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Re: Various Questions[message #365955 is a reply to message #365953] Sun, 17 March 2024 17:20 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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A: SAM see SamSites.xml

Quote from comment in there

samIndex 1, 2, 3 hardcoded for 'Meanwhile' scene and will trigger retaliatory enemy attack on sam site
So name doesn't realy matter, wherever your new SAM-sites are on your new map, the deciding factor for cutscenes is the index in SamSites.xml

B:

Starting Sector see modsettings.ini

A great source for research how things are done are other mods, i.e mods like TypeO or DSM/KSM do have different starting sectors, might be worth to take a look into their files for research

C:

In TableData/Army are relevant xml for that

army composition for percentage of what class and overall desired amount

and those compositions then are used in garrisonGroups.xml

for patrolGroups.xml, numbers are set there (but see comment about other relevant settings)

in ja2options.ini are also settings about max enmies at tactical and stratetic

and difficultySettings.xml plays in that as well, i.e. based on difficulty the percentage of initial garrison troops will differ, etc

also, for patrol movement, you have take MoVementCosts.xml into account as well

when you set waypoints in patrols.xml, check wether they actually can take this way in Movement.xml (is the area traversable at all, is it maybe any reachable from a certain direction, etc)

for populating underground levels (basements, etc), that's in initunderground.lua

D:

The Mine1-3 sti serve as stratetic map for underground levels of mines, when we entered a mine and revealed all sectors in there (have been there once), it will be shown if we look at it in stratetic map view (top level groundlevel, view can be switched at UI to level 1-3 of underground)

those sti basically only show outlines of the mines

so, if your underground of mines is not all default location (sector), you'd need to change those sti as well to match what we see with what is there

E:

I think the nest-sector is needed for the related quest to be functional

if they shouldn't come to cities, that's a setting in ja2options.ini, iirc

you could edit those caches into existing creature sectors (i.e., add a few crates with goodies in there with mapeditor)
and it's probably also possible to add more creature sectors, but as I understand, those are allways underground

not sure what happens when you just add creatures into map with mapeditor, maybe that would work, but since they are creatures they are allways hostile towards anyone (enemy, civilian, player), if they see some, they'll try to attack

a vague idea is maybe that you could create a new civ-group, only use creatures for that one and use the behaviour tags in civgroups.xml, but yeah, just an idea, never tried that

E:

In movementcost.xml, define the unreachable border sectors as such, that's probably the easiest way
no one can go there, so likely no placement needed, but better check existing unreachable border sectors in standard 1.13 first to see how it's done in there

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