07-11-2001 02:30									#61
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The bug with import dialog fixed. (I don't know if I have the time to wait for the edit message to show up, or if I'll let the last version be left. there are no major changes, so if I get abusy error, I'll probably wait until next update to delete it.)

For the next update I hope to have the unit export/import ready, but I can't prommies that I make a quick vug fx without adding it, but version 0.61 will have it. I'll also try to make a version history by then.

Edited out after 61 downloads.

Last edited by Gramphos on 12-11-2001 at 01:59

	07-11-2001 06:16									#62
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Um...I downloaded your latest version, and I'm totally new to this.

Where are the BIC files located? I looked all over my Civilization 3 directory and couldn't find them

	07-11-2001 09:58									#63
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I wonder, I read on crash problem when using the created civ, but I've run into a different one. When using it, or just when it is in the game, I crash after 8 turns, everytime. I made sure of unique colors to alliviate that problem, and it doesn't have that problem. Any ideas?

	07-11-2001 10:00									#64
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The BIC files are located in the CiIII\Scenarios folder. There should be the shipped world maps in there.

	07-11-2001 18:55									#65
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I downloaded it, and used it to creat 1 extra Civ: The Dutch
I cloned the Romans, and edited the citynames and such. Worked fine at first, but i experience crashes.

The most clear one is when you go into the Adviser screen, and select Foreign Advisor. It crashes right there, no matter when I go there.

I reverted back to the original .bic, and all my problems were gone!

Anyways, is this a known bug? I wanna play the Dutch!

	07-11-2001 19:09									#66
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quote: Originally posted by maartena I downloaded it, and used it to creat 1 extra Civ: The Dutch I cloned the Romans, and edited the citynames and such. Worked fine at first, but i experience crashes. The most clear one is when you go into the Adviser screen, and select Foreign Advisor. It crashes right there, no matter when I go there. I reverted back to the original .bic, and all my problems were gone! Anyways, is this a known bug? I wanna play the Dutch!

I have heard something about that it might have happened before, but I have not been able to test it myself. Does anyone else have this problem?

Also, some say that they experience crashes when playing as the copied civ, but not when playing against it. I'll look into this more when I have the game.

	09-11-2001 01:05									#67
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I believe I know what the problem with the advisor is, but unfortunately I can't do anything about it, at least not until I have the game. The BICs do only contain the name of the animations, and not any other graphics (as the leaderpics in the advisor page). I believe they are stored somewhere in the exe.

I don't know if the mainexe is hackable to add more picture names. If anyone feel that he is good enough to check the exe, do so. Otherwise I'll wait until I have the game.

	09-11-2001 02:04									#68
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I have looked into the textfiles, and it is possible that you can add more paths in pediaicons.txt.

Try to copy ALL graphics (it might be sharing violations) to new names, and specify them in the BIC and the pediaicons.txt

Let me know if it works.

	10-11-2001 02:04									#69
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Problems I have:

1. Even if I change the face of the leader in civ3edit, when i lose/win, the game over screen (where all the other civs say nasty things about you) still shows the original face.

example: I cloned England, renamed it Canada. I changed queens face to persia (Wilfred Laurier), but when I retired, its still showed elizzys face.

2. When I'm not being Canada, and I talk to Laurier via diplomacy screen, he says stuff like "Shaka: Ai's Name", and "Laurier: Ai's Civ". Can you add something on the next version so we can edit what they say, like, a little text box? This would REALLY HELP ME A LOT!

3. When I see my foreign advisor guy, it crashes right there and then.

I'm sure there's a few more probles. I have no doubt you'll fix it though.

	10-11-2001 23:23									#70
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quote: Originally posted by erikmistal Problems I have: 1. Even if I change the face of the leader in civ3edit, when i lose/win, the game over screen (where all the other civs say nasty things about you) still shows the original face. example: I cloned England, renamed it Canada. I changed queens face to persia (Wilfred Laurier), but when I retired, its still showed elizzys face. 2. When I'm not being Canada, and I talk to Laurier via diplomacy screen, he says stuff like "Shaka: Ai's Name", and "Laurier: Ai's Civ". Can you add something on the next version so we can edit what they say, like, a little text box? This would REALLY HELP ME A LOT! 3. When I see my foreign advisor guy, it crashes right there and then. I'm sure there's a few more probles. I have no doubt you'll fix it though.

I believe that the game uses different graphics for those screens, but I don't know where they are located. They are not present in the BICs. Before I have the game I can't tell whether it is possible to make this work fully. If you have tried what I stated in my last post I can't help you more now.

	11-11-2001 19:37									#71
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos I believe that the game uses different graphics for those screens, but I don't know where they are located. They are not present in the BICs. Before I have the game I can't tell whether it is possible to make this work fully. If you have tried what I stated in my last post I can't help you more now.

I've the same problems with my copied Civ as well. I don't think that this has been pointed out but I've also found that copied Wonders also bomb out once you have created them, whereas copied City Improvements seem to work fine

BTW, kudos for all the work you've done to make this game customizable and if there's anyway I can help (send a file, test something) please feel free to drop me an email.

Thanks.

	11-11-2001 20:22									#72
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The art for all the leaders in the endgame screens is stored in the art/leaderheads directory. The text/pediaicons file tells where to use these graphics. Just so you know...

	11-11-2001 21:49									#73
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quote: Originally posted by ixnay37 The art for all the leaders in the endgame screens is stored in the art/leaderheads directory. The text/pediaicons file tells where to use these graphics. Just so you know...

Is it possible to change the graphics for the advisor in that file too?

