[BTS] Selected civilization and No User Interface error

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I have updated this first post to reflect new information, the problem is not restricted as orginally thought but the following::

I looked this up and apparently this kind of error is known collectively as a stack trace.

Edit: Looking over it:

Shows I believe what is a tech tree(related to the tech xml file) error. Does anyone have experience dealing with this kind of error, again, help would be appreciated.

 

[Nightinggale]

Open CivilizationIV.ini and set HidePythonExceptions to 0. If the interface is missing, it's because something goes wrong in the main python interface to such an extend that it crashes. It can't crash without an error message. Once you have an error message, you might be able to tell what goes wrong or at least you can copy paste it to the forum. Yes it can be copy pasted even if the interface hides that fact very well.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Thankyou my friend I will do that, and I'll show what I can very soon.

Update: Here is the Python errors that are related to the missing interface, again, this only happens when this one particular civilization is played.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Sounds like you may have a tech defined incorrectly in the modular civilization. Either a tech is spelt wrong or the one(s) referenced in the module don't exist. The starting techs would be my guess.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Thanks Dancing Hoskuld, I will see if it is tech related. I will update soon on the situation.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Alright I checked the starting techs and techs mentioned in the sub-directories of this modular civ and nothing seems out of the ordinary, going to see if one of the sub-modules is causing a problem as its the last one i havent checked.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Checked, no matter what, playing as this modular civilization causes the user interface(the screenshot explains why) problem. I am at a loss.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

It was a guess after getting home from a 10 hour drive .

The error actually says that it is having trouble placing the icons on the tech tree, so check that the art is defined correctly for everything in the civ. Especially that the button art exists and is in the correct form.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Could be the flag, I took it from a Colonization mod, I thought since it was a dds file it wouldn't matter. Could this be the problem?

I will replace it and test things out....

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Update, its not the buttons, I replaced the flag and button, still same error. I'm very confused by this.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I believe it is definitely the cities I imported from Rise from Erebas, very high polycount...i tested it with another civ, as soon as it was changed, boom, same error as the new modular civ

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Update again, not the city graphics. I don't know whats going on at all now, tried everything I can think of.

Correction, it was the new city graphics, but it was the manner I had added them. For now I've placed the new civ on the shelf, until I figure out the city graphics.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Now its happening to another civ, one I texted by changing the cityset to earlier, but it was fine before that. I've changed everything back, but the error is popping up still. How do I clear the Civ4 memory do I uninstall, reinstall?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Update reinstalling did not help, the other civ that previously had no problems but i changed briefly to use the new cityset(which is not present in this version of the mod, just the other version), continues to show no interface on start. It is like the game is saving errors. Can anyone help?

 

[Nightinggale]

Again with CivilizationIV.ini
DisableFileCaching = 1
DisableCaching = 1

That's all I can think of. If that doesn't help, the only other option would be to upload the civ in question and let somebody else try using a debugger.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Ok I will try that thankyou Nightinggale.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Only thing the two civs(new Mu civ and old Totonac civ) have in common is they use the Totec artstyle. This was not a problem before this. Here is the original(Mu civ) as well as the civ which is also starting the same bug, where it didn't before, the Totonacs:

Only thing I don't understand(well there is alot more going on to be fair that I don't understand) is how the Python errors and a c++ problem could arise...

Edit: Removed file. The problem is not confined and is now occuring with all civs. Seems like broken python more than anything..Very odd because I have not touched anything.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Here is the current version of the mod: https://www.mediafire.com/file/77joifxkdb4yjx2/Quot_CapitaPythonBroken.rar/file

One thing stuck out to me in the link above:

runtime error unidentifiable c++ exception

 

[vincentz]

Could it be a gamefont issue?

 

[Nightinggale]

Could it be a gamefont issue?

No. Technically GameFont is a bunch of characters linked to certain unicode characters (starting with 8483). When the game displays unicode in python or wide strings in the DLL, those characters will then display from the GameFont file. GameFont issues means using the wrong character, which will then either be a wrong icon or an invisible icon. GameFont issues will not crash the game or python.

Something goes wrong in the DLL and it seems to be something like reading xml info out of bounds or something like that. It crashes the DLL, though DLL code called from python seems to be inside try-catch code, meaning it displays the error code rather than crashing the game.