MY Add a Civ Tutorial

[Brownsfan02]

I am dizzy from reading all that, I am not good with graphics stuff

 

[Brownsfan02]

I decided to give it a try, but I am having problems getting the image to 128x128 I am using the GIMP editor so i anyone can help I would highly appreciate it

 

[Brownsfan02]

I am sorry I keeping leaving messages, but I got the other 2 figured out and now I am having problems with it saving in .dds format. It says that GIMP dosen't support .dds format.

 

[RulerOfDaPeople]

This thread is like a ghost town.

I too would like to know.

 

[I9113N]

I doubt if people will reply to this, but...

I have made a new civ,the Monterrian Kingdom, as part of a fictional scenario called The Latusian Kingdoms, (TLK1). I no longer receive error messages when loading the mod, but, the leader (King Ammeas) appears as the TXT_KEY thing, and so does the civ name. In the custom game, I select King Ammeas as my civ, and do random for everyone else. At the end of the intro video, the game crashes to desktop. I am unsure what to do, as I believe most of the XML files are correct.

Attached is the mod.

Thanks if anyone can help!

 

[The_J]

For the text issue:
You get the text for your civ and the leader from the keys in your .xml-files, so you have to add an entry with TXT_KEY_LEADER_KING_AMMEAS to the xml-file in the XML\Text folder.

Does the leader appear correctly in the civilopedia?

 

[I9113N]

Yeah, that could help if I did that! but once I filled all of that out, it came up with an error that said there was something invalid on line 1,1 in the game text infos. I checked it again, and there was nothing wrong it seemed.

Edit: I copied the original game XML infos file and deleted everything but my stuff, now it works. I can load the mod without an error message, but the Civ name is still the TXT_KEY, and when starting a game, I come up with another CTD. The leader works in the Civilopedia, but the civ itself does not.


updated GameInfos attached.

 

[hockeyrox38]

Hi, I'm having some troubles adding a UU and UB. They show up fine in the civilopedia, and I can WB them into a game, but whenever I select to build either my civ's UU or UB, the game crashes!
Please Help!

 

[The_J]

Do you also get the right information, when you select your custom civ?

Did you create the buttons for the UB and the UU yourself?

 

[hockeyrox38]

Yeah I get all the right info, and the civilopedia articles, everything else (as far as I know) is fine.
I created the buttons myself, and I reskinned a unit and building for the UB and UU. (BTW, I don't know, but I believe both were custom models as well)

 

[The_J]

How big are your buttons?
Buttons for buildings and units mustn't be bigger than 64*64.
Bigger sizes will crash the game, when you click on them (but not in the worldbuilder).

 

[hockeyrox38]

My buttons are 64*64. I used buttonmaker and merged the layers together when I was done.

 

[The_J]

Strange.
Could you upload the files?

 

[hockeyrox38]

You can DL it here. THX! I made it modular. I think it may be the alpha channel on the buttons

 

[The_J]

There's definetly a problem with the buttons.
When i try to re-save them, DXTBmp says, that they were saved as DDS 888-8 32 Bit, not as DDS DXT3, which is needed. You also need the standard background for the buttons (just look at one of the normal buttons).

However, i've corrected it, file is attached.

Btw, the buttons are very nice .

 

[hockeyrox38]

Thanks. I haven't tested it, but the new buttons look great and will probably look better in-game. Do you possibly have a blank button that I could use for the civ button and leader?
Wierd how it doesn't cause it to crash in the civilopedia or WorldBuilder

 

[The_J]

Haven't changed anything, i've meant the originals .


No, i have nothing like a dummy button, i'm doing my with simple screenshots .

 

[hockeyrox38]

Unfortunatley the game still crashes. I am clueless right now. what I meant is that the new border looks like the other civ buttons, and blends in much nicer. I also noticed when looking at other buttons from a different mod that there is a blank border of pixels around it. could that be causing problems if my buttons didn't have this border?

 

[The_J]

This border comes from the background. I'm not really sure, how this works, but it's needed, and i guess, that a game will crash without it.

Still crashes...strange .
I'll have a look at the full module, if i don't forget it .

 

[hockeyrox38]

If it is the buttons, I'll try referncing different buttons in the XML.