I'm getting an unusual problem. It's quite superficial but ultimately annoying as hell.

Basically there are instances in the game when the pop-up screen appears and the formatting and text are all wrong, as shown below. I've no idea why this is happening, nor do I know how to fix it.



No idea why it says DEFEAT on the opening screen.
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/7981/bug3va.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

What's with the extra two options on the bottom?
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/3682/bug25dl.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Any ideas please?

Woops, posted in the wrong forum. :blush:

Sorry, please move to C&C.

Moved. ;)

Well, the problem is it reads a comment as two further options for the option list. Now, why it does this remains a mystery to me.

It has to do with the syntax used in the "labels" file IIIRC (or is it script ?).

What I did when I got the same problem was to check carefully with the original for any discrepancy, however minor.

It could be something as simple as a return "sign". And it could well be that (= don't include any break or break line).

could you have altered the text files?

more specifically, is it possible that you left an item from one of these text files (the "Script.txt" file iirc) in an area of the document where it shouldn't be (hence the appearance of the unwanted script)?

One possibility is that your script.txt has been amended. We're looking at #TRADE_FIRST, so search for that in your script.txt. The next line, where TRADE STATEMENTS is, needs to have #comment in front of it. There also should be a gap between this and the #TRADE_FIRST paragraph. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, upload script.txt here and I'll have a look at it.

I am only guessing that this is the problem based on your post. It might of course have nothing to do with it!

EDIT : Cross posted with both Loulong and El Justo!! When I started typing, TLC was the last poster.

I am having a similar problem!!!
I get a lot of strange messages! Not only pop ups have wrong text, strange text appears sometimes (I'm serious and I have a picture and I started a thread in Civ3 GD about this!):

I press Enter to end a turn, I get sometimes:

Please Wait...

assland

Or when I click a unit it shows:
Madame Settler

Or:
[][][[[[[yyyyyyy'''''''yyyyWorker

If you find out how to fix this problems I would like to know too.

I looked on the script.txt entry from the scenario, and there's no obvious discrepancy compared the the normal one - no extra blank lines or the like.

Thanks for the move Padma and apologies for the slip up. Thanks also to everyone for the feedback.

I'll be honest, the Script.txt file still baffles me. I've been whittling away technical mysteries in modding with a vengeance lately but this is a frontier I'm yet to cross.

Now I should say that I have edited this, of course. But only a small part of it, which I quote in full here. Just in case that's it, this could save skimming the whole document. I'm including the last few words of the line above and the first line from the section below, so you can see the spacing also.

Test of Time.

#DAWN_OF_SCENARIO
#caption The Dawn of Civilization
#xs 400
#x -5
#y -5
^Hail $PLAYER0, leader of the {$STRENGTHS4} $CIVNOUN2.
^
^{Background:} $YEARTIME5, The Battle of Panipat: [Babur the Mughal] has just
defeated an army of 100,000 men and 1,000 elephants, fielded by the Lodi
Sultans, a dynasty of Afghan Muslim rulers. Against the odds, Babur’s paltry
12,000 routed the Lodi Sultan, with superior cavalry and cannon
shot, and took [Delhi]. His descendants will encourage religious
tolerance, art and culture, and will expand his fledgling empire by military
means. In the south of India, a mighty Hindu Kingship is giving way to Persian
and Shia influence. The Southern Deccan remains an obstacle and a prize. All
this as new lightskinned traders start arriving...
^
^{Culture Groups} This scenario sees 4 culture groups competing for 'Trade
Monopoly' in India. These are:
^ [Persian:] Safavids & Mughals (2)
^ [Indian:] Golconda, Vijayanagara, Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Rajputs, Bengal (6)
^ [Local:] Nepal, Burma, Ceylon & The Malacca Pirates (4)
^ [European:] East India Co. (English), V.O.C.(Dutch version of EIC), Vasco's
Traders (Portuguese) and Compagnie des Indes (French) (4)
^
^{Victory:} Victory is achieved by the first player to amass 60,000 VP, [or]
gain 50% terrain and 60% population (Domination Victory) [or] simple Conquest. A Cultural Victory is also possible,
as well as Histographic, ie. the player with the highest score at the end of the game (450 turns).
^
^{Special 'Trade Mastery' Victory:} A Player, once in control of [Opium] and
[Cotton], can build the 'Trade Mastery' wonder. Having done this, and [also]
gained control of [gems] and [silks], the player may build 'The Jewel In The
Crown' - which instantly wins them the game.
^
^$PLAYER0, your people have vested [absolute power] in you, trusting that you
can build a
$CHARLIEMYSTERY6 civilization to stand the Test of Time!






#comment __________________________________________________ ________VICTORY AND
I'll also post the file up, even though TLC has kindly looked into it, for people to look at. I suspected this would be the file in question but as I look at it I get lost in a sea of (as yet) meaningless text. :sad:

Try this one and see if it helps.


BTW "x" and "y" at the beginning of what you edited are for the placing of the text screen and (probably) for its largeness ("xs"). That might come in handy if you have a lot of text or just want to move the screen around.

BTW If someone could find a way of incorporating a picture in that...

BTW If someone could find a way of incorporating a picture in that...
That would be useful, so I'm sure it's impossible. :)

Ever the optimist, ey?

LouLong: Now I feel like Miss Louis Lane in the Superman movies..."thank you, whoever you are" :love:

But just not quite so feminine :D

Anyway, thanks a million. You've fixed it! Much much neater now. Something tells me that this was one of the last things on my list before release. I just have to upload and draft the posts for the release now!

Depending on my work in the office, that could well be today. :banana:

That would be useful, so I'm sure it's impossible. :)

I always love your comments, mrtn ! Unfortunately their irony is nearly always valid... :(


@Rambuchan : gald it helped. I just destroyed some breaks in the lines following what you had edited. Not obvious but irksome. I know, I have been through that. It is interesting how it looks though, gives the impression we can mode deeper than actually possible ;).

Heh.. Your People have vested Abs!