[BI] How to fix Roxolani campaign map ship model/texture mismatch

[Crusader Vanguard]

The solution to this glitch left by the CA is explained in Post #2!

Since Roxolani can get ships in the original BI, I can only assume this is an error CA never addressed, probably because the Roxolani were never originally playable.

I'm using BI version 1.6. When you get any ship for the Roxolani, the "model_strat" for the ship on the campaign map is red, just like the Julii faction from RTW:



This is the only campaign map ship that seems to have any unexpected errors. I even gave the Huns boats and a basic port (which they cannot get in the vanilla game), and the model for the Hun ship on the Campaign map comes out correctly:



So, I'm not sure what is causing this mismatch between the model and the texture to cause it to revert back to the default "Julii" model and texture.

The entry for the Roxolani campaign map ship in the descr_model_strat.txt is the following in the vanilla campaign:

type     roxolani_admiral
skeleton    strat_navy
indiv_range    40
texture  sarmatians,  bi/data/models_strat/textures/navy_roxolani.tga
model_flexi    data/models_strat/navy_roman.cas, max
shadow_model_flexi   data/models_strat/navy_roman_shadow.cas, max

I've changed "sarmatians" to "roxolani" in front of "texture", I've changed the "model_flexi" from "navy_roman.cas" to "navy_barb.cas", and I've double-checked the spelling of the texture "navy_roxolani.tga" entry... nothing I did changed the red ship for the Roxolani, and, unless I'm really blind, the texture entry is spelt correctly for the "navy_roxolani.tga.dds" file inside the model_strat\texture folder.

And this is the "navy_roxolani.tga.dds" file inside that folder as seen from GIMP:



This looks correct to me.


I have no idea what to do to fix this. This is a problem from the vanilla BI as far as I can tell. Does anyone know how to fix this? Or does anyone have a link to someone who explains how to fix this?

Any help would be appreciated!

[Crusader Vanguard]

I figured out how to fix this glitch the CA left for us inside Barbarian Invasion:

Step 1: Open up your BI's "descr_character.txt" file inside the BI/data folder. Scroll down to the bottom of the file and you will find "navy" entries. You are looking for this one:

faction   roxolani
dictionary  2
strat_card  data/ui/egyptian/agents/temp_admiral.tga
strat_model  sarmatians_admiral

You notice that the "strat_model", which tells the game what to display on the campaign map, says "sarmatians" instead of "roxolani". This is why the game doesn't display the Roxolani ship correctly on the campaign map. You need to change it to this:

faction   roxolani
dictionary  2
strat_card  data/ui/egyptian/agents/temp_admiral.tga
strat_model  roxolani_admiral

Step 2: Now, that final code line leads into the "descr_model_strat.txt" file (also located in the data folder of BI), where at the bottom of the file you will find this entry:

type     roxolani_admiral
skeleton    strat_navy
indiv_range    40
texture  sarmatians,  bi/data/models_strat/textures/navy_roxolani.tga
model_flexi    data/models_strat/navy_roman.cas, max
shadow_model_flexi   data/models_strat/navy_roman_shadow.cas, max

This will correctly tell the game to load the "Roxolani" textures and models rather than try to load the Sarmatians ones. Although, notice in red above that "sarmatians" is listed instead of Roxolani, and the roman "strat_model" ship is used instead of a barbarian one like the other Nomadic factions. I don't know how "necessary" it is to change those two things, but I did.

I would recommend changing the entry to this, with the changes from the previous code in red:

type     roxolani_admiral
skeleton    strat_navy
indiv_range    40
texture  roxolani,  bi/data/models_strat/textures/navy_roxolani.tga
model_flexi    data/models_strat/navy_barb.cas, max
shadow_model_flexi   data/models_strat/navy_roman_shadow.cas, max

And this changes the Roxolani campaign map ship from the "Julii red" ship you see in the first post to this:



And now you have the correct Roxolani campaign map ship for BI or your BI mod!

[crazyroman]

Nice work my friend.Can you tell me what mod you use for BI ?

[Crusader Vanguard]

Thank you. I hope this helps you fix this glitch.

Everything you see is my own personal mod. The map you see my own personally modified version of the Magnus Mundus BI map, with around... 15 regions added myself. I also rewrote the descr_strat.txt from scratch to include the 5 emergent factions from the start. So I'm afraid you won't find the mod anywhere. I'm still working on it anyway.

[crazyroman]

Ah ok i hope you will release it someday because it looks cool.

[Crusader Vanguard]

Thanks. Glad to know someone likes my work!

I'm not sure if I will be "allowed" because my final version will include Amazon factions from Amazon Total War 3.0C. Perhaps with credit I could? I do have a backup though of before the "amazon" addon, so maybe when I finally get the mod the way I like it (minus Amazons), I can release it that way.