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Hello,

I cannot find out how to solve this:



I have added a nation (the roma) to data/nation/ and data/flags/ and data/default/nationlist.ruleset, following and re-checking the instructions carefully. It is not the first time I created nations (did so in earlier freeciv versions, as well as in this version). In fact, this nation was working before in this version (2.6.0). Somehow now it doesn't aymore. Seems another (registry?) file is pointing to a conflicting location or command, but I don't know where to look. Reinstalling does not work either. Please, can somebody help out?

Can you attach your roma ruleset?

In freeciv-2.6 it's also possible to add local nations files without modifying the freeciv installation files such as nationlist.ruleset. See README.nations chapter "Local Nation files"

Hi cazfi,

Thanks for your reply. Below is the code of my ruleset.

As to the override folder, I don't understand the instructions. I tried pasting the text from roma.rulest into the data/override/nations.ruleset, but I get the same error message as above. I tried by only writing *include "nation/roma.ruleset" in the data/override/nations.ruleset file (and having the roma.ruleset file in the nation directory) - no result. I tried by just dumping the roma.rulest in the data/override folder, no result.

The readme file speaks about "user data directory, ~/.freeciv/<freeciv version>/override/" but I cannot find that file on my PC.

I'm not an experienced programmer, sorry :/

Thanks for your help!

The city names list ends with a comma. My guess would be that the parser is expecting another city name, but instead, the file ends, so the beginning of the next nation file (the barbarians) causes an error, 'cause it's not a city name.

Thank you Caedo! That solved it!

I don't know how to do the override thing yet, but I suppose some day I will find out...

Also, I don't understand how it works to load the flags. Perhaps anyone can help there? Right now when I select the Roma, they have the "unknown flag" sign (blue background with three question marks)... I guess my carefully crafted png-files are no longer supported (they were in previous civ-versions)... In the readme-file it says that I should add an SVG-version of the flag to the "flags" directory. I did this too, but nothing happens. Neither my png nor my svg files are loaded.

In the readme-file it says that I should add an SVG-version of the flag to the "flags" directory.

It says a bit more than that:

Flag Specifics
==============

To add a flag you'll have to edit the following files:

data/flags/<flagname>.svg
[...]
data/flags/<flagname>.png
data/flags/<flagname>-shield.png
[...]

data/misc/flags.spec

This file has a reference to the flag PNG graphic. The "tag" here must
match the flag tag you put in the nation ruleset file
(usually f.<flagname>) and the "file" should point to the PNG image at
flags/<flagname>.png.

data/misc/shields.spec
[...]

So you have to add a reference to your pngs (if I get it right it's the png, not the svg the file the client uses) in the spec files.

Thanx madmax, I edited the .spec files (also the "flag-large.spec" and "shield-large.spec", which are somehow not mentioned in the instructions, but just in case) and now my png-files are implemented... But not everywhere... It's visible in the "Pick Nation" menu, but after starting the game, the shields are again showing question marks... It seems some of my png-files are rejected...

That brings me back to the SVG-to-PNG conversion which is stated to be mandatory in the current version. My png-files were hand-made, instead of converted from SVG. So I tried to figure out how to convert, but again I don't understand the instructions in the Readme.file:

To run the conversion program you
will need to install Inkscape, ImageMagick, and (optionally) pngquant.
Once these are installed change to the data/flags directory and run
./convert_png <nationname>.svg

I installed all three of these software, and I put the svg file in the data/flags directory, but that's as far as I get. Which one is the "conversion program"? In which command prompt should I run that line? I tried it in the Freeciv server, and in the general Windows command prompt, to no avail...

Hope you guys forgive my ignorance, it's been perhaps 20 years since I haven't used command lines

svg-files are not technically required. They are required for nations to be accepted to official freeciv distribution.

Hi cazfi,

Ok, I get it. I'll see if some day I can learn to convert from SVG as prescribed, because as said, not all of my current PNG's are working in the game. And of course it would also be nice to submit nation proposals.

So, all in all, I have made some progress, thanks to all of you. But now I added another nation and I get the following error:


Any idea what could be wrong with this one?

Error message seems quite clear. It says nation_patagonian.style entry does not exist. Does your ruleset have 'style' entry?