Get your questions answered

[stevo32]

I thought that it would be a good idea to have a thread were people could ask questions and get them answered. Have a title telling us what the problem is and then ask your question. If it is an error then please upload or copy your code onto the site as it will save asking for it. If I can't answer then I will search for someone who knows the answer.

If your question is not answered then PM me and I'll see what I can do.

 

[Ajidica]

I can help with most xml stuff with the exception of modular stuff (never used it), formationinfos (largly obsolete with BTS) and the lsystem stuff. (looked at it once, really scary. most xml is self intuative, not this). I can also help with art questions.

 

[stevo32]

Thanks Ajidicia.

If this threads does get up and running unanswered question will go here.

 

[Al-Iskander]

Ok, I have a question.

I'm trying to re-skin Judaism to Manichaeism for RFC RAND, in line with how Umarth did the same for Zoroastrianism and Ralendil's guide on Modifying the Religions.

I modified a few files (and backed up everything, thank God) but now the game crashes during the mod-loading process.

My question is this: Is there any way I get the game to tell me which file is causing the crash?

Thanks

 

[xienwolf]

Best way is to change one file at a time, in order of dependancy (add Art resources, then define new art styles, then new entities (completely new XML section in an Infos file), then link them into other XML as pre-reqs and the like. Start the game up in between each step to ensure it still loads). Normally it will inform you what file is loading when an error is encountered, but that only pertains to XML errors. A straight crash with no warning typically involves artwork in my experience.

 

[Al-Iskander]

Best way is to change one file at a time, in order of dependancy (add Art resources, then define new art styles, then new entities (completely new XML section in an Infos file), then link them into other XML as pre-reqs and the like. Start the game up in between each step to ensure it still loads). Normally it will inform you what file is loading when an error is encountered, but that only pertains to XML errors. A straight crash with no warning typically involves artwork in my experience.

Thanks for the response

I think you're right. I'm pretty sure I have it narrowed down to the "Assets\res\Fonts" folder, in which I only touched the GameFont.tga and GameFont_75.tga files, since it says its crashing while trying to "Init Fonts (14.56s)", or something to that effect. It crashes too soon after getting there for me to be absolutely certain.

I'm dredging around the forum for tutorials and help stuff on this issue now, and it looks like it's a well-covered thing, so hopefully I can fix it soon.

 

[xienwolf]

Here's a pretty good one on handling the TGA.