The Strange Case of the Disappearing Fuhrerhauptquartier

[Epaminondas]

Re: Edge of Darkness Mod
Transferred from https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...d-for-absent-mod-owners.853000/#post-19253209

Adolf Hitler and Staff unit fails to appear on cue - Political Leader lost (and the door was bolted from the inside). Any ideas?
Jonathan Creek where are you?

 

[novapaddy]

I'm not at home so I cannot check this first.

But here:

date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1933 }
offset = 2
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1999 }

It is a while since I ported EoD to dh1.04, and I'm 100% sure that I removed any errors. BUT day = 30 would have shown as an error since it has to be 29 now? Isn't this correct?

I don't rewrite or interfere in any other way with events or anything else. I just do the error fixing if they show up in the error-checker.

SO if this error is still there...???

Are you sure you are using the correct port of the mod?

 

[Epaminondas]

BUT day = 30 would have shown as an error since it has to be 29 now? Isn't this correct?

I believe you're right on that paddy, but as I understand it that would be an error that prevented the event from firing altogther and that doesn't seem to be happening here. Both on the original game and your ported version it fires correctly for me, so perhaps as you suggest Flash and McD might have misported. Can you check please guys?

 

[TheMcD]

I redownloaded the mod from the original post Nova made in the thread this started from. Start the game up as Germany, this event immediately fires.

Besides the graphical screwup (which is probably related to something on my computer, the Europa Engine doesn't like playing nice with it), it's clear something's wrong because only the Führersonderzug is being spawned by this event, the Hitler and Staff division is missing.

And then, without fail, a day later...

I get hit with the cleanup event that kills Hitler off since the Hitler and Staff division isn't there even though the event that should have spawned them fired, meaning the game thinks I've disbanded it or something, not that it never was there to begin with.

My DH is up to date and I made no changes to the files from the mod (checksum is HTZM). If I check the leaders.txt file for the events, it seems that everything looks to be in order - the event seems to be the same as what you posted in the original thread. No idea what's going wrong here. I checked germany.inc and I couldn't find any dormant leader units, so maybe that's where the problem is? But why would the .inc be wrong? It's the one I got from the mod download, and if that's wrong, it would be wrong for everybody else, and that's clearly not the case.

 

[Pasha]

McD, it must have something to do with the conversion to 1.04. I'm playing the 1.03 version and haven't experienced this.

 

[novapaddy]

OK I see what the problem is. I am fixing it and will release the fix later when I have it done.

EDIT: What an embarrassment!
I had picked up the wrong set of scenario files and never noticed. I have also included the division modifiers file which I missed also... the shame!!!

I have it fixed, done a much better job of the port, it includes the DEC map now also, so all is gut!
Uploading and will post a fix in the original "ported mods" thread.

Thanks for helping me find the errors. Cheers

 

[novapaddy]

Fixed EoD mod uploaded. It is now much better and like the dh1.03 version. Hitler is fixed.

 

[Epaminondas]

Mystery solved. Thanks paddy for the fix and McD and Flash for the report.