Pink on Map?

[Roman_Man#3]

Ok. So I did work on the climates and ground types for my mods map, but now on the campaign map there is pink stuff on the map. Any idea why? I will upload my stuff when I get a chance.

[Makanyane]

Two possibilities:
one I knew about before; your colours on map_ground_types or map_climates don't tie up with the recognised RGB values - watch out for using brush / non opaque setting and getting merged colours on your tga's.

one Dol Guldur recently pointed out to me; for some other reason it is not finding your terrain/aerial_map/ground_types/texture, which could be:
name doesn't tie up with descr_aerial_map_ground_types.txt / doesn't exist / you're trying to read it from mod folder and haven't got right amount of ../../ in text file path to make it read from there etc...

[Roman_Man#3]

Its fixed, thanks.

[Whacker]

Two possibilities:
one I knew about before; your colours on map_ground_types or map_climates don't tie up with the recognised RGB values - watch out for using brush / non opaque setting and getting merged colours on your tga's.

one Dol Guldur recently pointed out to me; for some other reason it is not finding your terrain/aerial_map/ground_types/texture, which could be:
name doesn't tie up with descr_aerial_map_ground_types.txt / doesn't exist / you're trying to read it from mod folder and haven't got right amount of ../../ in text file path to make it read from there etc...

Pardon the thread necromancy here, but I could use some help.

My situation is as described, I'm using the -mod: switch for RTW v1.5. My personal mod is called "WhackerMod" (heh) and is located in a named subdir. I've edited my descr_aerial_map_ground_types.txt file located in my mod's data folder, and here's an example of the code:

climate default
{
    cultivated_low        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_grassland_farm.tga    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    cultivated_medium    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_grassland_farm.tga    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    cultivated_high        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_grassland_farm.tga    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    fertility_low        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\texture2.tga                    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    fertility_medium    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_grassland.tga            WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    fertility_high        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_grassland.tga            WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    forest_dense        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\texture1.tga                    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    forest_sparse        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\texture1.tga                    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga    
    hills                WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\texture1_hilly.tga                WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    mountains_high        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_mountain_small.tga    WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    mountains_low        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\temperate_hills_small.tga        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    swamp                WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\swamp.tga                        WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\arctic.tga
    beach                WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\beach.tga
    scorched            WhackerMod\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\scorched.tga
}

The entire campaign map shows up in that ugly pink/purple. I've got a properly named and pathed \terrain\aerial_map\ground_types\ folder in my WhackerMod\data\ folder, and the files are definitely there. I've also tried copying the new textures into the based RTW\data\terrain\aerial_map\ground_types folder, and it works fine and they all show up fine, so I know it's not bad files... Have also repeatedly deleted map.rwm in my campaign folder, but that hasn't made any difference.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks in advance



Edit - Interesting. I just tried removing the Whackermod\ from the front of all of the data entries in the descr_...txt file, and it still shows up as all purple. That should work as the file would be pointing at the normal textures... Yet it doesn't work.

[Dol Guldur]

I work in BI and not RTW but you need to jump out of the default path and up several levels and then back down into your own folder...

Try ../../../../ as a prefix to your MyModFolder/data blah blah blah

A RTW coder can correct that if I have it wrong.

[Makanyane]

^ agreeing with Dol Guldur - mainly because I pinched idea off his mod!

If you add descr_aerial_map_ground_types.txt to BI which it isn't normally in, or to a mod folder it needs paths changed relative to its position

also as also advised by DG, for BI at least if you put anything in mod folder packed within mod_0.pak it reads it as being under RTW/data. I had to do that with some sea textures that don't have file path specified at all, so also put terrain textures in that as well and they worked from there without inclusion of the text file in the mod folder, that obviously only works for straight swaps of one tga file for one of same name.

[Whacker]

I shall definitely try this out guys, thanks. Question though, you are using forward slashes / instead of backslashes. Should I be using forward slashes inside the descr_blah.txt file?