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I'm trying to get my mod to run, and I keep running into 'Bad Armor for new unit' errors. I've defined two new armors, and before they are referenced by the units. I've just doublechecked all the units for incorrect armor ratings.

Do you need to give an #armor field to commanders without armor?

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No.

Check you have put in #end s correctly.

Also be aware that you can't use numbers for armour.

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Can't use numbers for armor? Odd. That might be the problem.

Wait, you can't use ANY numbers for Armor? What's the use of them then? &gt;&lt;

Going change a lot of stuff BACK to names...

I checked the 'end' commands, but I'll do it again... &gt;&lt;

(I _hate_ this part.)

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K, seemed to have gotten past the armor issue. Now giving me a 'bad startsite' error. Are they any hidden issues with those that I should be aware of?

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My guess would be that you used #s for startsite? That's got to be names as well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

If that isn't it, copy and paste all the startsite commands into your reply (there shouldn't be too many.)

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Grrr, this can be really finicky. But thanks, Praetorius, you were correct. It now at least _runs_...

Gotta go check the tutorial thread for the pics. I still have a matte white background on them, and I need to get rid of that, it seems.

Edit: All okay now.

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I can tell by the mistakes your making so far that your first modding experience is just like mine was. No holy message, WTF$(#($), forgetting #ends, the whole nine yards. We have all been there.

I have made every mistake you have asked about so far, and then some more on top of that. I think it is what made me able to guess Bandar's problems so easily when he was working on his mod. All I had to do was say "oh yeah, that happened to me once, here is the problem."

Hang with it, it becomes like second nature in no time, and the error messages are surprisingly great for giving hints as to what is wrong.

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Sometimes you have to hit the modding manual really hard too - it is often a bit confusing but once you work out the format it generally steers you in the right direction.

Looking forward to the end product - I should have a lot of updating to do on the modlist by the end of this week.

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These issues will in all probability not yet be addressed in the next patch, but I'll gather the lot of them to a modding issues shortlist and put them in a bit of a spotlight so we can hopefully get armor assignment by number, startsite assignment by number and on the map side, item assignment by number.