How to add Infinite Wood Resource to Skirmish?

[HollyWood14181]

I know there is one infinite Wood Resource pile, specifically "Xb EE3 Woodresource (1.6)" and I would like to add that to Skirmish. So when the map is randomly generated, each territory(depending on the setting of course) would have infinite Wood Resource.

For uniform setting,
The First home territory always have 1 infinite Food source. I would like to add One infinite Wood resource to the list.
I also would like to know how to add infinite food source and Infinite Wood pile to other territories as well, similar to Gold and Stone.


I found some code from loew_ambient_pack_15_2_ee2x.ddf, but I can't do shit to it. Simply copying and pasting to resources.ddf won't cut it. I don't even fully know if that's where I need to put them. I can modify just a bit and move place from Point A to point B, but I'm not really a programmer yet. I don't know what changes I need to do.
I could possibly copy code from Gold in resources.ddf, but I notice there is some value difference when compared to others like Stone. I would like to be correct and to function properly.

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//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Woodresource
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

UnitModel RES_woodresource
{
	ScaleType 		= kScaleBuilding
	DefaultModel 	= RES_woodresource.nif
	DefaultState 	= Idle
	States = [
		{ StateName="Idle" }
		]
	ChildNames 	= [TreeShadow]	
}

UnitType RES_woodresource
{
	parent = ResourceNotTree
	properties {
		DisplayName = tx_res_woodresourcee
		VerboseTooltip = vtt_res_woodresourcee
		DisplayNameScenEdit = tx_res_ed_woodresourcee
	}
		abilities [
		Resource { type = kResourceType_Wood; amount = 1000; maxNumOfWorkers = 6}
	]
	fullMapOverlay { sprite = spr_fullmap_tree scale = 2.0 ignoreOrientation = 1 }
}

[Dr.MonaLisa]

Since you're using EE2: AOS, file:
EE2X_db_155.zip\EE2X_db\Terrain\dbclimat5.ddf

might have something useful. But I'm not sure where it could be defined.

Maybe Loew can answer this question?

[Loewenherz]

So my initial enquiries have revealed that this is unfortunately hardcoded. Unfortunately, nothing can be changed in this respect via the database.

However, you can place these resources on your own maps using the editor. The patch has already greatly expanded this.

[Dr.MonaLisa]

I thought of hacking it by changing for example:

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forageTrees
	[
		TRE_BANANA TRE_MANGO
	]

?

to:

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forageTrees
	[
		RES_woodresource
	]

Would make the game see infinite wood resource, but not the limited food bush.

[Loewenherz]

I thought about that too. This is actually the unlimited food tree at the beginning of the generated map. I don't know whether it won't be replaced by the wood resource.


It would be easier to simply generate a few maps and then place this resource by hand.

[HollyWood14181]

So my initial enquiries have revealed that this is unfortunately hardcoded. Unfortunately, nothing can be changed in this respect via the database.

However, you can place these resources on your own maps using the editor. The patch has already greatly expanded this.

Damn it. I didn't think it was that difficult.
I just thought you could simply slap new shit into the file as long as it was coded properly.

[Dr.MonaLisa]

So there's no file that defines games to start with 3 trees near the city center?