what? gap in building unavailable at level zero??

[Spartan 666]

I had this problem with DTW after editing EDD.txt, the fact is I don't think I've done anything strange. When I quit the game this message appears: Script error in DTW\data\export_descr_building.txt at line 5218, column 2. Building DB error, faction seleucid has gap in building prior to barb_native (unavailable at level zero). The strange things are that line 5218 is the last line in that file, so it doesn't even tell me where the error is, that I only edited building upgrades\requirements, and that seleucids don't use that building!! This is my edb.txt, if someone can give a look at it and spot any error in the requirements\upgrades (the culture buildings are at the end of the file) I would really appreciate it...

-------- double post merged (Brusilov) - please edit and append

sorry I have problems with I don't know what, sometimes I can only write these awful walls of text and not being able to edit a post after I've written it..

[Brusilov]

Moved to modding forum as it's a modding problem.

[Ramashan]

I think it parsed the file, got the barb-native coding and stopped.

I believe your problem is that you have no 'requires faction { }' for this building.

Here's your code:

barb_native requires hidden_resource nobuild

try adding a faction requirement to all your native building levels; east, west, barb.

So they look like this:

barb_native requires faction {babarian, thrace, } and hidden_resource nobuild

[Squid]

A building does not require a faction condition, the problem is the last level of the last building:

        east_native requires hidden_resource nobuild

It has no faction requirements, so every faction can build it, but all previous levels of the building are not buildable by all factions. Change the line as follows:

        east_native requires factions { eastern, carthaginian, egyptian, } and hidden_resource nobuild

[CaesarVincens]

Or add "or hidden_resource nobuild" to every previous level, as in XGM.

[Squid]

Or add "or hidden_resource nobuild" to every previous level, as in XGM.

That doesn't help as the gap still exists. The game isn't smart enough to know that the hidden resource isn't present in any city. Any faction could, in theory, build the building if the resource was in the settlement, it doesn't matter that it isn't.

[CaesarVincens]

That doesn't help as the gap still exists. The game isn't smart enough to know that the hidden resource isn't present in any city. Any faction could, in theory, build the building if the resource was in the settlement, it doesn't matter that it isn't.

Which is why one adds it to the earlier levels. If every level could be built by the Seleucids, given this resource, no gap.

[Spartan 666]

Thanks everyone for the help provided with that issue.

But after adding a building, a similar problem emerged. Basically I added a 4th colony, and from there tragedies started to happen. I still get errors telling of gaps for faction which shouldn't use that building, even by adding\removing factions requirements.

Here's my "new" EDB.txt. The colonies are at the end of the file, but probably there are problems also with barracks requirements (barrack_greek, barracks_roman, etc).

Thanks for any suggestion you can give..

[Squid]

What's the error message?

[CaesarVincens]

I didn't see any problems with the colonies, they should all work. Also, I cleaned up the barracks requirements a bit.

[Spartan 666]

@ Squid: The error message is about "faction seleucid has gap in east_native, unavailable at level zero".

@ Caesar: I didn't see any error too, that's why I am banging my head against the wall to find what's wrong! I'll try your solution, thank you!

[Spartan 666]

Caesar, I tried your file but now it gives me this error: "faction egypt has gap for building barracks_5_eastern, unavailable at level zero"

[Ramashan]

I think its because you don't have the 'or' requirement at level 5 which the game then sees as that level being available at 0 since there's no egyptian faction in the first set of { } for the previous levels.

This is the only odd thing I see that could be a problem.

[CaesarVincens]

Oops, sorry, I must've made a typo. Just look at how the Greek barracks is set up to fix it.

Oh, and if you want, I know a method to make it possible for Egypt and Thrace to be bi-cultural.

[Spartan 666]

@ Ramashan: also the 5th level for greeks don't have the "or" requirement, but that gives no problem. I tried to make something like barracks_5_eastern requires factions { eastern, carthaginian, } and hidden_resource nobuil or faction { egyptian, } and hidden_resource nobuild, but then it crashes with no error message.

@ Caesar: greek barracks are set up like this: barracks_5_greek requires factions { } and hidden_resource nobuild . By making the eastern look in the same way, so barracks_5_eastern requires factions { } and hidden_resource nobuild , the game crashes at the start with no error message.

Well I think making them bi-cultural is easier cause it doesn't needs all these "or this and that", "and that...but not this...".

[CaesarVincens]

When I get home, I'll try to recode them better. And with a new method.

Edit:

Okay, try this.

[Spartan 666]

"gap for egypt at barracks_5_greek, unavailable at level zero."

Is it possible that the file somehow got corrupted and now it gives errors just because it has fun in giving them?

[makanyane]

"gap for egypt at barracks_5_greek, unavailable at level zero."

Is it possible that the file somehow got corrupted and now it gives errors just because it has fun in giving them?

if you added buildings to Carthage / carthaginian - didn't sort out the double reference in descr_ui_buildings.txt and didn't delete the map.rwm you get weird messages (instead of what you get after deleting map.rwm which is straight CTD)

check you fixed descr_ui_buildings.txt as some of your buildings seem to be used by carthage - you just need to delete one of the lines in italics if both are there

lookup_variants
{
carthaginian eastern
carthaginian egyptian
eastern egyptian

- do also try deleting your map.rwm anyway if you haven't recently - I know EDB isn't map file but it does inter-relate sometimes as above.....



anyway as you're using quite unusual coding I suspect you might be doing something it doesn't like... suggest you try the condition for the level 5 barracks placed in the upgrade line as you've done for the other levels, it might read the restriction in the upgrade line differently

[Spartan 666]

this is my descr_ui_buildings, is it fine?

[makanyane]

should be OK it was only that original double entry that caused problems