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    Modification Table of Contents 

    by
    Martin Gühmann
    Published on November 29, 2004 16:26

    Modification Forum
    • CtP2-Creation Discussion on specific MODS, scenarios, AI and general modification * Go


    AI Customization
    • A description of how to use the AI SLIC2 functions available in Call to Power II to customize the behavior of AI players and the mayors that can control human cities. By Activision * Go


    CTP1 Sprites List
    • The sprites for the ctp1 units that are not in ctp2 are still there! Here's the list. * Go


    Scenario Making
    • Apolyton CtP2 Modificiation Section Official Activision documentation on the scenario editor. Lists all buttons and options and briefly explains what they do and how they work. By Activision & Apolyton * Go
    • Modder's Guide to CtP2 A guide compiled by hexagonian from posts on Apolyton made in the first months after CtP2's release. It contains a ton of info on how to do text file editing (editing/adding units/wonders/civs/etc, getting the AI to use new these new things, changing game settings to make the game and AI more challenging, etc) and on how to create scenarios and use the scenario editor. Although advanced topics such as advanced AI modding, SLIC, UI modding, etc are not covered by this guide, it's still the first resource every new modmaker should turn to when learning to mod CtP2. By Hexagonian * Go
    • CtP2 Map Editor Manual There's no clear documentation on how the Scenario Editor of CtP2 works but for beginning scenario makers this can be a confusing tool. That's why Immortal Wombat wrote a brief guide on (the buttons in) the Map Editor, the largest and most complicated part of the Scenario Editor. By Immortal Wombat * Go
    • BMP to CtP2 Tool that can convert BMP maps to CtP2 format so you can use your own maps in CtP2 scenarios without having to manually lay out every single tile in the Ctp2 built-in map editor. This program can be used in combination with the enormous Earth map OmniGod created to auto-generate maps of any part of the world of almost any size. By Harlan & Activision * Go (Program); Go (Map by OmniGod)
    • turnlength.txt Generator This is a tool that lets you automatically generate turnlength.txt files for your scenarios, which saves a lot of repetitive type work. Of course, this does require that there is at least some degree of regularity in your date system. By DDowell * Go
    • Setting Trust & Regard This article explains how one can easily set the diplomatic trust and regard levels between civs at the start of a scenario. By Immortal Wombat * Go


    Graphics, Sprite, and Sound Creation
    • Unit Creation Tools and Documentation Contains official Activision tools and info for the creation of sprites (graphics files for units, cities, trade goods and special effects), as well as a guide and some tools by Harlan to facilitate this process. Originally written for CtP1, but most of it still applies to CtP2 as well. By Harlan & Activision * Go
    • ReadZFSFile A tool which can be used to view and extract graphics and sound files from the ZFS archives. Useful for editing the graphics and sounds in the game. By Martin the Dane * Go
    • CtP TGA Picture Sizes Explains what the picture sizes of various graphics should be and where and how they are used. By Caranorn * Go
    • CtP1 Sprites List Official Activision list of CtP1 Sprites. This is a list of the units sprites that existed in CtP1 and are not in CtP2. To be more specific, the units are not in the game, but Activision left the sprites for use in mods. Note that the naming convention is different: CtP1 sprites are named GUxx.SPR while CtP2 sprites are named GUxxx.SPR. So the CtP1 sprites in the graphics\sprites folder can be used by renaming them. By Activision & Apolyton * Go
    • Civ3 Unit FLC conversion Provides FLC files and explanations on how to convert those to CtP2 format (including the necessary Makespr script files), so Civ3 units can be converted to CtP2 format and used in CtP2 mods and scenarios. Also includes a few already converted and ready-to-use units (Bowman, Swordsman, Archer, Mounted Warrior, Infantry, Cavalry). By E et. al. Go
    • Sounds Some general information on editing/adding sounds. By Martin Gühmann * Go
    • Sprite Edit is the tool that allows you to extract and edit all the graphics that are used to make up the unit, city, good, and special effect graphics. These graphics are bundled in the sprite format. By Martin the Dane * Go


    SLIC2 scripting language
    • SLIC2 is a C-like language that "moves" many things behind CTP2. By Activision * Go


    SLIC2 Events
    • This is a complete listing of SLIC2 events. By Activision * Go


    SLIC2 Function Reference
    • Reference of the SLIC2 Functions. By Activision * Go


    SLIC2 Built-in variable types
    • There is one builtin "variable" and a number of builtin variable arrays available in SLIC2. This document contains a complete reference of the data that can be extracted from these types. By Activision * Go



