Mac civIII editor expantion

[taltho]

So, the editor for Mac?

Can we, or is it possable to import units and luxuries into the editor?
As I understand it the 1.29 version has extra files that version 1.21 cannot read.
This makes sense.

I guess what I'm wondering is, if the .bic portion ect. that makes it 1.29 can be eradicated from the file leaving the origonal 1.21 format?
And if the mac can't, can the pc some how do it or would it be easier on the pc?
Then all we would have to do is open the file on the Mac right?

I'v just got a pc, again, and played a couple of games in ptw and honestly I feal I wasted my money cause I like playing on the mac, esspecialy after the dyp and tam expantions. Theres little diferance to me in the mac and pc versions of civIII or ptw since I'm not into multiplayer aspects of civ.

Well anyway I want to, in my time, work with the pc and Mac 1.21 editor to help build an expantion pac that can be used by the mac civ editor in 1.21.

I don't know if there is anything here on cfc that already has this for the pc.
I'v looked around for graphics and mods for 1.21 but haven't found anything yet.

The goal, to bring all the units from dyp and tam as well as anyother graphics or mod pac's.

If anyone can or is able to, will you help me achive this goal? Thanks in advance.

 

[AlanH]

I tried to do the DyP part of this, and seem to have been only partially successful. I'll try to get some time this week to look further into it, and maybe investigate the TAM stuff as well. I have no idea whether TAM and DyP can live together in the same BIC file, as there may be conflicts - tech tree, resource IDs, unit names ....

I don't know why my DyP version of civ3mod.bic for 1.21 doesn't work for you, at least to create maps. What are the symptoms when you try to use it in the editor? Does the editor crash when you try to open or save it? If so can you send me a crash log?

 

[taltho]

Um it's been a while sonce then.
The maps I only generated for the test. I tried it forur differant times and each time I got the same responce every thing worked well untill I got to the point of loading the game , through the player start windows choising civ's and level ect, then it went through to the loading bar witch then got to 8% then the game quit all ffour times.

I did this using your mod3.bic. I saw, in the editor, all the resources and the tech's and all the units.
After checking that I generated a map using 1000000 world seed then placed the file in a clean 1.29 file from download not a copy, just to make sure there where no problems. Then after placing the file into the folder I used your mod installer to install the DyP folder. I know the DyP foldr works caus I played a game through to the end.

Yes I thought that putting the DyP and TAM together might be difficult.

also I'm wondering if I can use the mod3.bic in my PC. for civ III witch I'v left 1.21 for this reason. I'll try it now, see what I come up with.

 

[AlanH]

Are you certain you unchecked the custom rules menu option before saving the map? Leaving this checked, even if you don't change any rules, caused a game crash for me as well.

 

[taltho]

Yes I read your post on the dyp thred and unchecked it the only thing I had checked was custom map.

 

[taltho]

Ok I retried the map thing. This time on tam.
What hapend this time is the map loaded, but only part of the recources showed up.
I'm not sure about the units though.

I'v also spent several hours with the pc editor, still working with it. I think I can come up with somthing here. I'll spend more time with it tomarow.