	11-11-2001 22:00									#74
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Oki, I have read all of the posts, but I still am not really sure what this tool will do. What I am looking for is something that I can use to combine different sets of rules (civ3mod) and different civilopedias. For example. There is a mod to add the citystate, and one to add fascism. Each of them has a seperate civilopedia file, but if I overwrite one with the other then the original one (either city state, or fascism, whichever one I installed first) will get overwritten. And if I want to both have the fascism and city state in it then I have to manually add the settings for one of them into the other one, other wise the other one will get overwritten. Is tehre any way to combine the civilopedia files or the civ3mod files? Can this tool you are talking about do it? Thanks a lot!

	12-11-2001 00:16									#75
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Ruharc,
I might add support for combining later on, but as then it will definitely not be a copy tool any more, but a multi tool. Should I rename it?
Currently there is no tool I know about that combines BICs or Civilopedia. I'll add full exportabilities later on, but as is right now only civs an be exported with my tool, but units will be added soon, as soon as some minor issues with how to handle availability has been solved, and maybe also the same for the civs has been remade to only apply for the original units. I maybe also should make a tool for more tweaking of the extracted formats, that should allow the different flags to be changed to other then what to tool "thinks" is what the creator wants them to be. But that will have to wait until the next version of the tool is out.

	12-11-2001 01:56									#76
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Now units can be imported and exported together with one civ (I'll try to make the civs any number as well, but it will take some time, and other versions might get ready before)

I'll edit out the old downloads now, and place a link in the first post to the download in this post.

How I'll do with the next update I don't know. I might keep this post for the file, and keep history in the first post and post a new post to notify, or I'll do as before. It is probably the same amount of work for me.

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Last edited by Gramphos on 14-11-2001 at 00:36

	14-11-2001 00:33									#77
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The last version had some unfinished features, and I believe a bug with Unit-import.

This version can import all files that can be exported (and doesn't generate an error when you try to import a mod-file without any civs.)

Another improvement to the import function is that you no longer need to restart the tool after an import.

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Last edited by Gramphos on 14-11-2001 at 01:02

	14-11-2001 01:02									#78
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It was easier to finish the export for more then one civ then I thought. I was not going to publish version 0.62 before tomorrow, but the bugs I found while making it made me to make version 0.61.5 for today. Now just a short while later I can present version 0.62.

It is version 0.61.5 with an improved export function as well. Now any number of civs can be exported. (The import function in 0.61.5 can import these files already.)

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Last edited by Gramphos on 16-11-2001 at 03:40

	14-11-2001 20:23									#79
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What exactly does it mean to export/import a unit to Civ3? Where are you importing it from? Can you add a new unit?

	15-11-2001 01:43									#80
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quote: Originally posted by Red October What exactly does it mean to export/import a unit to Civ3? Where are you importing it from? Can you add a new unit?

It is meant to be used if one modmaker make a unit, and another makes another unit to allow you to use both unist in the same file.
And yes, units can be added, but at the moment nobody but Firaxis' artists can make unitanimations.

	15-11-2001 02:58									#81
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Gramphos, I'm trying to copy and paste the Nuclear Submarine entry in the PediaIcons.txt. When I go to paste, it says "Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and then try again." I've done exactly what you said and it's not working!!! Any idea why?

EDIT: Ok, I figured it out. It wouldn't let me paste more than one line at a time!

	15-11-2001 10:58									#82
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hey gramphos, whenever I try to open a bic file with your program, it stops responding and locks up. I have had similar problems with older versions as well. What could I be doing wrong? i have the VB thing you posted at Civfanatics installed.
Do you have any idea what could be wrong?

	15-11-2001 19:33									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Red October Gramphos, I'm trying to copy and paste the Nuclear Submarine entry in the PediaIcons.txt. When I go to paste, it says "Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and then try again." I've done exactly what you said and it's not working!!! Any idea why? EDIT: Ok, I figured it out. It wouldn't let me paste more than one line at a time!

Are you using Notepad? It has a maximum limit on the files that can be handled without errors.

	15-11-2001 19:36									#84
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider hey gramphos, whenever I try to open a bic file with your program, it stops responding and locks up. I have had similar problems with older versions as well. What could I be doing wrong? i have the VB thing you posted at Civfanatics installed. Do you have any idea what could be wrong?

It is possible that your bic doesn't contain more then a map, and I have not tested the tool with bics without all sections.

I'll have the game 18½ hours, I'll be able to test a lot more then. (But I have a book to read before the end of this weekend.)

	16-11-2001 00:24									#85
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I am just using my default civ3mod.bic file. I don't think I have made a map, but I have made quite a few changes in the rules and so forth. Is a map some kind of a neccessity for this?

	16-11-2001 01:04									#86
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Gramphos, if I copy a unit, do I need to make a new folder for that unit's sounds or will it know to use the old unit's sounds?

	16-11-2001 02:04									#87
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider I am just using my default civ3mod.bic file. I don't think I have made a map, but I have made quite a few changes in the rules and so forth. Is a map some kind of a neccessity for this?

Can you attach the file you try to use. I might know what the error is...

	16-11-2001 02:05									#88
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quote: Originally posted by Red October Gramphos, if I copy a unit, do I need to make a new folder for that unit's sounds or will it know to use the old unit's sounds?

If you copy and rename a unit with the tool the unit folder will be copied as well.

	16-11-2001 03:39									#89
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- The bug with changed rules fixed (hopefully)
- Some minor changes to the interface as well, but don't worry, you will recognize it.

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Last edited by Gramphos on 16-11-2001 at 13:22

	16-11-2001 09:17									#90
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Here is the problematic .bic file Gramphos!
See what you can do with it!
http://www.geocities.com/monkspider/civ3mod11.zip