Help, Help, CTD Need Help

[Pheare]

Help help help... I keep getting a CTD in my custom campaign. It seems to pass the descr_strat with no errors, but when it goes to load, I get a CTD. If anyone could please please please look at my files and offer some input... please PM me. It would be so much appreciated that you just don't even know.

[Kaweh]

What files have you modified? Only the descr_strat.txt?

K.K

[Pheare]

nope, I have a whole new campaign. I modified pretty much everything in the base and campaign folders. All the maps, descr_strat, descr_disasters, descr_merc... etc. Everything seems to be in order, but, I guess it is not.

[Kaweh]

Have you the "-show_err" tag enabled?

K.K

[Pheare]

yes, I do... no error shown. It was showing errors, and I fixed them. Now it just CTD.

[Kaweh]

Hm... Ok, upload your files, I'll have a look at them, although I can't do anything with RTW untill tomorrow, since I have borrowed my CDs to a friend.

K.K

[Pheare]

okay, I have attached all the important files. By this I mean that I did not include files such as: description_romans_julii.txt, leader_pic_julii, etc. OH, and I did include the pheare_regions_and_settlement_names.txt (which is in my text folder)

Let me know if you need any other info from me. You don't know how much I appreciate any time you offer to take a look and try to help.

[Monkwarrior]

In a quick look at your files, there are two things that might be potential problems.

- Slave faction is not included in descr_strat. I would try to put them as non-playable faction, give them some money and put a small army in one corner of the map.

- In descr_regions, the culture tag in many of them is assigned to factions that don't appear in descr_strat. I found that this is a CTD source. I would try to assign the same "culture tag" as the region owner, just to see if this is the problem.

I hope this will be useful.
Good luck.

[Pheare]

Well, I tried to do what you said. I think I did it correctly. I also edited the victory conditions (don't think that was a prob). Still won't do anything but CTD. I am going to repost the files. Any help, from anyone would be so appreciated.

EDIT: in the descr_regions, I changed the culture (rebels) to slave_uprising.

[Legionary Jezza]

Well, I tried to do what you said. I think I did it correctly. I also edited the victory conditions (don't think that was a prob). Still won't do anything but CTD. I am going to repost the files. Any help, from anyone would be so appreciated.

EDIT: in the descr_regions, I changed the culture (rebels) to slave_uprising.

if it still gts worse reinstall

[Monkwarrior]

I'll try to do something this night.
Be patient.

[Kaweh]

I had a look at your files, but sorry, I can't find anything. That's because I have never modified culture and so on, although I have modified the descr_strat.txt file. I hope someone who has more knowledge about this files reads your post, sorry for not being able to help.

K.K

[Pheare]

cool... everyone's help is awesome. I am at my wits end. I patiently await any good news.

[Monkwarrior]

cool... everyone's help is awesome. I am at my wits end. I patiently await any good news.

Your patience has a reward.
Once you unzip the file, you have the structure of folders necessary to use JSGME.
If you don't use this tool, copy the entire data folder in the Rome-TotalWar directory.
The only file that substitutes one original file is in text folder: campaign_descriptions.txt

Please, make a backup of the original one before copying this file. It is a Spanish version of this file, so it would be better if you copy the last lines (you will see easily which lines I mean ) in your original file.

I've made lots of changes, but I'm not 100% sure if all of them are necessary.
From this starting point you can try different modifications.

Enjoy!

[Pheare]

Monkwarrior,

You are so awesome. I cannot express just how much I am in debt to you for your time and effort. I am reviewing what you changed, which is a good bit. : Just one question, could you narrow it down to one (or several) things that were in fact, flat out wrong? Obviously, Just curious to know if there was something particular you noticed. This is just the beginning of the mod. Hopefully now I can really get into it. Thanks again.

Also, thanks to all who took time out of their day to look as well.

[Monkwarrior]

Monkwarrior,

You are so awesome. I cannot express just how much I am in debt to you for your time and effort. I am reviewing what you changed, which is a good bit. : Just one question, could you narrow it down to one (or several) things that were in fact, flat out wrong? Obviously, Just curious to know if there was something particular you noticed. This is just the beginning of the mod. Hopefully now I can really get into it. Thanks again.

Also, thanks to all who took time out of their day to look as well.

In my opinion the most important mistakes were:

- map_heights: you had a wrong color to code water. I think you used the color in disasters (which is darker) instead of the one in map_heights. I observed this problem because of the corrected_regions map that appears in Rome-TotalWar root directory. There the regions were extended to cover all the water surface (I will send you the map, as an information)

- descr_regions: I didn't explained well, and you put the corresponding faction as the culture tag (right), but in the line just below it was necessary to put a correct name of rebels (see in descr_rebel_factions.txt). In addition, and just in case, I put Latium and Rome as one region and settlement (changed in all the other files also), and the hidden resources italy and rome.

- descr_strat: all your armies and agents were placed in the middle of the sea. I just put them in the correct places. Another important mistake was the slave faction. The only general was assigned to a macedon sub-faction, but the name was a gallic one. Also not sure if it is necessary, but I included romans_senate as a dead faction. You can try to eliminate this and see what happens. Also I eliminated all the wonders and resources. You will have to put what you want, but be careful about the positions.

- Finally, I think it is necessary to have a map for each playable faction (for the menu of the campaign) as well as the campaign name and factions in campaign_descriptions.txt. Just in case I made a proper disasters map, and you can put there the pixels with the corresponding color for each type of disaster (I don't remember which are )

And I think that's all.

[Legionary Jezza]

In my opinion the most important mistakes were:

- map_heights: you had a wrong color to code water. I think you used the color in disasters (which is darker) instead of the one in map_heights. I observed this problem because of the corrected_regions map that appears in Rome-TotalWar root directory. There the regions were extended to cover all the water surface (I will send you the map, as an information)

- descr_regions: I didn't explained well, and you put the corresponding faction as the culture tag (right), but in the line just below it was necessary to put a correct name of rebels (see in descr_rebel_factions.txt). In addition, and just in case, I put Latium and Rome as one region and settlement (changed in all the other files also), and the hidden resources italy and rome.

- descr_strat: all your armies and agents were placed in the middle of the sea. I just put them in the correct places. Another important mistake was the slave faction. The only general was assigned to a macedon sub-faction, but the name was a gallic one. Also not sure if it is necessary, but I included romans_senate as a dead faction. You can try to eliminate this and see what happens. Also I eliminated all the wonders and resources. You will have to put what you want, but be careful about the positions.

- Finally, I think it is necessary to have a map for each playable faction (for the menu of the campaign) as well as the campaign name and factions in campaign_descriptions.txt. Just in case I made a proper disasters map, and you can put there the pixels with the corresponding color for each type of disaster (I don't remember which are )

And I think that's all.

yes ive had a look and i also agree with "thats all" ithought ill check just to make sure for u k

[Pheare]

GR8!! I thought that most of the incorrectly placed units and stuff would show in the error on crash, but I guess not. Now I am having no problems with it, yet, Anyway, now it loads, and I can beging the mod off properly. Thanks again. You rock in my book!!!