The Desert War - Preview and development thread

[MacGalleo]

@Curt
mge and ToT versions are in the zip file that Eivind post in #174...

[curtsibling]

Cheers!

Never noticed the extra zip!

[Eivind IV]

So did anyone try it or figure out the tot version?

[curtsibling]

Is there is too much events data and not enough space in the ToT events file?

[Eivind IV]

No, like I have said several times already, I tried to merge the three mge events files into one tot events file. I didn't get it to work. There should be plenty of more space even after the merger. So the error might be a simple clerical one. Only way to check is to take event by event, and test run each one, something I won't bother to do (I don't even have civ2 installed on my comp)...

I think Catfish in post #164 is on to how to settle it. Both the event error and the graphical error.

[curtsibling]

When you put all the content into the ToT events - Did you run
the events via the @DEBUG command and check Report.txt?

[fairline]

I thimk Eivind is probably leaving that to whoever takes up the baton. Someone really should take the challenge and finish this one

[MacGalleo]

@Eivind

I find the problem in the Events file :

@IF
TURN
turn=17
@THEN
CREATEUNIT
unit=Irish Inf. Bat. (mot)
owner=Eighth Army
veteran=yes
homecity=NONE
locations
189,47
188,52
endlocations
@ENDIF


There's no "Irish Inf. Bat. (mot)" in the rules file.
Did you intend to add this unit in the rules file?

[MacGalleo]

I made some simple changes to your ToT Events file.
For example, when I found four times this event :

@IF
TURN
turn=4
@THEN
CREATEUNIT
unit=German Schütze Bataillon (mot)
owner=DAK and Italian Army
veteran=no
homecity=NONE
locations
0,44
1,45
endlocations
@ENDIF

I rewrited the four events to one :

@IF
TURN
turn=4
@THEN
CREATEUNIT
unit=German Schütze Bataillon (mot)
owner=DAK and Italian Army
count=4
veteran=no
homecity=NONE
locations
0,44
1,45
endlocations
@ENDIF

Except the "Irish Inf. Bat. (mot)" event, the Events file works fine.

Had all the reinforcements to be spawned by the Events file? The cities can't make units. And I see in the units.bmp there are some units (Me 109 for example) that will never appear in the scenario. There are no events to spawn them. I'm sure you have some more ideas to include in this scenario...

I can bring you some help if you want to finish your scenario.

[MacGalleo]

Sorry, I forgot the changed events file...

With this version of events file you have 73364 bytes free (I can see that at end of the report file) for additionnal events.

[MacGalleo]

I copy the first column of terrain graphics in terrain1.bmp into columns 2 to eliminate graphical glitches that are due to blank terrain tiles.

[Eivind IV]

Wow, didn't know you could do that count 4 thing. And there used to be irish soldiers, but it's true I removed them. I thought I changed all they events into Territorial inf's. That's what the irish event you found are supposed to be anyway.

Hmm, strange about the 109. Have you noticed any other units like this?

Thanks anyway for taking the time!

[MacGalleo]

If I'm not wrong : the "German Ju-87 Dive Bomber"...

About the ToT's Events macro, you should have a look at some events files from CurtSibling's or Techumseh's scenarios...