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[Fire_and_Blood]

Oh, that explains a lot. Thanks.

party_detach seems to have 0 radius.

As a workaround, I've tried the following: Making a detached unit spawn around itself with a radius of 1. However, the unit still spawns with 0 radius.
          (party_detach, ":lord_led_party"),
  (party_relocate_near_party, ":lord_led_party", ":lord_led_party", 1),

Do I need to make the unit spawn around another party for party_relocate_near_party to work?

 

[Lav]

Does anybody know how to create sceneprops that only appear (or change their appearance) during sieges?
I allready searched for the entries of siegeladders, belfrys and such, but couldn't find anything.

"script_remove_siege_objects"

 

[MadocComadrin]

To elaborate on Lav's answer, that script is called in the ti_before_mission_start trigger of non-siege mission templates. You can replace and remove prop types (and instances?) in this trigger. Another solution is to move certain props underground if you don't want to use that trigger.

 

[Life_Erikson]

Thanks!

 

[Marko͘]

Does merely raising the party template reinforcements(by like +10 on recruits) and increasing leadership, charisma on lords effectively increase a mod's overall party sizes? Or should I also alter fief wealth or something?

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Does merely raising the party template reinforcements(by like +10 on recruits) and increasing leadership, charisma on lords effectively increase a mod's overall party sizes? Or should I also alter fief wealth or something?

party templates work up to an extent, but there's another code somewhere which determines the "ideal party size" for each faction. It's either in module_scripts or simple_triggers.
Over the long term you might want to increase the wealth of lords (again, can't quite remember where this is) in proportion to your army size increases so that the fruit fly lords don't appear immediately.
Leadership and charisma don't really seem to have much of an effect, much like a lot of other party skills. They play a part in morale, i believe.

 

[HyperCharge]

im making a religion system for my mod.When in game start,all of factions will select their religion.But,i wanna to add some advantages to religions.for example;

im added "religion_islam    = 160".

How can i assign some special features to that constant ?

like;

Islam is giving more power and making alliances.

Christianity is giving more soldier and troop limit.

vs.vs.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Find the script/trigfer/module template that does what you want, and then add a try_block check for slot_faction_religion (or whatever your slot is called) and change whatever's needed. There are thousands of things you can do to a faction including what you mentioned above, so i can't help you in general unless you're specific.

 

[The_dragon]

Can anyone explain what ranks field of a faction do? What should be there? How it is used?

#  Each faction record contains the following fields:
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#  6) Ranks

 

[Lav]

Can anyone explain what ranks field of a faction do? What should be there? How it is used?

#  Each faction record contains the following fields:
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#  6) Ranks

I suspect that it's an artifact of a deprecated or unimplemented feature. I have yet to see ranks being used anywhere, and there are no operations or flags that deal with them either.

 

[abdoul]

Is there a way of editing an existing mod with the module system just for personal use?

 

[Taragoth]

Is there a way of editing an existing mod with the module system just for personal use?

As long as you have the module system sure can.. You can always ask a dev if they have it available also

 

[Somebody]

Can anyone explain what ranks field of a faction do? What should be there? How it is used?

#  Each faction record contains the following fields:
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#  6) Ranks

I suspect that it's an artifact of a deprecated or unimplemented feature. I have yet to see ranks being used anywhere, and there are no operations or flags that deal with them either.

That's a totally vestigial feature from 0.7xx - you could earn faction reputation from quest and earn stipends from being a retainer.

 

[Fire_and_Blood]

When using (party_relocate_near_party, ":village_xy", ":target_center", 2), is there an easy way to prevent the village from spawning on top of already existing parties?

My only idea so far was to run a distance check for all parties and relocate, if :min_distance is less than 2. And keep trying random positions, until there is no other party nearby.

 

[Dusk Voyager]

There'll always be that risk no matter what you do, but it's much better to relocate parties with small (or no) icons near others, so you might want to make the village invisible in module_parties, only having it appear with the village icon when there are no moving parties too close (at the distance of 1 or even nearer).

 

[Garedyr]

Can I change the ammo for one item? For example- one pistol in game will be use bolts as ammo. Is It possible?

 

[Lord of Shadows]

Can someone tell me what does this file do? I've seen it in some mods but I don't know what it does.

 

[Fire_and_Blood]

That file is not related to any mod and does serve no purpose other than store thumb nail previews of images. It's a file created by windows. If it is inside one of the mods you downloaded, the mod creator was too lazy to remove it

 

[Lord of Shadows]

That file is not related to any mod and does serve no purpose other than store thumb nail previews of images. It's a file created by windows. If it is inside one of the mods you downloaded, the mod creator was too lazy to remove it

Ah, ok then. Thanks.

 

[Fire_and_Blood]

When I'm getting rid of the constants villages_begin, villages_end, castles_begin, castles_end, towns_begin, towns_end and instead replace them with slots, there is a problem with this:

(store_random_in_range, ":variable", ":lower_limit", ":upper_limit"),

Is there a way to use the (store_random...) function, when the lower and upper limits are not defined? Or instead, not everything between the lower and upper limit shall be included?

The problem with using:
(store_random_in_range, ":variable", ":lower_limit", ":upper_limit"),
(neg|party_slot_eq, ":variable", slot_party_type, spt_town),                    #to not include towns

is, that it doesn't retry, if spt_town is true for the variable