Modding classic bug

[VallenH]

Whoever once tried to replace/remove a default race probably came across an annoying error...

Index out of Bounds

The steps to reproduce are:

• Remove/Replace a race (and possibly its references/dependencies)
• add custom race image with naming max_race_image_index+1 (and possibly a transparent _a variant)
• add obligatory troop_XXX images so that there's one group of them for every race (by appending to proper folder like above)
• restructure all race files (add/rearrange races)

When you remove a race that used (for example) image 8 and you added a new one that uses race image 22, you leave a gap at 8 that no-one uses and it causes an error!
This was not properly documented and took a lot of testing to figure out the loading system behind it...

I'm leaving it here so that I can find it the next year again!

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The docs only said about padding the ship images and flags etc, but nothing about race images forced use.

[Hattori Hanzo]

not a modder, but I'm always interested in "modding-hints" - thanks for posting