Diplomacy Screen: Can it be modded?

[DrJohnSmith]

I'm thinking of expanding on the powers of an Emperor with higher crown authority, who has a good relationship with his kings, to allow for manipulation of kingdoms. I'll want to add the ability to request vassals at the cost of a -20 hit, the ability to suggest bishops to succeed others for empires (and kingdoms) with free investiture, the ability to suggest law changes and... the list goes on.

This could only be done by the diplomacy screen - events and intrigue could handle it for smaller empires, but it would be soooo messy. So what do you think, forums? Can it be done?

 

[RedRooster81]

Well, Doc, I think that you could rig up events to cover most of that. But the diplo screen itself and what the buttons do is hardcoded AFAIK.

 

[EOOQE]

Well, Doc, I think that you could rig up events to cover most of that. But the diplo screen itself and what the buttons do is hardcoded AFAIK.

Nope, not Hardcoded . you can edit every .dds file like you want and the domestic_diplomacy.gui for the diplo screen ...lot of work , but it can be done.
I did something like this to the Council Screen .. more Council´s etc ...same thing

 

[DrJohnSmith]

Hey EOOQE, I saw what you did with the council screen so I'll look to that for more help. Thanks for the tip. Any restrictions at all?

Edit: There might be a slight difference here. In common you have job_actions and job_titles for the council screen. To the best of my knowledge, no such files exist for the diplomacy screen, so how would I add actions?

 

[EOOQE]

Hey EOOQE, I saw what you did with the council screen so I'll look to that for more help. Thanks for the tip. Any restrictions at all?

We are doing an major overhaul of the GUI for CK2 ATM for our upcoming Mod. So on the GFX Side the limit is endless i would say.

Edit: There might be a slight difference here. In common you have job_actions and job_titles for the council screen. To the best of my knowledge, no such files exist for the diplomacy screen, so how would I add actions?

I saw something like this on our "work in progress" . I will check the files later what my co-modders have done so far to it ... i come back to you then

 

[RedRooster81]

Nope, not Hardcoded . you can edit every .dds file like you want and the domestic_diplomacy.gui for the diplo screen ...lot of work , but it can be done.
I did something like this to the Council Screen .. more Council´s etc ...same thing

I've spent some time with the interface files. I know the dds files are moddable, but I was not aware that you could create buttons to do new things on that screen.

I have to say that I was impressed by what has been shown to be possible with the council screen. As an aside, have you been able to add new council positions, like say 'Chamberlain' or whatever you like.

I look forward to seeing what you and your teammates will be able to accomplish.

 

[EOOQE]

I've spent some time with the interface files. I know the dds files are moddable, but I was not aware that you could create buttons to do new things on that screen.

I have to say that I was impressed by what has been shown to be possible with the council screen. As an aside, have you been able to add new council positions, like say 'Chamberlain' or whatever you like.

I look forward to seeing what you and your teammates will be able to accomplish.

Thanks And Yes , a new council Position is possible and it works so far. I´m now doing the new jobs and all the needed things to work correct ... will come back tomorrow with some screen i think

 

[Fargham]

There is a .gfx and a .gui file for most of these items. gfx helps connect the dots between the dds 'pictures' and the variables in game that are used to 'call' the pictures. The gui file helps define size and location of boxes and ect on the screen. e.g where, how big, what type of font, ect.

I just went through and tore the 'standard events' popup apart (making it bigger so I did not have to deal with 400 x 150 event pictures) as I am a terrible artist and most creative commons art is 800 x 600, and converting that to 450 x 150 just makes it all look terrible. Though, most of the items in the events popups are dynamic, but highly limited... I am curious now how the diplomacy files look, as those I would expect to have a A LOT of variation to them, but yet still call specific functions that are hidden away somewhere. The events are easy to find...

 

[DrJohnSmith]

You can see some of the functions in on_actions, Fargham. They're usually commented, which is useful as they seem to be hardcoded. So if the functions for the default actions in the diplomacy screen are hardcoded, as is their link to the gui, then I think it might not be possible at the moment. Just waiting to see if EOOQE's team has gotten any progress on the issue at this point.