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kiwithereturn

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Wednesday, October 27th 2010, 3:34pm

How to activate a true dynamic Fog War

Hi everybody,
I don't speak german, so i will ask my question in english :hey:

Actually in Anno 1404 the fog war is just a thing to hide the map at the begining of the game. Step by step, ships discovered the map.
Once the map fully explored we can see évery unit, building, ship for every player on the map. Too easy :hey:

I would like to keep a dynamic fog war to hide all opposing units out of range of my personal building / ship / unit / town.
For exemple, all the ennemy ships far away would be hidden until they arrive near my own ships or buildings.

Like Starcraft or a lot of other RTS game.

Is there a mod or something to activate this kind of true dynamic fog war ?

Thank you by advance

Chris from Lyon / France

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Nayo

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Wednesday, October 27th 2010, 7:09pm

Hi Chris,

i don't know any mods like this. the fog of war is still a part of the engine within the game. maybe you can find some information in files at \data\system\ but i'm not sure, because there are many files written with C++ and many words about DirectX.
I can read something about C++ but technical terms of graphic and directX are like technical jargon for me.

Within \ai\cslapi.xml you can find a lot of API functions to control the gameplay, but to less functions to control the engine.

Greetings
Nayo
  Zuviele Anno Installationen auf deinem Rechner? Anno Installationsmanager schafft Ordnung :)

IAAM 1404 funktioniert nicht? IAAM Testtool verrät uns ob etwas nicht richtig installiert ist.

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kiwithereturn

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Friday, October 29th 2010, 4:29pm

Thank you Nayo,

I will continue my research :)

beckerchen

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Wednesday, November 3rd 2010, 7:51pm

Discovery map

Give him a name in the World _Editor, and ...
load the game in "Tool One"

sroll left donw to "Balancing" and click of + "EndlessGamePresets",
than + of "Custom",
and now scroll down to: "DisoveredMap" and chanche to True.


That is all, and you can see all islands in your world. :up:

happy day
beckerchen

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Thursday, November 4th 2010, 2:31pm

ähm @beckerchen

He want a DYNAMIC fog.

So that´s the wrong way for this projekt.

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Er wollte einen DYNAMISCHEN Weltnebel/Kriegsnebel.

Das was du vorgeschlagen hast , ist nur der weg um den nebel sofort aufzudecken. Nicht ihn wieder herzustellen usw...

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mfg Heretic
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kann man von Magie nicht unterscheiden."

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