Need a little help

[Chad G. Messick]

I am just playing around at the moment trying to learn how to mod, i am starting off by simply adding a new game speed but my problem is when i go to select it in the advanced menu it shows "txt_key_GameSpeed_Historic" for the desc, and for the help it shows the same but with _help added on, and not what i defined in my text.xml file. it almost seems as it isn't loading it. I attached a screen shot of the file structure as well as the action screen to show i have it in there.

also is there a way to get the new options to show in the main gameoptions screen and not just the advanced?

code is

<GameData>
<GameSpeeds>
<Row>
<ID>4</ID>
<Type>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</Description>
<Help>TXT_KEY_GAMESPEED_HISTORIC_HELP</Help>
<DealDuration>90</DealDuration>
<GrowthPercent>300</GrowthPercent>
<TrainPercent>300</TrainPercent>
<ConstructPercent>300</ConstructPercent>
<CreatePercent>300</CreatePercent>
<ResearchPercent>300</ResearchPercent>
<GoldPercent>300</GoldPercent>
<GoldGiftMod>67</GoldGiftMod>
<BuildPercent>300</BuildPercent>
<ImprovementPercent>300</ImprovementPercent>
<GreatPeoplePercent>300</GreatPeoplePercent>
<CulturePercent>300</CulturePercent>
<BarbPercent>400</BarbPercent>
<FeatureProductionPercent>300</FeatureProductionPercent>
<UnitDiscoverPercent>300</UnitDiscoverPercent>
<UnitHurryPercent>300</UnitHurryPercent>
<UnitTradePercent>300</UnitTradePercent>
<GoldenAgePercent>200</GoldenAgePercent>
<HurryPercent>100</HurryPercent>
<InflationPercent>10</InflationPercent>
<InflationOffset>-270</InflationOffset>
<VictoryDelayPercent>300</VictoryDelayPercent>
<IconAtlas>GAMESPEED_ATLAS</IconAtlas>
<PortraitIndex>3</PortraitIndex>
</Row>
</GameSpeeds>
<GameSpeed_Turns>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>180</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>100</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>120</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>300</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>60</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>170</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>24</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>201</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>12</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>129</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>6</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>180</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>3</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>264</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
<Row>
<GameSpeedType>GAMESPEED_HISTORIC</GameSpeedType>
<MonthIncrement>1</MonthIncrement>
<TurnsPerIncrement>156</TurnsPerIncrement>
</Row>
</GameSpeed_Turns>
</GameData>





then text code is

<GameData>
<Language_en_US>
<ROW TAG="TXT_KEY_GAMESPEED_HISTORIC">
<TEXT>Historic</TEXT>
</ROW>
<ROW TAG="TXT_KEY_GAMESPEED_HISTORIC_HELP">
<TEXT>this a mod that i don't know if it will work but i will keep trying until my but hurts ok?</TEXT>
</ROW>
</Language_en_US>
</GameData>

 

[Shiggs713]

first, remove the line with the ID in it.

oh and welcome to the forums!

 

[Chad G. Messick]

first, remove the line with the ID in it.

oh and welcome to the forums!

thanks,

I was curious if the ID line was needed but removing it still doesn't fix original issue.

 

[DasGuntLord01]

The problem here is with your capitalization in your text files:

<GameData>
<Language_en_US>
<ROW TAG="TXT_KEY_GAMESPEED_HISTORIC">
<TEXT>Historic</TEXT>
</ROW>
<ROW TAG="TXT_KEY_GAMESPEED_HISTORIC_HELP">
<TEXT>this a mod that i don't know if it will work but i will keep trying until my but hurts ok?</TEXT>
</ROW>
</Language_en_US>
</GameData>

Be sure to have them as

<Row Tag="TEXT_TAG">
       <Text>Your Text</Text>
</Row>

Capitilisation is important. The database can be very picky about what it accepts.

 

[Chad G. Messick]

Thanks DasGunt, but i don't believe that is the problem as it still doesn't work when corrected.

 

[Chad G. Messick]

nevermind, i got it working. I do not know how but i just retyped the text entry codes in completely and it worked.

 

[DasGuntLord01]

nevermind, i got it working. I do not know how but i just retyped the text entry codes in completely and it worked.

One little spelling mistake that you can't find will prevent the entire XML file from being written to the database.