TECHNICAL HELP & REPORTS THREAD [Bug Reports, Installation Problems, CTDs, etc...]

[HighOnTea]

I'm very curious about this HighOnTea, that looks awesome the crater holes, where a bouts does the "impact.dds" reside within the database as I wouldn't mind trying to activate this within my own game, cheers

My intention, too, is to recreate the same effects and, if possible, expand it to cover the effects of bouncing cannon balls on the ground for integration in my mod .
The texture I was referring to can be found in by navigating to IS_mod_BSM_4_1_Medium or the like. Vanilla doesn't have it.

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Just placing it there doesn't have any effect in battle,though. It might be in landbattle.xml, but I found no direct reference to it. I assume that it has to be linked indirectly, possibly via the projectile_explosions_tables.

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Cheers!

[onmy6]

My intention, too, is to recreate the same effects and, if possible, expand it to cover the effects of bouncing cannon balls on the ground for integration in my mod .
The texture I was referring to can be found in by navigating to IS_mod_BSM_4_1_Medium or the like. Vanilla doesn't have it.

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Just placing it there doesn't have any effect in battle,though. It might be in landbattle.xml, but I found no direct reference to it. I assume that it has to be linked indirectly, possibly via the projectile_explosions_tables.

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Cheers!

Brilliant, thank you good sir

[High Delivery]

Hey everyone! really new to the foruns here but in my british playthrough the Marines dont seem to have a card picture. Any ideas why?

[High Delivery]

Nevermind everyone. I fixed the problem

[onmy6]

HighOnTea I discovered this within the landbattle.xml of the IT_Bsm_Wfx.pack of Minor Factions Revenge and it works, must not have NAP effects enabled if you have it or else it won't work but otherwise it seems to works well

<SCRIPTED_EFFECT_INFO name='Fire_scorch' fire_effect='4'
etc etc....

<SCRIPTED_EFFECT_RENDERING_VARS name='Rendering Vars' texture_1='effects\textures\impact_decal_diffuse.dds' texture_2='effects\textures\impact_decal_normal.dds' texture_3='effects\textures\impact_decal_normal.dds' texture_4='effects\textures\default_pfx_packed_normal.dds' texture_5='effects\textures\default_pfx_packed_normal.dds' texture_6='effects\textures\default_pfx_packed_normal.dds' texture_7='effects\textures\default_pfx_packed_normal.dds' texture_8='effects\textures\default_pfx_packed_normal.dds' render_method='RENDER_METHOD_ALPHA' align_to_velocity='false' sprite_facing_mode='WORLD_Y_AXIS' max_effects='5000' max_num_quads='1000' render_first='false' affected_by_shroud='true' />

</SCRIPTED_EFFECT_INFO>

Example:

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Edit: I managed to implement this into NAP effects and also works when cannon balls bounce

[HighOnTea]

onmy6, Good sir, thank you!

So it appears IS simply did not have the right script included in the landbattle.xml!

I got it working on my end, too. Now it would be great to see if it is possible to get more crate variety depending on various shells!

[onmy6]

Now it would be great to see if it is possible to get more crate variety depending on various shells!

Well that should be fairly easy to do, I tested it out and it seems to work rather well IMO
First of all create a new script by copying the Fire_scorch effect script and pasting it below it, then re-name it to
Fire_scorch2 for example.

Then scroll down to <SCALE_INFO name= and alter vector(variance, originally it was vector(variance(2.0,1.5), I altered it to vector(variance(1.0,0.5)and then changed every entry of (2.0,1.5) within Fire_scorch2 to the new (1.0,0.5), when that's done look for max_effects='5000' which is near the bottom of the new script and change it to '500'.

Now with the script set scroll down to near the bottom of the landbattle.xml and look for the cannon you want to change for the impact crater for example the
<SCRIPTED_EFFECT_GROUP name='Cannon_Groundimpact_gen_24shell2' > has an entry for
<SCRIPTED_EFFECT_GROUP_ENTRY name='Fire_scorch' effect='Fire_scorch' /> for the bigger shell hits
and
<SCRIPTED_EFFECT_GROUP name='Cannon_Groundimpact_gen_9lber' > has an entry
<SCRIPTED_EFFECT_GROUP_ENTRY name='Fire_scorch2' effect='Fire_scorch2' /> for smaller hits

of course adjust to your own preference
here's an example of the result

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to your right are the 24 pounders impact craters and just to your left of those are the 6 pounders

or you could change the skin and texture entirely for script two from out of the NTW effects textures, ie: impact_decal2_diffuse.dds and impact_decal2_normal.dds
to get 2 completely different results for different cannons (not really my cup of tea but...)

example:

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the big craters are the originals and the small are the decal2 etc etc

[Aranos92]

Hello, i have a big problem, i've started a campaign as France on RotR, now i am in 1804 (Revolution happens and so on) but now i've seen that i cannot recruit anymore from Paris (no units in the HUD). It is a bug? Maybe corrupted save or something like this? I'll hope that someone could help me.

[Quintus Hortensius Hortalus]

Hello, i have a big problem, i've started a campaign as France on RotR, now i am in 1804 (Revolution happens and so on) but now i've seen that i cannot recruit anymore from Paris (no units in the HUD). It is a bug? Maybe corrupted save or something like this? I'll hope that someone could help me.

It's a bug but you are behind the timeline. Maybe this is the cause. But I'll have a look.

[William Campbell]

Greetings, I'm playing IS 2.2. (Great mod) I am unable to research steel ramrod as France. The patch fixed some tech tree issues for me but not all. British tech tree has some unsearchable tech issues as well. Any suggestions? I will keep trying to find what it could be and post if I find it. Thank you in advance for any tips and help.

