ATV-TW: a trait (and future ancillary) validator for RTW/M2TW

**Tamur** · 09-05-2006, 19:08

I've just been informed that the name of this tool is rather vulgar in some parts of the world. Most of the time it's blissful to be completely culturally clueless.

Changing to ATV-TW for future.

**Makanyane** · 09-05-2006, 21:55

Hmm, sort of liked the original name - as in don't be a **** use this validator!

Is it possible to make it downloadable rather that running live off the hosting site? Something in my security settings seems to be stopping it finding files and I'd prefer not to have to disable firewalls etc.!!

Thanks anyway for a really useful looking tool.

**Tamur** · 09-05-2006, 23:11

hi Makanyane,

Oki, I had thought about making it a zip archive for the small bandwidth savings, but making it required-to-download via zipping it will probably save all sorts of trouble in future. I'll zip it up and change the link sometime tonight.

**Myrddraal** · 09-06-2006, 00:21

I haven't tried it myself, but try right-clicking the link then choosing Save Target As, that should download the exe...

**Tamur** · 09-06-2006, 06:03

Finally got some connected time, and now the 0.5 version is up, with the basics of Ancillary validation.

A couple of notes on what the 0.5 version does not do:

it does not find triggers that bestow invalid Traits or Ancillaries
it does not find bad image references on Ancillaries
it does not check that you have bestowed a valid Affect (i.e. the hard-coded RTW Affects)

I do plan to add each of these omissions in time, and probably the first one quite soon. But for now, what's there will catch most problems.

P.S. I also turned this into a zip file, which compressed quite a bit more than I had thought, so I'll zip future versions.

**Tamur** · 09-08-2006, 16:10

OK, 0.7 is up.

This will now check for triggers that bestow non-existant ancillaries, and triggers that bestow non-existant traits.

Next version will be UI changes, though my schedule looks a bit busy for the next little while. I'll get it up as soon as I'm able.

**Tamur** · 10-05-2006, 20:09

0.8 is up.

ATV-TW will now check the syntax of all trait and ancillary trigger conditions. This includes missing parameters, bad logic tokens, a few tokenised values, and any mistyped condition names.

**Makanyane** · 10-05-2006, 22:19

Ok, so its only me that has problems with your downloads, sorry !!! - have saved v.8, but trying to open it is giving me - winRAR diagnostic message

! I:\Internet Downloads\Rome Total War\ATVTW.zip: Unexpected end of archive

any ideas? what version of .rar /.zip are you using?

Also (and I'm now cross posting as i just asked question on this in modding_questions, oops!) does v.8 cover valid trait effects?
If not do you know if there is a listing of them anywhere to check manually?

P.S. should have come back and said thanks before for previous versions - it does everything you said really well, a great help!