2 bugs in scenario editing, and a question

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Originally posted by Pocus:
now a question: even if I perform some carriages return in the scenario description, all the text is displayed as a unique line under dom. I suppose its an incompatibility with windows?

Dominions 2 uses unix linefeeds, which only have an LF, whereas Windoze uses CR/LF. Thus, when you load a Dominions 2 file that has been written out by Dom2, you see the unix Version. You probably need to find some sort of tool to process this. I just smbmount the Dom2 directory on my Linux box and read them from there.


There is, however, another interesting map edit bug I've found: Despite flagging certain parts of the map "NO START", I wound up starting there anyway. Doublechecking it, I found that I had, in fact, flagged that island "no start"....and started there anyway. Is this flag not working?

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Pocus, a couple things I've observed :

1/Editing .map in Notepad looks screwed (the original files only have #13 that doesn't show a line break under Notepad), so I use Wordpad.
Maybe this changes absolutely nothing in game...

2/ Startspell DOES work !
I've played one game of ArcoEye map where the AI cast its starting "Arcane Nexus" spell on turn 6 or so, way before he could have researched it.
Then I changed the .map to allow a human to play Arco, and I did saw the spell in the Cast Ritual spell list right from the start !

The command doesn't work in mod (.dm) files though)...