Posts from Current questions and answers regarding the map editor.

Hello! The absence of objects in Tiles and Objects is related to the appearance of a one-kilobyte index.bin; but if the categories themselves have also disappeared, I can share my XML files with you this evening (although they may also contain plugins for Maya).

Basically, I don't have an "empty" index.bin file. But the categories have disappeared. To avoid wasting your time, I'll install another copy of the game and extract the XML files from it. Thank you for the explanation!

UPD: I've already solved the problem. A simple reinstallation helped. Luckily, I managed to copy my work on the videos beforehand. Otherwise, they would have been lost along with the data folder.

Hello everyone, I have a question: is there any way to make the city specialization on a created map appear randomly? In the editor, in the city settings, I only found the option to either choose one specific specialization or leave the city without any specialization at all. I would like to somehow implement the possibility of a random specialization appearing when the game starts.

Hello, when placing RandomTown, in the settings, use the spacebar to access Random Type and assign it to Link Player or Link Town, or don't change anything, thus leaving it with full randomness. Yes, indeed - if you simply place, say, a Knight's Castle, it will be without a name, without a biography, and without a specialization.

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Questions about the map editor.
I'm creating my own map and, as an experiment, I'm changing the settings of some buildings and heroes through Shared (I'm changing the building models to others and changing the hero characteristics).
As long as it's in the Maps folder, the changes in the game occur on other maps as well, even though I open these maps in the editor - everything is default there.
As soon as I remove the experimental map from Maps, everything starts working normally in all other maps.

Here are my questions:
1) Why does the experimental map affect other maps? It's as if I put it in the Mods folder.
2) And is there any way to "isolate" it without removing it from the Maps folder?

1) If you change any building on one map, then the same changes will occur on all other maps, as the map becomes a mod (this will always happen).
2) You cannot isolate the map. If you need a building with a texture from some tavern, but with different functionality, then the easiest way is to create a new object and use the visual you need, and use scripts to make it work. This way, there will be no impact on other maps.