ORIGINAL: rhinobones
ORIGINAL: JAMiAM
You should NOT be using any scenario that has been downloaded from any site, until after it has been confirmed that it has been converted to TOAW III. There is a copy of this scenario that shipped with TOAW III, and you should have used that version instead.
Doesn’t sound like a conversion problem. At least not any conversion problem that has ever been described before on this forum. Probably has more to do with those “square” unit icons!
Maybe you missed the couple dozen posts over the last year, both here, at Gamesquad, and TDG, that mentions the Event 500 to Event 1000 conversion that needs to be done? This occurs when you load a scenario that was created on earlier versions of TOAW into the editor and save it. Otherwise all events which reference that special event will be screwed up.
ORIGINAL: rhinobones
ORIGINAL: JAMiAM
You should NOT be using any scenario that has been downloaded from any site, until after it has been confirmed that it has been converted to TOAW III. There is a copy of this scenario that shipped with TOAW III, and you should have used that version instead.
Also, what’s this business about “confirmed” conversion of scenarios into the TOAW III format? Are you implying that there is some official clearing house that confirms scenarios are properly converted to the TOAW III format? Wonder how many people have converted scenarios that they should NOT be using!! Everyone please, purge your hard drive of all unconfirmed scenarios and only use those that shipped with TOAW III.
Nice drama queen act there...[:D]
No, there isn't an "official clearing house" other than the work that went (and still goes) into testing the scenarios prior to inclusion with TOAW III and its subsequent patches. Anything else out there "in the wild" could have been created under just about any version of TOAW, including TOAW I. As above, if the scenario hasn't been confirmed to have been run through a load/save cycle in the TOAW III editor, then you're playing with fire, risking death, and possibly upsetting the cosmic balance. How's that for drama?[;)]
ORIGINAL: rhinobones
ORIGINAL: JAMiAM
It is probably an event error due to running an unconverted scenario.
This sounds strange. How could the scenario possibly be played, and therefore the error discovered, if it had not first been converted to TOAW III?
TOAW III will load scenarios created with earlier versions. In fact, it needs to be able to, in order to perform the conversion. However, it might be a good idea to set a flag on TOAW III scenarios so that they will be the only ones that can load in the regular (non-editor) portion of the program. However, that would probably require that we go back through all those scenarios again, and perform a re-conversion to ensure that the officially approved scenarios have been properly updated...[X(]
