JCivED - a toolbox for Civilization

Problem solved!

User CivZ game me a copy of a program called CivCracker which is basically a full CivWin editor and map editor like JCivEd is for CivDos. Best of all it's also a SAVE CONVERTER!! I was able to take my Barbarian scenario save file that I designed in JCivEd and save it as a CivWin save game! Loaded just fine!

It also got me around a bug in JCivEd that I should probably report here and provide saves for.

When you set the player civ to Barbarians in JCivEd and then save you will never be able to load that save file in JCivEd again. It just hangs forever trying to load the save file. Even closing JCivEd doesn't stop the frozen loading bar, I had to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Java just stop the darn thing.

Attached is a zip with 2 saves files that are complete identical apart from me changing the player civ from Romans to Barbarians. The Roman one will load in JCivEd, the barb one won't.

 

Guys, jcived won't load on my Win10, saying "java" is an unrecognised or bad command. Any solution?

 

How can I see the entire map and all cities not just yours?

 

You'll want to set Map View to "Show all map" and Items View to "Show all items" like so

 

Thanks!

 

Can you change AI personalities in JCivED? It's been a while since I've played around with it. Or can you do it in Terraform? I'm trying to create a climate change scenario with all the AI as Aggressive, Expansionist and Militaristic.

 

For anyone wanting to look at a savegame with a future tech discovered, there is a quick-and-dirty workaround. Using a hex editor, open the SVE file and go to addr.dec 30320 and the next entry, 30321, and zero them ( 00 00 ). This makes JCIVED ignore the game replay data, which apparently otherwise crashes the java engine when there's future tech.

I don't know how far you were in the process of fixing this. Hope you come back to JCIVED soon! Would also be interested in being able to toggle the display of living/dead/invisible huts.

 

I am still lurking around, and apparently did fix this years ago :



Not sure how stable this fix was, but I remember starting to transfer my Windows coding/build environment to linux (ubuntu) and did not progress enough to be able to release a new version...

The only change in this commit is in file src/dd/civ/data/game/types/Advance.java, I apparently added a new line at line 80:



One day or another I will find time to start working on JCivED seriously again - my kids are growing up

 

Well if you've got a word doc with peoples bug reports or wish list items in for when that day comes then these are my 2 for the list.

1. Add CivWin save format compatibility (although if you see my above post I thankfully found a way around the issue for the time being)
2. Fix the weird bug that makes the save files unloadable if you set the human player to barbarian (also in my above post )

 

I had a TODO list somewhere, but let's say the official way would be to create tickets on the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/p/jcived/tickets/ (requires an account)

 

Done! I've been logging tickets for a few fan projects over the last couple of years (mostly FreeCol) so no stranger to that process haha.

You should probably stick a "if you wish to report bugs please lodge a ticket at https://sourceforge.net/p/jcived/tickets/ " in your OP of this thread too new visitors/testers can use it too.

 

im looking for a simple map editor only to change some terrain

 

Hello! Could you help with settlers problem? I used last version of JCivED-0.0.18a.zip and changed map in save (add 3 terrain). Also moved city.
Now I cant build Settlers in any city. They not exist in list. Civ 454.01 (english).

All other things work fine, many many thanks to author!!

 

After researches I found the problem - when editing savegame, and accidentally open and click the line [0] Settlers in the tab 'Data'->UnitTypes, then the editor will write wrong "FFFF" instead of "7F00" (Cancelling Tech ID). You can avoid this by manually typing "127" in "Cancelling Tech ID" instead of "-1" and press Enter.

 

Now I have another question. About patches. Why does programm say that my version 'UNKNOWN'. It is from image of diskettes 474.01. Another image 474.03 recognized correctly