weird results with the Zeus Tool

[Spartan 666]

Hi! I ran RedFox's Zeus validator with Roma Surrectum, and it reported a lot of missing textures. For example:

Textures missing in DMB:
ln 2801 data/models_unit/textures/praemarian/roman_city_militia_julii.tga.dds

Indeed, I checked that path and there is no such file, at least not the .dds file, the .tga is there. But when I started a battle with that unit, the texture loaded with no error.

And anyway there are many more "errors":

...
ln 1936 data/models_unit/textures/unit_egyption_peltast_slave.tga.dds
ln 1963 data/models_unit/textures/unit_egyption_nubian_infantry.tga.dds
ln 1964 data/models_unit/textures/unit_egyption_nubian_infantry.tga.dds
ln 2070 data/models_unit/textures/unit_greek_medium_cavalry_macedon.tga.dds
ln 2350 data/models_unit/textures/unit_greek_peltast_macedon.tga.dds
...

All DMB.txt references to files that are not where they should be, according to what DMD says.

What happened?

[Chicken]

God said, "Let there be light", and there was light.

On the seventh day, God rested, and looked at his computer screen. Roma Surrectum was loading, but a few bugs were detected.
God said, "Let Roma Surrectum be the greatest and bug-free RTW mod ever made", and there was Roma Surrectum, ready to be played, freed of all bugs, viral, bacterial, and computer-al types.

then God rested.

[Spartan 666]

Sorry I can't really get what you mean

[Chicken]

there IS no bug, as God has killed it all, but as he made a miracle, there is no logical explanation of how the bugs are fixed..... thus it makes you think that RS has bugged files, but it actually DOESNT have bugs.


just a bit of my poor humour

[Spartan 666]

I got the humour but not what you meant...

Anyway that's really strange, a guys goes crazy to make DMB match perfectly with the real file location, and then the game works all the same...

[dvk901]

That's because those files are the original Vanilla files. They are in a .pak file in data\packs.

[Squid]

First thing is you have ignore all the warnings, as those show up because its not a mod-foldered mod, as for the rest I may have missed a few going through the errors.

[Spartan 666]

Dvk and Squid, your're right! Since this is a non-foldered mod it can use vanilla files contained in the pak files. But there are also these "errors", and they don't seem vanilla files:

ln 175 data/models_unit/textures/mount/riczu_roman_horse_light.tga.dds
ln 176 data/models_unit/textures/mount/riczu_roman_horse_light.tga.dds
ln 230 data/models_unit/textures/mount/riczu_roman_horse_medium.tga.dds
ln 231 data/models_unit/textures/mount/riczu_roman_horse_medium.tga.dds
ln 289 data/models_unit/textures/mount/riczu_roman_horse_general.tga.dds
ln 290 data/models_unit/textures/mount/riczu_roman_horse_general.tga.dds
ln 699 data/models_unit/textures/praemarian/officer_roman_early_centurion_scipii.tga.dds
ln 700 data/models_unit/textures/praemarian/officer_roman_early_centurion_scipii.tga.dds

[Squid]

The last two for sure aren't errors as the files are tga and not tga.dds files, the other are probably similar.

[Spartan 666]

Ok then, thanks guys!

[Squid]

After having gone through the results of zeus again, I can confidently state that there are no missing textures.

[Spartan 666]

Excellent! So it's either because they are .tga files and not .tga.dds files or because they are vanilla files contained into the .pak, thanks for the clarification since I didn't know there could be issues like these!

[Squid]

The current version of zeus does not deal well with mods that aren't mod foldered.