Alexander The Great Scenario

[The Big Mc]

if we cant have alex what about his wives!

[Pedrunn]

You could use the abilitionist sprite for alex wife if sprite is the problem.

[The Big Mc]

good idea.

[Karl Biedermann]

Hi, where might I find any SLIC files?

[Immortal Wombat]

Any SLIC files, or the SLIC files that operate in the Alexander Scenario?

The latter are in the Call to Power 2\Scenarios\Alexander the Great\scen0000\default\gamedata folder. There are four:

scenario.slc
AG_func.slc
AG_mod.slc
AG_msg.slc

Most of the event code is in the first two.

[The Big Mc]

and there is some help files for slic on the apolyton db.

[silvwolf]

Hi, I have a french version of the game.

I've just finished this scenario and Alexander's wife, Roxanne, gave birth to a boy, Who grew up to 12 years, at this time I received a message saying something like "your son is big enough, he must fear no danger from your enemies", but nothing else has happened
since this, then I took the last remaining city and I saw the usual "bloodbath" end of game animation.

Anyway, I met a problem, after taking the last persian city (luckily it was the penultimate one) and coming back to babylon where I had to be accepted as Imperator of Persia, I received , starting from this time, an error message for each move (of any army). This is the content of the message:

In object AGBabylonCoronation_F, function_Message: there is no object named AGHappyEmpireA
nevertheless all (previously) persians cities became happier .
When I took the last city (Knossos), I received another error message:

In object AGCivDefeat_F, function_Message: there is no object named AGCL_Defeat

Then the animated ending and the score
Cities: 79
Population 828
score: 12370

I use the last patch.
Anybody knows the problem, any solution?
Thanks for your help, and sorry if it's already been posted somewhere else, but I couldn't find further information with the "search" tool.

And thx 4 reading a so long text

[silvwolf]

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[Immortal Wombat]

Sorry silvwolf, I missed this post the first time you posted.
The problem is that the SLIC is incomplete. Oops. Goes to show how much this scenario has been played.

Problem #1:
Diagnosis: Typo.
Solution: Find the Alexander the Great scenario folder. Find the default/gamedata/scenario.slc file. Find these lines:

HandleEvent(MoveUnits) 'AGBabylonCoronation_F' post {
	if (babylonCoronation == 1) {
		if (alexUnit.location == babylonLoc) {
			HappyEmpire();				// Makes former Persian cities really happy
			[b]Message(1, 'AGHappyEmpireA');[/b]
			DisableTrigger('AGBabylonCoronation_F');
		}
	}
}

In the emboldened line, simply remove the last A in AGHappyEmpireA. This will give you a message, even if the content doesn't quite fit.

Problem #2
Missing message code.
In the same folder as before, in AG_msg.slc, somewhere in the bit headed

  //------------------------//
 // Empire defeat messages //
//------------------------//

Should be a block that says:

alertbox 'AGCLDefeat' {
	Show(); Title(ID_AG_BLANK);
	Text(ID_AG_CL_DEFEAT);
	Button(ID_AG_BUTTON_OK) {
		Kill();
	}
}

If you add that it will show you a message instead of an error message.
You'll also have to add the actual content of the message into {language}/gamedata/scen_str.txt. Something like this:

AG_CL_DEFEAT "The Corinthian League have been defeated. Nice one Alex!"

Of course the stuff between the " marks can be whatever you like, depending on language and content, historical context and that kind of stuff.

Hope this helps