Sloppy use of [binary_path]s

[zookeeper]

EDIT 2: yep, that worked. But I don't get why it works like that, it seems a little pointless and confusing if you don't know about it. Does this happen anywhere else within a UMC?

Well, AFAIK it happens with basically all image keys, be it terrain, units, portraits, items, etc. That's why you don't have to put the images/ in front of every image path in your campaign. But sure, it can be a bit confusing but I also can't think of where information like that would fit for example in the current wiki structure. We'd need a proper WML tutorial for these kind of things...

PS. {@campaigns/Invasion_of_Arendia/images} doesn't really do anything.

[Ranger M]

Well, AFAIK it happens with basically all image keys, be it terrain, units, portraits, items, etc. That's why you don't have to put the images/ in front of every image path in your campaign. But sure, it can be a bit confusing but I also can't think of where information like that would fit for example in the current wiki structure. We'd need a proper WML tutorial for these kind of things...

Maybe it could be put as part of a random but useful notes section at the bottom of this page were any other similarly non-fitting things could be put too.

PS. {@campaigns/Invasion_of_Arendia/images} doesn't really do anything.

point taken.

[Sapient]

funny no one mentioned the BinaryPathWML page.

[tapik]

funny no one mentioned the BinaryPathWML page.

Funny that no one (read: zookeeper ) added the note there

[zookeeper]

funny no one mentioned the BinaryPathWML page.

Funny that no one (read: zookeeper ) added the note there

What note?

[tapik]

Funny that no one (read: zookeeper ) added the note there

What note?

I mean a remark about external_binary_data. BTW I've fixed the Delfador's Memoirs to use the pattern. It is the only one user campaing using it in the WesCamp

[Eleazar]

mildly off topic:

I disagree that UMCs should be allowed to include stuff from official campaigns. If they want the data or images, they should duplicate them. Although this is redundant, it is IMHO better, because it means UMCs are self-sufficient - a change in another campaign cannot break your campaign.

Or, if the content is of sufficient quality, generally useful, and isn't part of the campaigns unique identity, it should be removed from the campaign folders and added to the main folders, to make it more generally accessable.

[santi]

Turin and Eleazar are both right: Just because mainline campaigns are mainline does not mean that their latest versions are "better" than previous versions, both portrait/imagewise
(for instance I dislike the latest HttT Kalenz portrait) and storywise(luckily I can insert Mountain Pass and Valley of Statues in HttT). Hence since they can change, UMCs should not depend on stuff in the mainline campaigns.

[binaryquasar]

thanks you for clarifying the image part I recently had an awful time trying to work on my first mod type project.. now I see why thanks again =)

[WYRMY]

Also mildly off-topic.

If you want to use a mainline image, but can't get the path there, why don't you just copy the image.

PS: Copying the path is easy. You just go

image=../Heir_to_the_Throne/images/pic.png

[Noyga]

Notice that using mainline campaign images won't work for everyone since campaigns aren't always installed...

[zookeeper]

I think this thread has outlived its usefulness, so I'm de-stickifying it.