@ Angel Anastasia: I think that you have misunderstood my last answer,
(or perhaps I missunderstood yours).
I was talking about your "NOTES" of your first post:
- "Note: I usually replace 'Team Islands' as it is the least used for single player RM."
- "Note: Editing the "gamedata_x1.drs" this way can and often does cause an AI error for the 'Standard' AI. The error will denote a Wonder. This does not effect the game play if Standard or Conquest, but I suggest using other custom AI's set in the Editor for more of a challenge anyway. I've had it play without error but I don't know yet what is causing the error."
And I was referring to those notes in my answer.
I was trying to explain you why you was getting that "AI Script Error" message, when playing Single Player games in your PC,
if you don't restore the original "gamedata_x1.drs" file.
And I was trying to tell you how to avoid it.
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If you play with the "gamedata_x1.drs" file, edited with your system (NotePad), then:
a) You will get "AI Script errors" when playing Single Player games.
b) All the RMS maps, that are stored below "Team Islands" map script:
* will run badly in Single Player, or Map Editor ( no resources, or no Animals, or more strange effects)
* will get "Out of Sync" errors when playing Multiplayer Games.
So, that was the reason for suggesting a "DRS library Editor" for making the changes.
But, if you only use the modified "gamedata_x1.drs" file for creating new RMS maps in the Scenario Map Editor,
and later you restore the original "gamedata_x1.drs" file for playing,
then your system works OK.
Only one comment to your system:
If your custom RMS map hasn't got, at the beggining, this sentence:
# include_drs random_map.def 54000
then add it.
(If you run your RMS map, in the Map Editor, without this line,
the RMS map will only make the terrain, but not the units.)
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By the way, your system doesn't work with my Notepad program.
For a strange reason, my Notepad fills all "0" bytes, with "spaces" (the number 32), crushing the game.
I tested that with Windows-2000 prof, and Windows-XP.
So, I was using an Hexadecimal Editor for testing your system.
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P.S. Let's share information. This forum is for this, isn't it?
P.S.2 I beg your pardon, if my writting style was annoying you in any way.
It was not my purpose.
Greetings.
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@ new idea:
Quote:
"...and I think it works pretty well."
Have you tested Anastasia´s system?
I have tested and it doesn't work all right, if you don't restore the original "gamedata_x1.drs" file for playing.
Quote:
"I am a little confused. How could say AK is wrong if you were the one asking how to do it?"
She said in her 1st post: "I've had it play without error but I don't know yet what is causing the error."
And as I have explained above, I was telling her why she was getting "AI script error messagges", and how to avoid it. When I opened the topic, I didn't know that it was possible to use custom RMS maps in the Map Editor.
But I, and a group of friends, have been modifying before, the DRS files, (gamedata, sounds, interfac),
for playing with funny effects, in RMS Multiplayer maps.
At the beginning, we had the same errors, in Multiplayer Games, that Anastasia had in Single Player one's.
But, when we found the DRS editor mentioned above, those errors were fixed.
You can find other DRS Editor at the BlackSmith:
DRS Explorer 1.1
[This message has been edited by iberico (edited 04-08-2006 @ 04:39 AM).]