provence.csv file - knowledgable modders help

[mikwarleo]

Hi All,

I've all but finished a 'best-of' compendium of provence pictures compiled from 5 different packages including: GIP, HSR, Major Citys, Turnerbenton's and DMP v13. I reviewed the pictures of each and compared like images choosing those that I thought the best creating one monster provence pics pack with the best images I could find anywhere... Hopefully people will dig it.

Issue is the provence.csv file. Sadly I don't know the first thing about this little puppy and what is required to release this fine collection. I've been told:

in order to be able to have a province have a picture you need to change the terrain to urban.... which then changes the combat modifiers for that province and the AI tends to guard urban areas......

I don't want to mess with the AI or anything else for the sake of displaying a few pretty pictures. Would be good to have a simple plug and go solution with no impact on the rest of the game; is that possible?

Happy to do the work myself if I can find the information on what's required. Better yet would be to collaborate on this compendium with someone who's already an expert in the area. For example: they do provence.csv file and take appropriate credit or whatever, I'm flexible, just want to see this out there and working sweet.

Cheers.

 

[HistoryMan]

In order for a Province to display a Unique picture (as opposed to whatever nice picture you have for Forest or Mountain, say), then it must be Urban terrain. This will affect the AI's behaviour and the combat, unless you spent a long time eliminating the effects of Urban terrain from all the various files.

So, I am not sure that you can achieve your aim quite so easily.

If you want to change those lines in province.csv, just find the relevant line, and change where it says "Forest", or "Mountain" or "Plains" (etc) to "Urban".

Tim

 

[mikwarleo]

Thanks Tim,
Sounds like a waste of time then. Decent AI is more important.

However, do you know what mods like this:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229823

have done in regard to this issue?

Have the messed up the AI?

Thanks

 

[Jamie550]

Thanks Tim,
Sounds like a waste of time then. Decent AI is more important.

However, do you know what mods like this:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229823

have done in regard to this issue?

Have the messed up the AI?

Thanks

Well, since those provinces were already urban before, it probably did not mess up the AI in any way.

 

[mikwarleo]

'those provences' - are you sure... there's literally several hundred pics in those packages, I doubt there's more than one hundred urban provences in the game?!