UTILITY: Civ3MultiTool - A thread for the Program ;)

[Willem]

Hey Gramphos

Maybe you can help me. Last night I discovered that the game was reseting my science rate every turn. Very early in the game, I would set it at 10%, and the next turn it would go right back to 40%. I watched this happen for at least 10 turns. Then I tried the original Bic file and the problem didn't occur, so it has something to do with my mod. Any idea what might be causing it? I really don't want to start from scratch again, especially since the problem might just reappear again.

[Gramphos]

Strange indeed. I've never run into something like this. Could you post the bic that gives you the problem?

[Augusto I]

Originally posted by Gramphos
Dan has posted how to edit diplomacy.txt

Thanks, Gramphos, it saved me some time. Now I just have to see how it works with 17 or 18 strings after #civ=1... I'll have an answer soon

[Condorswarm]

Problem with Wonders(This si associated)

I copied using CopyTool 1 wonder: SETI Program, and 2 Improvements: Airport + Factory. I changed the names then the attributes. Then when I built the copied SETI Program I got an Illegal Operation messsage and Civ3 crashed.
I hope you can help on how to resolve this problem.
I posted this here because I heard that CopyTool might have something to do with this.

Condorswarm

[Gramphos]

Re: Problem with Wonders(This si associated)

Originally posted by Condorswarm
I copied using CopyTool 1 wonder: SETI Program, and 2 Improvements: Airport + Factory. I changed the names then the attributes. Then when I built the copied SETI Program I got an Illegal Operation messsage and Civ3 crashed.
I hope you can help on how to resolve this problem.
I posted this here because I heard that CopyTool might have something to do with this.

Condorswarm

It is probable that you use an early version of the copy tool that made this error. To correct it, open the pediaicons.txt and search for

art\wonder splash\SETI.pcx

. If the line above is

#WON_SPLASH_53

seearch for next entry.

You should now have a line

#WON_SPLASH_XX

above your line.
Until recently (check version history) that number is one too high. If you used a version before this was fixed, change it to be one less.

[Willem]

An explanation:

All the numbers you see in the area Gramphos mentioned correspond to the order they appear in the list that you see in the editor. Battlefield Medicine is the last in that particular entry, I think the number is 63, then after that there are the space ship parts. Previous versions of CopyTool started the next available slot at 75, but it was actually 74. So if the numbers don't match the list, the game will crash as soon as the wonder is built, and the splash screen graphic comes up. It's the graphic that is causing the problem. Just make sure it is numbered properly in the pediaicons.txt file.

[Condorswarm]

Ok, thanks I'll try it.

Update:
Do you miss out any of the items when counting because I count 30 when I reach Wealth in the list.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Condorswarm
Ok, thanks I'll try it.

Update:
Do you miss out any of the items when counting because I count 30 when I reach Wealth in the list.

Hu?

[Gramphos]

To see the index of a building you can use the copy tool (I dont know ehat version it was added in) and hold Control + Rightclick in the area under the Citizens. Then select a building.

[korn469]

Grampos, i have two questions

1) can you reorganize buildings in the current version of the cmt? if not consider this a feature request

2) what is the difference between the small version and the full version?

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by korn469
1) can you reorganize buildings in the current version of the cmt? if not consider this a feature request

No, I can't, and adding it would require.
a) editing of buildings-small.pcx
b) editing of buildings-large.pcx
c) editing of all wonder splashes, to the right index
d) editing of everything that referres to buildings
So the hardest thing is c, but I might be able to add it, but it is not very high on my todo list.

2) what is the difference between the small version and the full version?

a) The small version is the latest version
b) The small version requires VB runtime to be installed on your computer (if you have used any eralier version you should not have any problems using the small version (unless I decide to add more controls))

[korn469]

Gramphos

thanks for the heads up

too bad it would take so much work to be able to switch around buildings

[Condorswarm]

Even though I've tried everything, my mod still aint working.
In CopyTool, the number for my wonder in the bottom left-corner says: 4A : 74.
This is what I put in the PediaIcons.txt file.


---------------------------------------------------
#WON_SPLASH_74
art\wonder splash\Condor IS Radar.pcx
---------------------------------------------------


The Illegal Operation comes up before the Splash box.

The version of MultiTool I am working with is: 0.83.0004
And the Civ3 version is 1.16f

[Gramphos]

That should work. check your wonder effect, and see if anyting could possible make an error.

[Condorswarm]

Ok, I'll give it a go.