The Complete EDB Guide - discussion

[Teleklos Archelaou]

-Well, I made a UI tree and did include graphics for that precursor1.tga building, in the roman set. But I don't know if that's enough or if they have to be unpacked or something. Again this would be a good place to have some more information about the differences have been introduced into 1.5, but I don't seem to be able to find anywhere that has a really good list of changes like this. It didn't seem to help though from what I could see.
-I expected an error message with the KTM, but I got nothing - no error messages at any time, even though I am using showerr.
-Hmmm. You appear to be right about the "all" thing though. I'm still testing...

edit1: Well, "all" can work on core buildings. So maybe it's tied to the need for building graphics somehow. Gah.

edit2: Now I have added the precursor building and it loads if I only use "roman" in the building requirements line instead of "all", *&* I put images in a new tree under a UI folder with the roman precursor images in it. So I would now say all the problems seem to stem from a requirement of including building images in a UI tree for each new building. I have tested the hiddenresource and the building now appears to only be buildable in a roman province with that HR. Still - the new images aren't showing up in the game itself, just the roman barracks. Gah. But even though they aren't actually showing up, if I remove the images (and make no text changes), it won't even load - it just KTM's. So just having them there at least gets it to create the map.rwm, but I suppose you'll have to pack them to get them to show up.... Further testing - no, this is wrong. It still loads up if I remove them. I'm so tired of messing with this damn thing...

I thought I had a really good handle on what was going on with edb.txt and eb.txt in 1.2, and now I absolutely have no clue what is happening here in 1.5. This is absolutely ridiculous. I couldn't have just gone all stupid all of a sudden, or at least that seems unlikely. Why did things get so difficult now? Was the intent to make things harder on modders? Does anyone claim that 1.5 is now easier? If it is would they point me to some explanation? I'm just very frustrated right now.