Overriding the Main_map crashes

[genrev0914]

I missed a lot of updates, and my mod was working fine in version 1.0.0. Now I'm trying to make my mod run on v1.1.2, but for some reason, having a Main_map in my own mods SceneObj causes a crash.

I tried replacing the original Main_map on SandBox, and my mod works fine. What changed, and what could I be doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

 

[NPC99]

Did you add retirement_retreat (introduced to allow players to retire) to your settlements.xml?

IDK if that requires a manual re-run of the settlements positions scripts, but doubt it as there is no corresponding entity in scene.xscene, suggesting its map icon is code spawned. Also, ATM leaving a settlement mission scene will cause crashes on a custom Main_map (as opposed to a modded_main_map using Aurelian's MapFix) due to the different treatment of flora paint layers (assuming your map has flora layers). I've not used Main_map for some time as my custom main_map_physics_heightmap stopped working, reverting to a hardcoded heightmap of Calradia, pusing players below or above ground (another reason to use MapFix).

In Progress - Scene Editor - Custom main maps have had severe issues for several updates now

I created some video to show exactly what is the issue. Short summary - we need to change the tileset from WorldMap to None and use our own vista. (which is painted outside of scene editor) This first video shows that the painted terrain is working in the Scene Editor but when the map is loaded...

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[genrev0914]

Thanks for the reply, but I forgot to mention I did a test where I made a test mod folder that only contains the original Main_map, then activated it on Launcher. Nothing changed on it; it was just a replica of the original Main_map, and it crashed. Now that you mentioned the retirement settlement, I did not add it to my own settlement.xml, but it exists on the modded map. The current solution I have is to replace the original Main_map to bypass the conflict. But that will create another problem when the mod is uninstalled

The problem I can see is that anything that overrides the Main_map would conflict with the original.

 

[NPC99]

...I forgot to mention I did a test where I made a test mod folder that only contains the original Main_map, then activated it on Launcher. Nothing changed on it; it was just a replica of the original Main_map, and it crashed...

I did the same thing with v1.1.2. Mine doesn't crash. It has a settlements.xslt to delete the Sandbox settlements.xml and copied the Sandbox settlements.xml and settlements_distance_cache.bin into my mod's ModuleData folder. I presume the engine looks for a local version of the distance cache.

 

[genrev0914]

I did the same thing with v1.1.2. Mine doesn't crash. It has a settlements.xslt to delete the Sandbox settlements.xml and copied the Sandbox settlements.xml and settlements_distance_cache.bin into my mod's ModuleData folder. I presume the engine looks for a local version of the distance cache.

Will try, thank you!

 

[genrev0914]

yes, placing the settlements_distance_cache.bin inside my mod works, even without the xslt, thanks again