New Mod Nations Game: Mods over Europe (finished)

[lch]

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

[Sombre]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Sombre]

You're correct, it's an error in the avernum dm. Here is how to fix it.

Change all instances of 2170 in Avernum to 2797.

Then add this code to it.

#newmonster 2797
#copystats 1447
#armor "nothing"
#end

It's designed to give partial darkvision without getting a bunch of unwanted armour.

I'll update the files in the forums and let people know to redownload.

[lch]

ID reassignment is finished.
No sprite errors were encountered.
I had to scrap a lot of descriptions, will upload the combined mod shortly.

[lch]

Okay, here is the combined mod that we're going to use for playing: deleted, use the one from http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=542057

Download and unpack into your mods folder. You only need to enable the "Mods over Europe" mod and create a new Mid Era game. You'll notice that the nation descriptions and national pretender descriptions are missing aswell as some descriptions of new units in the game. I tried to remove only redundant, useless or rarely encountered stuff, but since Dom3 has a severe limitation of description texts for mods, I had to scrap quite a bit.

If you want to see all the description texts for your nation for playtesting, go into the "ModsOverEurope-testing" folder and move the CBcomplete_1.2.dm file and the file for your nation into the mods folder, then enable them both in the mod preferences instead of using the "Mods over Europe" mod.

If you encounter some grave error, game crashes or similar, then please report them immediately. Your pretender files are in your savedgames/newlords folder. I expect that you create your pretender over the next days now and send it to me by Wednesday at the latest, together with the password you have chosen for it.

P.S.: You don't need to have any mod other than "Mods over Europe" enabled. You only need to enable the CBcomplete mod when you want to use your nation exclusively to see all the descriptions.
P.P.S.: If you want to use one of your national pretenders, then please tell me about it. I will add his description text to the final mod and remove some others instead.

[lch]

The map I will be using has around 100 land and 35 water provinces. That means 12.5 land provinces per player on average. I could maybe divide some of the provinces to increase the number, if somebody thinks that's not enough.