Please Help! Made my first map, can't get it to work

[BHL 20]

I'm making a mod for Rome 1. I created a detailed map_regions.tga and descr_regions.tga. For the ground types, climates,
heights, water surface and roughness I just temporarily made them as simple as possible, one colour for water and one
colour for land. I left the trade routes and features all black, also temporarily, until I'm sure I can get the mod to work.
In the descr_strat.txt file I put in 6 factions plus rebels and distributed all the towns between them. Since I didn't
know the coordinates of the towns I just gave each faction a leader and put all the leaders in the corner of the map.


First, I tried to test the map by substituting all of the aforementioned files for all of their corresponding files in the
vanilla game. However, when I then tried to select a faction from the campaign menu and start the game, the campaign
wouldn't load and it would instead go back to the main menu. The map.rwm file wasn't being constructed. I then tried
the map as a provincial campaign and got the same result. Does this mean there is something wrong with the map files?
I've noticed a map_heights.hgt file in the base folder, I only made a map_heights.tga, is that what I'm missing?
Also I should mention that my map is of a different size that the original, but surely that's not the problem.


So right now I'm lost. Can someone give me an idea of what problem could be and possibly give me some directions for
implementing the mod?

[makanyane]

Sorry for late answer -

a. make sure you're using
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Show_err

map_heights.hgt shouldn't be needed if you're on later patches
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Map_heights.hgt
but you do need to delete it from your mod-folder/where-ever your .tga is otherwise it will 'overwrite' it.

if you've changed the size of the map make sure you also changed;
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Descr_terrain.txt

and see
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Campaig...t_Loading:_RTW
for some general advice.

[BHL 20]

I didn't know about the necessary descr_terrain change actually. But when I changed it to the size of my map_regions a strange thing happened, my kick back to menu was replaced by a CTD with no map.rwm. After some investigation I've come to the conclusion that the provincial campaign is using the map_regions from the base folder instead of my new one. Because the show-err had earlier told me to alter the dimensions of my roughness, climates, ground_types and other files, but when I now compared them to the same files in the base folder they were of exactly the same dimensions, so clearly the show-err had been telling me to adapt these files for the base map_regions.I can't see anything wrong with my own map-regions file. Why isn't the game recognizing it?

[makanyane]

Is there's a a map_heights.hgt in the base folder? If so could you try deleting it - or maybe moving it down to the /imperial_campaign folder? (removing it will affect the main campaign map) I can't remember if that is required or not to get a provinicial folder to work, but suspect it's the problem as the .hgt file is read in preference to the .tga version, and I'm assuming you don't have a .hgt file...

[BHL 20]

I removed heights.hgt from the base folder and tried a few other things but I still get a CTD. The files I currently have in the provincial campaign folder are : descr_regions, descr_strat, descr_terrain, map_climates, map_ground_types, map_heights.tga, map_regions, map_roughness, map_trade_routes and water_surface. Might there be anything missing? The only files that are in the base folder but not in the provincial campaign are descr_disasters and map_FE which don't seem relevant.

[makanyane]

you need map_features.tga (which can be black but needs to be the correct size)

and if you've got a bigger map than original/more sea - the see this;
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Landmass_Crash

also have a look in the imperial_campaign folder - there's other text files like descr_win_conditions , which can be blank, but might need to be present...

[BHL 20]

Thanks, I'll have a look at the Landmass Crash to see if that might the issue.