LateGameWarMong
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more siblings than memory allocated for them in CvXMLoadUtility::Setvariabletag pair...
??? what does this error mean?
??? what does this error mean?
Quick Modding Questions Thread
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This is pretty much exactly what I was gonna say, word for word.
Jarlaxe Baenre
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You get that a lot if you add a new gamespeed and do not modify cultureinfos. There are Y entries in document A, but in document B there are Z entries.
LateGameWarMong
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I figured it meant the XML was screwed up, I was hoping it provided a hint on how it was screwed up so I didn't have to go find the line.
I ended up deleting the file, and making a new one.
If I want to pass a mod on to someone else, I should just be able to send a zipped copy of the mod folder, right?
On another note, can I have a unit see two invisible unit classes?
I ended up deleting the file, and making a new one.
I know but I need to know which file to copy to start with.
If I want to pass a mod on to someone else, I should just be able to send a zipped copy of the mod folder, right?
On another note, can I have a unit see two invisible unit classes?
What I meant was that you look for a BtS version first, and if that fails you use the Warlords version. Only if there is none of the above should you make a copy of the Vanilla file for your mod.
Yeah.
God-Emperor
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I think the answers to these are:
1) Somewhat. It isn't very good at it, but it does use them.
2) No. There is no land unit AI that uses missiles. If you give a land unit the sea unit AI that uses missiles then it still doesn't seem to work (and it may never build the unit except in a port city as well).
These two things, and especially point number 2, are some of the reasons why the AIs in Final Frontier (including the Plus version) are a lot worse at fighting wars than the player. They never load missiles onto their cruisers. The other, similar, problem is that they never load fighters onto a carrier or starbase (they do not normally build carriers at all, which is actually good because without the ability to carry fighters they are a waste of production). They sometimes have missiles on starbases because starbases periodically produce a missile for free that is automatically forced onto it (even though the starbase unit isn't actually defined to carry missiles, they can carry fighters, the Python that does this forces it to happen and it doesn't cause any problems), although the AI apparently sometimes moves them off the starbase.
You sometimes see them moving missiles out of harms way when a star system is seriously threatened, like it does with fighters & bombers (but not very well in either case) instead of realizing that they are very cheap (and often free, in the case of those produced by starbases) and should just be used - it might save the star system, or at least make the attackers loose a ship or two that they wouldn't have lost if you didn't use them.
Dune Wars has some custom code in the unit AIs. I know it has some custom stuff that makes land transports usable by the AI. It may have some for carriers, but I don't remember ever seeing the AI use a suspensor carrier unit so it might not.
1) Somewhat. It isn't very good at it, but it does use them.
2) No. There is no land unit AI that uses missiles. If you give a land unit the sea unit AI that uses missiles then it still doesn't seem to work (and it may never build the unit except in a port city as well).
These two things, and especially point number 2, are some of the reasons why the AIs in Final Frontier (including the Plus version) are a lot worse at fighting wars than the player. They never load missiles onto their cruisers. The other, similar, problem is that they never load fighters onto a carrier or starbase (they do not normally build carriers at all, which is actually good because without the ability to carry fighters they are a waste of production). They sometimes have missiles on starbases because starbases periodically produce a missile for free that is automatically forced onto it (even though the starbase unit isn't actually defined to carry missiles, they can carry fighters, the Python that does this forces it to happen and it doesn't cause any problems), although the AI apparently sometimes moves them off the starbase.
You sometimes see them moving missiles out of harms way when a star system is seriously threatened, like it does with fighters & bombers (but not very well in either case) instead of realizing that they are very cheap (and often free, in the case of those produced by starbases) and should just be used - it might save the star system, or at least make the attackers loose a ship or two that they wouldn't have lost if you didn't use them.
Dune Wars has some custom code in the unit AIs. I know it has some custom stuff that makes land transports usable by the AI. It may have some for carriers, but I don't remember ever seeing the AI use a suspensor carrier unit so it might not.
Thanks for the info. How about just launching missiles from cities? Would the AI do that? I was thinking of increasing missile range (at say Robotics) but I don't want to do that if the human player is going to get a big advantage over the AI.
LateGameWarMong
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So I was playing the "Road to War" mod, and I must say, in general, I think the combat system is broken.
Any artillery in your stack seem to do a "ranged bombardment" before another unit in the stack attacks, and they keep doing this for every unit in the stack- way over powered.
(not to mention the ranged bombardment can kill units, as can air units
However, there are some mechanics I liked.
#1) Ranged bombardment - it seems more like it is actually carrying out an airstrike on the target tile- How can I mod this into one of my own mods?
#2) Anti-Air guns- they can be set to intercept, and take damage from enemy fighters they intercept, as if doing combat with them like an intercepting plane.
Combine #1, and #2, and I have all the mechanics I want for a VTOL fighter (harrier, F-35, Yak-38/141, etc) - a unit that can move on any square, as opposed to just sitting in cities, and perform all the roles of a normal fighter.
However, both #1 and #2 can defend against attacks from ground units.
I'd like a "VTOL" fighter to need a "garrison"/ stack to protect it.
If I can combine mechanic #1 and #2 into a single unit, how can I prevent it from defending against ground attacks?
also, Ideally it could be intercepted when doing its "ranged bombardment" gimmick.
And lastly, is there any way I can make paratroopers able to launch from an aircraft carrier (or other dedicated ship)
Any artillery in your stack seem to do a "ranged bombardment" before another unit in the stack attacks, and they keep doing this for every unit in the stack- way over powered.
(not to mention the ranged bombardment can kill units, as can air units
However, there are some mechanics I liked.
