How to make Terraforming tile speciffic?

[DutchGamer]

I tried to make the game terraform only certain tiles into other types and to exclude others

Like this :

dead-> tundra -> desert -> plains -> grass
dead -> tundra -> swamp -> jungle -> forest
dead -> glacier -> white hill -> brown hill -> hill
dead -> glacier -> white mountain -> brown mountain -> mountain

To this end I changed some .txt files in the folder

C:/program files/activision/Call to Power 2/CtP2_Data/Default/Gamedata

I tried editing the file tileimp.txt

Spoiler:

I changed :

TILEIMP_TERRAFORM_WHITE_MOUNTAIN {
Icon ICON_TILEIMP_FARMS
Tooltip TOOLTIP_TILEIMP_SELECT_WHITE_MOUNTAIN_BUTTON
Statusbar STATUSBAR_TILEIMP_SELECT_WHITE_MOUNTAIN_BUTTON
TerraformTerrain TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
Level 3
Column 3
Class:Terraform
GLHidden
ConstructionTiles 1
ConstructionTiles 1
ConstructionTiles 1

CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_BEACH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_DEEP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_KELP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_REEF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_RIFT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHALLOW
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHELF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_TRENCH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_VOLCANO

Excludes:ATM
Excludes:Farm
Excludes:LandDetector
Excludes:Mine
Excludes:OceanATM
Excludes:OceanDetector
Excludes:OceanFarm
Excludes:OceanMine
Excludes:OceanRoad
Excludes:Road
Excludes:Structure1
Excludes:Structure2

TerrainEffect {
Terrain TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
EnableAdvance ADVANCE_FUSION
TilesetIndex 1
}

into :
TILEIMP_TERRAFORM_WHITE_MOUNTAIN {
Icon ICON_TILEIMP_FARMS
Tooltip TOOLTIP_TILEIMP_SELECT_WHITE_MOUNTAIN_BUTTON
Statusbar STATUSBAR_TILEIMP_SELECT_WHITE_MOUNTAIN_BUTTON
TerraformTerrain TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
Level 3
Column 3
Class:Terraform
GLHidden

ConstructionTiles 1
ConstructionTiles 1
ConstructionTiles 1

CantBuildOn TERRAIN_GRASSLAND
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SPECIAL1
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_PLAINS
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_DESERT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SPECIAL2
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_TUNDRA
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_FOREST
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_JUNGLE
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SWAMP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_BROWN_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WHITE_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_BROWN_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_BEACH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_DEEP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_KELP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_REEF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_RIFT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHALLOW
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHELF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_TRENCH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_VOLCANO

Excludes:Road
Excludes:Farm
Excludes:Mine
Excludes:ATM
Excludes:LandDetector
Excludes:OceanRoad
Excludes:OceanFarm
Excludes:OceanMine
Excludes:OceanATM
Excludes:OceanDetector
Excludes:Structure2
Excludes:Structure1

TerrainEffect {
Terrain TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
EnableAdvance ADVANCE_FUSION
TilesetIndex 1
}
}

The game starts without problems, but when trying to terraform this white mountain still can be placed on all land tiles.

I kept this file intact and tried editing terrain.txt as well

Spoiler:

I changed

TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN {
TilesetIndex 21
Icon ICON_TERRAIN_WMOUNTAIN
InternalType: WhiteMountain

AddAdvance ADVANCE_FUSION
TransformAdd {
Time 2
Materials 800
}

RemoveAdvance ADVANCE_FUSION
TransformRemove {
Time 3
Materials 1400
}

EnvBase {
Score 20
Food 0
Shield 10
Gold 0
Defense 1
Movement 600
Freight 600
DeadFood 0
DeadShield 0
DeadGold 0
}

EnvCity {
Score 50
Food 30
Shield 20
Gold 30
Defense 0
Movement 50
Freight 50
}

EnvRiver {
Score 30
Food 5
Shield 5
Gold 5
Movement 50
Freight 50
}

Resources TERRAIN_ARCTIC_MOUNTAIN_GOOD_ONE
Resources TERRAIN_ARCTIC_MOUNTAIN_GOOD_TWO

MovementType: Air
MovementType: Mountain
}

To :

TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN {
TilesetIndex 21
Icon ICON_TERRAIN_WMOUNTAIN
InternalType: WhiteMountain

AddAdvance ADVANCE_FUSION
TransformAdd {
Time 2
Materials 800
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_GRASSLAND
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SPECIAL1
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_PLAINS
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_DESERT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SPECIAL2
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_TUNDRA
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_FOREST
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_JUNGLE
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SWAMP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_BROWN_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WHITE_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_BROWN_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_BEACH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHALLOW
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_REEF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_KELP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHELF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_DEEP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_RIFT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_TRENCH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_VOLCANO
}

RemoveAdvance ADVANCE_FUSION
TransformRemove {
Time 3
Materials 1400
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_GRASSLAND
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SPECIAL1
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_PLAINS
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_DESERT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SPECIAL2
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_TUNDRA
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_GLACIER
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_DEAD
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_FOREST
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_JUNGLE
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_SWAMP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_BROWN_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WHITE_HILL
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WHITE_MOUNTAIN
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_BEACH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHALLOW
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_REEF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_KELP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_SHELF
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_DEEP
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_RIFT
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_TRENCH
CantBuildOn TERRAIN_WATER_VOLCANO
}

EnvBase {
Score 20
Food 0
Shield 10
Gold 0
Defense 1
Movement 600
Freight 600
DeadFood 0
DeadShield 0
DeadGold 0
}

EnvCity {
Score 50
Food 30
Shield 20
Gold 30
Defense 0
Movement 50
Freight 50
}

EnvRiver {
Score 30
Food 5
Shield 5
Gold 5
Movement 50
Freight 50
}

Resources TERRAIN_ARCTIC_MOUNTAIN_GOOD_ONE
Resources TERRAIN_ARCTIC_MOUNTAIN_GOOD_TWO

MovementType: Air
MovementType: Mountain
}

This caused an errormessage and a fail to startup the game.

This clearly was not the solution, however I do not know what is.

Any suggestions towards the solution of this problem are greatly apreciated.

[Martin Gühmann]

For that you have to edit the AddAdvance, TransformAdd, RemoveAdvance, TransformRemove fields in the terrain.txt. If I remember correctly there was also a bug in the standard version of the game I fixed in the Apolyton Edition, I just don't remember what it was.

You can't add any stuff from the tileimp.txt into the terrain.txt. AddAdvance is the advance you need so that you can change a file to that terrain type. RemoveAdvance is the advance you need so that you can terraform a tile that has that terrain type. You should be able to delete AddAdvance, TransformAdd, RemoveAdvance, and TransformRemove.

-Martin