Nice one, i should have known this, as in the regular editor you can do the same with objects to move them around, i was using the Position & width parameters to move things around in the dialogs editor, surely this is a faster way.

We already have a Help file ingame that shows up different stuff in different mode's (one for battles, one for battle for europe mode,...)of the game by pressing F1. What i did was changing the text description in the text files and then trough the dialogs editor, i changed the size of the dialogdesk and the canvas of the Ma_F1.dialogsystem.xml to fit for the larger text content in vital.txt, so you get more information on the screen whitout having to scroll to much.

Did you create an entirely new dialogsystem.xml with the dialogdesk, canvas, scrollbars and associated hotkey and txt file #ENTRY ? If so and it didnt show up at all, did you also check the MainMenu.xml which control's the various dialogssystems, in this case the line: dialogs\v\Ma_F1.DialogsSystem.xml
Or do you already have an Ma_F1 file in there (or a similar name, ), but the changed text didnt show up and you got smth like #Battle...blabla in the canvas? If so , you must have made an error in your text description, i had a few of those aswell, but usually due to forgetting to close some colortags and a few more silly errors.

Not sure what you mean with this, but i have my random_map_generator thingie working pretty much as i like it to, except for the online client side which still shows up the old interface, but thats not so much a random_map_thingie but a dialogs_editor_thingy
So what is it that you want to explain me then? The Random_Map_Desc.xml? or any cool findings there?

Thanks for sharing

[E-BEL] Angel

Lolol,

Why didn't you say anything or talk to me on msn, I found this out about a week or two ago. I hope you didnt spent too much time thinking how to solve it ;-)

Have a look where 'I'm at: (iits not the exterrain editor , but its the same color thingy)

I'll check what it is that your file does exactly but pretty sure its smth similar. You say you made it 'loose' the white cover, so did you delete smth? What i did was adding something to get it working?
Anyway, sure there's a couple more things we should talk about.

So just added your file, it seems to overwrite what i did, but, it also shows up the name's of the layers now, which makes more sense, hadn't figured that one out yet, so nice one.

Shot with your file in it:

Also, you don't have RandomMapDesc.xml (or its there but you dont have RndParams editor, right?)
So tried adding it to your game and gave it a test run and it seemed to generate terrain, yet i got a defeat message on starting cause i hadnt set up the starting piece with units from your game. Would be a lot of work but pretty sure you can get it working like in C2.

Also to come back at your first post in this thread, its not just shift +arrowkeys to move stuff around. Try control, and rightclick to change size freely. Or AltGR +arrowkeys to change fast size in one direction.

Sure there's more we can talk about.

Regards

E.A.

Hmm, so indeed there seems to be an issue with copy pasting userpieces. Surely you had a 'UserPieces' folder in your data map. I can copy and name the pieces in your game, but on pasting it doesn't seem to do much. However, it give's me a message with coordinates which we don't have in C2 and it also says smth bout 'loading piece blabla' so surely there must be a way to get it working, cause why would it show a different pop up box on trying to paste. They clearly changed smth to it, either its unfinished or smth. It also doesnt create a shortcut to the userpiece in the folder as it does in C2. Evidently at least one userpiece is needed to get started off. Perhaps import a worker(peasant) into C2, create a userpiece, then transfer it, set up the random params in C2, transfer the file's, add an interface for it to skirmish and see what that gives?

Thanks for pointing my eyes in the direction of the shaders folder, it seems to hold a lot of xml's for various things like the hud (minimap?) etc, should have a proper look in that folder aswell.

Yes I know you can 'add' actions in the dialogs editor, how you think i'v done my new interface and added my random map params in skirmish, added a button for editor etc...or, did you mean 'create' action, the second part in simple papa? If so, haven't tried much with that actually, except one or 2 times where i saw it automatically added multiple actions depending on the choosen preset.

Well guess I'll catch you on msn later.

Regards

E.A.