    Text File Editing
    • Directory Structure & Data Files A list of data files and their definitions that control all aspects in the game, like units, city buildings, terrain improvements, etc. By Activision * Go
    • CTPedit is an extremely powerful text file editing program created by J Bytheway. It allows modmakers to edit many of the various CTP2 data files (advance.txt, etc) through a graphical interface to speed mod development, decrease the chance of errors and help in other ways. The two most noteworthy extra features it offers are (1) a Great Library tool which allows use of templates to quickly generate many GL entries and (2) the ability to quickly make mass changes to entries in a data file. But there are many other features that this program adds that most other text editors don't offer. It's a program that according to John will most likely never leave the Beta stage, but that can in spite of this be an very useful tool for all modmakers. By J Bytheway * Go
    • Flaglist Lists all most of the flags that are available in the game, taken from from the ctp2.exe file. The lists in this file are grouped by the text file for which they are/could/should/might be used or, when that's not applicable, by subject (SLIC function, String, etc). This list may not be complete and for many flags it's not known what they do or if they work, but it's still an extremely useful resource to have when working with the text files. By Martin Gühmann * Go
    • Limits This thread briefly discusses the hard-coded limits of the game (before going off-topic). Useful to know for the beginning modmaker (but probably 'read once, remember forever'). By Locutus * Go
    • Powerpoints This thread explains the Powerpoints attribute from units.txt. By Mr. Ogre et. al * Go


    Terrain MODing
    • TileEdit Program that lets you view, edit and add the graphics contained within the Tile File. Without this, you can't edit the graphics of terrain or tile imps. By Martin the Dane * Go
    • Apolyton Tile File This file is the standard terrain file for modded CtP2. Since the file is rather large and not modswapper-compatible, it's difficult to synchronize the tile files of different mods. This file was created to serve as standard: all modmakers are recommended to keep their mods compatible with this file, and if they want to add their own terrains, they are recommend it to request an update for this standard file with their own terrain included. By Pedrunn and Mortal Wombat * Go
    • Adding Road-like Tile Improvements In this thread Immortal Wombat discussed his findings on the possibilities of adding road-like tile improvements (in this case Highways) to the game. By Immortal Wombat * Go


    * Activision does not provide any support for the map/scenario editor or the documentation that appears on these pages

    CTP1 Sprite List for CTP2 modders 

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    Martin Gühmann
    Published on November 10, 2010 19:19
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    The following is a list of the units sprites that existed in CTP1 and are not now in CTP2. To be more specific, the units are not in the game, but Activision left the sprites for use in mods. Here is the list: ...
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    Call to Power II: Scenario Editor 

    by
    Martin Gühmann
    Published on October 31, 2010 19:17


    This is Call to Power II Scenario Editor Reference. It lists all the four tabs of Scenario editor and describes their functions.

    AI Customization 

    by
    Martin Gühmann
    Published on October 10, 2010 18:42
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    AI Customization

    Following is a description of how to use the AI SLIC functions available in Call to Power II to customize the behavior of AI players and the mayors that can control human cities.


    Getting Started

    You should create a new scenario that will include the modifications you make. Specific directions for creating a new scenario can be found below in Appendix A. Most of the files that you will modify to make AI changes can be found in the default\aidata subdirectory of your scenario. You will also create/modify the scenario.slc file in the default\gamedata subdirectory of your scenario.
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    CTP II map editor manual 

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    Immortal Wombat
    Published on October 2, 2002 13:15
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    BUTTONS IN THE MAP EDITOR


    1. Cut Map Area
    2. Copy Map Area
    3. Paste Map Area

    - These work much like any such cut, copy and paste buttons in painting programs. To use them, you first have to select an area of the map using button 13, see below. Having selected a map region, you can cut it (copies it to the 'clipboard' and replaces with shallow ocean), copy it (copies to the 'clipboard' but remains present also. Once it is on the 'clipboard', you can paste the region by selecting the paste button (#3) and clicking a tile which you wish to become the TOP LEFT tile of the pasted region.

    4. save map ...
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    CTP tga picture sizes 

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    Caranorn
    Published on September 9, 2002 15:47
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    Until today I was convinced there were only 3 sizes for the tga files 160 x 120, 32 x 24 and 24 x 18. But the large pictures used for units appear to be 96 x 72. This might explain some of the bad quality of the pictures in game (if the game has to scale them down). The uniticon.txt obviously uses 4 entries for icons (2 are identical), so I tried to enter a 96 x 72 tga instead of one of the UPUPXXXL.TGA files and it does work. However, I guess this requires additional space for the files, but probably this gives better quality of game icons and possibly even improves speed. ...
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    Setting Trust and Regard in CTP2 scenarios 

    by
    Immortal Wombat
    Published on May 3, 2002 13:51

    Question:
    I would like to do a SCENARIO. where things have already happened you know.
    Are there some place to read about how to define regard,- trust,- startyear,- cost of researches and that kind of stuff?

    Answer:
    The questions you have asked are really two things. You can alter scenarios by changing the text files, and more abstract stuff has to be done by SLIC coding. ...
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