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<lastBuildDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:05:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Throne and Patriots Projects forum discussion</title><url><![CDATA[http://spruz.websnapr.com?size=S&url=http://ronproject.spruz.net]]></url><link>http://ronproject.spruz.net</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding momentum]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>
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	Think about how much you could get done if you didn&#39;t have to pay a tax to amplify or mollify your fear...</p>]]></description><link><![CDATA[ http://ronproject.spruz.net/forums/?page=post&id=AB50FAA9-53E7-4317-B4B8-A55B5469296B ]]></link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:30:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[ http://ronproject.spruz.net/forums/?page=post&id=AB50FAA9-53E7-4317-B4B8-A55B5469296B ]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RE:Invaded Islands ]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>
	I add a s<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; ">creenshots.</span></p>
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	I&#39;m making&nbsp;two version, but i don&#39;t know which am going to released. the new scenario has two islands, their lot bigger then other one.</p>
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	Invade Islands</h2>
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	Game play type? <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 10px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 10px;"><b>&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre; ">Single Player</span></b></span></font></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; ">Script: Yea (Working on it)</span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; ">Description: &quot;Its June, 20,1942 (Made up) the Japanese has invaded your islands! They have the islands well defense, But on the main island they have a military base and on the smaller islands they have small towns. We have sent you&nbsp;large scale <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; white-space: normal; line-height: 19px; ">invasion forces. Good luck Commander...&quot;</span></span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; ">Screenshots:</span></p>
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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; "><img alt="" height="768" src="/user/158339/members/F4420EF0-1E98-45EB-91B7-309C2C956240/upload/invaded_islands.jpg" width="1024" /></span></p>
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	I will post more info later.</p>
]]></description><link><![CDATA[ http://ronproject.spruz.net/forums/?page=post&id=FE499D86-EA93-48AC-8756-C924579F3D93 ]]></link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:28:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[ http://ronproject.spruz.net/forums/?page=post&id=FE499D86-EA93-48AC-8756-C924579F3D93 ]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to make a CTW]]></title><description><![CDATA[<font style="font-weight: bold;" size="3">This if off of the</font><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="3"> <span class="file-summary">Conquer The World Mod Documentation</span></font><br><br>Step 1. Creating the Map<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In an image editor, ie. Photoshop or Paint, create your map.&nbsp; One clever way to do this in photoshop is to find a map image that you&#8217;d like to use.&nbsp; Make that a transparent layer and then trace it into a new layer.&nbsp; There are a couple important rules about this process.<br>Each territory must have its own unique color.<br>The ocean must be white.<br>Each territory must have a 1 pixel x 1 pixel black dot to indicate where its capital should be.<br>Following these rules is the most difficult part of creating a new map.&nbsp; A single pixel that is even slightly the wrong color will make it unusable.&nbsp; For this reason, I recommend using the simplest of image editors like Paint.&nbsp; If you use a more robust editor like Photoshop, make sure to disable all anti-aliasing.&nbsp; Anti-aliasing will create different shades of your intended color and break the map.<br><br>The map should be wider than it is tall.&nbsp; For best results, create an image that is the same size as the map included with Rise of Nations.&nbsp; ([gamedirectory]/conquest/ctw_world_map_01.png) <br>&nbsp;It must use the .png format.&nbsp; It does not need an alpha channel.&nbsp; Use any filename that you&#8217;d like.<br><br>This image will be used for generating scenarios and for the mouseover highlighting in Conquer the World.&nbsp; <br><br>Step 2. Creating the rendering version<br>Make a copy of the map that you just created.&nbsp; This new image will be used to draw the map on the screen.&nbsp; It can be modified however you&#8217;d like to make an attractive version of the map.&nbsp; Name this file RENDER_[the first image name].png.&nbsp; These images must be the same size.<br><br>Step 3.&nbsp; Importing the map into CtW<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place the colored data map into the conquest directory.&nbsp; Place the rendering map into the conquest/render maps directory.&nbsp; Now start Rise of Nations and navigate to the CtW setup screen.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll notice that the top white box that normally says World Map is now a dropdown menu.