[pappagoat]

In the quick battle early era unit rosters there are a lot of units without names, or period icons, and if I use them in a battle I find a lot of units with wrong model - texture combos. The late period plays fine, all unit neatly represented. Is this how things are at the moment or did I miss a pack somewhere?

[Quintus Hortensius Hortalus]

In the quick battle early era unit rosters there are a lot of units without names, or period icons, and if I use them in a battle I find a lot of units with wrong model - texture combos. The late period plays fine, all unit neatly represented. Is this how things are at the moment or did I miss a pack somewhere?

No you didn't miss anything. The early era has many missing things and this issues will not be adressed soon as we are occupied with finishing the late era (RotR)

[Lokrist]

Hello,
First of all, thanks for this great mod. I've played it some years ago and I would like to retry it. But I've got an issue. When I launch the mod it's just play native empire total war. I tried many things. I downloaded five or six times the mod (and patches) as well as ETW. Infortunaly the mod doesn't works. The only difference is the loading screen. And when I launch the mod, it's written that 9 files (pack) are displaced.
Thanks for any answer and sorry for my bad english.

[Quintus Hortensius Hortalus]

Is the userscript at the right place?

[Lokrist]

I don't know. User.empire_script is in the IS folder (Empire Total War\data\IS).

[onmy6]

Your user.empire_script should be here in win 7 and it should be relatively the same for the other windows operating systems for example:
C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts

[PikeStance]

Your Data/IS folder should look like this

Imperial Splendour 2_2 DB.pack
Imperial Splendour 2_2 Media.pack
Imperial Splendour.exe <---- You double click this here.
IS_Artillery.pack
IS_britain.pack
IS_mod_BSM_4_1_Medium.pack
IS_Flags.pack
IS_france.pack
IS_Horses.pack
is_load.bat
IS_mod_no_forts.pack
IS_sounds_musics.pack
is_unload.bat
ISBeffecto.pack
ISicon.ico
ISlauncher.exe <--- This will also launch the game.
ISlauncher.ico
patch_is_text.pack
user.empire_script.txt

When you click on either "Imperial Splendour.exe" or "ISlauncher.exe," it will bring up a graphic of a framed map. In the middle is the "Start." Click on that. This will load Imperial Splendour.
The Green is the User script.
The bring files are the files that load Imperial Splendour. When you click on the Imperial Splendour execute, it will place all of the pack files in the data folder and tell the system to read and activate the IS packs.
If you are using the "Empire.exe" it will load vanilla Empire.
Do not touch the user script in the int the script folder. it will not launch Imperial Splendour unless the files are placed directly in the data folder.


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As an FYI, if you ever wanted to add a pack/ mod to IS, all you would need to do, is give an "IS_ prefix and add it to the user script. There are no guarantees that other mods will work. It would depend on if there are any conflicts. You may have to play with the order. The first listed is the last one loaded.

[Lokrist]

Thanks for your answers. I still have this issue. I looked in my IS folder and I had all files correctly except for one: I don't have "IS_BSM_Full.pack" but "IS_mod_BSM_4_1_Medium.pack". I really don't understand where the bug come's from. Last time I played this mod, all installed correctly and easely

[onmy6]

Hmm maybe you could try and load it manually
perhaps copy the files from IS folder to the data folder
for example copy these .pack files below and paste them into the data folder when that's done
copy the IS user.empire_script.txt fileand replace the one that's there in the script folder
(NOTE:you may want to backup the original user empire script file first before you replace it as I can't remember if it will make a new one if this doesn't work and you have to restore it)

IS_Artillery.pack
IS_britain.pack
IS_BSM_Full.pack
IS_Flags.pack
IS_france.pack
IS_Horses.pack
IS_mod_no_forts.pack
IS_sounds_musics.pack
ISBeffecto.pack
patch_is_text.pack

It might work but just in case it doesn't remember to delete these files above from the data folder any nothing else from the data folder
and delete the IS user script file in the script folder and replace with orginal vanilla version you backed up

Oh and I forgot, if you do this launch game from the empire exe

[PikeStance]

Thanks for your answers. I still have this issue. I looked in my IS folder and I had all files correctly except for one: I don't have "IS_BSM_Full.pack" but "IS_mod_BSM_4_1_Medium.pack". I really don't understand where the bug come's from. Last time I played this mod, all installed correctly and easely

This is correct. I chose to install the full version of that mod as opposed to the medium. The user script and the file comes from the installer is the medium version.

Hmm maybe you could try and load it manually
perhaps copy the files from IS folder to the data folder
for example copy these .pack files below and paste them into the data folder when that's done
copy the IS user.empire_script.txt fileand replace the one that's there in the script folder
(NOTE:you may want to backup the original user empire script file first before you replace it as I can't remember if it will make a new one if this doesn't work and you have to restore it)

It might work but just in case it doesn't remember to delete these files above from the data folder any nothing else from the data folder
and delete the IS user script file in the script folder and replace with orginal vanilla version you backed up

Oh and I forgot, if you do this launch game from the empire exe

This will not work because it will load the vanilla campaign folder not Imperial splendour folder. If you use Mod manager it should work.
You wouldn't need to back up the IS script as you do not delete the IS folder.

Imperial Splendour creates its own campaign folder. The directory can be found here. { C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Empire Total War\data\campaigns\imperial_splendour }
There are several files within the folder.

The campaign folder will look like this
Episodic_1
Episodic_2
Episodic_3
Imperial_ Splendour
Main_1
Main_2
Native
Below is the files within the folder.


Just one last thing. You need to download and install every patch, especially the first two, the game will not load without them.