Changing civ colors crashes game FIX!

[GIDustin]

ok. I will begin this post by explaining my findings.

In the art/unit/pallette folder, you will find many ntp##.pcx and otp##.pcx files

Also, you will notice that the otp##.pcx files stop at 16 IRONICALLY the last color you can use. I made new files to fill the gaps, and tested a few of the colors that crashed before, and they didnt crash

It seems to me that when the game tries to put those colors on the units (your starting settler for instance), those files cannot be found, and therefore crash the game.

I did not test all the colors however, so if someone could do it for me and post the results, i would be very greatful.

I saw some people post findings much like this in other threads, but I dont think anyone actually tried to make these new files.

GIDustin

 

[stainz]

I,ve been using the 7th color from the bottom in the editor (some kind of green) for my custom civ, ever since i bought civ III.

I,ve never had a crash or hang due to this. And i,ve never altered any pallets nor added anything to do this. I installed the patch 1.16f and 1.17f and it works with all the extra colors in the editor.

What exactly is this going to do?

I,ve only heard that there was a problem with the other colors, but none for me, so i chalked it up as a bug for some people.

 

[tpasmall]

I havent seen this bug before mainly because i havent tested changed colors. Anyway, I downloaded your fix just to ensure it not happening. A great find in my opinion.

 

[GIDustin]

Well, that is odd due to the fact that me and many of my friends lack those files. Check your Art\Units\Palettes folder and see how many otp##.pcx files you have. I am curious to know why yours is different.

 

[stainz]

I have 31 for .ntp and 31 for .otp.

I have installed no fixes for this.

But it might have been included in a mod or something else that i downloaded??
I do d/l alot of things from here and "that" other site, so it might be possible that it was in one of them.

I don,t know, maybe it,s a freak thing, just like some people being able to add more than 24 resourses, and some not. Me being one of them.

I have a post @ the "Multi-Tool" thread that shows the "green" i am using, but i dele. those pics from my online storage. But the post states and "did" show that i was/am using said color.


Read this
(it,s about ¾ down the page)

And the date on the post was before this.

 

[GIDustin]

Yeah I heard about that guy who added more than 24 resources and got em to work, so I followed many links to the apolyton forums, where I discorvered that someone else had already discovered this. I think most mods over there include these files. Oh well, I guess I shoulda checked up on other sites first

I didi, however, perform a search here to see it any post like this existed, and came up no results.

As for the 24+ resource thing, when you say "me being one of them", did you mean you COULD or COULDNT see resources after 24?

 

[stainz]

Originally posted by GIDustin
As for the 24+ resource thing, when you say "me being one of them", did you mean you COULD or COULDNT see resources after 24?

I could add them, but i could only see the 23 and 24, none of the others. I wish i could. Hell, i bet all most everyone would like to.

 

[GIDustin]

Originally posted by stainz



Hell, i bet all most everyone would like to.

You ain't kidding about that! I spent the last 7 hours searching through forums and opening various files to try to get it to work with no luck.

I noticed that Art\City Screen\luxuryicons_small.pcx is the file that controls luxury icons in the city screen and that the file has NO room for expansion. Hopefully this is changed . . .

 

[nonnog6]

If this color fix works I will be able to change colors between German and Roman, so that the "Nazi" flag on the german unit Waffen SS (Stormtrooper) can be noticed!

 

[Mike B.]

The missing otp files are indeed the cause of the crash. The game was mistakenly loading both otp and ntp files but it stopped loading when it encountered the last otp file. As a result ntp17-ntp31.pcx would never get loaded. If you tried to use those colors, the game would crash. The next version of the game will no longer attempt to load the otp files since they are not even used by the game. (I believe I posted about this before but it may have been on another site).

 

[GIDustin]

Thanks Mike B.

Do you know if the next update will allow 24+ resources?

GIdustin

 

[sealman]

Originally posted by GIDustin
Thanks Mike B.

Do you know if the next update will allow 24+ resources?

GIdustin

Mike can neither confirm or deny... but he knows the answer I hope it does.

 

[damunzy]

Bump.