&nbsp; Use that menu to select the filename of your new map.&nbsp; If it is not there, then your data map has been placed in the wrong directory.<br><br>Now begin a new campaign.&nbsp; While CtW loads up your new map, it will create an xml file that contains all of its settings.&nbsp; Quit out of Rise of Nations and open it up.&nbsp; It will be in the conquest directory and be named with the same name as your data map.&nbsp; <br>Within the file, each territory has an entry in the COUNTRY table.&nbsp; If there are more COUNTRY entries intended, then you have extra colors in your map image.&nbsp; Each country entry contains information about where in the image it is located with the left, right, top, and bottom attributes.&nbsp; Use these to locate the stray colors and remove them from the image. Then delete the xml file and repeat this step.&nbsp; An additional trick for checking your map beforehand in PhotoShop is to export your image as a .gif.&nbsp; After you do this, PhotoShop will tell you exactly how many colors are in your image.&nbsp; You should have 1 color per country plus black and white. (Thanks to MicroSlave for the tip) <br><br>There will also be a file called [yourfilename]_strings.xml.&nbsp; This file is for localization and does not need to be altered.<br><br><br>Step 4.&nbsp; Placing nations and identifying links<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After all this work, it is finally time for the interesting portion of creating a CtW map.&nbsp; You will want to change the names of each country.&nbsp; Make the &#8220;id&#8221; field the same as the name.&nbsp; The countries are ordered by their positions in the image; left to right then top to bottom.&nbsp; Then you will want to change the owner fields to place the correct nations on the correct territories.&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The LINK data contains information about where you can attack from each country.&nbsp; Links are automatically created for every country that physically touches another.&nbsp; You may add links for countries with water between them.&nbsp; The &#8220;to&#8221; field should contain the &#8220;id&#8221; of the country that can be attacked.&nbsp; Any sea link should have the &#8220;sea&#8221; flag set to 1.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Step 5.&nbsp; Placing Bonus Cards, Rare Resources, Tribute, special graphics<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At this point, use ctw_world_map_01.xml in your conquest directory as a reference.&nbsp; Each territory can specify which bonuses that it contains.&nbsp; Each country can also have a continent identifier.&nbsp; You create the continents by listing them as done in ctw_world_map_01.xml.&nbsp; You can also specify unique art to display when continents are captured.&nbsp; The loading screen background can also be specified in the map xml file.<br><br>Debugging hints:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you change the data .png file, you&#8217;re likely to change the order in which the countries are found when loading the file.&nbsp; If they&#8217;re found in a different order than they&#8217;re listed in the xml file, you might have problems.&nbsp; If you change the image, you should backup the xml file and then delete it and re-export it.&nbsp; Then copy back in your information in the correct order.&nbsp; If you change the rendering image or the data image, be sure to delete the conquest/temp directory to remove any cached versions.&nbsp; Otherwise, your changes might not appear or countries might appear in the wrong locations and break the generated scenarios.<br><br>NEW FOR THRONES AND PATRIOTS<br><br>Step 6.&nbsp; Creating scenarios for your campaign<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first step is to create a scenario in the scenario editor.&nbsp; If you wish, you can also create a script for it.&nbsp; You can even create a setup script that will run before the game is loaded for Conquer the World scenarios.&nbsp; Alternatively, you can just have a script and let Conquer the World generate your map when the scenario is run.&nbsp; Once this is done, using ctw_alexander_map_01.xml in your conquest directory as reference, create a scenario section (conqueststyles), and place your scenario in one of the four categories.&nbsp; Offensive scenarios pop up during attacks against other nations, defensive during defenses, barbarian when attacking barbarian territories, and custom come up by script.&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To create a battle script, use alexander_battles.bhs in the conquest/alexander/ folder as your guide.&nbsp; Use the parameters of the script to find out important information like where you are attacking to or from, or who the opponent is.&nbsp; Next, use the battle variable to set what battle is going to be fought (the id of the scenario you created in your xml file), and battle_info to create advisor text to display when attacking into that scenario.&nbsp; For example, if you wanted the Battle of Bull Run to come up when attacking into Northern Virginia, the script would look something like this:<br><br>if (to == &#8220;Northern Virginia&#8221; ) {<br>&nbsp; battle = &#8220;The Battle of Bull Run&#8221;;<br>&nbsp; battle_info = &#8220;This battle will become a tourist attraction in the near future.&#8221;;<br>}<br><br>To associate your script with your xml file, using ctw_alexander_map_01.xml as a guide, create a battle_script_file attribute in the root, and give it the value of the name and location of your script (for example, .