Making the Synthetic Oil Factory Work

[Andrelvis]

Some time ago, after trying to activate the synthetic oil factory (with the activate_building_type command, in a tech) so I could get an extra factory tag, I discovered that doing so crashed the game.

Recently, by doing some testing, I finally found out why activating the Synthetic Oil Factory with a tech crashed the game - it has no interface picture. Simply renaming the file "synthetic_oilplant.bmp" in gfx/interface/factory to "synthetic_oil_factory.bmp" solves the problem, making the factory work in the game, thus providing with an unused factory tag to be used.

While it works with this modification (capitalists build it too, if it is activated), I haven't been able to give it a name or description string by adding entries in text.csv yet.

 

[Taylor]

The identifier is syntetic_oil_factory (note: it's without an 'h'!). I haven't tested this yet, just took a look in the exe.

edit: hm, that's strange, in all the txt files, the factory is mentioned as synthetic_oil_factory, while in the exe, they call it syntetic_oil_factory. You probably need to rename the factory in the txt files, since (hex) editing the exe is hard (because you need to make the string longer) and not allowed.

 

[Taylor]

Ok forget all that. Here's how to use the synthetic oil factory:

- rename the bmp like you said
- don't change the identifier in an economy txt file (keep it with an h)!
- activate the building, using "which = synthetic_oil_factory" (with h)
- add an entry to text.csv, like this:

SYNTETIC_OIL_FACTORY;Your name here;;;;;;;;;;x

(without the h)

edit:
- add a description for the factory like this:

DESC_SYNTETIC_OIL_FACTORY;Your description here;;;;;;;;;;x

(again, no h)

 

[Gaius Marius I]

You have precisely the last insight needed:

 

[Andrelvis]

thanks!

 

[Taylor]

Is this going to be used in VIP? An extra factory type never hurt anyone...

 

[Andrelvis]

Unfortunately, I found a bug with this. Capitalists don't build the factory with the synthetic_oil_factory tag, so only state capitalist and planned economy countries can use it.

 

[Taylor]

Unfortunately, I found a bug with this. Capitalists don't build the factory with the synthetic_oil_factory tag, so only state capitalist and planned economy countries can use it.

Really? That's a pity. I guess the capitalist building ai was added later (in Rev), when they'd already decided not to use the synthetic_oil_factory.