How good is the validation of game files by the engine? E.G. if I misspell an event command, or leave out an argument, will the engine write the problem in a log or something?
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message boxes for events and scenarios when the error can be caught at start of the scenario, moddebug.txt in the logs folder for db files.
Yes, we try to catch as much as possible at startup. We don't always succeed, though.
On a related note, have you ever seen EU2Lint? (Which reminds me, I don't know if we ever ran it on the default FTG install. It may have to be updated before it's useful.)
On a related note, have you ever seen EU2Lint? (Which reminds me, I don't know if we ever ran it on the default FTG install. It may have to be updated before it's useful.)
Alright, thank you. I was considering adding validation for FTG, but if errors are mostly caught anyways, there's not really much point.
Well, actually, I just read your Victoria thread; if your results there are any indication, we need all the validators we can get.
I don't know how hard it is for you to port to another game; if you decide to go ahead, let me know if I can help in any way.
The actual porting is easy, almost trivial; however, understanding what is valid and what is invalid are the difficult part. I don't think that I will personally work on this project, but will try to find a person or team of persons to create the validation files. In theory, validation for a game could be created without any author from the author of the validator, but in practice some c# code is required, and the c# APIs are not at all documented. The text-based validation is also at this time poorly documented, but I am planning to improve that documentation in the near future, at which point it will become easy to add 99% of validation.
Well, things seem to be progressing, though the lack of a manual including minute details of for everything is slightly deleterious.
Can someone examine [thread=480675]this[/thread] thread? It would be much appreciated.
Can someone examine [thread=480675]this[/thread] thread? It would be much appreciated.
An early version is ready. Take a look [thread=481780]here[/thread] and see what you think. 