Crash Help!

[Gwydion62]

I build some units, buildings and technologies...

And now the game crashes without any comment when someone is building tech: writing...

I build nothing related to that tech??!!
When I gave that tech to a civ with the editor, it worked well...

Do someone have any idea about that?

Thanks
Ron

[SpencerH]

The problem is that when you add a tech you have to change the icon for writing in the editor. For some reason the number of icons available is hardwired (82 or 83 I dont remember which). When you add a tech writing (the last tech) becomes 1 too many and the game crashes as soon as you discover it. There is more info on the problem in the creation threads (use search).

[Gwydion62]

Thanks, I will see what I can do....

Ron

[Gwydion62]

I tried, but I do not exactly understand what to do:
changing the icon in the file? with the editor I checked the file and it is the icon with that scoll on it (for writing).
How can I change that? Using an other one? Number 81?

Please can someone explain the right steps...

thanks
Gwydion

[SpencerH]

Ok, you've got it pretty much right

editor->your mod-> civ advances->writing =icon 82 change to icon 81 (for example).


Unlike new units that are added at the end of the unit list, new techs are inserted based on their place in an alphabetical order. Since the number of icons is fixed, what happens is all the icons after your new tech get shifted down one and writing gets shifted out to one place too many. Thats why it crashes, there is no icon 83. All of the icons for the techs after your new tech will be wrong unless you go through and reassign each to the correct icon number. Personally, I dont care what the icons look like so long as the game doesnt crash so I simply reassign writing to icon 81.