New faction CTD for custom battle/campaign

**Surgeon** · August 03, 2008, 03:30 PM

Long story short I was modding a new faction into a mod and ran into some problems. I now get unspecified CTDs in two cases: I try to start a new campaign, and I press the "Custom Battle" button.

For the campaign, it all goes smoothly up until the game finishes loading, then crashes. For custom battle, it doesn't even let me see the map selection menu. I simply press the "Custom Battle" option in the menu and it CTDs.

I have no idea what the problem might be. The mod already has 29 factions (including the one added by me) but I made sure only 21 are available for custom battle and campaign. Are these CTDs even caused by separate issues or the same one? What might be causing this?

Thanks for any help.

**Eothese** · August 03, 2008, 03:57 PM

As I understand it 29 + slave is the hard coded faction limit.

**Surgeon** · August 03, 2008, 05:00 PM

Actually it's 31 as far as I know, so that can't be it...

**Gigantus** · August 03, 2008, 09:36 PM

Any hint from the error log?
It's not the modeldb - wouldn't cause the campaign crash.
Any fancy entries in the descr_sm_factions file for your new faction?
Did you allocate faction symbols properly (menu and in - game)?
For campaign game: do you press the start button for your new faction and then have a quick CTD or is it when you press any faction?
For campaign game: or is the CTD after a little while? (That could be map error)

**Surgeon** · August 03, 2008, 10:59 PM

Never mind guys, it seems I forgot to remove a few extra entries in descr_sm_factions so the faction limit was overboard after all.

Thanks for all the help