building trouble:CTD

**EarendilElenthol** · August 11, 2009, 12:10 PM

I run into trouble with the EDB as well.

OLD (working) version:
all large settlements are castles, everything works fine (range: castle, fortress, citadel)

NEW (buggy) version:
German settlements all work correctly when I change them (largest huge_city with 50.000 inh.)
Rebel settlements give CTD (the usual unexpected error) while the map needs to display one, if not, it all runs fine.
Novgorod gives CTD in same way as rebels.
I checked, they all are in export_buildings / expanded / the descr_strat is without bugs that cause this / the edb has all the core_buildings for russia as well.

Anyone any idea? I´ve run out of possibilities, it's just very frustrating.

**Gigantus** · August 11, 2009, 10:53 PM

It does help to mention which mod (or version) you are talking about and what you have done.

**EarendilElenthol** · August 12, 2009, 04:52 AM

My own mod, running in barebones. When I change the entries in the descr_strat (and with a changed DSM, but thath shouldnt be the problem) this bug turns up in the campaign itself.

**Gigantus** · August 12, 2009, 05:05 AM

One thought comes to mind:

HRE = northern_european
Russia = eastern_european
Rebels\Slaves = southern_european

Guess you have to change the models for all cultures, not just the northern_european

If that doesn't help, post the changed entries.

**EarendilElenthol** · August 12, 2009, 06:16 AM

I changed HRE to southern_european
Russia is still eastern_european and Rebels is southern_european
all castles work, unto large_city (citadel), cities work unto city (stone_wall)
Didnt edit anything in other files than xml and txt, didn't touch models

**EarendilElenthol** · August 12, 2009, 06:44 AM

It seems i found the answer, but I don't know yet how to solve it rightly. The problem seems to be in the faction_creator. It doesn't regocnize russian large_cities and huge_cities, although the rest isnt a problem. It doesn't recognize the whole Slave faction (errors in log) but it seems it can find all the needed models on to cities and citadels.
How can I edit the files in such a way that russia is a valid faction_creator?

**Gigantus** · August 12, 2009, 07:16 AM

You can't use the slave faction as faction_creator. All other factions in the descr_sm_factions file are viable.
And you are correct: the initial model of the castle\settlement on the stratmap is determined by faction_creator. It will change if the faction that develops the next leve, has a different culture.
The path to the different models is detailed in descr_cultures.

**EarendilElenthol** · August 12, 2009, 07:30 AM

I'm giving too much rep to you, my hero, will rep you another time, the site blocks me now

**Gigantus** · August 12, 2009, 08:44 AM

One is glad to be of service

**SigniferOne** · August 16, 2009, 10:22 PM

There is no such thing as too much +rep for gigantus.

**Gigantus** · August 16, 2009, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by SigniferOne

There is no such thing as too much +rep for gigantus.

**EarendilElenthol** · August 17, 2009, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by SigniferOne

There is no such thing as too much +rep for gigantus.

You're right, but I rep Gigantus so regularly that the forum blocks me quite often from repping him again. That did I mean with I'm repping him too much.