Please help me with a map. Thank you.

[AGAST]

Hello everyone. I have been a long time Civ fan and Civfanatics lurker. I have recently attempted to make a map with world builder. I can't seem to get the map to work and I was wondering if anyone could possibly help me make the map playable.

Thank you very much

 

[LeeS]

Are you not able to get the map to show in the regular set-up menus or are you no longer able to load the map when you go into WorldBuilder ?

 

[AGAST]

I can get into it with world builder. I can also get the map to show when I start a new game. However, after I pick a civ and it starts loading, it tells me there's an error. I have tried using the xml export from YNAMP too to make the map and it does the same thing. I can't figure out how to make it playable. I do not have a lot of experience modding things with Civ IV. I have looked at YNAMP forums when I realized some people were mentioning river placement issues and I thought that was the issue. I tried to follow the instructions to address that if that was the problem. However, the solution requires running scripts through firetuner and I am not familiar with it.

 

[LeeS]

1. I'm able to get the map to work in Vanilla with running only a mod to make the map show as available in the selection list.
2. I played a few turns to be sure there was no crash after attempting to really 'play' on the map.
3. I noticed you don't have any start locations specified for anyone, and I'm not sure the game really added any city-states to the game when I made my quick test.
4. I did get a game-crash message when I exited the game after running those few turns on your map, but this has been an intermittent problem people have experienced when exiting directly to desktop from in-game so I cannot say for sure whether your map had anything to do with that.

 

[AGAST]

I just tried doing what you said by setting it to vanilla instead of R&F. Would it be possible to tell me what settings you have it on? I can set it up as a mod, but it still gives me an error. Really appreciate the help.

 

[LeeS]

For Vanilla I use a modinfo-only method. The relevant parts of my modinfo file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Mod id="eee0e611-be23-4fdc-b638-f70186d14d8e" version="1">
  <Properties>
    <Name>LeeS_ArchiPeg_Rome_TestMap</Name>
    <Description>LeeS_ArchiPeg_Rome_TestMap test</Description>
    <Teaser>LeeS_ArchiPeg_Rome_TestMap test</Teaser>
    <Authors>Lee</Authors>
  </Properties>
  <FrontEndActions>
    <AddMap id="Mapa2">
	<Properties>
		<Name>Mapa2</Name>
		<Description>Mapa2</Description>
	</Properties>
      <File>mapa2.Civ6Map</File>
    </AddMap>
  </FrontEndActions>
  <Files>
    <File>mapa2.Civ6Map</File>
  </Files>
</Mod>

I added the needed code to a mod I already had that allows me to select pre-made maps I have made. The map shows as a valid selection for the MapType in both the normal and advanced setup menus.

 

[AGAST]

I got it to work with your code and i was able to change the rules for R&F! Thank you. I’m going to make a copy to test out add starting locations, resources and city states and check if that works. Thank you so much!

 

[LeeS]

Did you add a modinfo action criteria for R&F or did you use a configuration XML/SQL file ?

 

[AGAST]

I did it through editing a modinfo. I am not very good with how the modding works in Civ IV so it seemed easier that way.

 

[LeeS]

OK. Was just curious which method you used since I hadn't actually tried the criteria method in a modinfo file as yet for Rise and Fall.