Problem with loading factions

[Myrddraal]

I have made 9 factions so far for my WoT mod

At the moment they are all Catholic apart from The Shadow which is pagan, and are all on Catholic_Defensive except the Shadow which is on Barbarian_Raider.

I can play as any faction, but when I play as the Shadow, the game CDTs as soon as I load it with no error messages. Whilst playing as other factions the Shadow seems to work fine though. Any idea as to why this might happen.

[Xiphias]

Well the obvious thing is to try changing them to Catholic and see if they work.

[Myrddraal]

Because its the obvious thing, i tried it and thats not the problem

[tombom]

If you'd said ten factions, I may of said it was something to do with a faction limit. But the game works fine otherwise. As it is, I don't know what the problem is. If you like you can mail it to me at petaparsons AT supanet.com.

[Myrddraal]

Quote[/b] (tombom @ June 02 2004,11:57)]If you'd said ten factions, I may of said it was something to do with a faction limit. But the game works fine otherwise.
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif I thought the faction limit was higher than ten?

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-oops.gif I just had a look at my post and its wrong, more than one faction crashes, about three of them do actually.

The factions I used were the viking ones plus HRE (to get and elected leader), HRE works fine and so do most of the Viking ones.

I think the problem may be to do with pre battle shields, as when I play as another faction and attack a faction that CTD's, the game crashes.

But then why would those factions CTD as soon as the game loads? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

As for sending it to you, that might be difficult, the game is still in development, so theres not self installer and I'm not even sure which files I've edited.

[Duke John]

I might have an idea. But first of all, just take the time to make absolutely sure that you have all the files Don't even think that you can try starting the game with files missing (unless you know what is not needed).
If you think it has something to do with prebattleshields, then check them first.

I think you should just check all the shields. When playing a campaign you will see a faction shield in the bottomleft, you might have missed that one.

[Myrddraal]

Aha, I might have found part of the solution. It seemed to me that all the factions which didn't work were all at the top of the map, so I though it might be a problem with the provinces. This would also explain why when I attacked one of those provinces the game CTD'd.

So I put one of the 'brocken' nations in the south and suddenly it worked

Unfortunatly, I still can't attack those provinces so the problem isn't solved, but at least I know its not the factions or shields which are wrong, but the map itself

Any ideas as to what the problem might be?

[tombom]

This happens in Chaos mod with Lithuania, and a TRUE was missed out, although it still crashes whenever I try it. Check the SetAtrributes lines.

[Myrddraal]

I'll try checking the Attributes.

This problem is really puzzling me. When I first made this mod, I used the Medieval factions to test the map. Back then, the map seemed to work fine. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[Myrddraal]

The problem with the factions is solved

It was the province attributes, though I'm not quite sure which part, I just replace the whole lot and the game worked.

Many thx go to tombom for setting me on the right track http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif