Error reading scene file, HELP! Please!

[Elessar]

The game crashes while loading custom battle. But not always. I have no idea what can be the reason of this, with show_err I get two times this error (error reading scene file) and then game CTD.

WTF can be the reason?? Help, please!

[Roman_Man#3]

Did you modify the game in any way? If you did, please outline what you did.

[Elessar]

Well I'm working on total conversion mod so even when I started not long ago the list is not so short.

[I will write if when game is sometimes loaded succesfully the thing's working ok]

->new animations (working) and skeletones (working)
->new terrain textures (working)
->new menu and loading screens and quotes (working)
->lots of new units (working) with lots of new models and textures (all of them are working)
->new vegetation (working)
->new sky (working)
->new music and lots of sounds (working)
->new formations AI (working)
->new grass (working)
->new custom battlefields (working)

So.. lol...All of these are working when the battle loads succesfully althought still very often during loading a custom battle I get this error! and then crash ;(

I'm so tired of searching for the bug, so I decided to look for more professional help :/

If a thing works once, it could crash later without real reason?? That's totally strange to me.

[Dol Guldur]

Yes, it can do that because of factors such as not deleting map.rwm...


Your problem is almost certainly related to vegetation (possibly sky but I have not modded that) - it can be tricky playing around with vegetation. Remember also that if you have a provincial map that the CB will still draw off the main map in the base folder.

I experienced this error when modding vegetation when I forgot to include the .vege files. You might want to read through the Palm-forest mod thread and Duke John's vegetation article (linked in that thread).

Make sure you know what you're doing with vegetation generation!

[Elessar]

Many thanks for responses, attention and Your time. ;)
I thought so too, that it can be caused by vegetation. So I copied my backup and saw that default forests make no change, error still happens
From time to time, like always.

[Dol Guldur]

I had a problem that restoring all files to vanilla did not resolve when I first played with vegetation - though I cannot remember what I did about it. Too long ago.

Code a bit at a time and go slowly, keep backups, be highly organized. It's painful but you'll end up with a very stable mod if you do it.