Ready made fortress on game start - can I get some further clarification?

[LordStark]

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Then you can use the skirmish replacer feature of the game. Basically skirmish entities are entities that get replaced by that of the current civilisation when the game starts. This is how for example iberians start with walls. Skirmish walls are placed all around civ centers and only iberians have a matching building. The rest get nothing instead.

Can I get some advice regarding implementing this feature?

If I understand this correctly, I need to open up the scenario editor and then load every map in the entire game one-by-one and build a wall/fortress around every single starting location. So that means for an 8 player map, I would need to do 8 fortresses and then save the map and open up the next one.

For the wall, I would need to make a new wall called "special_anglo_wall" by simply copying and pasting the wall files for the Anglo side of Millennium AD and insert the line   <SkirmishReplacer/> in each file. Is that correct?

[Stan`]

2 minutes ago, LordStark said:

If I understand this correctly, I need to open up the scenario editor and then load every map in the entire game one-by-one and build a wall/fortress around every single starting location. So that means for an 8 player map, I would need to do 8 fortresses and then save the map and open up the next one.

That's correct. Luckily for you, we already did this for a few maps, because of the iberian walls.

The lines you are interested in are 75-79 of the following file https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/data/civs/iber.json#L76
 

4 minutes ago, LordStark said:

For the wall, I would need to make a new wall called "special_anglo_wall" by simply copying and pasting the wall files for the Anglo side of Millennium AD and insert the line   <SkirmishReplacer/> in each file. Is that correct?

That is incorrect. You just need to edit the civ.json file.

[LordStark]

Thanks for your reply, I edited the anglo.json file. However, it did not work:

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    "SkirmishReplacements": {
        "skirmish/structures/default_house_5": "structures/{civ}/house",
        "skirmish/units/default_cavalry": "units/{civ}/cavalry_spearman_b",
        "skirmish/units/default_infantry_ranged_b": "units/anglo/infantry_javelineer_b"
            "skirmish/structures/wall_short": "structures/iber/wall_short",
          "skirmish/structures/wall_medium": "structures/iber/wall_medium",
          "skirmish/structures/wall_long": "structures/iber/wall_long",
          "skirmish/structures/wall_gate": "structures/iber/wall_gate",
          "skirmish/structures/wall_tower": "structures/iber/wall_tower"

The green words are the  only change I made (after copy and pasting the lines fromthe Iber.json file. 

[Stan`]

30 minutes ago, LordStark said:

The green words are the  only change I made (after copy and pasting the lines fromthe Iber.json file. 

You changed the wrong ones

Left are the keys, right are the values.

[LordStark]

I tried again and got this error:

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ERROR: JavaScript error: globalscripts/Templates.js line 17 JSON.parse: expected ',' or '}' after property value in object at line 108 column 3 of the JSON data loadCivFiles@globalscripts/Templates.js:17:21 loadCivData@gui/common/functions_utility.js:37:28 @gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:13:30 onPress@gui/pregame/MainMenuItems.js:90:13 performButtonAction@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:77:9 pressButton@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:63:10

ERROR: Failed to parse 'simulation/data/civs/anglo.json'

ERROR: JavaScript error: globalscripts/Templates.js line 20 data is undefined loadCivFiles@globalscripts/Templates.js:20:8 loadCivData@gui/common/functions_utility.js:37:28 @gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:13:30 onPress@gui/pregame/MainMenuItems.js:90:13 performButtonAction@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:77:9 pressButton@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:63:10

ERROR: JavaScript error: gui/gamesetup/Pages/GameSetupPage/GameSettings/Single/Sliders/RelicCount.js line 51 can't access lexical declaration 'g_CivData' before initialization @gui/gamesetup/Pages/GameSetupPage/GameSettings/Single/Sliders/RelicCount.js:51:1 onPress@gui/pregame/MainMenuItems.js:90:13 performButtonAction@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:77:9 pressButton@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:63:10

ERROR: JavaScript error: globalscripts/Templates.js line 17 JSON.parse: expected ',' or '}' after property value in object at line 108 column 3 of the JSON data loadCivFiles@globalscripts/Templates.js:17:21 loadCivData@gui/common/functions_utility.js:37:28 init@gui/gamesettings/GameSettings.js:24:13 SetupWindow@gui/gamesetup/SetupWindow.js:29:39 init@gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:47:18 onPress@gui/pregame/MainMenuItems.js:90:13 performButtonAction@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:77:9 pressButton@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:63:10

ERROR: Failed to parse 'simulation/data/civs/anglo.json'

ERROR: JavaScript error: globalscripts/Templates.js line 20 data is undefined loadCivFiles@globalscripts/Templates.js:20:8 loadCivData@gui/common/functions_utility.js:37:28 init@gui/gamesettings/GameSettings.js:24:13 SetupWindow@gui/gamesetup/SetupWindow.js:29:39 init@gui/gamesetup/gamesetup.js:47:18 onPress@gui/pregame/MainMenuItems.js:90:13 performButtonAction@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:77:9 pressButton@gui/pregame/MainMenuItemHandler.js:63:10

ERROR: GUI page 'page_gamesetup.xml': Failed to call init() function

And here is the code:

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    ],
    "SkirmishReplacements": {
        "skirmish/structures/default_house_5": "structures/{civ}/house",
        "skirmish/units/default_cavalry": "units/{civ}/cavalry_spearman_b",
        "skirmish/units/default_infantry_ranged_b": "units/anglo/infantry_javelineer_b"
        "skirmish/structures/iber_wall_short": "structures/anglo/wall_short",
        "skirmish/structures/iber_wall_medium": "structures/anglo/wall_medium",
        "skirmish/structures/iber_wall_long": "structures/anglo/wall_long",
        "skirmish/structures/iber_wall_gate": "structures/anglo/wall_gate",
        "skirmish/structures/iber_wall_tower": "structures/anglo/wall_tower"

    },

 

[Freagarach]

42 minutes ago, LordStark said:

expected ',' or '}' after property value

42 minutes ago, LordStark said:

"units/anglo/infantry_javelineer_b"