What does this Script Error message mean?

[CountMRVHS]

Messing around with changing some stuff, namely bodyguard units, cultures, etc., I've run into the following error, which occurs after a CTD when I try to start up the game:

Script Error in bi/vi3/data/descr_building_battle.txt, at line 50, column 21
Building db, expected faction, culture or season

"vi3" is the name I gave to the changes I'm making, as it's based on the Viking Invasion 2 mod for BI. I'm just flailing around in there to see what sort of things I can change without, you know, wrecking the game. Looks like I found out.

The error puzzles me as I haven't made any changes in descr_building_battle.txt. I *have* been making changes in the following files:

EDU (changing faction generals)
descr_strat (changing region ownership, starting units, and other things)
descr_sm_factions (to change faction culture)

Any thoughts?


There is a much less pressing error I have also encountered, which is similarly puzzling to me. It seems to be related to changes made in descr_character. I wanted to change the Viking factions' models to Celtic ones - both the stratmap models, and battlemap ones.

Works fine for the stratmap models - I can change family members and captains on the stratmap to use the "irish" models by typing, e.g. "stratmodel irish_captain". I can get family members on the battlefield to also use the celtic rather than viking model.

But I get a CTD when changing the battle model of the captains from "viking_captain" to "celtic_captain". When I enter a battle with "celtic_captain", I get a CTD & the following message:

Failed to find texture 'bi/vi3/data/models_unit/textures.Tribunus.psd.'

I can avoid this by keeping "viking_captain". But since the method I used worked for the family member, I wonder why it doesn't work for the captain?

[Primo]

Messing around with changing some stuff, namely bodyguard units, cultures, etc., I've run into the following error, which occurs after a CTD when I try to start up the game:

Script Error in bi/vi3/data/descr_building_battle.txt, at line 50, column 21
Building db, expected faction, culture or season

"vi3" is the name I gave to the changes I'm making, as it's based on the Viking Invasion 2 mod for BI. I'm just flailing around in there to see what sort of things I can change without, you know, wrecking the game. Looks like I found out.

The error puzzles me as I haven't made any changes in descr_building_battle.txt. I *have* been making changes in the following files:

EDU (changing faction generals)
descr_strat (changing region ownership, starting units, and other things)
descr_sm_factions (to change faction culture)

Any thoughts?

You could try this Tool. It can be quite useful:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=282662

There is a much less pressing error I have also encountered, which is similarly puzzling to me. It seems to be related to changes made in descr_character. I wanted to change the Viking factions' models to Celtic ones - both the stratmap models, and battlemap ones.

Works fine for the stratmap models - I can change family members and captains on the stratmap to use the "irish" models by typing, e.g. "stratmodel irish_captain". I can get family members on the battlefield to also use the celtic rather than viking model.

But I get a CTD when changing the battle model of the captains from "viking_captain" to "celtic_captain". When I enter a battle with "celtic_captain", I get a CTD & the following message:

Failed to find texture 'bi/vi3/data/models_unit/textures.Tribunus.psd.'

I can avoid this by keeping "viking_captain". But since the method I used worked for the family member, I wonder why it doesn't work for the captain?

Find the texture of the celtic_captain, copy it and rename it to textures.Tribunus.psd

[CountMRVHS]

Thanks for the reply.

Any idea where the celtic_captain texture might be found? Not seeing anything with that name in models_unit/textures.

[Primo]

Thanks for the reply.

Any idea where the celtic_captain texture might be found? Not seeing anything with that name in models_unit/textures.

Since i dont even have bi, i got really no idea.
Did you get the error with the Tool?

[CountMRVHS]

I lucked into finding the error, actually - for some reason it went away when I changed the relevant faction's culture back to its original setting.

I'll check out that tool you linked to, though - looks helpful!


Edit: Having some trouble changing unit ownership between factions, though. Here's what I'm doing:

Step 1 - Go to EDU, where I add the faction name to the list of factions that can train that unit.

Step 2 - Go to EDB, where I add the faction name to the list of factions that can train that unit at that particular building

I then check my work, starting up a campaign, to see that the unit *can* be trained by the faction. It's a greyed-out peasant, but that's to be expected. So -

Step 3 - I go to data/ui/units, where I copy & paste the TGA file from one faction (the faction that originally owned the unit) to the other (the faction I want to be able to train the unit).

Check my work again, start up a campaign, and no more grey peasant.

All is good until I go onto the battlefield with the new unit. On loading the battle, I get a CTD with the following error, again pointing me back to models_unit/textures:

Failed to find texture
bi/vi3/data/models_unit/textures/ATW_BONHEDDWYR.TGA

Fair enough - I can't find that texture either! But the thing is, models_unit/textures is mostly full of DDS files anyway - so why would they need a TGA file in there?

Clearly I'm missing something...

Double-edit:

Ah, descr_model_battle.txt! Add a texture line there and it appears I'm good!

[Primo]

I lucked into finding the error, actually - for some reason it went away when I changed the relevant faction's culture back to its original setting.

That means you have made a mistake converting your faction to the other culture or there are still entrys left which specife your faction as the old culture. The tool i´ve posted shuld be able to find the error.

To the tga-files: The textures are all named example.tga.dds
They are in reality all tga-files, thats the reason why they are game-intern reffered to as tga.