Map editor

BTW (regarding a comment somewhere here): No, using random town is not a solution. I tried, using the standard map editor. I put a random town near water, pre-built a shipyard, and then ingame selected HotA Cove, and tried to build a ship. Was not possible. The shipyard was there, but did nothing. I also put a ship next to that town in the editor, and tried again. She ship was rendered in town screen, but still it was not possible to build ship. This may be a limitation of H3 (or vcmi) with random town.

Also i’d like to build a campaign. A story-based campaign as sequel to the RoE “contested lands” campaign, introducing many of the additional towns (at least Cove and Asylum). This contested lands story would be a perfect start for introducing a sequel. The basic idea is: These contested lands, which where a combination of Castle, Rampart and other factions, merged together and thus formed new factions. Especially the Asylum would fit perfectly to this plot.

AVS · March 5, 2018, 5:30pm

You could build same way as travis-ci build is set up. There are no pre-built packages for Linux yet.

Campaign support is editor not is not implemented yet.

Siegfried · March 5, 2018, 5:51pm

Is there any tutorial/documentation/whatever? I tried using the Makefile, but no success.

I know that currently there is no campaign support. But every campaign starts with some maps.

AVS · March 5, 2018, 6:07pm

before using makefile you should install dependencies (same as done in .travis.yml)

sudo apt -y install libgtk2.0-dev
wget -t 10 -O lazarus-project_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%201.6.2/lazarus-project_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb/download
wget -t 10 -O fpc_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%201.6.2/fpc_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb/download
wget -t 10 -O fpc-src_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%201.6.2/fpc-src_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb/download
sudo dpkg -i fpc-src_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb fpc_3.0.0-151205_amd64.deb lazarus-project_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb

make

Siegfried · March 7, 2018, 4:41pm

Thanks. I’ll try that next weekend

AVS · March 7, 2018, 6:07pm

Also you could try official Debian packages (fpc, fpc-source, lazarus-ide, note that names differ from upstream) from Stretch or Jessie with backports. There are serious issues with packaging of Lazarus (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823706), but I probably worked them around already.

P.S. Makefile is pretty much trivial, all you actually need to do to build is one command

lazbuild 3rd_party/opengl/vcmiopenglcontext.lpk vcmieditor.lpr

Siegfried · March 7, 2018, 6:13pm

That’s exactly the command that failed. Probably because of missing lazbuild

Siegfried · March 11, 2018, 8:16am

Now:

Hint: (lazarus) Missing state file of LCL 1.6.2: /home/siegfried/.lazarus/lib/units/x86_64-linux/gtk2/LCL.compiled
Error: (lazarus) [TExternalTool.DoExecute.CheckError] Error=fehlende ausführbare Datei ""
Error: (lazarus) Kompiliere Package FCL 1.0.1: fehlende ausführbare Datei ""
Error: (lazarus) [TLazPackageGraph.CompileRequiredPackages] "fehlende ausführbare Datei “”"
Error: (lazarus) Compile required packages failed: vcmiOpenGLContext 0.0.1
ERROR: vcmiOpenGLContext 0.0.1 compilation failed
Makefile:4: die Regel für Ziel „vcmieditor“ scheiterte
make: *** [vcmieditor] Fehler 2

fehlende ausführbare Datei -> missing executable file

So what file is missing here? It seems there is an empty file name.

AVS · March 11, 2018, 12:49pm

Looks like lazbuild could not find compiler executable.
Could you manually execute f.e. /usr/bin/fpc "-iWTOTP"

Siegfried · March 11, 2018, 12:52pm

Hi,

no. Obviously because there is no such executable in /usr/bin. But there seems to be one in /usr/lib. Would it help to add a soft link?

AVS · March 11, 2018, 12:54pm

Soft link could help

Siegfried · March 11, 2018, 12:57pm

You’re extremely fast

I tried, but got some strange results. I do not get a file named fpc, but a file named “3.0.0” ???
I check this and report later.

/usr/lib/fpc is no file, but a directory. Contains an ini and something more.

I’m just installing it again. In case something went wrong.

AVS · March 11, 2018, 1:07pm

You should have /usr/bin/fpc simlink to /usr/bin/fpc-3.0.0 (or whatever version you have) executable

Siegfried · March 11, 2018, 1:09pm

I installed new, and now make completes. Although there seem to be some issue:

/usr/bin/ld: warning: /home/siegfried/prj/vcmi/editor/vcmi_editor-master/bin/link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
(1008) 46004 lines compiled, 4.8 sec
(1021) 10 warning(s) issued
(1023) 7 note(s) issued

Where i am supposed to find the executable?