What's causing my map mod to crash on start-up?

[SvenJJ]

After taking some time away from my personal map mod for a while (around 8 months), when I try to load up the mod it no longer works giving the following error message:

"File Exception:
Exception in:
C:\Jenkins\workspace\CK2-Live-R-Steam-Windows\clausewitzll\pdx_core\virtualfiesystem.cpp, line:682. Description: Could not open file: , error: The system cannot find the path specified."

A search of the forums suggests ways to run the game without encountering this error, but these all seem to revolve around disabling all mods.

I've changed nothing since it was running perfectly well in a previous version.

I just thought I'd make a quick plea to the community to see if you can impart some knowledge before I go and try to rebuild the mod from scratch.

 

[starwarsfan541]

Which version did it start crashing on? You may need to redo your terrain map or fix it up some, something changed in how it was read two patches ago.

 

[SvenJJ]

I'm not sure precisely as I've only just started playing again so the most that I can say is 'the current version'.

I'll take a look at the terrain map. Do you have any specifics on the changes?

 

[richvh]

I assume you have map/ replace_pathed. Do you have a map/geographical_region.txt and a map/island_region.txt? Those two are the most common culprits.

 

[starwarsfan541]

I'm not sure precisely as I've only just started playing again so the most that I can say is 'the current version'.

I'll take a look at the terrain map. Do you have any specifics on the changes?

Not fully sure, but it affected both my mod and the middle earth mod

 

[SvenJJ]

I assume you have map/ replace_pathed. Do you have a map/geographical_region.txt and a map/island_region.txt? Those two are the most common culprits.

I didn't have those two files. I assume that they're new! Do you know if regions need to be defined or can the file be left blank?

 

[richvh]

Any region used in events, decisions, etc needs to be defined in geographical_region.txt, but you don't need to include anything in it: e.g., world_india = { }
island_region.txt is the new name of region.txt, and is used for naval AI.

 

[SvenJJ]

Hmmm... emptying those definitions doesn't seem to have solved it. Looks like I'll have to do some more hunting, but it's pretty hard to track this down...

 

[SvenJJ]

After a bit of debugging it now seems to be crashing when drawing together map logic, and it looks like the error is in the default.map file. I'm not sure what is going wrong here, has this changed since previous versions too? For those who fancy a challenge, the contents of the file are listed below:

max_provinces = 12
definitions = "definition.csv"
provinces = "provinces.bmp"
positions = "positions.txt"
terrain = "terrain.bmp"
rivers = "rivers.bmp"
terrain_definition = "terrain.txt"
heightmap = "topology.bmp"
tree_definition = "trees.bmp"
continent = "continent.txt"
adjacencies = "adjacencies.csv"
climate = "climate.txt"
region = "island_region.txt"
geographical_region = "geographical_region.txt"
static = "static.txt"
seasons = "seasons.txt"

# European Seas
sea_zones = {11}
sea_zones = {}
sea_zones = {}
sea_zones = {}

# Indian Seas
sea_zones = {}
sea_zones = {}
sea_zones = {}
sea_zones = {}

# Non-accessible sea zones
sea_zones = {}

ocean_region = {    # European Ocean
    sea_zones = {}
}

ocean_region = {    # Indian Ocean
    sea_zones = {}
}

# Define which indices in trees.bmp palette which should count as trees for automatic terrain assignment
tree = { 3 4 7 10 }

major_rivers =
{

}

externals = {} # Paths to china

 

[richvh]

sea_zones take a range of provinces, so need a start and stop province. If your only sea province is #11, I'd do it this way: sea_zones = { 11 11 }, and delete/comment out all other sea_zones lines.

Also, ocean_region is a list of all connected sea_zones, so ocean_region = { sea_zones = { 1 } } and delete the second ocean_region.

 

[SvenJJ]

That seems to have worked, but now I seem to be crashing at the final 'loading graphics' stage of the loading screens. Thanks for your help in troubleshooting this so far - it's very much appreciated!

Alternatively, is there a blank template mod in existence to use as a working starting point that people can build on?

 

[richvh]

The closest thing to that is the Clans of Ireland modding tutorial. It hasn't been updated for 2.4.x, so be sure to read the whole thread.

 

[SvenJJ]

I finally got this to work, though sadly I had to go back to first principles and create the mod from scratch. Regardless - thank you all for your help