Adding new temple

[Squid]

The above is incorrect, you can it by faction, because if you look through the vanilla EB file you'll see plenty of references to parthia.

[SubRosa]

Hmm, you are right. Parthia and Carthage both have faction-specific buildings. I never noticed that before. Maybe they did those first, and then realized it was quicker to do the descriptions by culture rather than by individual faction?

[Aradan]

The factional part is used to give faction-specific variations in certain buildings, it's a useful capability. As for the error: the code seems ok to me, have you added the proper UI cards yet?

[Quirinus]

Ah, that must be the problem. How do I add UI cards? Is there anything else I need to do to add new buildings?

[Aradan]

Nope, just the UI cards. There are 3 types for each level of a building: the one you see in the panel (#culture-name_level-name, 78x62), the one you see in the building browser (#culture-name_level-name, 64x51) and the large one you see when you right-click to get info about a building (#culture-name_level-name_constructed.tga, 361x163). The first and the third go into data/ui/culture-name/buildings/ folder and the second into the construction/ subfolder of the former.

[Quirinus]

Nope, just the UI cards. There are 3 types for each level of a building: the one you see in the panel (#culture-name_level-name, 78x62), the one you see in the building browser (#culture-name_level-name, 64x51) and the large one you see when you right-click to get info about a building (#culture-name_level-name_constructed.tga, 361x163). The first and the third go into data/ui/culture-name/buildings/ folder and the second into the construction/ subfolder of the former.

Do you mean files like #EASTERN_AWESOME_TEMPLE.TGA, #EASTERN_AWESOME_TEMPLE_CONSTRUCTED.TGA, etc.?

I think I already have those in place.... is it possible that it's caused by my new temples not having an entry in the building equivalent of the descr_model_battle? If so, which file is it, and how do I add it?


EDIT: I've tried doing it via instructions from this tutorial, (I copied the said tga files and renamed them according to the thread, but the thing still CTD's on me. It's actually pretty odd that this happens, as I've added highways to Greeks simply by editing the EDB and export_buildings.


Exactly what I did:

In data/ui/eastern/buildings, I copied

#eastern_shrine.tga
#eastern_shrine_constructed.tga
#eastern_temple.tga
#eastern_temple_constructed.tga
#eastern_large_temple.tga
#eastern_large_temple_constructed.tga
#eastern_awesome_temple.tga
#eastern_awesome_temple_constructed.tga
#eastern_pantheon.tga
#eastern_pantheon_constructed.tga

...and changed the names to these:

#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_shrine.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_shrine_constructed.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_temple.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_temple_constructed.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_large_temple.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_large_temple_constructed.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_awesome_temple.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_awesome_temple_constructed.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_pantheon.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_pantheon_constructed.tga

While in data/ui/eastern/buildings/construction I copied

#eastern_shrine.tga
#eastern_temple.tga
#eastern_large_temple.tga
#eastern_awesome_temple.tga
#eastern_pantheon.tga

...and changed the names to these:

#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_shrine.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_temple.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_large_temple.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_awesome_temple.tga
#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_pantheon.tga

I probably missed something important, I just can't for the life of me figure out what.

[Aradan]

a) UI cards go by culture, not faction, "#parthia_temple_of_horse_2_pantheon_constructed.tga" should be "#eastern_temple_of_horse_2_pantheon_constructed.tga"

b) I believe in descr_ui_buildings.txt all "temple_of_xyz_temple" buildings are substituted by "temple", "temple_of_xyz_large_temple" ones by "large_temple" etc when it comes to UI cards, so your cards should still be named: #eastern_shrine.tga, #eastern_temple.tga, etc.