Lesson 2: User Interface

**Alex-ander** · November 28, 2008, 01:48 AM

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**Alex-ander** · November 28, 2008, 01:50 AM

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**Alex-ander** · November 28, 2008, 01:57 AM

I have given up for now trying to get this forum to do what i want. It does not seem to want to cooperate.

I will try posting my images tonight.

Feel free to delete the above 2 posts. I dont see a way to delete my own posts

**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 08:36 AM

What are you trying to do??

**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 09:51 AM

I updated the first post with instructions on using the templates.

**Alex-ander** · November 28, 2008, 01:08 PM

Great about the templates makes it clear now I have been trying to post my 3 images. Hopefully i got it right this time

Credits

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Transition

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Menu

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Really its knowing what buttons to press but i think i got it right now.

**Soulghast** · November 28, 2008, 01:12 PM

After spending my whole afternoon trying to get this to work, I decided I should ask for help. Something seems to have gone terribly wrong with my files. I did everything as instructed, edited all the files correctly, but there is no change in the game! It appears that the game still only reads the vanilla files when launching, and I have no idea why, and I am quite sure I did everything right. The converted files were not turned back to .bin when I ran the game, so they are still .txt. Anyway, I am really frustrated with this, but I am uploading my Mod Folder, so that maybe someone will take a look at it. If a solution is not reached, I will attempt a reinstall, and try to do the whole thing from the start.

Filefront link to mod folder.

By the way, when is the deadline for this lesson?

**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 01:26 PM

I will take a look. This lesson was posted a week early, so you still have a week. And if someone posts their lesson a day or even a few days late its no big deal really. I know real life gets in the way sometimes.

**Icedie El Guaraní** · November 28, 2008, 01:28 PM

I don´t see why you call your cfg file .cfg.cfg ? and in the sound folder there is only event.dats and events.idx, also your world/map/base and imperial campaign are screwed up try re-installing them or copy from some intact vanillas file, also use the ModsBasics.cfg only ones.
here is your log file try to change the files the are colored or simplyly re-isntall all vanilla.

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**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 01:40 PM

Icedie is correct, your ModBasics.cfg file has the .cfg extension twice. That is why your modded files do not attempt to run.

When I fixed that, I got a totally different error log though. I am going through everything one file at a time to see if I can find it.

Give me about 10 minutes.

**Soulghast** · November 28, 2008, 01:46 PM

The sound files were not created, I already mentioned this issue in the first lesson. That is not my problem currently. About the cfg thing, I guess I did something stupid. When I took out the .cfg in the end, the game crashed.

Thanks for your input, I'll see what I do, and, if I can't solve it, I will probably reinstall.

EDIT: Just saw your post GED, thank you for your time.

**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 01:49 PM

Ok problem found. There is something wrong with the splash.tga file. Deleting it allows your mod to load and run just fine.

**Soulghast** · November 28, 2008, 01:58 PM

Thank you! The problem with the splash screen is probably the fact that it was not included in the attachment in your original post, so I used the image(by Why?), as the splash screen, without changing anything. So, I'll just take a few screenshots, post them, and be done with it.

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**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 01:59 PM

I renamed your menu folder to menu_original, fixed your .cfg file, and it ran just fine. Funny quotes btw.

Here is your mod folder. Run it like it is and make sure it runs ok. Once it does rename the menu_original folder back to menu and you will get the CTD. Delete splash.tga and download it again.

http://twmodsquad.com/img/twc/modbas..._ModBasics.zip

**Subuatai de Bodemloze** · November 28, 2008, 02:08 PM

GED will you be doing an advanced course after this one?

**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 02:48 PM

The next two courses are scripting and mapping, in that order. Once we get through this one you should be able to figure out most of the text files. The factions part of this course gets pretty complicated as there are 13 files that all have to match exactly for it to work, and gives you a pretty good feel for the game files.

For doing stuff like units and skins, you need another teacher. I can fumble through skins but I am not very good at it.

The goal here is to get you familiar with text files, how they work together, and what needs to be changed to get the desired affect. Once you can do this stuff without reading the tutorials and lessons, you should be able to manage nearly every aspect of the mod folder fairly well.

**Soulghast** · November 28, 2008, 03:02 PM

Ok, since the splash screen is not included in the first post's attachment, and my poor attempt at making another image the splash screen failed miserably, I only posted the quotes and the campaign name changes, but have otherwise done everything listed.

So, here goes:

Quotes.

Campaign name change.

Credits Screen.

If GED or someone else can provide me a working splash screen, I will post it as well. But, other than that minor detail, you can say that I successfully completed the lesson.

**Subuatai de Bodemloze** · November 28, 2008, 03:23 PM

Like the credits Ludwig! LOL insignificant human beings LOL
GED --- Thanks.. Well I am actually already doing some heavy text editing already... trying to do the heraldry for DoTS. Kinda like you for 1066, though not quite as complex as what your doing but similar.. as well as well traits and vnv's.

**GrnEyedDvl** · November 28, 2008, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Ludwig Van Beethoven

If get or someone else can provide me a working splash screen, I will post it as well. But, other than that minor detail, you can say that I successfully completed the lesson.

Looks good. The splash image can be found here, post 67.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...23#post3998623

**Hunter Makoy** · November 28, 2008, 10:51 PM

dude i was so gonna do the GAHZ! quotes but i wasn't sure if it was against the ToS.

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