Campaign map Modding.

Well, its my first day here, and i m excited about learning how to mod the campaign map and units asap since i have many ideas which i consider are quite good.


Well, i ll make this short, i read the guide : https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=50437&page=14 and followed the steps, i think i now can handle the modding smoothly, ( of those basics steps ) since i remember by heart what to do. BUT i ve never been able to make the game run ( the Province-Campaign ) since the "error" option which i ve enabled always found bugs and the like. Well, after some hours i managed to fix them all. BUT a problem still remains. Which is that sometimes the game would say that i cant place a settlement in a certain tile, so i chose Campus Sarmatae to make a erm... well sortta pilot mode and see if i could run the game. WELL... the result is that the game tells ( trouble shooter ) me that the settlement cant be created, NOT that the tile i chose is incorrect, but rather that the settlement cant be created.

Im using RTW gold edition, without patches whatsoever. ( and the mods are taking place within RTW, not BI.


Thanks in advance, Birdman.

Look here: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=85902 :)

Symptom: KTM's with message on exit: 'Script error in .../descr_strat.txt, at line xxx, column x. could not create settlement at script line xxx

* Mis-match between colour on map_regions.tga and colour listed in descr_regions.txt for affected settlement.
* Using identical colour for two different regions.

I ve double, tripple checked both. It must be another thing. The screen ALMOST loads ( the loading bar DOESNT appear, but nevertheless, i dont get kicked to the previous menu straight away, a black screen appears for a second and then i m kicked to the previous menu.



any thoughts?

if i make a breakthrough here i might start something bigger sometime :P

well, coz i think that posting the same in 3 different posts is useless i ll reduce it to here. I hope pple DO read it.

Well, after getting really frustrated with the stuff above ( i have the feeling it was coz i hadnt added the region to the mercenary pool :oops: ) but well, i have 2 new campaigns as sortta tests... and none works, both have an issue with the settlement name not being in descr_strat in the stringtable.. checked the possible stuff in the link given above. Its no there... oh well... i m really sad.. and well, i dont feel like actually playing vanilla coz my pc s just too sucky, so i was hoping to focus just on modding till i get a new pc...

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Did i mention i needed help?

Thanks, Birdman.

Hi Birdman, welcome to the forums ... ;)

I'd like to start by pointing out to you that "no-one" is able to help you based on the info you have given us so far ... map-making, or for that matter, modding by itself, is a detailed task, a miniscule error could cause your entire game from running ..

I see you've already been pointed towards Makanyane's compilantion of why you could have issue's with your map and Myrddraal's tutorial about map-making ... they are your life-line .. :)


Anyway if those 2 topics in particular arent able to help you, I really suggest you upload your modded map somewhere and/or copy-and-paste some data over here so we can ... er .. review your work ... ;)


edit;
as you may not have noticed this, did you delete the "map.rwm" and "map_heights.hgt" file from your "Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\base" folder ??


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If you upload the files, we could perhaps find the error.

Modding can be very frustrating when it doesn't work, but it will eventually :smile:

Welcome to the forums.

well, just forget about this post, i ve given up with MAP modding ( for now, now i m actually modifying the starting positions, diplo and the like ( with quite a lot of success actually, i ve been working on the bugs all day and have a running version, but i m greedy so i m making yet more mods ( dont worry, i got a backup copy of the pre- finished working version ( with no crashes to desktop or ktm )