Trying to load a mod but singleplayer is greyed out...

[Draco856]

Also, if I just do direct edits to the files with what I want to use as a mod, everything shows up properly, I can play singleplayer, but the game will crash at the end of the first turn.

 

[Draco856]

Also, if I am using the civ I made, I have two unit icons for the two uniques I made. Meaning I have a total of 4 icons, and if I try to build either of the new units the game will crash. I followed the tutorial, and did everything I was supposed to.

 

[tchristensen]

Also, if I just do direct edits to the files with what I want to use as a mod, everything shows up properly, I can play singleplayer, but the game will crash at the end of the first turn.

What mod are you talking about?

 

[Draco856]

My own mod, I made it myself and it's not working.

Also I should mention it's for Beyond the Sword.

 

[tchristensen]

Can you list the XML files you changed?

What did you actually add into your mod? Units, technology, buildings. . .

 

[TheLopez]

Also, if I am using the civ I made, I have two unit icons for the two uniques I made. Meaning I have a total of 4 icons, and if I try to build either of the new units the game will crash. I followed the tutorial, and did everything I was supposed to.

Which asset directory did you pull the base files from? BtS? Warlords? Vanilla? Can you post your modified files so we can look it over?

 

[tchristensen]

I had the same problem with my recent addition of my "Ape Man" where each time I built the unit, it would crash the game.

Accuracy is the key when making changes to XML files. You put in the an errant "/" or a different name that is being linked to another of the XMLs and it will crash.

Also for artwork (models) I found that it is imperative that you copy very similar art logic because some models just don't like massive changes to sizes, formation, numbers of units, etc....

Also if you are creating new UNIT XML that is why you are seeing only your units. It is better to start with a pre-existing mod that you know works, and then mod from there. Remember this is a learning process so you want to start with something you know works -- no sense in recreating the wheel when there is so much available now to experiment with.

Just some ideas to keep you going --- hope everything works out.

 

[am138]

I had the same problem with my recent addition of my "Ape Man" where each time I built the unit, it would crash the game.

Accuracy is the key when making changes to XML files. You put in the an errant "/" or a different name that is being linked to another of the XMLs and it will crash.

Also for artwork (models) I found that it is imperative that you copy very similar art logic because some models just don't like massive changes to sizes, formation, numbers of units, etc....

Also if you are creating new UNIT XML that is why you are seeing only your units. It is better to start with a pre-existing mod that you know works, and then mod from there. Remember this is a learning process so you want to start with something you know works -- no sense in recreating the wheel when there is so much available now to experiment with.

Just some ideas to keep you going --- hope everything works out.

I find that 99% of the time the error reports retrieved when you've made a mistake make it pretty obvious what you've done wrong - the other 1% of the time it's a mixture of things and you just have to methodically check, or it's a bug. Which I'm beginning to think is the issue with my current mod

 

[deanej]

If you got any schema errors, fix them before doing anything else, because the game can't load that file until you do, making the game unplayable. You'll also get a bunch of garbage errors afterwards. It's a shame, but civ is not smart enough to abort loading when necessary.

 

[Draco856]

I didn't touch the schema files, the tutorials didn't say anything about them. And I added a whole civilization, new uints, leaderhead, civilopedia, etc.

 

[deanej]

You don't have to touch a schema to get a schema error. If the file doesn't match how the schema says it should look, you will get a schema error. These usually result from typos and misplacing a tag, not problems with the schema.

 

[Draco856]

Well lets see...the files I copied then changed are:

CIV4ArtDefines_Civilizations

CIV4ArtDefines_Leaderhead

CIV4ArtDefines_Units

Auido3DScripts

AudioDefines

CIV4CivilizationInfos

CIV4LeaderheadInfos

CIV4DiplomacyInfos

CIV4ColorVals

CIV4PlayerColorInfos

CIV4UnitClassInfos

CIV4UnitInfos

 

[Draco856]

I'm not getting errors, it's just crashing with no explanation.

 

[The_J]

Do you have a unit, where in the UnitClassInfos.xml the default unit is NONE? This can lead to a crash after the first round.

 

[Draco856]

No. It also crashes if I attempt to build my new units.

 

[The_J]

2 things:
- If the buttons of your new unit is bigger than 64*64, the game will crash
- If you assigned only 1 button, and not 2 buttons like for the default units, remove the comma at the beginning of the button definition

 

[Draco856]

Do I need to have UnitClasses for my new units if they replace a different one? Like one new unit is a unit that would replace cavalry for my civ.

 

[tchristensen]

Might help if you post the unit XML changes here so we can take a look at it. Just one might be sufficient to see the error?

 

[Draco856]

Thanks for the help, now to to figure out whats causing the icons to be doubled.

I have two unique units for my civ, and they show up twice in the city view. I have them as replacements for Worker and Cavalry, so I don't understand why they show up twice.
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Screenshot of what it looks like:

 

[The_J]

You do not need a new unitclass, if you want to create a unique unit.
A unique unit has the same unitclass as the unit which it replaces, but the unittype is different.
And then you have to add this unit as unique unit in the CivilizationInfos.xml.

Did you do these things?