Ok so I downloaded the Rise of Asia map from here and I used it to make my own scenario. So yeah, I put civilizations on it, named the cities, changed the ruler/city/civ names to make it appropriate for the time period. I also added some new units using the existing art already in the editor. So then when I was done I saved it.

Then when it came to the time to play my scenario, something went wrong. The game allowed me to pick my civilization, then it started to load the game. Just before the game was done loading it would say that there was an error. Apparently I was missing something in "text\PediaIcons.text":ANIMNAME_.

I don't even know what that is, can anyone help me? I worked really hard on this scenario and took me a couple of days so I really want it to work. Ok thanks guys.

Welcome to the forum, rdlp123, but you are posting in the wrong subforum, this needs to be in the Creation and Customization Forum.

Oh sorry. Can't this be moved?

Oh sorry. Can't this be moved?

One of the moderators will likely move it.

The msg will tell you the file it was looking for and where it expected to find it. Go to folder and find something like it and copy it and rename it to the name it wants and it will likely be happy. Expect to run into more than one such error.

The message didn't tell me any file. It just said i was missing something in "text\PediaIcons.text":ANIMNAME_ and that the game was going to close.

There is a folder called TEXT. It will have dozen or so txt files. One will be call Pedicons. In it there is a UNIT ANIMNAME list. The one it is looking for is missing or label incorrectly. The name should appear in the msg following the ANIMNAME_.

If it does not, I would look at any new units you added to see if they all have an entry. The best I can offer.

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I know, I'm slow....

It sounds like you've added a unit to the editor without giving it a pedia entry. The name in the pedia entry box will be used to reference the sections of civliopedia.txt and pediaicons.txt to find the accompanying text and graphics for the unit. If you use a name that does not already exist in the text files, you must add the section #PRTO_<NAME> (text description for pedia page) to civilopedia.txt and the sections #ICON_PRTO_<NAME> (location of large and small icons) and #ANIMNAME_PRTO_<NAME> (name of animation folder) to pediaicons.txt.