the message or anything like that.

[Myrddraal]

Well there you go...

Anybody else got any un-common knowledge they want to share

[=E.T=]

WoW !!!





Very nice work, man!!!

[Epistolary Richard]

Well there you go...

Anybody else got any un-common knowledge they want to share

Hmmm... do you know the one about how to have different bodyguards for different recruited generals for the same faction in BI?

[wlesmana]

No, but do tell us. That sounds awesome :)
And do they keep their bodyguard type if they get adopted?

[Epistolary Richard]

Courtesy of Dol Guldur:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...43#post1059743

No idea what happens if they're bribed.