#1) Ranged bombardment - it seems more like it is actually carrying out an airstrike on the target tile- How can I mod this into one of my own mods?
#2) Anti-Air guns- they can be set to intercept, and take damage from enemy fighters they intercept, as if doing combat with them like an intercepting plane.
Combine #1, and #2, and I have all the mechanics I want for a VTOL fighter (harrier, F-35, Yak-38/141, etc) - a unit that can move on any square, as opposed to just sitting in cities, and perform all the roles of a normal fighter.
However, both #1 and #2 can defend against attacks from ground units.
I'd like a "VTOL" fighter to need a "garrison"/ stack to protect it.
If I can combine mechanic #1 and #2 into a single unit, how can I prevent it from defending against ground attacks?
also, Ideally it could be intercepted when doing its "ranged bombardment" gimmick.
And lastly, is there any way I can make paratroopers able to launch from an aircraft carrier (or other dedicated ship)
kiwitt
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I have made significant changes in the way artillery and aircraft are used and it is much better balanced now. Also SoDs are virtually non-existent
Just set for a normal ground unit iAirRange to something higher than 0.
Else you can use RevDCM, where this system is also present.
For the rest i have no real idea :/.
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*edit* New Question:
I just played a game, reloaded several times, marathon speed - modded, and map edited with world builder.
It plays fine until 3715 BC, then it always crashes to the desktop at the end of the 3715 BC turn.
Any hints as to why?
(I wonder if it has to do with random events)
I'm pretty sure doing that for a ground/naval unit will only increase its interception radius, it won't allow ranged bombardment (to my knowledge).
Switching to another question:
building prereqs for units... the way I read them (such as for the missionaries), it looks for the specific building, not the building class.
Thus if I want to make certain units require Building_Factory, then Germany is SOL because it will only have Building_German_Assembly_Plant - and the only remedy I see is to make a UU for germany for each of those units, and have it require the assembly plant instead (which is trivial for Panzers/ tanks).
Am I missing something?
And I'll repeat a question earlier...
Can I have a unit see two invisible classes?
*Edit*
Crash log:
I just played a game, reloaded several times, marathon speed - modded, and map edited with world builder.
It plays fine until 3715 BC, then it always crashes to the desktop at the end of the 3715 BC turn.
Any hints as to why?
(I wonder if it has to do with random events)
I'm pretty sure doing that for a ground/naval unit will only increase its interception radius, it won't allow ranged bombardment (to my knowledge).
Switching to another question:
building prereqs for units... the way I read them (such as for the missionaries), it looks for the specific building, not the building class.
Thus if I want to make certain units require Building_Factory, then Germany is SOL because it will only have Building_German_Assembly_Plant - and the only remedy I see is to make a UU for germany for each of those units, and have it require the assembly plant instead (which is trivial for Panzers/ tanks).
Am I missing something?
And I'll repeat a question earlier...
Can I have a unit see two invisible classes?
*Edit*
Crash log:
...
3715 BC is not a standard date, AFAIK -> did you change the calendar?
Not sure about that, but i've copied the ranged bombardment ability from another unit to my mod, and as far as i can see the only difference is the iAirRange.
No, you're right, it's a bad implementation.
I think you can put both invisible classes just comma separated into the tag, but not sure about it.
I found some excellent Modparts which I put together in my DLL, but is there somewhere a guide which file to edit for the amount of players allowed? I can imagine this is only one or two lines of text, can someone tell me in which file(s) to edit which line(s)?
Thank you
Thank you
God-Emperor
Deity
A unit that is not air domain unit can do a "range strike" if you set its air range to > 0 and its air strength > 0.
The code to determine if a unit can use a ranged strike:
As you can see from the code, if the unit has blitz it can do ranged attacks multiple times per turn. Each attack uses movement.
The only units in the game as shipped that can do this are in mods that come with the game. The Next War mod has the Assault Mech (which has blitz and 3 moves, so it can do it a lot) and the Final Frontier mod has the Starbase (which is actually DOMAIN_IMMOBILE which works fine for this; you can also add this to sea units since DOMAIN_SEA is also not DOMAIN_AIR). There might be more, but these are the ones I remember.
The code to determine if a unit can use a ranged strike:
Code:
bool CvUnit::canRangeStrike() const
{
if (getDomainType() == DOMAIN_AIR)
{
return false;
}
if (airRange() <= 0)
{
return false;
}
if (airBaseCombatStr() <= 0)
{
return false;
}
if (!canFight())
{
return false;
}
if (isMadeAttack() && !isBlitz())
{
return false;
}
if (!canMove() && getMoves() > 0)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}The only units in the game as shipped that can do this are in mods that come with the game. The Next War mod has the Assault Mech (which has blitz and 3 moves, so it can do it a lot) and the Final Frontier mod has the Starbase (which is actually DOMAIN_IMMOBILE which works fine for this; you can also add this to sea units since DOMAIN_SEA is also not DOMAIN_AIR). There might be more, but these are the ones I remember.
LateGameWarMong
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OK, cool.
My next question is if the ranged strikes can be "intercepted", and if you have to add a special button for them?
How does one make something like the AA gun in road to war, where it is a ground unit that can defensively intercept, but can also take damage from the intercepted unit?
I guess I'll try and figure it out myself while waiting for a response.
My next question is if the ranged strikes can be "intercepted", and if you have to add a special button for them?
How does one make something like the AA gun in road to war, where it is a ground unit that can defensively intercept, but can also take damage from the intercepted unit?
I guess I'll try and figure it out myself while waiting for a response.
