Map making driving me mad

[Bwian]

I am trying ( without much success ) to make a campaign map that will work in game!

So far, I have only managed to make something which causes an instant CTD when you select a faction in the campaign selection and go to fire it up.

show_err doesn't kick in, and I have absolutely no idea what might be causing it.

Heres what I have done so far:

Made up a new cam[aign sub-folder, and checked that worked OK

Drew a new 'regions' tga.

Changed the descr_regions and descr_regions_name_and_settlement_lookup text files to match.

Then, I modified descr_strat to take out all the provinces I am no longer using. Ultimately, I will replace all the names with new ones, but I am using stock RTW names for now.

Rome and Latium still exist.

I am only using a small number of factions, and have completely removed references to the ones I am not wanting. I left in Slave and Senate.

The rivers and fords tga has been blacked out completely so I had no rivers where I didn't want them, and I have made sure no resources are sitting outside of proper faction lands.

descr_mercenary text has been amended to remove non-existant regions too.

I have run it through the TIME editor, and I don't get any error messages ( well...not now anyway!! )

With no troubleshooting info, I just don't know where to start!

[blindfaithnogod]

take alook at this.https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=50452
in the second post down. there is a campaign map template. this is what i use to get started.

[Bwian]

The campaign map template file seems to have gone

There are some clues that might help me to get started, so I will read the whole thing through and compare it to what I have got so far. Just wish SOMETHING would give an error message to tell me where I was going wrong ...

[Meneldil]

I had the same issue a few hours ago. I solved it by editing the descr_terrain txt file.

[Atheist_Peace]

From reading your post, two issues are apparent.

1)You do not mention any of the other tga's, did you even edit the rest of them to match the map_regions? (meaning, the map_ground_types, map_heights, etc...) If not then this is certainly one of the causes of the CTD, im sure you can find a tutorial in the Scriptorium that can help you with this.

2) You say you "removed" all references to the factions you arent using, im not sure what you mean by this, but you certainly couldve caused a huge error by deleting something that you shouldnt have.

If you didnt mess up those two things then id say you should just go over all the related text files and tga's and make sure everything is in order.

[Bwian]

To clarify AP:

The map_regions tga has been completely re-done.
map_heights is all flat black, with only the water sections in the water 'blue'
map_features is all black. No rivers at all
I left the others as they were.

As far as removing the factions go, I removed them from descr_strat only. They were deleted from the 'playable actions' bit at the top, plus I removed all the towns / people / armies section from that file.

Additionally, if anyone has a copy of the 'map template' that they could mail me, I would be really grateful! Let me know and I can pm you the mail address to send it