Has anyone been able to get the 'Additional Bonuses and Weaknesses' to work for their faction?

Very cool tool. Thank you.

Great work, yet again.

• However, my program doesn't look like your screenshot. I don't have the cool text or the colored background. It looks all plain to me (white and boring fonts).
• Perhaps the "Starting Unit Types" window should be quite a bit larger and have checkboxes.
• You could also rename the numbers in "Environment Terrain Type" to their corresponding terrain and allow for all the options:
  • 1 = Fallen
  • 2 = Grass
  • 3 = Desert
  • 4 = Snowy
• Could add in all the possible "UnitStat_" functions instead of just health
  • A_Health doesn't seem to work right now. However, A_UnitStat_HitPoints does as a % multiplier.
• Add all the possible "A_" options (ie. A_rations, A_training...)
• Add in Sovereign selection: <SovereignUnitType>
  • This might require some work to link the files together, idk.
• Add in shopkeeper support:    <ShopkeeperUnitType>
• Add in faction background selection: <ChooseFactionBack>
• Ability to create a minor faction: <FactionType>
• Add in background unit support:   <AccompanyUnitType_One> and <AccompanyUnitType_Two>
  • These guys stand next to your leader in faction selection. I think it's kinda fun to see.
• SMALL: More city wall possibilities (ie. no walls, stone, wooden...)

Anyways, your kinda showing up Stardock with this right now, lol.

MAJOR BUG: I just made an Amerian and an Ironeer civilization and both of them didn't function because the race codes are incorrect. No units were availible to build at all. Ironeer, for example, was spelled with an extra "S" after it. Ironeer should be: "Ironeer_Sovereign_Male_Basic" for example, not "Ironeers_Sovereign_Male_Basic". Probably a similar problem with other races.

I noticed you could add more numbers into the terrain type, hehe.

Faction background is the display behind the character when selecting a faction. It could be a castle or the forest or whatever. Most the images are in the "\Gfx\Backdrops" folder but I believe you can select anything (it doesn't have to be defined).

In response to reply #49, and the suggestion of autobuilding from certain points...

 I think you might want to go with it. Autoselect option for techs, and make some dropdowns for the significant options (good/evil, terrain type generated by control zones [James009D brought this up too. I think the consensus is that the idea of spreading an endless desert or eternal winter over the land is just as cool as the conventional options]). I think I can speak for all of us when I say streamlining is okay at some point, though, and picking every tech can get irritating.

 One thing I'd really like, just personally, is the option of choosing labor pits or workshops as a style indicator. I think that's a real point of order between good and evil (labor pits being indicative of an oppressive slave/serfdom economy, workshops of a more respected labor force... Which could be completely inverted by good factions with pits and evil ones with workshops, making the moral complexities even more fun than they already are).

Anyway, still following the thread, 100% behind this. I'll d/l the latest version, see if my ramblings through the interface uncover any bugs (can't promise anything; my narrow focus on the stuff -I- want to imagine tends to get in the way of a proper testing viewpoint )

Keep on rockin'.

TKaz84 - I am still trying to determine what they all do, but you can look here:   CorePlayerAbilities.xml in your game install directory/data/English folder.   IT has descriptions but they are more generic not specific to actual game effect for the most part.   A few of the abilities are obvious (i.e. if you put 2 points in Dexterity you have units which have 2 more points in dexterity)  but some I have no idea.  Like I said play around with them and see if they show up.

Those are the only tech trees available right now.   At one point there was talk of having one for each faction, but apparently that delayed.

You can see the tech trees in the <install folder> \data\English folder.  There is one for TechTree_Amarian.xml and one TechTree_Trog.xml.    You can certainly make your own and then type it in the faction editor for your race/faction to use.  

I'm not sure if/when new ones will be coming out.

HTH.   Let me know if I can help with anything else.

New version available.   Now with a random faction generator.   More features to come.  I am going to scour the forums for mods that make new abilities.  I will add these as options to the faction editor.   

Still need to balance the abilities (still using the vanilla value for bonuses & weaknesses), and make the random name truly represent the faction.    

Have fun.

Mmmh it appears I am unable to download... Each time the counter reaches 0 and I click on it, it just begins counting again from 10 to 0.

Anyone else got this problem? Am I doing something wrong? [probably yes]

Thanks for your work anyway!

Thank you ! Yes, that was strange... I already downloaded from file front, but I'll keep trying the old link, to see if something changes.

Interesting.    That would be cool, unfortunately a little out of my budget for modding.        Thanks for the link Zubaz.   

Has anyone looked at http://kuler.adobe.com/
 from adobe.   I am experimenting with using their service to create color schemes in the elemental faction editor.   so that the colors go together well (no more flourescent pink with brown & lime green highlights).    Tell me if that is of interest to anyone, and I will upload it.  I realize most people have moved on to use the in-game editor (which is great), but I still use this and I'd like to keep maintaining it if there is interest.

Feel free to download it and try it out.   It allows you to set your own bonuses and weaknesses as well as using the pre-defined ones.     I use this mostly to generate random opponents for myself at this point.    I have already made a few factions that I really enjoy.