I saw that PhillySouljah had included Screenshots of his scenarios in his scenario pages in the Granary database. Is there any way for me to do this too?

That's really easy, select BBcode instead of plain text as the option in the description field, then use the [ IMG ] tags with the link to your image. You can also use the other BBcode options to color text etc.

Phatfish,

I took a screenshot of the following image and posted it on three different places online. Then I went to my "Journey to Edessa" scenario page in the Granary and clicked UPDATE. Then in the Description box, I type in the same brackets with "IMG" letters in them around the 3 links to the image, with a backslash in the ending brackets. I used the same format that I am using to post the images below on the forum:







Then I press submit. Yet the images show up on the forum here above but not when I use them in the webpages in the Granary and use the same format with IMG and brackets and BB Code.

[This message has been edited by rakovsky (edited 07-18-2021 @ 05:51 PM).]

Could it make a difference if I submit the photo with my submission instead of putting it as an Edit?

Does it make a difference if it's in PNG or JPG format?

Okay, I just tried it myself on your submission, cannot get it to work either - very strange. I know others beside myself who have put images - maybe it's disabled temporarily or something, I haven't a clue. You could place the link to your screenshot though - added it for you.

Right. Maybe it's disabled like you said.

I submitted my "Christian Story Part 1" ROR campaign last night, and included IMG tags from two hosting sites for the JPG or PNG file, so we can see whether it will work. The Image tags seem to work most reliably when I use the image button on the forum's BB Code panel.

Today I fixed the glitches in the Complete Ages of Mankind campaign and submitted my fixed version to the Granary as "Complete Ages of Mankind, Version 2."

On one other campaign that I submitted, a game player said that when he played my campaign, he could not open up the next scenario in the campaign after he beat the first scenario.

I have occasionally had this problem when playing others' campaigns, but it has been rare. I don't know what causes this rare problem. Maybe it has to do with playing in Adminstrator Mode.

This may have to do with the game not being able to write to files in it's installation directory, in this case, I believe it may be related to the Learn.uh file which keeps track of the campaign progress.

In other words, it's a problem with the player's game, not with anything that I did as the campaign maker?

I remember having this problem on at least one AOE1 campaign in the past, and I don't remember what I did to fix the problem. It seems to me that I've had this problem on a few AOE1 and AOE2 campaigns in the past, like 5 out of dozens of campaigns that I played.

Rakovsky, I can tell you that adding images to a download description is fully disabled for me as well. I have no idea what the cause of this is - probably one of the EXCO changed this...

Does it matter when you play or edit other people's scenarios whether you put the .AI or .PER file in the AI folder or the DATA2 folder?

In AOE2, if you edit someone else's scenario and their scenario includes a .PER file, then you must paste their .per file into the correct folder in your AOE2 directory for the PERSONALITY of the computer in your scenario to work. The issue came up because I have fixed several scenarios belonging to other players.

In AOE1, occasionally scenario designers include .AI or .PER files with their scenarios. Typically I have pasted them into my AOE1 AI folder. So at the moment, the files in my ROCKNROR AOE1 AI folder include Highlanders.ai, nonattack, and Ulster Tribes.ai. I must have gotten them by downloading a scenario from the Granary.

I am guessing that unlike in AOE2, in the case of AOE1, if you are editing someone else's scenario and their scenario has a custom .AI or .PER file, then you don't actually need to have a copy of their .AI or .PER file sitting in your DATA2 folder because the correct .AI or .PER file was already compacted into the scenario by the original scenario designer.

[This message has been edited by rakovsky (edited 09-21-2021 @ 03:59 PM).]

If a scenario player has a specific AI file (same for PER file), it should be included in the scenario file. You shouldn't see it in your data/data2 folder (or maybe it's extracted when using the scenario editor ? not sure)

BUT for scenario players that do NOT have a specific AI file, the game will pick an AI file from data2 folder (if using ROR).
For PER file, it does not pick one, I think it just initializes the values dynamically (with empiresx.exe logic)

That makes sense, Chab.

Can you get AOE1's Tribute system to work if you as the Human Player are Player 3 or anyone besides Player 1? If so, it would feel a little strange because if the Tribute System only works if you (the Human Player) are Player 1, then it would make the following line pointless:




That is, there would be little point in the game having a Tribute SN line where the editor has to manually select the Player whom the AI would ask for Tribute if Player 1 was the only Player for whom the Tribute system worked.

I made a thread asking about this here:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/making-the-tribute-system-work-in-a-per-file/173447

It seems to me that the answer is NO based on my playtesting. I kind of remember reading elsewhere that it only works with Player 1 being the Human Player, but I don't remember where I read this.

The reason that the issue came up is because in my Christian Campaign, the Human Player is Yellow (Player 3) and I wanted the hostile Player 4 to make peace with Player 3 in Scenario 5 of my campaign.

[This message has been edited by rakovsky (edited 09-22-2021 @ 04:41 PM).]

Yes that can be done, see my reply in your Josephus campaign thread.

What is the practical difference between having your custom PER file in your AI folder vs. in your DATA2 folder?

Sometimes it seems to show up in my Editor only when it's in the AI folder and other times only in my Data2 folder.

Just to let you know I could post images again in the downloads section file page.