taking a colony

[paka35]

Hey all i see with the latest release of the new mod pack that the fort landing bug was fixed, which is great!!!.
But a smalll question...... does the colony ever surrender to you?. Thanks
Paka

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You can't capture colonies. Not yet anyway. One day, it will be modded in. If there is someone who wants to mod it. It IS possible.

 

[paka35]

How would one go about making a mod for it ? I have the tools and time but dont know the language as yet <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

 

[konradk]

First, you should learn basics of C or C++. Then, examine files in PROGRAM subfolder and test a bit until you can understand a whole thing. Finally, you'll be able to create mods.

Theoretically, I'd want to do that but I have very much work with other mods. I'm sure that someone finally will do that before me.

Happy modding.

pirate_kk

 

[paka35]

Which file file would represent a overview on how C Works... I did do some character dialog creation a while back but had limited luck with it.

 

[konradk]

I'd seriously recomend you to start from learning C basics - use some good book or at least tutorial to get started. After, read some PotC Wiki pages and PA! course on C available somewhere in PotC Modding thread. Then, examine files in PROGRAM folder to find out some differences between regular C and script used in there.

Dialogs are in PROGRAM\DIALOGS: every file corresponds to each character. In each *.c file there's proper "behaviour" or actions performed depending on which answer player would choose. In PROGRAM\DIALOGS\English and PROGRAM\DIALOGS\Russian the string tables are defined with texts spoken by a given character, as well as player, in english and russian, respectively. Note, that those dialog files are assigned to each character by code in files from PROGRAM\CHARACTERS\init directory.

pirate_kk

 

[SwaggeringGit]

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I'd seriously recomend you to start from learning C basics - use some good book or at least tutorial to get started. After, read some PotC Wiki pages and PA! course on C available somewhere in PotC Modding thread. Then, examine files in PROGRAM folder to find out some differences between regular C and script used in there.

pirate_kk
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Can you recommend a good readily available place where the very basics of c code might be?

 

[konradk]

I learned C couple of years ago, from books (i.e. Kerninghan & Ritchie, "ANSI C"; I know a very good book but it's only in Polish, I think). My knowledge about basic C tutorials are outdated - I can little help here.

You can always use some WWW browser and type "C tutorial" or something like that. Maybe that would give you some informations.

pirate_kk