I was modding my sides mod when I discovered this. I have the missionlist.lua from shell.lvl that teancum posted.
-I made an addon map with the intent of trying to make an test era mod to see if era mods were possible in BF1
-after failing three times I thought of, copying the part of missionlist.lua where maps/eras are added and overwriting the part of the addme.lua where maps/eras are added.

I got this result with new maps that were suddenly not addon maps but rather part of the game itself, like the stock maps. (the names are not localized, and I don't have the scripts fully compiled yet. (the green strip is because it was in sptest)

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Good work

Wow!
Keep it up!

This might be as close as one could get with making an era mod in BF1.

I would of never thought about the addme.lua nice job (ill be trying to get some shell work if i can and will expierement with this)

you need the missionlist lua. teancum posted it. just go back through the bf1 threads and look for it.

Yes i have it. i am trying to look for more scripts

So in essence this works much like the BF2 addme.lua's function of adding new maps/eras to the main game via addon. Pretty cool discovery but have you tested it yet to see if it works 100% yet? Can this be used to, say, add Clone Wars to Hoth and Endor, and Galactic Civil War to Geonosis and Kamino? And does this bypass the 21 addon maps restriction?

no i haven't tested those yet and i hadn't thought about that yet.

- Editing the campaign might be possible through this. and each campaign can have up to 255 missions each but i doubt anyone would want to do that.

EDIT

So far I've tested with 15 maps and it works fine

Cool!

Now I really do wonder what else can be done from addon. Maybe new Historical Campaigns (possibly overwriting the shipped campaigns?)

Have you tried overwriting a shipped Instant Action map using this to see if it works (since I assume this method loads the scripts from addon and not the shipped game), say, Kamino: Tipoca City with Rhen Var: Citadel?

Because if it loads from your addon mission.lvl, I think we've cracked it so we can get custom animations and sides ingame WITHOUT overwriting the old ones.

Just to let you know, for the main game, maps are named in the localization files (in core.lvl) and not the missionlist.

no, actually, the mission scripts run from the regular mission.lvl itself, which I edited by creating new scripts for the eras, most of which are basically edited, renameed duplicates of the stock ones and which call for the use of the modded worlds and sides. the only thing i really did that made this possible was copy the first half of missionlist that that outlined all the non-addon worlds into the addme lua, editing it, and munging, and that became the new "missionlist" lua. addme and missionlist are very similar.


about custom animations, Bamdur is having a great sucess with doing that for my mod. He ported a two-hand gripped pistol anim by darthduck and an aayla lightsabre anim. search for some of his videos on xfire. all you really need to do is be good at animating and animationsets/banks and putting it in a common.lvl

about sides that don't overwrite the stock sides, i already did that with my mod by having my sides run from a folder separate from the sides folder (the stock sides remain in folder SIDE, mine run from new folder called MAIN). I thought you did that with Battlefront Expansion as well, or did i misunderstand?

and thanks for the info about localization.

I'm glad someone caught it - that's what I posted it for but didn't have any time then to explain how it worked. I'll follow this topic and try to answer anything I can.

alright-y then, does this actually affect the addon map limit or how many add-on maps you have? I mean, i tested it with 15 maps, but I'm still not entirely sure.

There will still be a total number of missions that you have. A mission counts as one LUA setup for a map (so Bespin Platforms - Clone Wars is one mission). In SWBF2 the limit is 500. Dunno what that'll be in SWBF1.

the addon limit is 21 in the 1.2 patch and possibly up to 512 in the 1.3 . Now I can't install the 1.3 patch because I have the best of pc edition, not the regular CD version so I'm limited.

With this trick are we able to override the Historical Campaign?

Yes, I highlighted the historical campaign sections in yellow below. It's still just a CW/GCW campaign, but you can definitely extend it with new maps or replace them if you want.

Nice find

YES!!!! I'm remaking the campaigns.

My mod will finally also be able to modify the campaigns, and the map list can at last look tidier.