Guide: Changing Dominions 3 defaults

[Ragnarok-X]

Gandalf, once more. I applied your script, but i have a small question about it. Up to now, i was manually doing "save and quit" when i was with a turn, went to windows via alt-tab and manually copy/pasted the saves folder. That way, i always had a save right before ending the turn.
When using your script, will it do the same, so-to-say, will it update the savegame right before processing new turn orders ?

One nitpick is that with your switch, the game tabs to windows (im playing fullscreen). Any way to make it execute the bat in the background with tabbing back to windows ? Or do you suggest playing in windowed mode but with fullscreen resolution (i.e. 1680 * 1050 windowed mode to fit perfectly on the screen) ?


Ich: I couldnt get the script to work .D

[Gandalf Parker]

Yes, thats the order of it.
The game saves the .2h file just as it would for sending to a server (or pbem).
Then any pre-exec orders are carried out.
Then the game hosts creating your new turn file.
Then any post-exec is carried out
(I know I over explained but some lurkers might suddenly see why those are handy)

I know of no way to stop the flash of jumping to the command window to run the bat. I usually run Dom3 in windowed full-screen mode because I play lots of large map solo games. I like to see the tabs of other things I have going on so I can easily jump in and out of other programs.

[Ragnarok-X]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

I know of no way to stop the flash of jumping to the command window to run the bat. I usually run Dom3 in windowed full-screen mode because I play lots of large map solo games. I like to see the tabs of other things I have going on so I can easily jump in and out of other programs.

When you say you "usually run Dom3 in windowed full-screen mode", then how exactly do you do that ?

Apparently the game either uses the FULLSCREEN resolution you choose in the options, or it uses a fixed windowed resolution when unchecking fullscreen in the game options.

How exactly did you achieve windowed mode but with actual fullscreen size ? command line something ?

[thejeff]

commandline options -w for windowed and -r X Y for resolution.

You may also just be able to stretch the window to the size you want. You can on Linux, I don't know about Windows.

[Ragnarok-X]

Is it possible to set up alliances using defaults ?

i.e. could you say something like: always ally player slot 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 ? Or something similar ?

EDIT: can you preset the magic research difficulty ?

[Gandalf Parker]

Alliances are done by adding commands to the map. So no I cant think of an easy way to do this.

Magic research does have a command line setting. So yes that can.

[Ragnarok-X]

Oh sorry, i didnt fully remember post2, thanks again.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK something was brought to my attention that I hadnt thought to explain before.
When the command switch list has something like
-r --res X Y Set screen resolution / window size (default=1024 768)
and you want to change that, you use either -r X Y OR --res X Y
Do not put -r --res X Y

Longer trivia:
both versions do the same thing.
--res is the way Linux prefers switches (the home operating system of the game)
-r is Windows preference. Considering the 255 character limit in Windows of building a command line using the shorter version can be handy for Win users

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Is it possible to set up alliances using defaults ?

i.e. could you say something like: always ally player slot 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 ? Or something similar ?

Im sorry. Looking back thru this thread I realized I should have mentioned that you could setup a desktop shortcut to create a map, and append the alliance commands, then start a game with it.

[Ragnarok-X]

This thread is awesome.

Gandalf, is there a switch to customize the "prov per player" setting apart from the 3 options available in game ?