Kingdoms Patch ''ruined'' my mod

**Swagger** · April 13, 2008, 10:41 AM

i have a own mod (L'Outremer one)

and since i used the Crusades Campaign has base, it was obvious i should use the patch 1.5 for kingdoms

the problem is that the pack files give me an error, and it made the mod to be un-compatible with the patch, how can i put my mod to be compatible with the patch ?

**GrnEyedDvl** · April 15, 2008, 04:31 PM

You will have to unpack and compare the files one by one to see whats been changed

**SigniferOne** · April 15, 2008, 05:27 PM

Yikes, this should be a danger to every mod designer. Obviously 1.5 patch is good and we should incorporate it, but that should be done carefully, and as GED said one-by-one with the patch files.

**GrnEyedDvl** · April 17, 2008, 03:34 PM

Just a note on this, I have 3 mods all running on the Kingdoms.exe, but since I built the folder from scratch (Barebones) instead of using one of the Kingdoms campaign folders I havent had a single issue yet other than they changed how the map is generated.

Anyone that built their folder using one of the Kingdoms campaign for a base is bound to have issues as some of the vanilla files for those campaigns had a lot of changes made to them.

**wilddog** · April 28, 2008, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by GrnEyedDvl

I havent had a single issue yet other than they changed how the map is generated.

What did they change? I converted my mod with no problems. Mostly by starting from the version 1.5 British isles unpacked. I never spotted/noticed anything on map generation that was different. So what are you referring to? I just never spotted anything so curious in case I should of?

**B. Ward** · April 28, 2008, 03:14 PM

The map.rwm file is being generated in the imperial_campaign folder I believe.

**wilddog** · April 28, 2008, 04:19 PM

That just depends on where you put the relevant files - its nothing new.

**GrnEyedDvl** · April 29, 2008, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by wilddog

That just depends on where you put the relevant files - its nothing new.

Actually it is new for M2. It doesnt matter where you put the files, it will now always generate the map.rwm file in the imperial_campaigns folder instead of the base folder. If map_regions is in the base folder, it actually makes a copy of it and places it in the imperial_campaigns folder.

This was confusing until I figured out what was going on. I have a map I have been working on, so I made a backup of the entire folder, installed the patch, and ran the game. Everything ran fine.

So.. I deleted map.rwm, made some changes to map_regions, map_heights, and map_ground_types, and ran the game. Obviously the changes didnt show up in the game because it was now running off the map.rwm file in the imperial_campaigns folder. I was like wtf

**wilddog** · April 29, 2008, 01:10 AM

Actually it is new for M2. It doesnt matter where you put the files, it will now always generate the map.rwm file in the imperial_campaigns folder instead of the base folder. If map_regions is in the base folder, it actually makes a copy of it and places it in the imperial_campaigns folder.

Interesting, I deleted out the map heights and map.rwm in the base folder for British Isles and it generated a new map.rwm in the base fold of the British isles with nothing in the Campaign folder. Can't recall that I did anything special I was mostly just testing out some of the vanilla custom battles with new models. The one in the base folder is 2 days newer than the one even in my custom campaign.

At least you explained what to look out for (even if I haven't spotted it) which is more useful than the attempt by the earlier respondent.