PANZER BATTLES on the RIVER CHIR!

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Mercator
I'm pretty sure that's not true.

Whoops, you're right. I thought it was different.

[Exile]

Ok, I'm missing it. Merc, how is the event I posted different from your correction? Of course you're correct, but for some reason, I am just not seeing any difference.

Am I blind or something?

[Pablostuka]

Incorrect:

@THEN
CHANGETERRAIN
TERRAINTYPE=5
MAPRECT=17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17
@ENDIF


Correct

@THEN
CHANGETERRAIN
TERRAINTYPE=5
MAPRECT
17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17
@ENDIF

[Exile]

Well, I tried that and it didn't work either.

I'm about to give up on the artillery and just remove them.

Everytime I try to make a changeterrain event, it gives me a events.txt error when I load it.

This is getting ridiculous. I only need to do 1 damn thing, and the program just isn't doing what it's supposed to do.



Here is the event;

@IF
UNITKILLED
unit=A Battery
attacker=Russians
defender=Germans
@THEN
CHANGETERRAIN
TERRAINTYPE=5
MAPRECT
17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17
@ENDIF

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by Exile
Well, I tried that and it didn't work either.

I'm about to give up on the artillery and just remove them.

Everytime I try to make a changeterrain event, it gives me a events.txt error when I load it.

This is getting ridiculous. I only need to do 1 damn thing, and the program just isn't doing what it's supposed to do.



Here is the event;

@IF
UNITKILLED
unit=A Battery
attacker=Russians
defender=Germans
@THEN
CHANGETERRAIN
TERRAINTYPE=5
MAPRECT
17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17
@ENDIF

Sorry if I'm being obvious, but I just saw in the other thread that I sometimes should be!

Are your sure of the spelling of "A Battery" (Isn't it "A. Battery"?) , "Germans" and "Russians"??

And isn't your event file already full?

[Harry Tuttle]

16.3 KB is just about the max for MGE event space. Check the text file properties.

Try just making the event in a blank scenario file using the event editor and see if it comes out different. In fact, copy the rules into the blank scenario folder before you use the event editor. Cyrion might be right, the unit name might be spelled wrong. I've gone back to the event editor time to time to make sure I've written the event in correctly. The computer will always dump in the correct info if only for that one specific event.

Also, this is a dumb question, but the tile coordinates are definately 17 by 17, right?

[techumseh]

No, sorry. MGE has a 32 kb events "heap", whatever that is. ToT is 100kb.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by techumseh
No, sorry. MGE has a 32 kb events "heap", whatever that is. ToT is 100kb.

Well I have a max of 16.3 KB file size for the text file itself. I don't know how that translates in the editor.

[AGRICOLA]

You may want to try the following logical sequence.

1. Delete 4-5 events or disable them with semi-colons. If that works, then you have a size problem.

2. If that doesn't work, simplify the problem event to

@IF
TURN
turn=XXXXXX
@THEN
CHANGETERRAIN
TERRAINTYPE=5
MAPRECT
17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17
@ENDIF

and fill in XXXXXX. If it works, that'll tell you that the problem is in the first part of the @IF.

3. If that doesn't work, I have no more ideas.

[Exile]

Finally got it to change terrain. No idea what the difference was between the initial version and the successful version. It's a mystery.

The coordinates are correct. The spelling of the unit names is correct. I don't use the event editor. I only do events manually.

But now I can't get the specified unit to appear where the artillery unit was.

Brian, I think you're right about not being able to do this. I even took your advice literally and changed the terrain to ocean to see if that was the trick. I can't get the Russian unit to appear in any of the three squares.

[Mercator]

Maybe it's the UnitKilled that really causes the problems.

Both techumseh and Cyrion fixed the CreateUnit by delaying it. Maybe the ChangeTerrain isn't really necessary at all, maybe it's simply a problem with the UnitKilled event, or rather the square that unit was on, on the turn it happened.

[fairline]

Re: Ok, in order . . . . .

Originally posted by Exile
Have you got an SU-76 graphic around somewhere? It'd be more appropriate if so. *HINT*

Here you go:

[our_man]

I forgot about this project until recently. Was it ever released?

[Arthedain]

I don't think so. Either way, I wanna play it!

[Boco]

Originally posted by Exile
But now I can't get the specified unit to appear where the artillery unit was.

I hope my understanding isn't too simplistic, but are you trying to use the same event trigger for both the ChangeTerrain and CreateUnit actions in a single statement? If so, I think you'll be stymied by the order of execution. CT occurs after CU.