Mod Suggestion/Request?

Age of Mythology: Retold Retold - Modding
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I was just wondering if anyone could maybe make a mod that adds tents and decor to all civilizations? They don’t even need to be good or anything, I just really want to decorate my bases lol

I know there is like, 2 mods that add a “decorations” builder, but they’re both outdated already. And I don’t really care about all of the decorations they add. I just really want the Tents, maybe the Major God Statues and banners with the owners color. Just some basic stuff to make my empire look like a prosperous, beautiful nation :3

Anyway, sorry for asking, it is probably quite rude to ask for a mod, especially since I don’t know how complex it probably is to make.

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simply use the mod “embellishment and construction builder”. it only does not spawn the builder for japanese and chinese. But you can esily fix it for yourself by opening the techtree xml file of the mod and add a copy of the first lines also for “ArchaicAgeChinese” and “ArchaicAgeJapanese”.

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Thank you! It worked! But I’m facing one problem now: No matter what I change about it, the Chinese and Japanese tents are not buildable. I managed to change their icon but when you place the building it is just a Greek tent. Any way to fix this?

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Here is what I did:

    <DisplayNameID>STR_EMB_BUILDER_TENT_NAME</DisplayNameID>

STR_EMB_BUILDER_TENT_EDT

    <Icon culture='greek'>resources\\spc\\static_color\\buildings\\tent_spc_greek_icon.png</Icon>

    <Icon culture='egyptian'>resources\\spc\\static_color\\buildings\\tent_spc_egyptian_icon.png</Icon>

    <Icon culture='norse'>resources\\spc\\static_color\\buildings\\tent_spc_norse_icon.png</Icon>

    <Icon culture='atlantean'>resources\\spc\\static_color\\buildings\\tent_spc_atlantean_icon.png</Icon>

    <Icon culture='chinese'>resources\\spc\\static_color\\buildings\\tent_spc_chinese_icon.png</Icon>

    <Icon culture='japanese'>resources\\spc\\static_color\\buildings\\tent_spc_japanese_icon.png</Icon>

    <!-- Icons per culture -->

    <AnimFile culture='greek'>shared\\buildings\\tent\\tent_greek.xml</AnimFile>

    <AnimFile culture='egyptian'>shared\\buildings\\tent\\tent_egyptian.xml</AnimFile>

    <AnimFile culture='norse'>shared\\buildings\\tent\\tent_norse.xml</AnimFile>

    <AnimFile culture='atlantean'>shared\\buildings\\tent\\tent_atlantean.xml</AnimFile>

    <AnimFile culture='chinese'>shared\\buildings\\tent\\tent_chinese.xml</AnimFile>

    <AnimFile culture='japanese'>shared\\buildings\\tent\\tent_japanes

e.xml

I just added four lines (two for the Chinese and two for the Japanese) for what I assume are the Icons and Models. It worked with the Major God Statues, vases, rugs and torches, but the tents are giving me a headache T-T

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Try copying the Tent SPC data for Chinese and Japanese into the normal Tent.

For some reason the devs gave Japan and China SPC tent models to the campaign tents, but not regular tents.

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Sorry, but how do I do that? I have no modding experience really, so please forgive me if it’s something very simple

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Looking at the files, I think the easiest way would be to modify the Proto file.

By default the Tent unit type only has Icons and Animfiles for the 4 main cultures.

<unit name="Tent">
    <icon culture="greek">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_greek_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="egyptian">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_egyptian_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="norse">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_norse_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="atlantean">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_atlantean_icon.png</icon>
    <animfile culture="greek">shared\buildings\tent\tent_greek.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="egyptian">shared\buildings\tent\tent_egyptian.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="norse">shared\buildings\tent\tent_norse.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="atlantean">shared\buildings\tent\tent_atlantean.xml</animfile>
  </unit>

But the TentSPC has all 6.

<unit name="TentSPC">
    <icon culture="greek">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_greek_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="egyptian">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_egyptian_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="norse">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_norse_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="atlantean">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_atlantean_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="chinese">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_chinese_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="japanese">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_japanese_icon.png</icon>
    <animfile culture="greek">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_greek.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="egyptian">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_egyptian.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="norse">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_norse.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="atlantean">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_atlantean.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="chinese">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_chinese.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="japanese">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_japanese.xml</animfile>
  </unit>

So what we can do is just make a super simple additive Proto_mods.xml to fix this and add the missing models to the normal tents.
Create a Mod folder under C:\Users\UserName\Games\Age of Mythology Retold\SteamID\mods\local\YourModName\game\data\gameplay
And create a file called proto_mods.xml

And paste in the following data:

<protomods>
<unit name="Tent">
    <icon culture="chinese">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_chinese_icon.png</icon>
    <icon culture="japanese">resources\spc\static_color\buildings\tent_spc_japanese_icon.png</icon>
    <animfile culture="chinese">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_chinese.xml</animfile>
    <animfile culture="japanese">spc\buildings\tent\tent_spc_japanese.xml</animfile>
  </unit>
</protomods>

I’m gonna report this as a bug too, because this is super easy for the devs to fix. They already made models for these objects, they’re just not setup to be used by the normal tents.

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Ok ok, thanks for the help! I’ll be doing it as soon as I can

Again, thank you very much and sorry for any inconvenience <3

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