How to make custom terrains available in the map editor

[Peter the Great]

I still don't know what @ means.

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EDIT: O you meant like that?

[Max]

if you're looking for details about @:
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[A Guy]

So that means, I could now, theoretically create a cave terrain that consists of a crack with smoke coming out of it, and call it "Smoking Crack," then make it available in the map editor... Now I'm definitely getting 1.5.

Am I the only one that found this funny?

[AI]

The wiki knows.

[Ken_Oh]

Thanks guys. Hope I didn't give my newbness away too much.

[opensourcejunkie]

So that means, I could now, theoretically create a cave terrain that consists of a crack with smoke coming out of it, and call it "Smoking Crack," then make it available in the map editor... Now I'm definitely getting 1.5.

Am I the only one that found this funny?

Wait - that was a joke? And here I was already digging out my bong... ;-)

[Gedankenschinder]

Does someone knows this:

I just added some new terrain types to the editor. All this works in the editor, but when I try to load one of the maps in which i used the new terrain types, I get the error message "Illegal Character found in map. The sceanrio cannot be loaded."

I allready had this problem when I tried to use a terrain type from the UtbS-campaign...

[opensourcejunkie]

yeah - basically, the problem (I think) is that the editor now recognizes the custom terrain, but the game does not. How are you loading the map? Are you editing a scenario file yourself? 'cause if you are, you can include the code for the terrain into the scenario file (before the [scenario] tag, mind you :-), which should clue the game in to the new terrain.

[Cernunnos]

talking for 1.4 so maybe i'm out of subject,

for a terrain to be available in the editor:

in terrain.cfg :

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[terrain]
    symbol_image=my_path/my_tile
    id=my_id
    name= _ "My_name"
    string=Ua
    editor_group=the_one_i_want
[/terrain]

(with string, id, name... different than existing tiles)
+ in _final.cfg :

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{TERRAIN_BASE       Ua                  my_path/my_tile}

bonus :

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{TERRAIN_BASE_PROB  Ua                  my_path/my_variation		       20}

excuse me if it's not about the subject.
edit: with this method, the tile is also available in game

[Tet]

Well I put my custom terrain directly in terrain and terrain-graphics and it works very well in 1.6.5
I did not want to do that. At first I put extra file in the same core directory. It did not work.
It is not the official solution, but it works even if you are not a programmer.
Make a full copy of wesnoth and keep one unaltered version ready.

[Eleazar]

Added some further info to zookeeper's first post.

[rubberduck]

Somthing about typical mistakes you can make when adding terrain would be helpful.
Also an easy-to-find wiki page about coding graphics with a link to some helpful pages.

for me these pages and files are very helpful
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/TerrainCodesWML

http://wiki.wesnoth.org/TerrainCodeTableWML
(when i want to know the aliasof of a special terrain-type, then i can go to terrain-graphics.cfg and check this file for this aliasof to know how this terrain works)

also a link to the original graphics-files and to terrain.cfg and terrain-graphics.cfg would be helpful


it should declare, what the most used code-segments in terrain-graphics.cfg are used to.

at the moment i have a problem with adding overlays:
i tried everything to solve this, but nothing works
see here: http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=39558
there could be something about possible reasons for such problems