PDF Modding Guide and Map Edit Guide

[jutetrea]

They actually look a bit better in rtf, everythings justified and some of the tables look wonky. It seems the level of effort to format may be less though.

[Edi]

As I said, if the originals are something that translates to Open Office, we can get PDFs with the double columns formatting no problem. I've made both single and double column PDFs that turned out looking really good.

[lch]

Looking at the PDFs again now, I am fairly sure that this is TeX / LaTeX output. It would be easy as pie to update them given the original source, and even creating them from scratch would be fairly easy.

[Sombre]

If you need any help with updating these, let me know. I could certainly add some extra comments to the mod commands.

[llamabeast]

I also thought it was LaTeX output. We should harass JK for the source.

[Gandalf Parker]

The new patch has new docs.
But I do see some things on the map doc that could use some fixing

[Sombre]

The modding doc doesn't seem updated to me.

It still says stuff like "#poisonres [percentage] - currently grants total immunity no matter what number is used" which isn't true, for example.

[Edi]

The modding doc isn't up to date. It doesn't even have the Lanka, Eriu, Tir na n'Og, Fomoria or Serpect Cult nation numbers, never mind things like the site masks section being updated.

[NTJedi]

Gandalf Parker said:
The new patch has new docs.
But I do see some things on the map doc that could use some fixing

I don't think so... I installed the patch yet the PDF docs still show file date of april_28th. If the docs were updated the file dates would have been updated.

[lch]

Gandalf Parker said:
The new patch has new docs.

Since Illwinter does not do incremental updates, but rather only requires you to install the latest pack to be up to date, those PDFs are from a previous update. Same as they don't update the NewDawn and Urrapand maps and images in every new patch, but they have to carry them over from previous patches.

Code:

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~/dompatch310 $ find . -type f -exec cmp '{}' /opt/dominions3/'{}' \;



./army12.trs /opt/dominions3/./army12.trs differ: byte 6, line 1

./res.trs /opt/dominions3/./res.trs differ: byte 6, line 1

./army13.trs /opt/dominions3/./army13.trs differ: byte 5, line 1

./dom3_amd64 /opt/dominions3/./dom3_amd64 differ: byte 25, line 1

./dom3_x86 /opt/dominions3/./dom3_x86 differ: byte 25, line 1

./battlemaps/cave1.d3m /opt/dominions3/./battlemaps/cave1.d3m differ: byte 2629, line 15

./battlemaps/cave2.d3m /opt/dominions3/./battlemaps/cave2.d3m differ: byte 2629, line 15

./flag.trs /opt/dominions3/./flag.trs differ: byte 6, line 1

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