Quick question

[razorbird789]

I'm trying to create a new nation that will be liberated via an event in game. I've done all the appropriate things (i think) in revolts.txt and World_names. I've also assigned it a colour and written it into the ministers,teams and leaders files. When i boot the game it says error in db. i noticed it did this after i did the ministers,teams and leaders files, so i ## them so they weren't active in those files(it still gives the error message anyway. I've also put a flag and shield into the gfx folder for the nation. Is there a restriction on the tag a nation uses because when i go to liberate the nation it isn't in the liberate list. the tag has three letters (BYZ). Is that allowed? if so help....

(i haven't made tech teams, leaders or ministers yet but i figured it should still be able to be liberated without them. I just want to check that everything so far is ok)

 

[MartinBG]

Country tags are predefined and BYZ is not a valid one.
There should be some free Uxx tags (where xx is a number) you can use for your country.

 

[razorbird789]

i looked through and am pretty sure that all the Uxx tags are in use but i'll have another look

EDIT : i think U00 is free so i'll move everything over to that and see if it works.

EDIT 2 : using U00 as a tag it works but when i go to liberate it the game crashes, i'm sure its a gfx problem because i've tried three different flags and each flag has taken a different time to crash the game. i took the flags from a HOI2 site and resaved them using GIMP as 16bit BMP files. What could be the problem?? (each flag has had different but messed up pictures next to the name of the country)

EDIT 3 : using 24bits for the flag and shield it shows up fine next to the country name under 'liberate' but it crashes about a second after you see it still

 

[unmerged(82211)]

It definetly doesn't crash the game when a flag doesn't work properly; it just doesn't show up as it should.

Have you updated your files:
revolt.txt
ministers.txt
leaders.txt
teams.txt
world_names.csv
??

Also, be sure that your ministers/leaders files for that country are in the right format (DH has more columns than HoI2); it might be that the problem.

 

[razorbird789]

does the country have to have leaders and ministers in the file? I've never modded hoi2 so i don't know the difference, i looked at the other countries (more specifically greece....) and copied the heading, changing GRE to U00 (file name and in file) other than the first line there isn't anything in leaders or ministers because i'm working on them. Is that the problem?

All the other files you mentioned i have put the country(tag) into.

the only thing that is different is this (world_names)

YUG;Yugoslavia;Yougoslavie;Jugoslavia;Yugoslavia;Jugoslawien;Jugos³awia;;Þãîñëàâèÿ;;;X
U00;Byzantium;X

but isn't that only the different languages and its not necessary is it?

EDIT : i put a HoS and leader in the files to see if it made a difference and it crashed after a longer time spent on the liberate menu...... (i figured that the rest would be shadow ministers)

 

[unmerged(82211)]

Then maybe you forgot of change the ID's numbers for the new ministers/leaders/teams. They must be into the stablished range provided in the "DH Full - Leaders, Ministers and TT IDs and conversion.xls" file, that lies inside the "Modding documentation" folder.

 

[razorbird789]

i filled it in, i didn't know what to put under the old ID/picture fields so left them blank. It still crashes exactly the same as before. (The minister,leader and tech teams i have are all from greece but i renamed the TT and gave them all new IDs within the fields specified for U00 in the file you mentioned.......

Is there a step by step guide to creating a country because i fear i need one better than the one on hoi2 wiki......

 

[unmerged(82211)]

It realy beats me then.

You might find, searching the foruns. I found something sometime ago, while I was doing my New Nations Mini Mod.

 

[JRHINDO]

YUG;Yugoslavia;Yougoslavie;Jugoslavia;Yugoslavia;J ugoslawien;Jugos³awia;;Þãîñëàâèÿ;;;X
U00;Byzantium;X

You MUST have the same numbers of ; in each lines, even without additional translations!!

This: U00;Byzantium;;;;;;;;;;X

 

[razorbird789]

i copy and pasted it into the file(double checked the amount of ';' in the line and its all fine) it still crashes, could it be that it should be,like this : U00;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;;Byzantium;;;X ?? Or is it the definitely not the graphics? I'll use a flag already in the file and copy it and rename and see if that is the reason.

EDIT: i tested the - U00;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;Byzantium;;Byzantium;;;X - part and also realised that i hadn't given counters or an icon to the country, still crashes . I'm going to change the flag/shield to one in the folder already (eng nazi) and see if that changes anything.

EDIT 2 : Its not gfx because changing the flag and shield didn't stop it from crashing. This is quite frustrating. I would change the tag to something else but it requires a lot of work and i don't think it will change anything.....anymore ideas??