PBW supports v1.20

[Baron Grazic]

Thanks Geo.
Its not setup on my system that way, tripple checked now.
se5a?

[se5a]

if you're having problems with my empire it's probibly because the ngrath empire is not installed on PBW.

where did baron grazic install the flag mod? I think he may have installed it into the pictures/flags directory which is why we are having problems with his empire, the flag mod should have been installed into the empires directory in the se5 root.
I'm guessing it's looking for a flag picked from the flags mod, which it cannot find, then it looks *in the same directory* for an alternate shipset flag to use, since there are no shipset flags suposed to be in the flag directory it cant find *pictures/flags/random stock empire/flag.bmp*

that's my guess on it.

[se5a]

geo may be able to fix the problem on PBW by installing the flag mod into the flags dir, but... it kind of makes things messy from the server point of view, if geo wants us to restart then I'm ok with that.


Note that this turn it failed to run as well, so it's probibly decided to use a different stock flag to use this time, since you've only goten the phong dir installed into the flags dir it cant find whatever random empire it's deciding to use this time?

[geoschmo]

What flags mod? You guys are using balance mod 1.01 right? What is flags mod? Nobody ever told me anything about a flags mod. If you guys are using a different mod on your machines than on the PBW server that would definetly explain it.

The odd thing Se5 is that both of your empires are missing flags when I look at them on my pc. Yours is missing in addition the race pic and shipset pic. Grazics at least have those.

se5a said:
if you're having problems with my empire it's probibly because the ngrath empire is not installed on PBW.

That was an issue with 1.17, but it was supposed to be fixed by 1.20. And at least for the games I tested it seemed to work.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

Well, I'm stumped. I found the Flagtastic download that Mark Sheppard made and put it on my machine as a test. No matter where I unzip it too though it doesn't seem to make a difference to this game. When I try to load the game it still can't find your flags. When the turn tries to process it's asking for pictures/flags/xiati now. It's like it wants me to put all the folders form the empires folder into the pictures/flags folder, even the stock ones. I have no idea why that would be happeneing.

I'd like to send this to Aaron, but I'm sure there has got to be more to this that we are missing. Baron, would it be possible for you to print out a directory tree for your SE5 folder? If you aren't sure how to do this, the easiest way I know to tell you is open a command prompt and cd to your SE5 root directory and type:
dir /AD /S /B >directories.txt
This will create a file called directories.txt. Send that too me and then I can put together a bug report for Aaron.

[shinigami]

They may be using TNZ's flag mod.

Link


It sounds like the host machine is loading (or trying to in this case) game graphics that it doesn't need to just to process a turn. If this is so then there will be a problem anytime someone uses a custom graphic.

[se5a]

yes mark shepards one is the one I was refering to.
maybe this game is just screwed and we should start again?
I created my empire without the mark shepards flags, I downloaded them when I got the same error you are getting geo, however I installed them into the empires folder as the readme dictated.
I copied the ukratal folder into the flags folder to get the game to load properly, and since it's randomly changing which empire flag it want's I was assuming that it still couldn't find the flag and was looking for annother in the wrong place...

[geoschmo]

Ok, I downloaded the NGarth empire and now I do get the icon for SE5's empire. I still get the errors processing the turns though. The problem with using a custom empire like this was what was supposed to be fixed with 1.20 and I believe it was. What I think is happening here is something wierd either about the flagtastic flags in general or with the way Grazic has them loaded on his machine in particular. And the failure of the turns to processes definetly seems to be because of his empire. If we do a game using just an Ngarth race it will process even without the Ngarth race loaded on the host machine.

[parabolize]

putting AyersRock in /Pictures/Flags will get it to run.

[geoschmo]

parabolize said:
putting AyersRock in /Pictures/Flags will get it to run.

No, actually it doesn't. One of the things I tried was unzipping all the Flagtastic empire folders to the /pictures/flags directory. AyersRock is one of those. I still get the errors.

Geoschmo