New Provinces Help

[ranger044]

First and foremost, yes i am a noob when it comes to modding.

I wanted to know if anyone could help me figure out how to mod provinces, i've gone through countless modding manuals and looked at just about every mod made for EU:R and i'm stuck.

Right now all i've done is simply cut crete in half, right down the middle. I didn't change any terrain, just the province.

The game loads fine and gets up to the main screen, then crashes when i select single player. I don't know why, i've done everything right according to every modding guide in EU:R and EU:3. The default.map file was correctly changed and ive gone through every file in localisation to look for any files that need changing.

So if anyone would like to help me it would be much appreciated.

 

[Cheexsta]

If you're able to get as far as the main menu, then chances are it's not a map issue (those usually crash at "Loading Graphics" or thereabouts). It might be a history file problem - have you filled out the history file for the province, including population, ownership, etc? Have you tried deleting the map cache?

If that doesn't help, zip up the files you've modded and post them here

 

[ranger044]

i tried deleting the map cache, but the game won't make new texture files and it crashes still. The only province it makes a texture file for is malta - 103, which makes no sense to me since i edited crete.

i found a way to "cheat" it though, i just took the nearest texture file to the provinc i edited and copied and renamed it. I'll deal with the map looking pretty later, at least it works. I have also added more to the peloponnese and to southern greece (Aetolia)

 

[Wave]

You shouldn't delete province textures, only the cache files in the folder. I'd say you have typo in province history file, if the last thing that game loads before crashing is adapting history it is confirmed.

 

[ranger044]

well it doesn't crash until i click singleplayer, so it loaded everything just fine.

and what do you mean just the cache files then? do you mean the paths and other .bin files?

 

[Cheexsta]

Sorry, when I say delete map cache, I mean the files from the following folders (but leave any folders intact):

[EUR]\map\cache
[EUR]\map\cache\province_textures
[EUR]\mod\[modname]\map\cache
[EUR]\mod\[modname]\map\cache\province_textures

I doubt it'll fix anything if the crash is after clicking Start Game, but you should clear the map cache when adding new provinces anyway.

Try posting the files and we'll see if there's anything we can do.

 

[ranger044]

would it make a difference if the files aren't from a mod folder?

what i mean is the changes i'm making are to the vanilla files, i made a backup copy of every original vanilla file at least twice. would i have to put them in a mod folder and do the whole copy and paste then load the game thing?

and the game isn't creating new textures like it's supposed to, like i said it only creates malta for some reason. the loading screen says it's creating all of the new files but only malta get created

 

[ranger044]

and thanks for helping you two

 

[ranger044]

well i got it to work so i guess my problem is solved. the game doesnt create new textures and bin files so i have to copy other provinces, but at least it works. it's definitely not pretty though