Dot Map Help for Bug mod.

[stowell48]

I am unable to get my dot map to work. I have previously used this feature.

I have checked in the options, and it shows that it is enabled. But when I press Alt-X nothing happens. In my BUG mod options I show Strategy Layer: Enabled (Checked) Show Dot Map (checked) Draw City Dots (checked).

Any idea why nothing is happening when I press this key combination? I have installed BUG 4.4

Thanks

 

[EmperorFool]

Did you uninstall the previous version of BUG? If not, delete your CustomAssets folder (assuming Single Player install) and reinstall.

 

[stowell48]

Did you uninstall the previous version of BUG? If not, delete your CustomAssets folder (assuming Single Player install) and reinstall.

I didn't uninstall 4.2. I actually need 4.2 for a multiplayer game I am playing. Will it work with the multiplayer install. I believe that is what choice I selected on installing it.

Thanks for the quick response.

 

[EmperorFool]

Yes, multiplayer installs go into their own folder inside the Mods folder, so you can have several versions of BUG installed that way. Take a look at the Troubleshooting page in my sig for instructions on setting up logging so I can see what's going on. Then launch a game, turn the dotmap on and off several times, and finally post the two PythonErr.log and PythonDbg.log files from your My Games / BTS / Logs folder.

 

[stowell48]

Yes, multiplayer installs go into their own folder inside the Mods folder, so you can have several versions of BUG installed that way. Take a look at the Troubleshooting page in my sig for instructions on setting up logging so I can see what's going on. Then launch a game, turn the dotmap on and off several times, and finally post the two PythonErr.log and PythonDbg.log files from your My Games / BTS / Logs folder.

Ok thanks, here is the files. Let me know if you see anything. I just opened the game and hit ALT-X a bunch of times and then logged out.

 

[EmperorFool]

Everything in the logs looks fine. Can you post your saved game?

 

[stowell48]

Everything in the logs looks fine. Can you post your saved game?

Sure.

Thanks

 

[stowell48]

Ok, here is something weird. I was able to get the dot map to show up.

But I can't get it to show up holding down ALT then pressing X. If I try and hit alt-x at the same time over and over it will eventually pull up.

Really Strange. Since ALT-S pulls up every time while holding down ALT then pressing S.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Do you have one of those spiffy gaming keyboards that has perhaps remapped Alt-X?

I have a Logitech G15, and I was using Alt-X for a macro function in Windows, mapped to one of the specialty keys. This is fine, as long as I use the Civ profile when playing. If I don't, no dot maps.

 

[stowell48]

Do you have one of those spiffy gaming keyboards that has perhaps remapped Alt-X?

I have a Logitech G15, and I was using Alt-X for a macro function in Windows, mapped to one of the specialty keys. This is fine, as long as I use the Civ profile when playing. If I don't, no dot maps.

Nope, no special mappings done. Since Alt-S works, but Alt-X only does when hitting it the same time and doing it over and over until it pops up.

I'm at a loss as to why it is doing this.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Sticky X key, maybe? Does it display every time you hit it in Notepad, or some such program?

If it isn't making a good connection, that would explain why you need to hit Alt-X a number of times before it works...

 

[stowell48]

Sticky X key, maybe? Does it display every time you hit it in Notepad, or some such program?

If it isn't making a good connection, that would explain why you need to hit Alt-X a number of times before it works...

Nope, X key and Alt key both work perfectly every time I press them in Windows.

 

[EmperorFool]

I see in the logs the old shortcut is also still active: ALT + F10 and CTRL + F10. Try those and see if you get the same random behavior. If not you can modify "CustomAssets / Config / Strategy Overlay.xml" and change the <shortcut>s for the dotmap.

 

[ruff_hi]

I have the cheat code enabled and the Strat Layer shortcut keys (which I always forget) are really similar to the civ4 cheat keys reveal map and swap player. I fixed that by removing the cheat code.