New Campaign Map: my problems

[Monkwarrior]

Well, actually I have no idea what might be causing the CTD. IMO MonkWarrior has done far too much at once. After all the modding I have done I have learned the best way to progress fast is by progressing in very small steps.

You were right Duke John. I followed your advise and now I HAVE A CAMPAIGN THAT WORKS.
Using the same maps, I painted in map_regions just to have five provinces: Lusitania, Latium, Central Gaul, Africa and Sardinia. Each province had one owner faction: spain, SPQR, gauls, carthage and greek_cities. I reduced to the maximum the characters of each faction: only the leader, his wife and 2-3 children.
It was only necessary to eliminate all the other regions in all the text files (mercs, regions, regions_and_settlement...) and the campaign seems to work at least 10 turns.
I'll begin to include more provinces and factions step by step.

Many thanks.

(Last thing: I believe that the senate missions play some role in CTD. With the precedent configuration I was able to start the campaign with the Julii, first mission Segesta, but not with the Brutii. I imagine that it is due to the fact that the game cannot find the first objective.)

[Monkwarrior]

Just to continue with the history, I resized the maps in order to have room for more regions. The radar map must not exceed 255 width 156 heigth or part of the map won't be visible in the radar window. With this limitation the beginning of the campaign would be:


But now I have found three small problems:

1-Beaches: I think Duke John posted something about it. I will look for that post. In any case this is a minor problem, because I am able to load boats.


2-Roads: sometimes they are not visible on the map, as in this case:

However in other zones of the map they are clearly visible. Problem with textures?

3-weird problem near the border:

This problem happened before in the bottom border, but now it is in the upper one. Any advise?

My next steps will be including all the regions and the needed factions to complete the map.
Cheers.

[Dead Moroz]

2-Roads: sometimes they are not visible on the map, as in this case:

However in other zones of the map they are clearly visible. Problem with textures?

I expanded vanilla map and noticed the same problem - in some regions roads just don't appears.

I have question about related bug (sorry for a bit offtopic). Some regions "don't see" some other adjoining regions: don't trade with them and don't lead roads to them. Outwardly everything is ok: there are regions of one faction, different trade resources in regions, no any natural barriers. Does anybody know the cause of this problem (or at least have the same)?

[eadingas]

Have you tried investigating the trade routes map for this? Maybe it's not as useless as it seems...

[Dead Moroz]

Have you tried investigating the trade routes map for this? Maybe it's not as useless as it seems...

Tried. It's useless.

[Monkwarrior]

OK, let's continue the story (in fact this thread is more and more like a developer diary ).
I am doing the map more complicated, by adding at the same time one region and one new owner faction. I started with only five regions for spain, gaul, carthage, greek cities (4 playable) and senate (non playable).
I have succeded in adding three more provinces for parthia, german and dacia, all the three playable, with no difficulty (only some silly mistake in coordinates or age of some child, reported with show_err).
However, when I tried to do the same with the julii, the game CTD with no error message.
It comes again the idea of the problem with senate missions when the map is not complete.
I'll report new findings.
Cheers.

[Dead Moroz]

2-Roads: sometimes they are not visible on the map, as in this case:

However in other zones of the map they are clearly visible. Problem with textures?

I just noticed - your port is in sea. Try to move it on better place.