A modder's guide to CTDs

[Makanyane]

Units may require an additional building, but now only the barracks tree allows recruitment of them.

It'll be the bits that require an additional building that are causing the problem. Building conditioned recruitment is generally buggy, and can't be used in conjunction with another capability in same building, like law bonus. And you can't have more than x number of lines with that capability accessible from same building (think x is about 4, not sure)

[Quinn Inuit]

Ah, I see. Thank you. You were right--it was the capabilities. I'm working on replicating those elsewhere.

[PopePopo]

I get a CTD with no error halfway the loading war when i try to start a new campaign .. A new mpa.rwm is generated though .. Could this be because of some hidden resources ?

[Wundai]

Hello,

A new error to report and ways to solve it.

I have gotten a CTD with no show_err message at all (the worst kind in my opinion ;) )

This CTD occured after the end of the Intro Movie

I finally discovered the problem was an error in the "quotes" (descr_transition_screen.txt)

Interesting to note if you receive an error such as this, which is why I did :)

Greetz.

[Makanyane]

Depending on which quote is affected 'quote' problems can also affect other loading screens apparently randomly, (because apart from a few cases quotes are assigned randomly) e.g. on loading or exiting games, or battles.... If you have problem with a quote that doesn't get used often its quite easy to mistake it for a problem with script etc... I've spent a long while trying to de-bug a script that appeared to be causing a random crash on battle exit, only to eventually realise it was co-incidence of the quote problem causing CTD at transition to that screen.

[Dagovax]

Found 2 interesting CTD's and a new limit.

CTD When viewing settlement on the battle map
Having more than 26 lines of buildings in a 'group' in descr_settlement_plan.

KTM After adding new campaign map.
When closing the game you get a script error: 'Could not find stringable of region <Region>
You generated a new text file called my_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt, but forgot to copy the first line with the '¬' as the first character.