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Gnostiko
10-13-2008, 15:12
I'm trying to export Konny (and medtoasters) Cursus honorum and Command Stars update over to Maksimus' AlexEB, as well as manually fixing the immortal trait, since my family members refuse to die of old age*. Conversations with both parties have led me to conclude I can't just copy and paste the relevant files into their folders, but I need to manually edit. Scanning various threads I can see that not only is Notepad scorned, but it can lead to CTD's, so I'm using Textpad, as some have suggested. Problem is, any changes I make don't appear to be saved. Since I can't immediately test if family members die of old age, I did my own little test - there is a trait in export_VnVS that contains a typo;
'Firstborn' says "...great expectaCtions", but when I edit the c out it still reads with the typo in any game I play. Bizarrely enough, when I open EDCT and export_VnVs with notepad, any changes I've made with Textpad are missing...but when I open said files with Textpad they're there again. Further, as another little test, I created backups of both files and tried to edit them with notepad, with the result that it won't save - I get a message saying 'cannot create blah blah, make sure path/file name are correct', which is bogus.

Just a few things to clear up for any potential helpers:

1. The game is installed in the default TCA/RTW path destination, which hasn't troubled me before

2. When I save (or try to) I'm not changing the name or file type to save as

3. Both files aren't set to 'read-only', and I've edited them before

4. Yes, I'm starting a new game everytime I make a change

5. Just in case, I've deleted all map.rwm files, but nada


Also, can anyone who's had the immortal FM's problem just confirm that:

;------------------------------------------
Trait Immortal
Characters family
Hidden

Level Immortal
Description Immortal_desc
EffectsDescription Immortal_effects_desc
Threshold 1

Works for restoring mortality to FM's?

Any help would be appreciated!




*Incidentally, if anyone has managed to already accomplish this, please do share your files!

||Lz3||
10-13-2008, 22:14
I have done that before... that's how I put it in my pack hehehe

unfortunately I'm really busy right now to explain step by step, I might explain it tonight

(though I'm pretty sure I already posted it somewhere)

Gnostiko
10-14-2008, 02:12
Huh, managed to get it working after all! The problem was that for some reason, I couldn't save either EDCT or export_VnVS; I had to copy the files to another location before editing them and cut/pasting them over the originals! Game is stable and just perfect, but I seem to be getting Eleutheroi/script related CTD's every now and then. The only thing I can think of is using toggle_fow, I can see the Lusotannans are besieging Numantia, and I think the CTD comes from them trying to fight there way out.

Suggestions for getting around it?