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

**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!

**Tamur** · 10-06-2006, 03:36

Apparently it isn't just you, I've had a couple of people PM me with problems as well. I'll get a new zip onto my server in the next few minutes and then test it myself to see if I can unzip it.

**Tamur** · 10-06-2006, 03:41

OK, new zip version up. I'm not sure of the problem. I'm able to open it ok and had one other person who was able to. Hopefully the new zip works for everyone.

edit: removed RAR link, this is no longer maintained

**BozosLiveHere** · 10-06-2006, 05:23

Originally Posted by Makanyane

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?

I think MarcusCamillus posted a list once....try looking for it in the Hardcoded Limits thread.

**Tamur** · 10-06-2006, 06:49

Sorry for not answering your question any sooner, Makanyane... No, ATV-TW does not check for valid trait effects (or affects as they're termed in the traits file for some reason). I couldn't find any solid list to rely on for that check.

If you happen to find one, though, please let me know! That would be my next addition if it were possible.