Tutorial: Placing Palms on the Battlemap

**caius britannicus** · 11-06-2006, 23:28

Great tutorial, worked great sprites everything worked (i used Duke Johns tutorial sorta did a combination of the both). ANyways. IT was working great as this screenshot shows.

https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b...lm_forests.jpg

So I then added the following folders (including all thats in them) and files to my mod install folder (which just overwrites the necessary files not a -mod folder:

models_vegetation
vegetation

descr_vegetation.db
descr_vegetation.txt

Anyways I tested then installing my mod folder (overwriting again) and played my mod. Problem was now the palms were using different sprites. A combination of pines and my palm trees.

https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b...s/palm_bug.jpg

Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

**Dol Guldur** · 11-06-2006, 23:49

This is the same problem I had I believe. The solution is above.

**caius britannicus** · 11-07-2006, 00:03

I thought that it was the same. But you were using a mod folder. I have directly overwriten the files in the rome folder. the only semi_arid_dense_forest_0.tga is the one that contains my palm sprites.

EDIT: SHOOT missed the tgd.dds. Thats why they blend. Okay issue resolved

**Dol Guldur** · 11-07-2006, 00:21

Ah, I see. And there is not two files of the same name but one with tga and one with the tga.dds extension? I'm sure you checked that.

I've sort of lost touch with RTW modding, being in bi and a modfolder thereof for so long now.

EDIT: Glad you found it :) At least it did not take you the many weeks it took me to locate my problem ;)

**caius britannicus** · 11-07-2006, 00:27

The reason I didn't spot it earlier was I was looking at my back up folder instead of the actually rtw folder. I feel like an idiot.

**Dol Guldur** · 11-07-2006, 00:40

Don't worry, I spent ages trying to work out why my edu changes weren't having any effect..it was quite some time before I realised I had not deleted the name of an old backup edu file and had been editing "export_descr_unit_.txt" :(

You seem to be progressing very well!

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 11-10-2006, 04:38

Having some problems. I'd like to ask a question or two though:

-is it necessary to install all of your palm files onto a regular 1.5 build, then copy that vegetation.db file, start over on your -mod format build, and insert that vegetation.db file there? If it is... gah

I'm getting ctd's when trying this new vegetation method, but my old way was getting a mix of those palm and conifer sprites (as CB mentioned) still which was bad.
I assume the ctd is because (1) there is no vegetation.db file inside my -mod files, and (2) the new vegetation type isn't present in the "base" files which is where the vegetation.db is based off of.

This was so simple with a non - mod build. Grrrrr. (but changing UI images and such was such a pain back then)