Edit map description and others questions

[Arwy]

Hi !

This is my first message, and Im not a english native speaker, so I hope it will be ok.


1/
I am trying to designing a nice map for my friends and I to play together in FFA.
I wish everyone to have its own faction.

For example, player 3 have to play rebels, and player 4 undead.

Do I have to learn how to build a scenario, or is it possible to do this in the map setting.

2/

I would like to edit the map description (where the autor can write some important information about the map for users).
But I don't know where to do it.

Thank you all for your help.

[DeCoolest_Cat]

Welcome to the forums!

You can create your map in the map editor, or you can use one of the multiplayer maps that come with the game. If you wish to create your own map, you can add the starting player locations to where you want them to spawn. To play the map, set up a multiplayer game, and go to "user maps". You will find your map there, assuming you saved it in that folder.

To make each player have their own faction, you can just set that up in the game lobby. If you want your friends to play a certain faction, you can use the honor system, or you would have to set up a scenario in a .cfg file. I hope this helps, and tell me if you need anything else.

Here are some useful links to help you with this. You can download some add-ons and see how they created scenarios.
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/BuildingMaps
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/BuildingScenarios
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/MultiplayerContent

If you want everyone to be able to use your map, use this link to help
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Distributing_content

[Arwy]

Thanks for this quick reply !

My map is actually finished.
I am testing it right now (players=computers playing while I am reading this forum :p ) for balance.

If I understand well, I have to make it into a scenario. :/

As soon as this map is ready and fully tested, I will share it with the community as a scenario, for sure

[Arwy]

Hello again.

I have another issue and cant find the solution in the help menu.

I just want to display messages during a multiplayer scenario.

My event works, but no message are showing.

Here is one of my event :

Spoiler:

[event]

name=start

[message]
speaker=Mage of Light
message= _ "La campagne est étrangement calme alors que les négociations entre les trois grandes factions piètinent. La tension monte, et chacun appelle ses hommes à lui"
[/message]

[message]
speaker=Eol
message= _ "L'elfe ! Tu pues !"
[/message]

[message]
speaker=Arwen
message= _ "..."
[/message]

[/event]

Thank you if you can help me

[fmac81]

Just a clarifying question, do you have units with the id's of "Mage of Light", "Eol" and "Arwen" in your scenario? You would need to have their ids set for them to trigger your messages. Something like:

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[side]
     side=1
     controller=human
     type= *whatever type you want the players leader to be*
     id=*set a unit id here*
     generate_name=yes
     canrecruit=yes
     recruit= *you can put in your list of recruits here, or just leave blank for it to be a faction based list*

followed by:
     {NAMED_LOYAL_UNIT 1 "Elvish Avenger" 13 13  (Arwen) (  _ "Arwen")} (etc etc. for the other named units you would like)
[/side]
you would place your [message] codes in an [event], which it looks like  you have already made.

There are several premade macros listed in unit-utils.cfg in the core library that may be useful.

The [message] code refers to a units ID. If you don't want to hard code actual units to place on the map, the other method of doing it would be:

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[message]
      speaker=narrator
      caption=_"Arwen"
      image="portraits/elves/transparent/marksman+female.png"
     message="*message here*"
[/message]

This makes a message from the "narrator" pop up, as though an elf unit named "Arwen" exists. I think it may be what your are trying to do.
See https://wiki.wesnoth.org/InterfaceActio ... message.5D for more details about that macro.

Hope this helps!

fmac81