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**Nevs23** · November 16, 2005, 04:20

Good work!
Just what i missed.

**JDexter** · November 16, 2005, 05:24

Nice mod!

But it won't have any impact on most games I'm afraid, since Ecology is so late (which of course makes sense, earlier most terraforming actions would be too powerfull & illogical).

**rezaf** · November 16, 2005, 09:05

Nice, I was working on something extremely similar, but I have too little gaming time to continue at the time being. I linked to this thread in the last version of my Forestry mod to point people looking for actual terraforming here. Hope you don't mind that.

**tywiggins** · November 16, 2005, 13:57

No. I don't mind. Actually, reading through your forestry mod gave me enough information to get me started on my mod.

**Gramphos** · November 16, 2005, 16:06

You should post this mod to the Directory.

**tywiggins** · November 16, 2005, 16:59

Okay. I uploaded the file, and submitted a link in the civ4 mods directory.

**ghen** · November 16, 2005, 17:00

This could actually be a nice start to creating a post-modern era mod

I like all the details, very nice.

**tywiggins** · November 22, 2005, 01:29

I just released a new version. It fixes a small bug. I also released Terraform Mod Plus. Read the first post for info or to download. You can also download from the directory.

**GeoModder** · November 22, 2005, 09:58

Looks like this could be a good starting point (for terraforming) for the Alpha Centauri mod.

**rogerbacon** · November 22, 2005, 16:55

A suggestion for an improvement.

When you want to convert water to land, instead of going through the tiles in a 1,2,3,4,... order maybe you could change it so that it would select the tile that the mouse is over (if it is within one of the unit's current location).

Is this the code you use to make that particular terraform?

Code:

elif(iImprovement==34):
			pPlot.setImprovementType(-1)
			bdone = 0
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX-1,iY-1)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX,iY-1)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX+1,iY-1)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX-1,iY)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX+1,iY)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX-1,iY+1)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX,iY+1)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)
				pPlot.setTerrainType(CyGlobalContext().getInfoTypeForString("TERRAIN_PLAINS"), true, true)
				bdone = 1
			pPlot = CyMap().plot(iX+1,iY+1)
			if((pPlot.isWater()==1) and (bdone==0)):
				pPlot.setPlotType(PlotTypes.PLOT_LAND, true, true)

I'm totally new to this but it looks like there is some code that can be used to deterime where the mouse is on the map:

Code:

# Shift - ] (Debug - currently mouse-overd unit, health += 10
			elif (self.bAllowCheats and theKey == int(InputTypes.KB_LBRACKET) and self.bShift ):
				unit = CyMap().plot(px, py).getUnit(0)
				if ( not unit.isNone() ):
					d = min( unit.maxHitPoints()-1, unit.getDamage() + 10 )
					unit.setDamage( d, PlayerTypes.NO_PLAYER )

You could use that to determine where the mouse is and then check the X,Y coordinates and if they are both within 1 of the unit's location you could have it transform that particular square instead of going through all 1-9 square in order. It would probably be less code too. Just a suggestion.

Roger Bacon

**tywiggins** · November 22, 2005, 21:49

that is the code for it. It is quite a bit of code but most of it is the same. I just copy/pasted it and then changed the plot coordinates. I would like to be able to pick the square like you say. The second piece of code that you posted really doesn't help.

I know how to get the location of the mouse cursor already. But the problem is, when would you get the mouse location? It would have to be after the worker finished building the improvement. It would have to pop up and ask you to select a tile. I'm not sure how to do this though.

Before I released the mod, I had it so that workboats could make land on their current tile. I took this out because I also wanted to be able to get rid of small lakes which workboats don't have access to.

Maybe I should add this back in so workers and a water unit can turn water into land. But I think that I should create a new unit based on the workboat instead of using the workboat. The cost for the workboat is only 30. Maybe put the cost to 60(same as the worker), make the time to turn water into land the same as it takes for the worker, and then when the water is changed into land, create a new worker on that tile. (Or possibly move the workboat to an adjacent water tile, if there are any, if not then create a new worker)

Maybe I should change the change land into water too, so that the worker doesn't die.

**rogerbacon** · November 22, 2005, 23:15

Originally posted by tywiggins
I know how to get the location of the mouse cursor already. But the problem is, when would you get the mouse location? It would have to be after the worker finished building the improvement. It would have to pop up and ask you to select a tile. I'm not sure how to do this though.

Yeah, I see the problem now. I thought that when the worker was assigned his action that the code would capture the location of the mouse at that moment (right when you pressed ctr-alt-whatever) and then the work would start on that tile.

Maybe you could add code that "moved" the worker to where the mouse was when you give him the order to begin construction by just altering the x,y coordinates of the worker and not using the regular code for movement.

Roger Bacon

**rogerbacon** · November 22, 2005, 23:47

Oh, one more thing while I'm here. You wrote

Code:

razor.initUnit(5, city.plot().getX(), city.plot().getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI)

in your code to create workers when you raze a city. Is the '5' in that code the value for worker? If so, how did you know worker = 5?

Roger Bacon

**tywiggins** · November 22, 2005, 23:51

I don't know how I could trigger that though. The terraforming is triggered by the appropriate improvement being built. Starting to build an improvement is a "non event". Besides, I don't think that land units can survive on water, thats why workers will die when you turn land into water. I didn't make them die, they die automatically

I think that the best way would be for me to add the new "terraform workboat" unit. This will let you pick what water coast tile you want to change into land. And workers can still change water into land

Also I don't know if anyone noticed, but Ocean tiles are automatically turned into Coast tiles whenever they are within 1 tile of a land tile, which makes some sense.

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