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Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
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jtracy Offline
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Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
This thread is to list bugs in the Challenge editor, feature requests, and clarification requests. The list below is a compilation of reported bugs/feature requests in this thread.

Note: Kalypso has now opened a thread to address the issues in this one (bugs only). Click here to go there. As a result, this thread is now morphing into a "Challenge Editor Feature Requests Thread"

Challenge Editor / Map Editor Feature Requests

- Gameplay > Win Game - allow custom win message to be placed in this command. I have different ways players can win a game and want to be able to customize the Win Game screen accordingly.

- Gameplay > Lose Game - allow custom lose message to be placed in this command.

- Have a blank screen that can be used for narration. i.e. Wait > Wait Message > blank screen.

- Buildings > Destroy Buildings - have the option to destroy just one building.

- Way to make buildings private.

- Making "profit from tourism" or "profit from building label" a possible task objective.

- Map Editor. Please add rocks/arches.

- This request is for the Challenge Browser. When it first loads, please allow "Previous" to be clicked for it to take people to the last page. The last page is where the newest scenarios appear and clicking Next a couple of dozen times to get there is frustrating.

- Automate "Remove inbutton" so that when a task is finished, the button automatically goes away without us having to tell it to go away. (Update: May not be needed per Poro explanation three posts down)


Clarification Requests

- We need more info on how "Play Radio Announcements" works.


Original Challenge Editor Bugs List

- Mission Sequence does not have a Save button.

- When selecting Wait > Wait Message > El Presidente, a picture of El Presidente does not show during gameplay. I use this screen for "narration".

- Effects > Change Light Model > Fade Time. This does not appear to be working correctly. For example, if I enter 10000 ms, it should fade over 10 seconds, but instead does a "quick fade".

- Adding resource deposit (in a sequence) does not appear to work...

- In some cases it appears that Free placement of multiple buildings results in them remaining free even after the stated amount has been placed.

- Upkeep changes never work and I suspect that most of the other properties that it's possible to set or modify doesn't work...

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20-09-2011 01:47 AM
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RE: Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
Can I add some more features?

- Insert a way to made a bulding private. Because if the stock exchange can do this in the game it creates the illusion than also the player can...


And also another bug:
- Upkeep changes never work and I suspect that most of the other properties that it's possible to set or modify doesn't work...
20-09-2011 03:36 PM
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If I'm understanding that right, upkeep changes will only work the buildings selected. I think it's using local modifiers (rather than editing the base class). It's the same reason the original mod tutorial was only partially functional (i.e. the base class gets "locked" to an extent, but each individual one may be modified).

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20-09-2011 03:44 PM
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RE: Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
remove inview button is easy to do by doing your challenges like this:
1. make new inview button
2. new task (bind to button)
3. remove button. No need to automate, otherwise you will lose a functionality of constant buttons (repeat same challenge unlimited times/until certain time)
20-09-2011 03:52 PM
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RE: Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
Adding ressource deposit does not appear to work...

Or if it does, please someone advise me.
20-09-2011 03:54 PM
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(20-09-2011 03:54 PM)Gen.Armando Wrote:  Adding ressource deposit does not appear to work...

Or if it does, please someone advise me.

Sure it does. I do it all the time.

Just place the appropriate "marker" on the map. I will look like a small purple cone (if I remember correctly).
20-09-2011 05:17 PM
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1. Making "profit from tourism" or "profit from building label" a possible task objective
2. Free placement of multiple buildings results in them remaining free even after the stated amount has been placed.
20-09-2011 06:48 PM
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RE: Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
(20-09-2011 05:17 PM)ScruffyBamboo Wrote:  
(20-09-2011 03:54 PM)Gen.Armando Wrote:  Adding ressource deposit does not appear to work...

Or if it does, please someone advise me.

Sure it does. I do it all the time.

Just place the appropriate "marker" on the map. I will look like a small purple cone (if I remember correctly).

Not this way, I meant as an action in a sequence.

Making new deposits appear isn't working. Or I suck at working out sequences, which is also very possible.
20-09-2011 07:39 PM
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RE: Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
I've updated the main list and will continue to do so as more feature requests / bugs are posted here.

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20-09-2011 08:27 PM
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(20-09-2011 03:36 PM)serenopolveroso Wrote:  And also another bug:
- Upkeep changes never work and I suspect that most of the other properties that it's possible to set or modify doesn't work...

Unless what Swixel mentioned is the solution to your problem, it might be indeed the case the upkeep changes etc. don't work. They never did work in the Tropico 3 editor, too. As well as for example increasing number of customers or employees in a building.

Would be really a shame, if not at least the known bugs of the T3 editor were fixed Sad
20-09-2011 11:14 PM
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(20-09-2011 11:14 PM)Rebel-Yell Wrote:  Unless what Swixel mentioned is the solution to your problem, it might be indeed the case the upkeep changes etc. don't work. They never did work in the Tropico 3 editor, too. As well as for example increasing number of customers or employees in a building.

Would be really a shame, if not at least the known bugs of the T3 editor were fixed Sad

That has to happen on a per building basis too. Speaking purely from a modding perspective, which has to use a similar technique to late-load the data into the game's engine as map loading does, you can only edit on a per building basis, as editing the root class later won't be pushed into the right parts of the game's data.

The engine has to follow the same rules regardless of if it's official (the editor) or unofficial (mods).

See if you can label/target a set building for something that appears not to work. I haven't looked at the editor in detail, but it may be pushing modifiers onto the class (which I can't see working) instead of set objects (which I know does work), and that would be the real bug Wink

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21-09-2011 12:47 AM
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The mission sequence editor crashes on me, it won't even open.
21-09-2011 11:23 AM
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RE: Please Sticky - Challenge Editor Bugs & Feature Requests
Please see Lyubo's thread on some of the reported issues with the challenge editor: http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=11266

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