Creating New Civ - Weird Art Icon Issue?

[OctopusDropkick]

I've created a civilization. Everything debugged, files created, etc. I plop in just fine and I can play them.

I've created the ATLAS Art files at all the required sizes (256, 214, 128, etc).

All art shows up correctly EXCEPT for one thing, which is weird.

The icon for the civilization shows just fine in all places except for here as seen in the screenshot;

http://i.imgur.com/ipNTiz8.jpg

See the white blob to the right of the Diplomacy List where the Civ flag should be? See the white blob at the upper left hand corner at the City Production screen that should be the flag?

The flag is showing up fine at start, but then doesn't seem to show up for these parts. Can anyone suggest a fix for this?

The only thing I can think of is that somehow somewhere during the creation of the DDS files, one of the smaller sized files messed up during creation, which seems unlikely. I've popped them open and looked at them -- everything seems fine.

 

[bamflux]

You're missing a size, or possibly not loading the file into VFS.

The sizes I use are 32, 45, 64, 80, 128, and 256 if that helps.

 

[OctopusDropkick]

Thank you for the response. Sadly though I already have all those sizes and they're all already loaded into VFS.

It must be something with one of the damn files -- they must have gotten corrupted somehow. I'm going to painfully redo my ATLAS sets and see if I can fix it.

 

[OctopusDropkick]

Well this is a huge pain. I did what seemed to be a good idea for a debugging process for the integrity of my ATLAS .DDS files

Taking a well known and working fine civ mod; The Goths, I took all their ATLAS icon files which worked perfectly with how I had already set up my icon files. After swapping mine out and putting theirs in with a rename -- I still encountered the same problem. All the Icon Flags I borrowed from The Goths for this experiment were fine except for these two spots;

http://i.imgur.com/ipNTiz8.jpg

So just to double check to make sure it wasn't the Goths mod files ALSO messing up, I then loaded them up and landed in game and they were perfectly fine -- no white spots detected.

I'm honestly stumped, not sure what is wrong here. There is some aspect between my Civ mod and the Goths that is different but I can't make out what. Is there something special about those two spots as seen here --> http://i.imgur.com/ipNTiz8.jpg

Some XML command I have to put in that hasn't been documented or what? That doesn't seem right, but I can certainly be wrong.

 

[OctopusDropkick]

I mean if it isn't (possibly) the .DDS files themselves and everything is loaded into VFS, what in the heck is going on for those two icon spots.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

I'm sure you've checked this, but if it isn't the .dds files then could it be how they're being pointed to in your XML set-up?

About the .dds files...have they been exported in the right format? When working with GIMP, I had graphic issues with my Civ 5 icons if I didn't export them as BC2/DXT3.

 

[bamflux]

The other thing it does look like is maybe one of your Atlas references in your XML is wrong - specifically, the atlas for that size icon. If the Goths ones don't work, it's almost certainly a code issue.

 

[OctopusDropkick]

PROBLEM SOLVED -- IT WAS XML CODE.

The code was either not present in the tutorials I've read or I somehow missed this crucial part. The game managed to auto-recognize most of the correct icons without me having to specify and hand-hold the exact files. I tore apart the other mods and found this code that solved the problem. Copy and pasting for any new fellow modee else who has this problem.

Spoiler :

<IconTextureAtlases>
<Row>
<Atlas>CIV_COLOR_ATLAS_AMAZON</Atlas>
<IconSize>256</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAtlas256.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>CIV_COLOR_ATLAS_AMAZON</Atlas>
<IconSize>128</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAtlas128.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>CIV_COLOR_ATLAS_AMAZON</Atlas>
<IconSize>80</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAtlas80.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>CIV_COLOR_ATLAS_AMAZON</Atlas>
<IconSize>64</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAtlas64.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>CIV_COLOR_ATLAS_AMAZON</Atlas>
<IconSize>45</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAtlas45.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>CIV_COLOR_ATLAS_AMAZON</Atlas>
<IconSize>32</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAtlas32.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>128</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas128.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>80</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas80.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>64</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas64.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>48</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas48.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>32</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas32.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>24</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas24.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
<Row>
<Atlas>AMAZON_CIV_ALPHA_ATLAS</Atlas>
<IconSize>16</IconSize>
<Filename>Art/AmazonAlphaAtlas16.dds</Filename>
<IconsPerRow>8</IconsPerRow>
<IconsPerColumn>8</IconsPerColumn>
</Row>
</IconTextureAtlases>

 

[bamflux]

Glad you got it sorted!

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Glad you got it sorted!

Agreed. It's a nice step forward when you can resolve an issue like this .