Revisiting an old project

[Hepps]

Down to the last 3 units... mere breaths away from being done.

The Greeks and the Spartans are now complete...

See you in ancient history soon!

[Hepps]

Game is complete... will be testing it tonight when I get home.

Final glimpse... The Roman Republic.

[prastle]

@Hepps me tinks ur getting 2 cases of Kieth's ...

[Frostion]

I don’t know if it is the new colors of the sea or the yellow borders, or both, but I kind of like the original style better then the new look. The new units are game changing nice, maybe because they look so excellent. But as I see it they fit better on a more subtle and not so colorful background, as the units stick out a lot more on a subtle and less colorful background. But I would like to hear other people’s opinions on this.

[prastle]

@Frostion I am color blind a bit. Hopefully i get to play one a bit. i am prob a gd test since generally i play with map details off.

[redrum]

I'd agree with @Frostion some here. I think its that the yellow border is a bit too much. Also it might be better to make the territory PU value a bit larger if possible. The rest looks pretty good to me.

[Hepps]

@redrum and @Frostion Once I have this running it is easily revisited as far as brightness and contrast as I saved all of the different design elements in their own layer while doing the work.

Currently I am stuck as the game will go as far as the loading screen, but no further.

[Frostion]

”I am stuck as the game will go as far as the loading screen, but no further.”

This is the worst time If you don’t have a java popup error, then my advice is to check, double-check and triple-check the folder names and file names of the “flags” dir. See if everything corresponds with the player list in map.properties and in the XML. A singe flag image with the wrong name seems to prevent the game from starting.

If it turns out to be another problem, and you fix it, I am sure we are some that would like to know what it was and what you did. Just so we can learn from this troubleshooting.

[CrazyG]

@Hepps
I would check your place file, I know if it gets formatted wrong, this can happen, and you recently changed it, right?

[Hepps]

@CrazyG Yes I have re-checked it a half dozen times.

[CrazyG]

@Hepps
Have you tried praying?

[Hepps]

@CrazyG Does cursing the Gods count as praying?

[Hepps]

@CrazyG This was much easier when the engine simply flagged the error.

Now it seems like looking for an invisible needle in the dark in a room full needles.

[Hepps]

@CrazyG said in Revisiting an old project:

@Hepps
I would check your place file, I know if it gets formatted wrong, this can happen, and you recently changed it, right?

Formatted how? Not quite sure I know what that means.

[CrazyG]

@Hepps
Things like spaces in the wrong place. I know that if it happens to polygons, place, or centers, it can result in the map not working without getting an error message

I would try to use the older place file, and see if the map can still load. If it doesn't, you found the guilty culprit

[Hepps]

@CrazyG The placement file was entirely rebuilt with manual placements using the map maker program. I have rechecked that every territory has placements. So it can't be that.

[Hepps]

@CrazyG Is there a better program than notepad that will break all of the lines up other than having a gigantic mess of data?

[CrazyG]

@Hepps
There probably exists a better program, but I don't know what it would be

[CrazyG]

@CrazyG
If you created the place file from the tool, it should be fine and the problem something else

[Hepps]

@CrazyG If only "something else" were definable. Rather than being any number of things in thousands of lines of script.