3.17 : Modern Roads with old Graph

[r_rolo1]

The title says it all. This is from a old 3.13 save under 3.17. It is easily noticeable that I'm using BUG and Blue Marble:

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[r_rolo1]

Without BUG and BlueMarble...

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The ancient roads are still there. This is in another computer.....

 

[KrikkitTwo]

This might be intentional (to help distinguish them from railroads)

 

[r_rolo1]

Does not appear in the changelog....

 

[Aristos]

I see the same. I even started a game in Future Era to test if the problem is 3.13-save-in-3.17 related, and I saw the same there.

So it's related to 3.17, even with new games.

I wonder if it is WAD. If not, where did the change happen? Any idea?

 

[r_rolo1]

Are you using any Mod ( blue Marble, BUG , HoF ,... ) ? Just to know....

 

[semirami]

The same here. Ancient roads with both 3.13 save and new game.

I am using blue M and BUG.

 

[r_rolo1]

I'm starting to suspect it is BlueMarble related.... will try to know something more

 

[Aristos]

Blue Marble and BUG here. Both in Custom assets.

 

[r_rolo1]

I talked with ColdFever ( BlueMarble developer ) and he said it is not related with Blue Marble, because BlueMarble does not touch in the roads graphs. Will see the BUG people as well ( butI would be seriously surprised if BUG had anything to do with it )

 

[PieceOfMind]

I use no mods and I'm seeing ancient era roads for the entire game. It's a bug.

 

[Balderstrom]

I'm curious if the people experiencing this bug are running Vista?
If so, when you ran the patch - it needs to be "Run As Administrator"
If not, then I'm not sure.

I do know I was using Junctions on a number of the install directories, and this particular patch for some reason didn't change all the files. Vista uses ShadowFolders and a number of other Junction-like things, it is especially resistant to ProgramFiles changes.

This is the first time I've run into a program that f'd up a Junction. From what I knew the location the junction points to is "resolved/expanded" at the system level, before any calls beyond that directory may proceed.

Though I have seen some oddities in WIn2K where files can't be deleted from a junctioned path, it needs to be called from the true path.
Perhaps the patch attempts to delete files, then copy the replacement into place - without using a /FORCE to overwrite if the file still exists.

Anyways I noticed this after more than a few posts talked about some changes, I noted those changes were not in my xml files.

 

[r_rolo1]

That would explain a thing or two... but atleast I installed as Administrator ( but I would no be surprised if Vista ragged about messing with Program directory, even in "Run as Administrator" )

 

[Aristos]

well that's not the case. Windows XP here. The problem is there.

 

[PieceOfMind]

I use no mods and I'm seeing ancient era roads for the entire game. It's a bug.

Windows XP here too.

 

[Gladistir]

There are Ancient roads in modern age because 3.17 changed XML file Assets\XML\Art\CIV4RouteModelInfos.xml. Paths to graphic files for modern age roads refer to old-style roads. I just edited these paths, so now they refer to modern-shaped roads. As it was in 3.13.

Place this XML file into "BtS\CustomAssets\XML\Art\" folder(recommended) or replace the original file in "Civ4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\Art\" folder.

 

[Balderstrom]

AH! And I wasn't getting that odd graphic anomoly as my BTS folder only got half-bakedly patched hehe.

 

[Slobadog]

There are Ancient roads in modern age because 3.17 changed XML file Assets\XML\Art\CIV4RouteModelInfos.xml. Paths to graphic files for modern age roads refer to old-style roads. I just edited these paths, so now they refer to modern-shaped roads. As it was in 3.13.

Place this XML file into "BtS\CustomAssets\XML\Art\" folder(recommended) or replace the original file in "Civ4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\Art\" folder.

Thats a rar file not a XML file.

 

[Dagorath]

Thats a rar file not a XML file.

RAR archive file format .
Use 7-Zip or IZArc to extract the XML file.

 

[Slobadog]

There is always new things to learn. Thanks for the info.