Map failing to load and crashing when loading up custom ship set. Any help?

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Hi,

 

I have followed a few tutorials and set up a custom faction with a custom ship set. However, this crashes the game in the galaxy building screen. I've been quite thorough with the xml files, so I can post up the text if need be.

 

The only two things I can think of are:

 

1. Two of my templates I renamed in the design folder. Didn't touch the unique code that is affixed to custom ships, but removed underscores between nouns. This is the first thing I will test as it seems the most likely issue.

 

2. Saved the designs as my custom faction, but I am unsure. My custom faction draws its base parts from the Drengin ship set, so how would resaving them as Drengin make any difference when they're both derived from the same base ship-set style?

 

Has anyone else had a similar problem? Any tips? Tricks? Insight? 

 

First time modding anything, so any help appreciated!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Check the debug file, it should point you to what was failing to load up. You can open it in notepad.

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Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Syntax_VI, reply 1

Check the debug file, it should point you to what was failing to load up. You can open it in notepad.
End of Syntax_VI's quote

 

Thank you for the reply.

 

For anyone interested in this info, the issue was the first one I hypothesized above. Even a simple change to the ship text, even leaving alone the unique code supplied to every custom designed ship, will break your efforts to mod a custom set.

 

This is a really, really fiddly process to learn if you're new to this!

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