Need help merging Better BAT AI and Advanced Diplomacy 2.14

[SeveronSylvana]

Hello.
Very long time lurker and now finally registered and first post.

I've been trying to make a personal mod that uses both Better BAT AI and the Advanced Diplomacy 2.14 mods. So I haven' even got to the mergin stage and I'm already having trouble.
So the first thing I try is to find the source for Better BAT AI, find the line #define MAX_CIVPLAYERS and change it to 50 and compile it to see if it's working. However when I get the new CvGameCoreDLL and put replace it, nothing happens. I can't go above the 18 civs. If I remove the dll from the assets folder, Better BUG still runs.
So I'm not entirely sure if its actually using my dll at all. Also the dll is actually a bit smaller than the dll Better BAT comes with originally, which leads me to believe that I'm not using the right source, but I'm not sure if what I've downloaded is the most updated version.

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Express. I followed this tutorial to set it up: http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php/How_to_Install_the_SDK
I'm not sure if the compiler is even making a debug dll, even though I compile it in debug mode and a dll gets created.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I'm really very much a noob at the dll modding and doing this sort of stuff. (only ever really done XML and limited python)

 

[Cruel]

Take a look in this thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=405444

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Hello.
Very long time lurker and now finally registered and first post.

Welcome

I've been trying to make a personal mod that uses both Better BAT AI and the Advanced Diplomacy 2.14 mods. So I haven' even got to the mergin stage and I'm already having trouble.

And you will have trouble. It's an extremely difficult merge. I'm doing it right now with version 2.5 and it's proving to be quite a challenge.

So the first thing I try is to find the source for Better BAT AI, find the line #define MAX_CIVPLAYERS and change it to 50 and compile it to see if it's working. However when I get the new CvGameCoreDLL and put replace it, nothing happens. I can't go above the 18 civs. If I remove the dll from the assets folder, Better BUG still runs.

Make sure that you change line 63 in CvDefines.h or it won't work.

So I'm not entirely sure if its actually using my dll at all. Also the dll is actually a bit smaller than the dll Better BAT comes with originally, which leads me to believe that I'm not using the right source, but I'm not sure if what I've downloaded is the most updated version.

You may not have the correct version based on the date of your OP. The latest version is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/civ4betterbatai/files/BBATAI-Source/ Choose version 2.1.

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Express. I followed this tutorial to set it up: http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php/How_to_Install_the_SDK
I'm not sure if the compiler is even making a debug dll, even though I compile it in debug mode and a dll gets created.

Check the debug sub folder and check the date and time on the CvGamecore.dll file. It should be just before the current time.