I'm trying to take stock missions away from the instant action mission select screen. Is there an easy way to do that?
eg. I want to remove dea1c_con and dea1c_1flag from singleplayer instant action (make them unselectable).
Can I do that with the addme? Does it require interface modding? I'm using Zerted's patch.
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So here's what I'm actually doing. I thought it would be a good idea to make a new era for episode 3 clones and call it "Late Clone Wars", then turn the regular Clone Wars era into episode 2/phase 1 stuff. "Late Clone Wars" is era_l, "Clone Wars" is era_c. Adding an era is fine, but I don't want the Death Star to have episode 2 clones so I'm trying to remove the Death Star's normal "Clone Wars" era (era_c). But era_c is stock so I don't know how to delete those missions from instant action. I can think of a few workarounds like using era_c for the "Late Clone Wars" on the Death Star instead. If I could figure out how to remove stock missions from the instant action screen it would be neater though. As in it would be a more preferable solution and make the era/mission files more organised/consistent.
Era mods exist because they are intended not to mess with vanilla content so players can enjoy games on both the modded and the vanilla version of the map.
Why don't you just create two new eras? It's the same process with just another letter than 'c'. I'm not even sure if you can get rid of the stock era missions at all. If it is possible it would probably work like a regular mission removal in the addme.
I don't have any issue with messing up vanilla content since you can always just remove the mod. That might be a personal preference but still.
As for the addme, I don't know how to remove missions with lua. I know how to add extra missions and alter existing missions. But the normal way of removing missions is just not adding the missions in the first place. Can't do that with stock.
Edit: The addme makes changes to sp_missionselect_listbox_contents, I'm wondering if there's some way of manipulating that to remove missions from the mission select.
Edit2: To be honest I might take this advice, rename the stock era to "Vanilla Clone Wars" then leave them in. Plus it looks like era_c and era_g are at the top of the list no matter what. So at least one of my modded eras is always below GCW. I'm not sure I'll be able to sort this out the way I would like to without sinking way too much time into it.