The Distant Rumblings of War!

[curtsibling]

Cheers, McMonkey!
We are all gaining useful insights today!

Noticing a few problems, still -

I notice the events to warn you to change files is not coming up, but the other events are?

Also, the batch is now loading events10, when I request the Winter 1941 files?

Anyone want to take a look at this mysterious happening?

[McMonkey]

In the attached batch file there are still gaps in the text!

Could that be the problem or did you attach an old batch file by mistake?

Try the attached file.

We will get there soon! Maybe I should have just left Mercator to build a bug free one and not interfered. Still, as the man said, we are learning to fish...and at the moment we are starving

[curtsibling]

Hmmm!

I installed your batch, and renamed all the files to suit the content...

But it still loads EVENTSWINTER45, instead of EVENTSWINTER41...

I wonder if it is anything to do with the fact that the
error level 10 item might be getting confused with 2?


if errorlevel 12 goto done
if errorlevel 11 goto Summer46
if errorlevel 10 goto Winter45
if errorlevel 9 goto Summer45
if errorlevel 8 goto Winter44
if errorlevel 7 goto Summer44
if errorlevel 6 goto Winter43
if errorlevel 5 goto Summer43
if errorlevel 4 goto Winter42
if errorlevel 3 goto Summer42
if errorlevel 2 goto Winter41
if errorlevel 1 goto Summer41

Not too sure what is going on!

[Catfish]

Originally posted by curtsibling
I have a base save game that I make new SCNs from, and I used that to create the new one.

Then it should be no surprise that the barbarian alliance edits are missing.

Originally posted by curtsibling
So if I make a save from the hex SCN, the settings will keep?
Good show - That will save a lot of bother in the future...!

For future editing of the scenario: change the extension of the SCN file I attached to SAV and make that your new working file. Don't load the file as a scenario.

Originally posted by McMonkey
We will get there soon! Maybe I should have just left Mercator to build a bug free one and not interfered.

It was me who offered to write one, actually. Mercator's supposedly *cough* working on CivSwap 2.0.

Originally posted by curtsibling
But it still loads EVENTSWINTER45, instead of EVENTSWINTER41...

The reason the game is loading the wrong events files is because of the way they've been renamed for the revised batch file. Civ2 can load random events files (and scenario files too - with the ALT extension). Any file with the name events*.txt in the scenario directory will be randomly loaded by the game as the scenario's events file. Either revert to the previous naming scheme, or maybe dump all the 'multi-files' in a separate subdirectory and copy them over from there.

Oh and you (McMonkey, I assume) omitted the saved game file name after delevent (again) in the latest batch file revision.

BTW, what is the Visual Basic 3.0 run-time library (vbrun300.dll) doing in the download?

[curtsibling]

Catfish, thanks for your advice!

I noticed the same problem occurred when I named them Events1, Events2, etc.

What is the best way to name these files? Could you make a batch example fur us?

Any help would be appreciated!

[PietH]

Btw, the civiclopedia has some strange references. Like the Battle of the atlantic giving all Japanese ships +2 movement...

[curtsibling]

The Pedia file is a holdover from the Dictator6 version, I will fix it up soon!

[McMonkey]

OK, I have gone back to basics and copied the Red Front batch file and renamed all the files in the D7 scenario folder to that fromat (IE Units 3, Events11 etc...).

Everything seems to work fine apart from the events. There is a message saying "Events header not found"

This is the bit I don't understand now. I did notice in the ToT version of Red Front the events were .bak files instead of .txt. Does this need to be done for D7?

If so how do you convert them? Do you just rename the files to .bak?

I did not understand what you meant about the randomly loaded events files. If this system worked for Red Front then why does it not work now?

Here is my last attampt:

[McMonkey]

As CS said, the amateurs have had a go and maybe an expert could help finish the job

This has been a good experience from a learning point of view. Getting the batch files working correctly for events is not as simple as it first seems!

[curtsibling]

I'll try out this batch!

PS
Not sure what is happening with the events previously,as it
was not really random - it always loaded the winter 1945 events!

The events header not found thing means (I think) that
the old events are already cleared from the save file...

I will test out the batch now!

[curtsibling]

Seems to be still loading the Winter 1945 events????
Comes up with events error in Winter 1942...

Checked the Report.txt...
"Chose "EVENTSWINTER45.txt" as events file"

GAH!

This is a real CIV2 mystery!
But I am sure we will crack it...

...With some CIV-Wizard help!

[curtsibling]

Tested the events batch by putting the events into an 'Events' Folder.

I think copying them in this way worked, and stopped the randomness!

I named all the events to Events1, Events2, etc...
Put them in the folder and updated the batch, thus:


:w1941
echo.
echo Winter 1941-42
@echo off
copy wterrain1.bmp terrain1.bmp
copy wterrain2.bmp terrain2.bmp
copy wcities.bmp cities.bmp
copy rules2.txt rules.txt
copy units2.bmp units.bmp
copy events\events2.txt events.txt
DELEVENT D7.sav
goto done


Test it out, I think we have cracked it!

[curtsibling]

New system works OK!

Just loaded the Summer 1942 events without trouble!!!

I will upload a new Scenario zip today...Playtesters, get ready to delete and unzip the new system!

PS
My apologies for asking you to stop/start/reload all the time, I know it is a bore!

But it will help get things ironed out, my sincere thanks!

[curtsibling]

UPDATE!

New scenario update, with improved and (hopefully) working batch file!

Easy switching of events and GFX files, etc! Check it out!

http://sleague.apolyton.net/images/f/f7/DICTATOR7Scen.zip

[PietH]

Ehm, I downloaded the zipfile, overwrote the current files, copy pasted the winter '42 files, and continued my game from dec '42. But again in june no message telling me to change files to summer '43.