\conquest\CivilWar\civilwar_battles.bhs).<br><br>Step 7.&nbsp; Creating custom tribes<br>If you need a nation that is not in Thrones and Patriots to appear in your campaign, you can rename a nation that is in the game, and change its art set if necessary.&nbsp; Using ctw_alexander_map_01.xml as reference, create a tribes section in your xml file.&nbsp; You will notice in the Alexander xml file that each tribe named in the key element has a file element.&nbsp; This file is what is used to find out the nation, leader and city names, and art set.&nbsp; To use your own file, just change the path and file name in the file element.&nbsp; As a guide, use any of the xml files in your game tribes folder for the different nations.<br><br>Step 8.&nbsp; Limiting the nations that can be played<br>In order to limit the nations that are playable in your campaign, simply create a valid_nation section, as in ctw_alexander_map_01.xml, and list the tribes you wish the player to play.<br><br>Step 9.&nbsp; Creating scripts to be run on the outer map<br>Looking in ctw_alexander_map_01.xml, you will notice that there are more script files than just the battles script.&nbsp; Here is a description of what each of them do:<br><br>post_turn_script_file &#8211; runs at the end of the player&#8217;s turn.&nbsp; Useful for events.<br>diplo_response_script_file &#8211; the script the computer uses to decide whether or not to accept a diplomatic deal, as well as make a counter-offer.<br>diplo_offer_script_file &#8211; the script the computer uses to initiate diplomatic offers.<br>initialization_script_file &#8211; runs at the very beginning of the campaign.<br><br>Some additional script entries can be seen by looking at <br>ctw_cold_war_map_01.xml in your conquest directory.<br><br>links_script_file &#8211; use this script to remove all links from the map and set up your own links.<br>strategy_script_file &#8211; use this script to tell the computer to attack a specific territory.<br>post_ai_script_file &#8211; runs after the computer players have taken their turn.<br><br>Be sure to look at the specified files to see what you can do in these scripts.<br><br>Step 10.&nbsp; Setting up your intro and end game images<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Looking at ctw_alexander_map_01.xml, you can find the following entries for placing in images you have generated.<br><br>intro_image &#8211; The image that is displayed while the campaign is loading.<br>end_game_images &#8211; The images that are displayed upon the end of the campaign.<br><br>If you want to set different intro and end game images for the different tribes, look at the tribes section of ctw_new_world_map_01.xml.<br><br>Step 11.&nbsp; Setting continents<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In order to have continents that give the player a bonus for controlling, you will need to create a continents section in your xml file.&nbsp; Look at ctw_alexander_map_01.xml for reference.&nbsp; You can also set the tribe file for the barbarians of this region here.&nbsp; To have lines show up on the mini-map, use the attribute titled minimap_continents, using one of your own .tga files as the new map.<br><br>Step 12.&nbsp; Bonus Card deck<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Use the bonuscarddeck section, as in ctw_alexander_map_01.xml, to specify the Bonus Cards available for the player to buy.<br><br>Step 13.&nbsp; Setting victory conditions, instructions, more info<br>To set victory conditions, use the victory conditions attribute in ctw_napoleon_map_01.xml as a guide.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To set instructions (the pop up at the beginning of the campaign) and more info text, use ctw_alexander_map_01_info_text.xml as reference. <br><br>Step 14.&nbsp; Crafting a campaign like Napoleon<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Using the ctw_napoleon_map_01.xml file in your conquest directory as reference, here&#8217;s the things that the Napoleon campaign did differently:<br><br>allows_vassals &#8211; will allow vassals if set to 1.<br>no_patriot &#8211; will turn off patriots for the campaign if its set to 1.<br><br>Finally, the colony section will determine whether or not your campaign has colonies.&nbsp; Copy the section from the Napoleon xml file and edit it to have them in your campaign.<br><br>Step 15.&nbsp; Crafting a campaign like the Cold War<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Cold War campaign has a few features different from the other campaigns.&nbsp; If you wish to take advantage of them, here&#8217;s the attributes you will need (as seen in ctw_cold_war_map_01.xml):<br><br>strategic_nukes &#8211; allows nukes on the outer map if it&#8217;s a 1.<br>allow_vassals &#8211; if it&#8217;s a 1, will allow vassals.<br>client_state &#8211; if there are vassals, making this a 1 will make them be called client states instead.<br>free_move &#8211; making this a 1 allows your armies to move anywhere in your territory.<br>territory_income &#8211; if this is 1, it gives you income for your territory strength levels.<br>no_oath_cards &#8211; making this a 1 will disable oath of fealty cards.<br><br>Finally, if you wish to have more modern army pieces, copy the conquestgraphicpieces section to you xml file.<br><br>Useful functions to use in your campaign script files<br>get_territory_owner(String country) &#8211; 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