Some modding questions

[FOARP]

1) My mod is running a little slow (although, it has to be said, my computer is not exactly the fastest), would I be right in thinking that increasing the offset for events will make it a bit faster as the game won't have to check the triggers so often?

2) I've created some events using Notepad ++, however, if I open the events folder with the old notepad the events appear to lack spacing between lines/justification etc. These events will still fire properly won't they? Is there a way of making them readable both with Notepad ++ and the old notepad?

3) I'm having a bit of difficulty getting Italy to garrison East Africa. Even if I mod the ai folder to garrison the border with ENG (i.e., ENG = 100 in the country_priorities section of the ai file), removed the East African provinces from the 'ignore = ...' section, and set province 1046 (i.e., Addis Ababa in the E3 mod) as 100 in the province_priorities section of the garrison section of the ai file, East Africa is totally deserted (not one division) by the time war is declared. I've also made similar changes in all the switch files.

Is there a way of fixing this? Italy should at least put a few divisions in East Africa, even if they do get destroyed pretty quickly. Plus it would be good to know how to make the ai actually garrison a section of the map.

 

[Amallric]

1 you wont feel the difference

2 dunno what system notepad++ is using but the events should work

3 maybe look where the units are going and why. also tou may look on the core mod files, they managed to get the result you want.

 

[FOARP]

Cheers for the advice. I think that Notepad++ is causing some problems though. In Notepad++ the events I write start out looking like this:

But in notepad they look like this:

And when I try to load the scenario with the events I get an error message for an unknown LHS "event = {" with a high line number.

Since I know that Notepad++ is used by a lot of the people who write these mods I presume there must be some way round this, but what is it?

Edit: is the answer just double-spacing each line?

 

[Czarina Julie]

The reason why is probably due to the length of each row. Notepad can only take a length of 1025 characters (regardless if it has Word Wrap off) and Notepad++ (well I don't know exactly) can do more than 65640 characters (this is where I stop testing).

2) I've created some events using Notepad ++, however, if I open the events folder with the old notepad the events appear to lack spacing between lines/justification etc. These events will still fire properly won't they? Is there a way of making them readable both with Notepad ++ and the old notepad?

No need to worry. Code is code. The formatting isn't any concern since I could write a whole application with it's code on one line (through it would be a pain) and it would work.

If you want post the Two_Fronts.txt here and I'll look at it during lunch. But as I said, the code will work regardless (But I'm curious now).

 

[Amallric]

mm looking at his screen I'd say the problem is with end of line characters and not formatting, and i'm pretty sure the game engine is not completely unsensitive to those.

 

[Czarina Julie]

I'm not sure how they are loading the game. If they're using a stream then parsing, line by line then parsing, or something else. So EOL might not make a difference. When I parse the file(s) I stream it all in then parse it by sections (not relying on EOL). The \r\n is a return then new line command. If Notepad++ has a \r\n beginning at character 1050 then Notepad (having a line length of only 1025) would do wrap the line at 1025 then do the carriage return.

I'm willing to look at the Two_Font.txt to see what it is. I'm curious to see.

 

[FOARP]

@Julie - I'm afraid the file's a bit too big to PM (460,000+ characters). Although the problem appears to have been introduced by the events made using Notepad++ (i.e., the final ten events) the error message points to a line somewhere in the middle of the file - although this does not seem to have anything wrong with it - the line is a commented-out title. Do you have an email address I can send it to?

 

[Czarina Julie]

Sure do, just create it. Ensure you zip it up

"julesbuyonline-forum001@yahoo.com" (it's good for a day then goes away...remove the "...didn't want the hyperlink to be use for spam)

 

[Autolykos]

What character encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, ...) does Notepad++ use? I don't know about AoD specifically, but some games (like Rome: Total War) are quite picky with this.

 

[Czarina Julie]

I use ANSI and haven't had any issues. Another trick is to use Notepad++ and select C, C#, or C++ so that it formats the script(s).

FOARP, I'm downloading your file/scenario now (51.6 MB) and will look at it at lunch (GMT -8) today.