please help! trying to mod a mod...

[swimmer91]

hey guys, thanks in advance for helping

so i am trying to make an earth map combining RaR (Rise and Rule) and Rhye's of Civilization, with a few modifications of my own. So i have changed the celts to austria and changed their flavor units to apply to austria instead of celts. I also added a new unit, the grenzer to be their unique unit. However, i must have done something wrong, because when i test the game, it crashes right after building a city. I'm sure this has to do with the Units_32 file, but i dont see any problems. I have copy/pasted the icon for grenzer from rhye's of civ. and set it in the editor. And i know the animations are working because i produced one in debug mode and it was working fine.

I should also note that i made a copy of the RaR file called RaR2, and changed the "Scenario Search Folders" to match it so that any changes i make do not destroy Rise and Rule and i have to re-download as happened last time.

 

[WildWeazel]

Did you assign Austria to a culture group?

 

[swimmer91]

yes, european, same as celts...you mean like what their city looks like right?

 

[swimmer91]

maybe if you could direct me to or write out a kind of checklist for adding units so i could see what i havent done??

btw, weasel op, i stumbled upon your OMTT while searching for help on this, very entertaining! =)
i got to episode 27 before i decided i should get back to writing my essay due in a few days, lol

 

[ruby_sauce]

did you do the civilopedia entry? the icons, and the PRTO_Animname? I forgot these when I added my unit and I got an error...

 

[WildWeazel]

Exactly when and how does it crash? Do you see the settler's build animation, the city graphic and culture border appear, the city screen? Do you get a Civ3 error message or system error, and if so what does it say?

btw, weasel op, i stumbled upon your OMTT while searching for help on this, very entertaining! =)
i got to episode 27 before i decided i should get back to writing my essay due in a few days, lol

Distraction- it's what I do best

 

[swimmer91]

well its definitely a problem with the units_32 file, because i realized that there was already an icon in there for the "napoleonic infantry" unit (which i am using for the grenzer) so i erased my picture and set the editor to use the one already there...but the game still crashed. So i erased that units_32 file and copy/patsed in the one from the original RaR...and the game worked. So although this is a temporary fix, i am not sastisfied because i need to know for future use what i did wrong.

Is there a detailed explanation somewhere on what you can and cant do to edit units_32??? because im thinking thats my problem, i must be going about it wrong

 

[swimmer91]

oh and to answer your question weasel op, the first few times it happened, it crashed immediately following the settler's build animation (just when the city display would have popped up, indicating units_32 problems, correct?). However, the last time i tested it, before i "fixed" it (last post) i was able to see the city display and it wasnt until i clicked on the button to change what the city was building that it crashed. Im thinking that also indicates units_32 problems. It is always a system error...cant remember quite what it says but its along the lines of "this program has ____ and needs to close" and i get the option to "debug" or "cancel" clicking on cancel freezes the computer and i have to ctrl+alt+delete and end civ3 along with long waits between actions...which is unusual for my computer, its almost always very fast. clicking on debug simply ends civ3, so thats what i click on.

and ruby sauce i did enter the pedia entry, icons and PRTO_animname correctly, i have double and triple checked all of those

thank you guys for helping btw!!