Recruiting other than faction recruits, and something else.

[Sheriff-murder]

I want a "village" to have looters recruit able rather than the recruits of the faction that owns them. Is it doable?

Also, how can i disable a village and still have it visible. I figured out how to stop them from spawning peasants, but they are still being targeted by lords.

 

[bjorne.]

when you mean disable them you mean that you can't enter them right?

if so. Just make a party that you cannot have a dialog with and give them a village map icon...

and yes... I think you should look in the module_scrips.py for changing what you recuit in villages.

 

[Sheriff-murder]

when you mean disable them you mean that you can't enter them right?

Not necessarily, they are inaccessible anyway. I just want the AI to ignore them.

Edit: Oh, and another question. Is it possible to add particle effects to map_icons?

 

[jik]

there are map particle affects (smoke is the most common).  Look in the operations.py file, you will find the operations there.

As to having the AI leave a site alone, they don't go to the training areas...  look at them.  Most likely the village would have to be part of a faction that is completely neutral.

 

[Sheriff-murder]

I can't find the operations.py  This is awkward. 
Do you mean the header_operations.py?

I thought one were to only modify the module_ files.

Edit: Looking at module_scripts, i found how smoke, fire etc was added to raided villages. Any easy way to do it permanently? Is it also possible to position those particles?
I want 8 smoke particles in a radius around a map icon. Can you add more than one effect at different positions at once?

 

[jik]

I personally have not done this, but came across the operations when I was looking at some particle stuff.

The head_operations.py holds all the game coded operations.  It's a good place to look first when trying to do something, but not knowing what tool to use.

 

[Sheriff-murder]

Just figured out adding particles, going to work on positioning and multiplying the effect.
So i got this:      (party_add_particle_system, "p_town_1", "psys_lifestream", pos1, 30),
At the game start script, but the positioning doesn't seem to do anything.

Hmm, does disabled map icons still show particle effects? I could just place invisible map icons there instead and give them particle effects.
Edit: This seems to work well, however i need to lift it above ground, any suggestions?

Also, i couldn't figure out why the training areas are neutral.
It's probably because the assign script ends at villages, but i tried putting them after the training areas and they skill got assigned to a faction.
Edit: Looking at it again, it seems to have worked after all.
I haven't figured out how to make other than the faction recruits being recruited yet either. (For one specific village rather than them all that is)
I also tried adding the recruit volunteers option, but it never appeared in-game.