system.rpt error

[Sir Robin the Brave]

20:18:20.500 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

I've been following the adding new unit tutorial, and I've got this message, where or what is a .rpt and where could I be going wrong?

[mor dan]

system report. unspecified means it doesn't know how to define it. how far along are you in adding a new unit? you may need to start over again.

[Sir Robin the Brave]

I just finished! noooooooooo!

[mor dan]

if it's crashing, i'd say you haven't finished. we need to find out where the error may have occurred. was there anytime you loaded the game during the creation process to check the status that it didn't crash?

[Sir Robin the Brave]

I didn't check no. I've entered this into the battle_models.MODELB:

17 scottish_clansmen 1 4 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod0.mesh 121 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod1.mesh 900 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod2.mesh 2500 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod3.mesh 6400 2 5 scotland 69 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_clan_scot.texture 69 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_Nubian_normal.texture 48 unit_sprites/scot_Scottish_Clansmen_sprite.spr 4 scotland 68 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_clan_scot.texture 69 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_Nubian_normal.texture 47 unit_sprites/scot_Scottish_Clansmen_sprite.spr 2 5 scotland 66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_slave_diff.texture 66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_slave_norm.texture 0 4 merc 65 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_merc_diff.texture 65 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_merc_norm.texture 0 1 4 None 19 MTW2_Fast_Swordsman 0 2 18 MTW2_Sword_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 0 16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

basicly I tried copying some sudanese tribesman stuff, and replacing some things, but somethings obviously gone wrong

[mor dan]

my suggestion would be to try it in a sort of reverse engineering way. follow the tutorial TO THE LETTER. create and add the exact same unit he did the exact same way he did and see if it works.

if it works, then go back and begin to make changes. if it doesn't then you know you've done something wrong and it just becomes a text comparison to find the problem. adding new units is very dfficult and time consuming. it doesn't take much to crash it.

[Sir Robin the Brave]

ah! I believe i found the problem, it is my model, deleting what I typed in lets the game run. woo! I'll be pilling over that for the time being

[cfc_kev]

"5 scotland 69"
"4 scotland 68"
"5 scotland 66"

straight away looking at it I'd say those lines are wrong, possibly other lines as well I haven't gone through the whole thing. isn't the number before scotland an indicator that a string is following of a certain length? the 5s and the 4 should be 8s, no?

I had trouble after screwing around in this file, after restoring the original I had to delete the two weather files listed in the patch readme as well so if you're thinking of restoring then that might be something to consider!

[Musashi]

17 scottish_clansmen 1 4 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod0.mesh 121 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod1.mesh 900 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod2.mesh 2500 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod3.mesh 6400 1 8 scotland 65 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_clan_scot.texture 67 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_Nubian_normal.texture 46 unit_sprites/scot_Scottish_Clansmen_sprite.spr 1 8 scotland 66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_slave_diff.texture 66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_slave_norm.texture 0  1 4 None 19 MTW2_Fast_Swordsman 0 2 18 MTW2_Sword_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 0 16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

If that doesn't work, I can try again.

[Sir Robin the Brave]

damn! tried musashi's and it still crashed, I'll keep looking

[Musashi]

Did you make sure there was exactly one space before and after that block?

Ah, sorry... I had a string length wrong... Try this:

17 scottish_clansmen 1 4 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod0.mesh 121 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod1.mesh 900 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod2.mesh 2500 64 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/sudanese_tribesmen_lod3.mesh 6400 1 8 scotland 65 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_clan_scot.texture 69 unit_models/_Units/ME_Nubian_Padded/textures/ME_Nubian_normal.texture 46 unit_sprites/scot_Scottish_Clansmen_sprite.spr 1 8 scotland 66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_slave_diff.texture 66 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Middle Eastern_slave_norm.texture 0  1 4 None 19 MTW2_Fast_Swordsman 0 2 18 MTW2_Sword_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 0 16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

[Sir Robin the Brave]

yup. Now I am afriad I must scream, and call it a night. Tommorow (christmas) hopefully I'll have some luck

I don't have to put it in a certain place (like alphabetically) do I?

[Sir Robin the Brave]

woohoo! Thanks Musashi it works now!