2 bugs in scenario editing, and a question

[Pocus]

1. the #scenario command is buggy, and if set, wont allow the players to parametize their game.

2. the #startspell command doesnt work.

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?

[Pocus]

I have a scripted scenario based on Aran map (Tomb of the Lizard King is his name). If I can have some answers about these issues, I could release it.

TIA.
Pocus.

[Gandalf Parker]

Im debating if the #scenario thing is a bug. It might be the way they meant scenario to be all along.

I myself used it just to put a pretty star next to my maps saying "this one is special and not just a map" because maybe I had writtena storyline in the description. It didnt always feel right because sometimes the only thing different about it was that it had a star by its name. Now if I declare it a scenario it has to have more than just a storyline in the description. It has to lay out the entire world.
Just a thought.

[Targa]

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? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Carriage return in which text editor? Notepad, Wordpad, something else?

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Targa:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">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? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Carriage return in which text editor? Notepad, Wordpad, something else? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">notepad. Does I need #10#13, or only #10 ?

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Im debating if the #scenario thing is a bug. It might be the way they meant scenario to be all along.

I myself used it just to put a pretty star next to my maps saying "this one is special and not just a map" because maybe I had writtena storyline in the description. It didnt always feel right because sometimes the only thing different about it was that it had a star by its name. Now if I declare it a scenario it has to have more than just a storyline in the description. It has to lay out the entire world.
Just a thought. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">its a bug, as you cant set independant forces (they stay at 3), and you have no script to change it either. Also in 2.02 there was not this problem.

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Pocus:
1. the #scenario command is buggy, and if set, wont allow the players to parametize their game.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is the point of the command. You also get a yellow star.

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Pocus:
its a bug, as you cant set independant forces (they stay at 3), and you have no script to change it either. Also in 2.02 there was not this problem. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I do not get it.

Is it impossible to set independent strength in a scenario?

What was it that had changed from 2.02?

[Pocus]

yes its one the difference, I'm rather sure that even with a scenario you could set indep strength and site frequency, etc. in 2.02. This is mostly problematic with the indep settings, as we dont have a scripted command to modify it.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Pocus:
yes its one the difference, I'm rather sure that even with a scenario you could set indep strength and site frequency, etc. in 2.02. This is mostly problematic with the indep settings, as we dont have a scripted command to modify it. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The scenarios have never given you the ability to modify the game settings.

[Norfleet]

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? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">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?

[PDF]

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)...