Adding trade goods

[Wave]

What kind of sorcery adding new trade goods to the game requires?

Currently I have:

icon_tradegood_dyes.tga in gfx/mapitems folder where all other tradegood pictures are

dyes = {
	trade_transit_capacity = 1
	local_tax_modifier = 0.1
	color = { 0.1 0.6 0.6 }
}

in common/tradegoods.txt file (effects are just for testing)

and

trade_goods = dyes

line in Phoenicia's province history file.

The game crashes when loading "map properly initialized"

Thanks for the help in advance
- Wave

[Camara]

you also need to have it in the gfx/interface in icon_tradegoods.tga file.

Then in interface in the file mapitems.gfx (open it with notepad) you indicate the mapitems file, but you also need in assets.gfx to sort out which tradegoods are which (icon_tradegoods.tga), in the part

spriteType = {
name = "GFX_tradegoods"
texturefile = "mod\\Magna Terra\\gfx\\interface\\icon_tradegoods.tga"
noOfFrames = 22
norefcount = yes
}

The number of frames indicate how you divide the picture (how many parts), so that if you divide it in 2, then the first part will be considered tradegood 1 and the second will be the icon for tradegood 2 (I think the order you specify in common/tradegoods is here important to sort it this way), so see how you can add the tradegood you want. Try it by trial and error (I don't remember if the original file has "slots", e.g. free space in the picture, so that we can simply change it without messing with its dimension). Do not forget to edit also the alpha channel.

[Wave]

Outch! This sounds a lot more painful than I thought

Anyway thanks a lot, I'll add the missing stuff and see what happens.

What kind of a program I need to modify .gfx files? Do they work like .dds files?

[Camara]

Outch! This sounds a lot more painful than I thought

Anyway thanks a lot, I'll add the missing stuff and see what happens.

What kind of a program I need to modify .gfx files? Do they work like .dds files?

No, gfx files are text files, open them with notepad or something like that

[Wave]

Thanks a lot for help Camara! I got it working and now I guess I can start adding more on my own