New Mod Nations Game: Mods over Europe (finished)

Sombre · #1 August 5th, 2007, 01:55 PM

You need to have CBM 1.1 complete turned on and CBM Avernum turned on to get a CBM game with Avernum in it and balanced accordingly.

Same with all CBM nations I've made :]

Jazzepi · #2 August 5th, 2007, 02:51 PM

Can you link me to CBM 1.1? I tried looking in the CBM thread and couldn't find a good link z.z

Jazzepi

lch · #3 August 5th, 2007, 03:03 PM

If you can wait some hours then we'll have the complete mod ready.

Sombre · #4 August 5th, 2007, 03:51 PM

Don't know where the original is gone, but attached is a version from me. It should be identical, but with some minor bug or something fixed and lacking a bit of the documentation.

Jazzepi · #5 August 5th, 2007, 03:59 PM

I'll just wait for Ich's version

You know, I wish the mods exsisted in single folders. I think it was a big mistake to design the mod system so that you have a folder + a file outside the folder. It's very difficult to keep track of which files outside the folder belong to which mods, making cleaning up old/irrelevant mods difficult.

Jazzepi

lch · #6 August 5th, 2007, 09:52 PM

Status on the combined script:

Directory structure is prepared.
Nation IDs are aligned.
Namespaces are no trouble.

Unfortunately, monster, weapon and site IDs are used twice in quite a lot of cases, and not just for some mods. I tried to use a script by DrP to automate the reassignment of IDs, but it does not work too well (in particular with copystats), so I'll have to do it by hand. I'll catch some sleep before that.

After that, there are two more hurdles: description texts and sprites. I hope that there aren't too many of those...

DrPraetorious · #7 August 5th, 2007, 11:49 PM

What are the copystats that it doesn't work on?

If copystats isn't one of the fields it recognizes, you just add it to the list of fields for monster IDs and it'll swap out the copystats ID with the indexed ID; if you can bounce me the input I can try it myself and see if something else is wrong.

lch · #8 August 6th, 2007, 07:54 AM

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DrPraetorious said:
What are the copystats that it doesn't work on?

There are a lot of copystats for unit id 2170 in Sombre's mods, Avernum for example but others aswell, and after mod mixing that ID is suddenly overwritten by the Enthralled Villagers from Sanguinia. Also, your script does not filter out multiple #modname, #description, #icon, #version, #domversion tags. I stopped checking for more after that.

On second thought, I think the copystats in Avernum may be an error. Sombre only defines the monster ID 2170 in Skaven.dm. I'm not sure if he doesn't copystats from CBcomplete somewhere, though, and it looks like your script does not fix copystats which happen across different mods.