Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]

[Endoperez]

Nope. In newsGroups I used my hotmail address, j87joensuu, since I posted into them through google Groups.
I'm not sure where I got the name, but I logged to Runescape (mediocre MMORPG) using this a long time ago. I was reading the Groups at that time, so I might have gotten the "-perez" from there.
And I thought I had made up an innovative name!

[Kristoffer O]

No.

Nationmodding, if and when it is implemented, will probably work as a theme, but a theme where you can also change the name of a nation.

What a theme does at the moment is changing something or everything of a nation but the name, so implementing a thememodding with the extra addition of namechanges wouldn't be too difficult i believe.

Adding additional nations (more than 17) would be a much bigger problem. As would changing underwater nations into land nations and vice versa.

[ywl]

Originally posted by Aristoteles:
Ok, but it will be hard for the devs to script something, what will give us the chance to change the names of the nations??

Hmmm... Fire up a hex-editor and edit the binary of the program? Does that count?

I didn't try much. But I got it worked by changing the program data at only one place. So, I guess it should be reasonable easy for Illwinter to code the progame to read the nation names from a text file.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
No.

Nationmodding, if and when it is implemented, will probably work as a theme, but a theme where you can also change the name of a nation.

What a theme does at the moment is changing something or everything of a nation but the name, so implementing a thememodding with the extra addition of namechanges wouldn't be too difficult i believe.

Adding additional nations (more than 17) would be a much bigger problem. As would changing underwater nations into land nations and vice versa.

some loosely related questions :
are always wondered, in which language you develop? C, C++, something else?
Are you an OOP fan? Thats ease program changes rather drastically...
What was the reason initially to internalize in the binary all the datas? answer can be : dont know

[Aristoteles]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:


Nationmodding, if and when it is implemented, will probably work as a theme, but a theme where you can also change the name of a nation.

Great. This is what we need than.

[MStavros]

Themes or not, if we can modify the nations totally, change their names, and change the pretenders as well, than we can talk about making mods.

[DominionsFan]

Ye, plz allow us to rename the nations and to design new pretenders.

[ October 01, 2003, 09:47: Message edited by: DominionsFAN ]

[Zerger]

Originally posted by DominionsFAN:
Ye, plz allow us to rename the nations and to design new pretenders.

Agreed.

[Rollo]

not sure if it has been mentioned, yet. I recall it was misisng from one of the early lists of 'must-have' tools. IMHO, that should also include the ablity to mod magic sites.

[Mortifer]

Yeah, modding magic sites would be also a nice addition.