Hi, I got a problem with the pictures and description showing up in the civilopedia. I've added all the necessary files in my scenario folder and copy/pasted the pediaicon and civilopedia txt from TETurkhan's mod, since I'm adding the machinegunners and flamethrowers. The game works fine but the large pic and the text aren't showing up. Any clues why? I'll provide more information if needed, thanks. Forgot to mention that a picture is showing up, a blown up pic from the units_32 file of the respective units.

when you're adding a new unit, you have to add instructions to two places in the pediaicons.txt file. the first is for the civilopedia picture references. for example, using the ballista added to ROCX, the following 3 lines are in the pediaicons.txt file:

#ICON_PRTO_Ballista
art\civilopedia\icons\units\RomanBallistaLarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\RomanBallistaSmall.pcx

then, the second place is for the unit animation. again, using the ballista, the 2 lines added are:

#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Ballista
Ballista

my guess would be that you either have put the pcx pictures in the wrong directory, or mis-spelled the filenames in the lines above.

a more left-field possibility is that your .biq file does not have the mod directory in its search path. perhaps some of the more clever people here can be of more help than i!

EW

That's what exactly what I did, here it is:

#ICON_PRTO_Flamethrower
art\civilopedia\icons\units\x_americanRM civpedia lg.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\x_americanRM civpedia sm.pcx
#ICON_PRTO_Heavy_Machinegunner
art\civilopedia\icons\units\x_Heavy_Machinegunner lg.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\x_Heavy_Machinegunner sm.pcx

then:

#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Flamethrower
American Flamethrower
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_German_Heavy_Machinegunner
German Heavy Machinegunner

All the unit .pcx are in Civilopedia\Icons\Units, and all the sounds and animations are in the units folder. I believe I haven't missed anything. The .bic
file issue is something new to me. I'll check it out though

I've got a similar problem. I've got all the files and pics set up as mentioned above, the game runs with the units fine. only problem is The Civilopedia. When I try to check the civilopedia for any of my units, I get an error message like this:

Error reading file:

Missing file: art\civilopedia\icons\units\unitname lg.pcx


and then, of course, the game exits.

I can check my added civilopedia entries for all my added wonders and buildings, just can't get my units to load. I've checked and double-checked the file names, even gone into Photoshop Pro to check the size and pixelation. all the same as normal civilopedia units pics.

PLEASE HELP!!!! ANYONE!?!

hmmm... have you checked the color resolution for the pcx files? i seem to recall running into this once when i downloaded a unit that had .pcx files with true color (32-bit). C3C expects 256-color (8-bit).

if this is it, ms photo editor will change filetypes fairly easily.

EW

i notice that sourboy is helping someone else with a similar problem. he's got some good suggestions about double checking spelling and such that might be useful.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=109861

EW

Hey there.... sourboy and a few others were helping me with my problem and I got it solved (Ekidu listed the thread link just above). My mistake was to actually add ".pcx" to the end of the file name in civilopedia\icons\units. Just thought I'd let you know what I was doing wrong so you won't make the same mistake, Emperor.

I'm not sure if that's the problem you're having though, because the symptoms don't seem the same. Mine wasn't showing a blown-up units_32 pic, instead the game was just crashing and asking for the file I typed in PediaIcons.

Good luck with resolving yours.