I' m trying to mod BTS for days now, much more difficult than vanilla i think. Ok, there is a very strange thing happening over here. I want to add 8 units total. Some of them are just flavor units, some are new unit classes, some are UUs.
Everything is fine, the units can be built in the game with no problem but as soon as i enter industrial age, the game crashes. I talked about it with
Wolfshanze and he said:
Actually a crash when entering the Industrial era is usually related to a fault in the XML code.
Specifically, one or more units in the Civ4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml more then likely has a bad/wrong command line (possibly typo) pointing to a wrong or incorrect graphic for a "LateAge" unit... the transition from Reinassance to Industrial Age triggers a graphic change of units in-game, and one wrong line in the Civ4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml can make the game unstable and CTD.
I had accidently introduced such an error in an earlier version of my mod and only realized later what the problem was (I narrowed the problem down to four trouble-making units and their XML tags). The problem is easily solved if you can find the trouble-maker(s).
This can and does happen in other mods as well... the problem you describe sounds exactly like the situation I encountered and solved.
In other words... it's probably an XML error in the Civ4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml file.
He was right. I tested the game in WB adding all techs up to the industrial age. Then, if i double-click a city, the game zooms out but the cityscreen won't show. A few turns later, it crashes.
I deleted every single custom unit. The problem
dissapeared!
I really don't know what i'm doing wrong. I have implemented much more difficult things in my mod than units. My mod is based on
Dale's DCM. Initially, i thought that dcm was causing this but no.
Here is an example of how i do things in the most popular case:
CIV4UnitInfos.xml
<UnitInfo>
<Class>UNITCLASS_MODERN_ARMOR</Class>
<Type>UNIT_T90</Type>
.
.
<UnitMeshGroup>
<iRequired>1</iRequired>
<EarlyArtDefineTag>ART_DEF_UNIT_T90</EarlyArtDefineTag>
</UnitMeshGroup>
In
CIV4ArtDefines_Unit.xml:
<UnitArtInfo>
<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_T90</Type>
<Button>Art/Interface/Buttons/Units/64px-T90.dds</Button>
<fScale>0.45</fScale>
<fInterfaceScale>0.9</fInterfaceScale>
<bActAsLand>0</bActAsLand>
<bActAsAir>0</bActAsAir>
<NIF>Art/Units/T90/T-84 Animated.nif</NIF>
<KFM>Art/Units/T90/T-8 Animated.kfm</KFM>
<SHADERNIF>Art/Units/T90/T-84 Animated.nif</SHADERNIF>
<ShadowDef>
<ShadowNIF>Art/Units/01_UnitShadows/ModernArmorShadow.nif</ShadowNIF>
<ShadowAttachNode>BIP elvis</ShadowAttachNode>
<fShadowScale>1.0</fShadowScale>
</ShadowDef>
<iDamageStates>4</iDamageStates>
<TrailDefinition>
<Texture>Art/Shared/tanktread.dds</Texture>
<fWidth>0.8</fWidth>
<fLength>180.0</fLength>
<fTaper>0.0</fTaper>
<fFadeStartTime>0.2</fFadeStartTime>
<fFadeFalloff>0.35</fFadeFalloff>
</TrailDefinition>
<fBattleDistance>0.5</fBattleDistance>
<fRangedDeathTime>0.12</fRangedDeathTime>
<bActAsRanged>1</bActAsRanged>
<TrainSound>AS2D_UNIT_BUILD_UNIQUE_UNIT</TrainSound>
<AudioRunSounds>
<AudioRunTypeLoop>LOOPSTEP_MOD_ARMOUR</AudioRunTypeLoop>
<AudioRunTypeEnd>ENDSTEP_MOD_ARMOUR</AudioRunTypeEnd>
</AudioRunSounds>
<SelectionSound>AS3D_UN_MOD_ARMOUR_HEAL</SelectionSound>
<ActionSound>AS3D_UN_MOD_ARMOUR_HEAL</ActionSound>
</UnitArtInfo>
We want this unit unique to the Russians so:
In
CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml:
<Unit>
<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_MODERN_ARMOR</UnitClassType>
<UnitType>UNIT_T90</UnitType>
</Unit>
For some other units, i use default Buttons. That's the only thing i might not do from the tutorial. Oh, and the Civilopedia texts aren't ready yet. If this is solved out, we'll see.
Any ideas? I would be grateful to anybody.
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