Steps to adapt mods to the new CM patch

[richvh]

Do the vanilla benchmark wars work? I'm not seeing any difference in history/wars/norman_conquest.txt between 2.1.6 and 2.2

 

[Teutonic_Thrash]

There's a new history/diplomacy folder that is empty.

 

[Meneth]

Do the vanilla benchmark wars work? I'm not seeing any difference in history/wars/norman_conquest.txt between 2.1.6 and 2.2

They seem to work fine as far as I can tell.

 

[Arcvalons]

What titles do those characters have, and what are the definitions for the titles?

Oh, nvm, it was a completely unrelated problem regarding buildings.

 

[Teutonic_Thrash]

DK's historical war is working fine.

 

[richvh]

There's a new history/diplomacy folder that is empty.

It's not new. My archive copy of 1.07b (the oldest I have) has that folder. I think it's a holdover from EU, and has never been used.

 

[chatnoir17]

I suspect an /interface folder problem.

I've seen the same thing with the Middle-Earth mod where the steps listed didn't work, but once I removed the /gfx and /interface folder things worked fine.

Same with the Warhammer mod. After the changes were done, it would load up, but crash once trying to start a game the very last second after it finished loading a character.

I had to go through the /interface folder with winmerge and look at all the changes between our files and Charlemagne. In that case, there were only 8 files in /interface that weren't portrait related, so it wasn't so bad. For other mods however that have done heavy interface graphical editing, it may be a much longer process trying to determine which files need to be updated.

It doesn't seem to be interface or gfx files, since the mod crushes without these folder.
Here is the file, please check it if anyone has time.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wa37btutf1u8p5j/NMIH16102014.rar

 

[Galle]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. I've stripped the mod down to a two-megabyte file that's barely a mod at all, and the historical wars continue to be broken. I can't think of a single thing that could possibly be causing the problem at this point.

Here's the aforementioned two-megabyte-file, if anyone's willing to help: View attachment Crisis of the Confederation War Bug.zip. If you start a custom game and select Kaoru Maeda, then she should start in a war called simply the "Test War" - a claim war for Forcalquier. It is possible to declare this war once the game has started, but the game refuses to acknowledge that it's defined in the history files.

EDIT: Okay, I can think of ONE thing - it might be the date. Perhaps the game no longer counts wars that are defined as being declared after the initial playable period? But then why does it still load up the characters, provinces, and titles just fine?

 

[omega20056]

None of the events in my mod will trigger now. I can trigger them using the console but they refuse to fire on their own (Even when I satisfy the trigger conditions).

 

[Ofaloaf]

Have you tried just setting the start date of the war to 768? Sure, that makes no sense, but modding voodoo like that can be surprisingly effective.

 

[Galle]

Have you tried just setting the start date of the war to 768? Sure, that makes no sense, but modding voodoo like that can be surprisingly effective.

Do you mean without changing anything else (like the playable timeframe, or the lifespan of the characters involved) or by moving everything into the 8th century? Because the former doesn't work, and the latter would, frankly, be a lot of work.

 

[Ofaloaf]

Do you mean without changing anything else (like the playable timeframe, or the lifespan of the characters involved) or by moving everything into the 8th century? Because the former doesn't work, and the latter would, frankly, be a lot of work.

Nah, I meant the former. If having the war start in the 8th century isn't working out-- maybe there's a CB issue with the patch?

 

[LumberKing]

Is the different era clothing moddable and if so how?

 

[Blood Royal]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous.

EDIT: Okay, I can think of ONE thing - it might be the date. Perhaps the game no longer counts wars that are defined as being declared after the initial playable period? But then why does it still load up the characters, provinces, and titles just fine?

I hope it's not a date problem, because the Middle-Earth Project mod also has start dates ranging from 9000ish-11361 AD. It could be why it crashes on start-up regardless of how many custom folders/files I remove, but I'll keep checking... what dates do you use?

 

[Teutonic_Thrash]

The new beta patch has this in the changelog:

- Added define for first year to execute tech, used for optimization, needed for mods.

 

[Captain Gars]

The new beta patch has this in the changelog:

Yup, I told the CK Lead what I thought of that kind of hard-coded stuff

 

[richvh]

Did any of your new stuff from your log make it into the beta, Captain? I didn't see it mentioned in the changelog.

 

[Meneth]

Yup, I told the CK Lead what I thought of that kind of hard-coded stuff

Could you also tell them to un-hardcode the era bookmarks?

 

[Blood Royal]

OK, I fixed the Middle Earth mod.

Turns out the final crash after selecting a character had _something_ to do with a file in /common. Not defines.lua or static_modifiers.txt, but one of the others.

So anyone getting that last stubborn crash that is not /interface or /gfx folder related, try emptying out all the files in /common in your mod and see if that helps

 

[Galle]

OK, I fixed the Middle Earth mod.

Turns out the final crash after selecting a character had _something_ to do with a file in /common. Not defines.lua or static_modifiers.txt, but one of the others.

So anyone getting that last stubborn crash that is not /interface or /gfx folder related, try emptying out all the files in /common in your mod and see if that helps

So are your historical wars working? (CotC's only current start date is 2998, for the record)