Help needed-Moding-Can't start any modded region but Egypt!?
Posted: Mar 26 2013
Hello together.
For some days I tried to mod a few countries in Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold Edition, but despite carefull reading and searching the Forum and Wiki I can not locate the error. Since nobody else seemed to have the same problem I suppose it must be mistake on my side.
I am aware of Balthagors walkthrough and several posts in this forum concerning this topic as well as the wiki, but I have reached a dead end, so I ask for assistance from the community here.
First, I have succesfully modded Egypt (added other countries to the group to form the United Arabic Republic, which has a historic background, added additional resources and increased the population). That worked fine and I played this modded country, but everytime I try to mod another country I can not load the created cached SAV. file, it appears only (standard, unmodified) Egypt. I can see on the map that the other country is there (with the added regions and populations), but I can't play it. (In these other scenarios I have of course, set Egyptback to standard values and deleted the Egypt-mod.cvp.)
Perhaps someone can help me and point out the mistake I made, so I can correct it.
I did the following:
1) I made backups of my files in all folders used.
2) I emptied the CACHE folder
Q: It is enough, if I empty the CACHE folder (or rename it'S files)? Do I have to empty the other folders (CacheCG, Campagin, CampaignCG) too, if I play only a scenario? (I tried several versions, but it still does not work.)
3) I open the SCENARIO folder and change the ShatteredWorld - No Units.Scenario file using Notepad++. (I want to play a shattered World-Scenario without any units from start. Example here is Japan.)
I change the line "#include "World2020.CVP", "MAPS\"" to "#include "JAPAN.CVP", "MAPS\"" and save the file as "Japan - No Units.Scenario".
(Original ShatteredWorld - NO Units file is no longer existend.)
4) I open the MAPS folder and change the "World2020.cvp" to "Japan.cvp".
I also make some changes within the file - change the government to 2: Monarchy, add a sum to the treasury and add a number to the refpopulation. Nothing complicated.
5) (I ignore the ShatteredWorld.INCL this time since I plan on using a Japan withount additional territory. In other cases like Egypt I changed some regions which worked.)
6) I start the game (GC, but I also tried the "standard" 2020 - no difference) to create a new CACHE file. I select singleplayer, scenario, SR 2020, slect my Japan - no Units.Scenario and try to start the game (sometimes I choose Japan, sometimes Egypt. According to the walkthrough it should not matter...).
Now the problem starts: The game does not load Japan or Egypt or anything else. After approx. 30 seconds it returns to the game menu. I quit and can nevertheless find a newly created SAV file in the Savegame-folder (CACHED - Japan - No Units - GC. SAV). I copy it in the empty CACHE folder and shorten the file name to "Japan - NO UNits.SAV".
THen I try to start the game and load this file. But then I get everytime only a standard un-moddyifed Egypt, but never Japan (when I select Japan, I get either standard EGypt (and in some cases a standard Japan.)
I hope, i could describe my problem precisely, so that someone can explain to me what went wrong and how I can correct the mistake.
Many thanks in advance.
For some days I tried to mod a few countries in Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold Edition, but despite carefull reading and searching the Forum and Wiki I can not locate the error. Since nobody else seemed to have the same problem I suppose it must be mistake on my side.
I am aware of Balthagors walkthrough and several posts in this forum concerning this topic as well as the wiki, but I have reached a dead end, so I ask for assistance from the community here.
First, I have succesfully modded Egypt (added other countries to the group to form the United Arabic Republic, which has a historic background, added additional resources and increased the population). That worked fine and I played this modded country, but everytime I try to mod another country I can not load the created cached SAV. file, it appears only (standard, unmodified) Egypt. I can see on the map that the other country is there (with the added regions and populations), but I can't play it. (In these other scenarios I have of course, set Egyptback to standard values and deleted the Egypt-mod.cvp.)
Perhaps someone can help me and point out the mistake I made, so I can correct it.
I did the following:
1) I made backups of my files in all folders used.
2) I emptied the CACHE folder
Q: It is enough, if I empty the CACHE folder (or rename it'S files)? Do I have to empty the other folders (CacheCG, Campagin, CampaignCG) too, if I play only a scenario? (I tried several versions, but it still does not work.)
3) I open the SCENARIO folder and change the ShatteredWorld - No Units.Scenario file using Notepad++. (I want to play a shattered World-Scenario without any units from start. Example here is Japan.)
I change the line "#include "World2020.CVP", "MAPS\"" to "#include "JAPAN.CVP", "MAPS\"" and save the file as "Japan - No Units.Scenario".
(Original ShatteredWorld - NO Units file is no longer existend.)
4) I open the MAPS folder and change the "World2020.cvp" to "Japan.cvp".
I also make some changes within the file - change the government to 2: Monarchy, add a sum to the treasury and add a number to the refpopulation. Nothing complicated.
5) (I ignore the ShatteredWorld.INCL this time since I plan on using a Japan withount additional territory. In other cases like Egypt I changed some regions which worked.)
6) I start the game (GC, but I also tried the "standard" 2020 - no difference) to create a new CACHE file. I select singleplayer, scenario, SR 2020, slect my Japan - no Units.Scenario and try to start the game (sometimes I choose Japan, sometimes Egypt. According to the walkthrough it should not matter...).
Now the problem starts: The game does not load Japan or Egypt or anything else. After approx. 30 seconds it returns to the game menu. I quit and can nevertheless find a newly created SAV file in the Savegame-folder (CACHED - Japan - No Units - GC. SAV). I copy it in the empty CACHE folder and shorten the file name to "Japan - NO UNits.SAV".
THen I try to start the game and load this file. But then I get everytime only a standard un-moddyifed Egypt, but never Japan (when I select Japan, I get either standard EGypt (and in some cases a standard Japan.)
I hope, i could describe my problem precisely, so that someone can explain to me what went wrong and how I can correct the mistake.
Many thanks in advance.