A Beginner's Guide to Scripting & Scripting "How To"s

**Jason** · 05-03-2005, 15:27

Richard,

Yes I noticed the spaces the board put in your notes but after comparison with the file I saw that they werent supposed to be there so I didnt put them in. So I guess I didnt actually follow your instructions to the letter

I will try that show_err command when I get home and report back then.

Jason

**Jason** · 05-03-2005, 19:56

Alas show_err did not give me any errors. It just simply crashes to the desktop whenever I put that script line in AdviceThread Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Thread.

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-03-2005, 20:29

Hmmm... I really can't think what it might be. You are putting the mo_money.txt file in data\scripts\show_me\ and not just in data\scripts\ right? If all else fails, try referencing the advicethread to one of the scripts you get with the original game.

**Jason** · 05-05-2005, 00:30

Yay! I found what my problem was. And this took some finding by the way.

Ok so when I made the mo_money.txt file I right clicked in the show_me folder to create a text file. I then named the file mo_money.txt

This created the problem. It confused the hell out of my poor copy of RTW because even though MS thought it was a txt file it was actually labeled improperly. Once I deleted the file, and named the new one simply mo_money and cut and pasted what was in the original post everything worked as advertised.

So all that being said Im going to go over here and hide in the corner with my stupidity. Thank you for your help and hopefully I will be able to pull of other mods with a little better success rate.

Jason

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-05-2005, 08:13

You know what? I made exactly the same mistake once when messing around with custom tiles. I think our computers must be on a setting where they conceal the extension so that you actually named it mo_money.txt.txt.

**Jason** · 05-05-2005, 17:09

Yes Im going to fix that setting really fast.

One last off the wall question. Are there lists of all the cities (maybe a map) and units and buildings somewhere online so I can try writing scripts while Im here at work waiting for everyone else to get thier acts together so I can get something done?

Jason

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-05-2005, 17:27

A chap named rumcajsz does rather a good line in RTW maps, try searching for his name and see if you come up with one of his links. As for units & buildings etc. you can find quite a nice unit list here. Of course I'm very rarely able to be with a copy of RTW so I have all the data folder's text files on a data key.