an odd crash

In my mod i was quickly adding another faction, and after i finished making everything work so game actually loads up. But when i try to start a battle the game exits to desktop. Does anyone know what could cause this, i've got show err on and it shows nothing. as far as i now the folders i have modified since the mod was actually working was: export desc unit, desc models battle, export desc buildings, descr mount and descr rebel factions. Any one know what a likely problem would be and what a likely file will be, that will allow game but not custom battles to work. I will look through them all myself, but any ppointers will be much appreciated. Thanks:beam:

if it crashes on attempting battles and you've been fiddling with DMB check that you didn't leave .dds on the end of any of the texture path names (just do an edit - find, search for it in the descr_model_battle.txt file; it shouldn't be in there at all, although it must be on the end of the actual texture file names)

In BI sometimes trying to start battle with unit that doesn't have a texture line for the faction that's trying to use it can CTD without message as well - though you more often get a "can't find... " message

Otherwise I doubt its rebel_factions unless you're actually trying to fight rebels and haven't sorted one of the skins for unit you assigned to them, and export_descr_buildings is unlikely to be culprit. Other three files probably give range of possibilities and good reason to check things in small stages :yes:

I'm assuming you started a custom battle and not a battle in campaign map. Other than the possible errors Mak stated, a culprit of CTDs with no error message that I have encountered is related to the name files. Make sure you got the names in descr_names.txt of generals/captains for your new faction correct.

Okay, im pretty angry. I couldent find a noticable problem juft from looking, so i went back to a backup i made. It was all working fine now and by adding back the information i established it definately wasnt desc buildings, desc mounts and desc rebel factions; though it wasnt likely to be them any way. I started adding back the units in groups and i seem to have found out what group caused it, except when i removed them again (both from desc unit and desc model battle) it still wasnt working :wall:
Im probably going to end up going to my backups of those folders again and trying to pinpoint exactly what causes it, real pain tho...

some of the files you can just umm, 'mess up', by accidentally hitting something on key board when you're not actually attempting to edit then saving with other changes

I've managed that in character traits before (couldn't find and had to completely re-do), the data/text ones are susceptible if you do anything to first character in file by mistake. Haven't met it in EDU or DMB but it is possibility from your description.

If you start again do it in small stages, eg adding 5/6 units max at a time, and keep backups of each previous stage, its easy to get lazy on that once you think you know what you are doing but it is a lot safer!