[BTS] Never Happened Before: My mod is crashing when founding a city in Stone Age

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Not sure why this is happening. I have done no changes to anything that might cause this. Anyone experience this before and know a fix? As you know when you reach a new era in the normal game, you get an era splash, new music, and new city graphics. Nothing is different about that in Majesty.

Which is why I am confused.

Edit 3: It happens when you advance to the stone age from the Prehistoric, or when you found a city in the Stone Age. Confirmed Nothing to do with era splash or music.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Going to create a crash dump file. It isn't the game music. Nor is it the city graphics. Any help would be appreciated

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

having it create a dump file failed to generate a file, which is odd.

I tried a debug dill, not the right tool. Also tried showing python exceptions. No dice.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Alright so I tried a duel sized map on a different map type. I reached the Stone Age. The music changed, the era splash came up fine. But after that, something caused the game to crash. I'm at a loss

Edit: So I tried again. This time with a Stone Age start. When I changed eras, without the era splash, everything seemed fine, city changed, everything, then it freezed, and the game crashed to desktop

Edit 2: It isn't related to the city graphics. I'm at a loss as to what is going on

 

[<Nexus>]

I had a few "Nothing is wrong! Why is the bug?! " situations too.
In the end what usually worked was to compare the present version of my mod with whit a previous one that was stable.
Use WinMerge and compare the files line by line. It highlights the lines that are different and you can jump to next/previous difference simply by pressing ALT + UP/DOWN.
Still a tedious work it worked for me so far.
Good luck!

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Thing is I changed nothing related to the the error

It happens when you advance to the stone age from the Prehistoric, or when you found a city in the Stone Age. Confirmed

 

[<Nexus>]

Thing is I changed nothing related to the the error

You certainly had to change something whether it looks related or not.
The other option is worse: The bug was hiding there for a much longer time just didn't show up for some reason.
Still my advise is Winmerge.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Well I had not touched the city graphics related xml for a very long time. I took a year off modding, was working fine then. That is the error I found it, but I don't know how to fix it.

"It happens when you advance to the stone age from the Prehistoric, or when you found a city in the Stone Age. Confirmed"

I don't have the previous version. I'm hoping someone does.

 

[DarkLunaPhantom]

or when you found a city in the Stone Age

If you can trigger a crash reliably like this and there is nothing useful in Python logs and other logs, you should probably compile a debug DLL to look into the crash.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Not sure how to do that. There was a debug dll i found but it didn't find the bug.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Making progress. I reverted to an earlier version. This is allowing me to step by step re-add things. So far its working very well.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

My first thought when this happens, is to ask if I have added a button for something a city can build that is not exactly 64x64 pixels. The part of the program that converts buttons into the circle bit on the city bar crashes when the city tries to build the thing with a wrong size button.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Yes graphical issues like that can do it. I did manage to find out the problem. Little mistakes can make big headaches!