EasyEsf for ETW (15/12)

[von_neurath]

I managed to accomplish a lot of changes in startpos and region.esf. I even finished a game with France with a lot of modifications. But yesterday I encountered 2 strange bugs and I would really appreciate feedback from those who know better working with the tool.

1. I wanted to give the prestige buildings for the major states from the very beginning. Why? Let's just say that in my numerous hours of playing different factions, I observed that very few reach to develop their prestige buildings. By trial and error I discovered that if you add the Mosque in Istanbul the game crashes when loading the game, no matter faction you choose to play.

2. I really wanted to give Denmark a 5 slot city. if I choose to play any other faction, the game works with 5slot Copenhagen. If I choose to play Denmark, the game crashes when loading a saved game. If I leave Copenhagen a 4 slot city the game works just fine.

PS I play the latest TROM 1.7 with Ornamentum.

[Rabadon]

Thanks for creating this tool. I, however, have a problem using it. I get an error when I click start and cannot even begin to use the tool. I have downloaded and installed more then once and I still get this error when start is used. I would much appreciate it for the assistance.

[gameroach81]

where can i find the java.exe for the ruby thing cause i think thats stopping me using this tool?

i wich things were easy to use lol

[gameroach81]

when modding is about to start (say on campaign date) i get conversion has failed then success then sometimes i get error bla bla line 10:Argument 1 must be of type table. then more bla bla

[husserlTW]

Hey guys, a nasty hardware failure costed me a modding blockade for sometime. It is impossible to read the hundreds of posts and messages of this time period so please re-post/re-send it if your issue is still active.

[LCpl Doul]

Hi, so everything working here without error until I load the game. I've made the following changes:

Portugal to Major, Playable, Maritime Progressive and about 30000 to help ward off the subsequent sieges of Goa.
TPY = 4
Start date = 1675
Unit Size Multiplier = 1.4

The ESF built takes about a second, which seems to fast compared to previous use of this brilliant tool. Also I note the file presented has not changed in terms of size or modification date. Something is not right.... have you any pointers? Thanks.

[JuanValde]

First off, Thanks for all the modding help!

I am able to play as Colombia based of the startpos.esf tutorials from: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=272139

I was trying to make the following mods: Bogota into a major city with 4 slots, and Medelin active with a college.
When ever I run EasyEsf I get the following problem:



I have Ruby installed, and I have ran the nokogirl. batch file, and I am using a vanilla startpos file. I have seen other people with this issue, but didnt notice any solutions.

[JuanValde]

Issue Solved! As I figured it was due to Ruby not installing because it couldnt find java (even though it was installed), I was able to find a ruby installer.exe and that worked around the problem.

But a new problem came up , I was trying to make Bogota a major city with esfEditor, but got lost after the .xml changes (step 7 ). So while trying to do it with EasyEsf I found that the program will not let me have the startpos.esf AND the region.esf in the ESF folder at the same time. But if I try adding slots it get a "source file not found" error. I know I am doing something wrong just dont know what .

[JuanValde]

VICTORY!!!

SOLUTION:

put the startpos.esf file in the ESF folder. Click start. I converts the file. Then copy the regions.esf file into the ESF folder. THEN click "add slots" tab under regions. I knew it was something simple

Solid work as always HusserlTW, the time you must have put into figuring this all out is NUTS

[penquin11]

This program seems to not want to save my changes on savegames, any help?

[penquin11]

I am still yet to figure out how to make easy esf save my changes to both startpos.esf and save games, a little help would be nice!
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I guess I should also ask while I am at it:

Would I be able to edit DME 8.0 with this editor without a crash? Im talking simple edits such as changing the management skill or command skill of a general, or changing a faction from being minor to major....

[Argonius]

it seems that easyesf doesn't make changes if i put number(first i put 2 than i put 5) in army units multiplier. Units aren't bigger nor armies.

[kwbgjh2]

Hi to all the experts,
first a big thx to Husser for this great tool.

But i have a little problem. I can change and modify everything except activating an emergent town.
As a great fan of prussia i would like to have the port of memel from the start.
But using the created startpos means always ctd. I tried this with different startpos from DME-Mod, the Vanilla startpos and some from my own startpos, which work really fine.






Screenshot from ESF Editor



As I wrote, anything else means no problem, changing army units ....

Any idea ?

[husserlTW]

Can't you do that even in a vanilla startpos? Modded startpos may have change the structure of the file and EasyEsf is confused.

[Jesik]

Hi.

How activate port in West Prussia in Gdynia?

Pleas help!

[Jesik]

Higher I know.

but

How to save changes?

[Argonius]

@Husserl or someone

i 've problem with units multiplier. I dunno what does it change, i assume this will allow to have more units in army (vide darth mod 40 unit armies saves). But when i put a value "4" in army multiplier space there is no effect in game. Yes i save and do everything which is written in instructions and esf i modded is vanilla

[husserlTW]

It is about men/unit and not unit/army.

[Argonius]

this way or another it does not work. I tried on clean, vanilla startpos and nothing number of men per unit is still the same


///edit, how to edit a modified startpos with Easyesf? Is there any way or i have to use esf editor?

[Petroniu]

Great tool!