capital and city hex graphics

[ANZACMICK9]

gday all, was wondering where the capital and city hex graphics are registered/referenced from. Any ideas would be grand...thx

[Robotron]

Find them in

Commander the Great War\Data\Graphics\hexes

Are you planning on replacing them?

[ANZACMICK9]

hey robotron...love your mod btw...

I know where to find the actual graphics of the cities and capitals, im just wanting to know from where from they are referenced. eg, which file says that hex number x,y is to displayed as a capital.
Or maybe all this is hard coded in the map files?
And yes ive made various little mods that I use alongside your fantastic POTZBLITZ mod. one is a entirely new map made from satellite imagery.

[Robotron]

All "constructions" for any nation - meaning capitals, cities, fortresses and harbors - are defined by the file constructions.lua

Every construction must be given type (capital, city, fortress, harbor), name, coordinates (x,y) and production points (PP).
Harbors must always be named "PORT" and don't get PP assigned.

See here the part for switzerland as an example:

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  switzerland =
  {
    {
      type = "capital",
      name = "BERN",
      hex = {90, 34},
      PP = 9,
    },
	{
      type = "fortress",
      name = "SANKT MAURICE",
      hex = {89, 34},
      PP = 1,
    },
	
	{
      type = "fortress",
      name = "SARGANS",
      hex = {91, 32},
      PP = 0,
    },
  },

You can add new constructions for each nation by sticking to the syntax given above: start each new entry for a construction with a bracket and end it with a bracket followed by a comma.

Harbors must be set to sea hexes.

Also every harbor must be set in a way that it only borders onto a single city or capital or else the game will crash.

Finally you must add the new names of constructions to the language file which is english.txt or else the name of the construction will be blank on the map.

Add new construction names into english.txt onwards from line 400 (in vanilla CTGW) or line 1137 in PotzBlitz.

The first name is the one defined in constructions.lua the second is the one displayed on the map. Keep it simple by using the same name for both.

It should look like this after editing:

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AQABA = AQABA
SARIKAMIS = SARIKAMISH
RUHR = DORTMUND
LARISSA = LARISSA
NEWCITYNAME = NEWCITYNAME
NEWFORTRESSNAME = NEWFORTRESSNAME
NEWCAPITALNAME = NEWCAPITALNAME

etc.

[ANZACMICK9]

thx again for your quick replies...
however I think I am asking the question wrong.....
I do understand the last post unto which you replied regarding the constructions file, but what I am trying to say is, what is- where are the referencing points to say "put capital.png as the icon/graphic for paris / London /etc. .
what im wanting to do is reference each capital / city as its own icon/graphic, not the generic capitol.png or the city.png.
I cannot find these file name references in any of the scripts to say, that is where that graphic goes.
hope this makes better sense... thx for your patience

[Robotron]

Still not clear enough.

Do you want to do individual graphics for A:

map1.jpg (17.69 KiB) Viewed 5053 times

or B:

map2.jpg (19.87 KiB) Viewed 5053 times

I can't help with A, but B could be individualized by going into vanilla's main_hud.lua and editing the checks from 1610 to 1630

For example line 1626 goes like:

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if hex.construction.type == Construction.TYPE_CAPITAL then
      hud:GetImage("terrain_image"):SetImage("graphics/terrain", "terrain_capital.png")
      hud:GetText("terrain_text"):SetLocalText("capital")
end

maybe these could be individualized for example for Paris and Berlin which are at (x/y: 82/30) and (x/y: 101/22) by doing:

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if hex.construction.type == Construction.TYPE_CAPITAL then
      if hex.x == 82 and hex.y == 30 then
      		hud:GetImage("terrain_image"):SetImage("graphics/terrain", "terrain_paris.png")
      		hud:GetText("terrain_text"):SetLocalText("PARIS")
      
      elseif hex.x == 101 and hex.y == 22 then
      		hud:GetImage("terrain_image"):SetImage("graphics/terrain", "terrain_berlin.png")
      		hud:GetText("terrain_text"):SetLocalText("BERLIN")
      
      else
      		hud:GetImage("terrain_image"):SetImage("graphics/terrain", "terrain_capital.png")
      		hud:GetText("terrain_text"):SetLocalText("capital")
      end
end

I've not tested that though.

[ANZACMICK9]

gday mate, again thx for the quick reply.
sorry not clear enough but A is the one I was wanting to try. I fear that may be hard coded if you have no answer... I may try B for shits and giggles to get some individual flavor into the displays.
Seems capital, cities and fortresses may all be hard coded in the map file then?
I was just going to work on some "fluff" on making the game a bit prettier. Ill try to post some pics when done.

[Robotron]

You can move them around as much as you like but you can't individualize the graphics representing them since you can't access the so-called "political map".

For the same reason you cannot change the original owners of hexes and the terrain.

[ANZACMICK9]

no worries.... thx very much for your help