ORIGINAL: rjord1
You indicated yesterday that you had pushed through an update to the tool.
Just a question...... where is the latest version of your tool. I had a look on the tool and dont see an update button .The attachment on your first post last modified in February has the files with a last modified date of 15th February.
Should I be downloading the tool from somewhere else?
The latest version is 1.0.15.3, I haven’t uploaded these data validation builds as an attachment but the tool should automatically update if there’s a newer version when you run it. Being a clickonce application I don’t think there’s a way to programmatically call an update check.
If it isn’t doing it by itself, that probably indicates that either you’re not connected to the internet at the time, or more likely the tool is being blocked by your security software.
When I push 1.0.15.4, I’ll include a button to test the connection to my NAS. I’ll update the op with that as an attachment too so you can get it even if there is an issue.
Also, I think updates may have been broken for the past 24 hours or so since a firmware update to my NAS changed my webdav server to deny access to guests by default. I’ve changed that now so it should be good to go.
ORIGINAL: Darkspire
These on the other hand are somewhat confusing, could really do with a line number within the race file to show where the error is as I am none to sure where 'record #' is, the only one that is quite clear is the Maerzi one, that I will change to 59 although 70 is valid until you decide whether to update with the new victory conditions.
I would like to include a line number, but by this point the data is all stored in an array so that kind of detail is lost. That said, it shouldn’t be too difficult to figure out what’s going on.
So for example in:
Invalid condition 2 value value "50" found in Race Information record 1) Aritri, value changed to "0"
It tells you it’s “Race Information”, which means it’s in the Aritri race file. It’s the condition 2 value value (a bit of a mouthful admittedly) so it’s talking about the “value” variable of victory condition 2. Basically it’s saying that whatever type victory condition 2 is, it either doesn’t use a value variable or said value variable is out of whatever range it’s supposed to be.
It’s much the same for the additional data, whether or not it’s valid is going to depend on what victory condition type you’ve chosen for that race.
I suspect the “Invalid condition 1 type value "70"” is now fixed in 1.0.15.3, so you shouldn’t see that again once you update. As I mentioned to rjord above, updates may have failed over the last day or so, probably worth just checking the version number of the tool in the “About” section on the main menu.
Just a word on the victory conditions from 60-70, they are for a pirate race, you can select if a race is a normal or pirate empire from the race file, adding those victory conditions to a pirate race were meant to be so a race could have been both a normal empire and pirate, bit fuzzy on memory as it was a while ago but I seem to remember discussing the idea that a race would have its own folder like the design templates with a pirate folder inside it so that the two were separated, as it is now you can need to make a separate race for a pirate unfortunately.
I guess the real question here is do they actually work in-game for a pirate race? When I start it up I can ironically only get them to be visible if I’m playing as a non-pirate race, with the “Race Specific Victory Conditions” option set. But when playing as a pirate race you don’t get the option to enable race victory conditions at all, it’s replaced with the pirate specific ones which come from the “playstyle” of your pirate race.
Any chance of adding an option to send the input info to a text file on desktop? [:D]
I could do that sure, will probably need to write it to a rtf or something since you’d lose all the text colours with plain text. That’ll be in 1.0.15.4 too.
