Dam that would be awesome. Any progress?

Originally posted by ViccyQ:

Dam that would be awesome. Any progress?

I don't know how to create models for the new resources nor do I know how to add them into the scenario editor. If I had that information, the I could implement it.

Pretty late to the party on this one, but I was interested enough to look into it.

It looks like the piece of the puzzle you're missing is adding
to the ctw rares in resourcerules.xml. This allows them to be placed in the scenario editor. They don't have art assets though, so they just look like Dye in-game lol (except for one rare - Maize, I think).

If you don't want them showing up in non-custom scenarios as random rares keep the flag but change the value to 0 and that should do the trick, but this appears to make the rares no longer appear in the UI for the scenario editor (more importantly already-placed rares on a custom map seem to stay there though).

After a lot more research, I found an old mod (probably not compatible out of the box, but you can browse the files it uses at least) that integrates these with what I assume are custom art assets: http://ron.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=1129

So in theory I think it's not actually that difficult to add functioning ctw rares into the game.

As an update to anyone that cares, seeing this thread like a month ago (I initially read it when I didn't have the information in my previous comment) prompted me to investigate making my own mod(s) to enable the CTW rares and those are now done:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2106492753
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2106493190