Making a new scenario

[Dox4242]

I'm trying to start up a scenario...I generated a coastline and want to see it in action before I fine tune islands and paint terrain, so I added the scenario section and copied some bits from other scenarios, but I couldn't get the right magic words in the right order.

Suggestions, please? If there's a skeleton file I can paste a 512 x 256 map into, that'd be my choice, but then I would ask if the gamecode can generate specials or would I have to paint those as well?

[cazfi]

I'm trying to start up a scenario...I generated a coastline and want to see it in action before I fine tune islands and paint terrain, so I added the scenario section and copied some bits from other scenarios, but I couldn't get the right magic words in the right order.

Suggestions, please? If there's a skeleton file I can paste a 512 x 256 map into, that'd be my choice, but then I would ask if the gamecode can generate specials or would I have to paint those as well?

Which version are you using? It sounds like you are doing manually things that the editor could do. For example to add scenario section, make it a scenario (open "property editor" (rightmost icon) in edit mode, select "Game" tab, toggle "scenario" on, Apply, Edit -> Save Scenario )

[Dox4242]

I found those options to create a scenario...so I started a new game, set the map dimensions to 512 x 256, edited the scenario options, and saved it. Then I opened the saved scenario file*, copy/pasted my coastline over the original map, then tried to load it. The first red error message from the server said there was incomplete map data, proceed at own risk. When I tried to start the game, about 650 terrain errors popped out, and it didn't start.

All the error messages were the same:
in terrain_index() [../../../../common/terrain.c::138]: assertion 'pterrain' failed.

edit: Forgot to mention I'm running 2.4.0


* opened scenario in text editor, to be precise

[Dox4242]

*slaps forehead*

I finally noticed my syntax was off...instead of putting t0000=":::::::::::", I used t000=":::::::::::::". Derp de derp!

[Alien Valkyrie]

And now it works?

[Dox4242]

Aye. It seems the "t" must be followed by 4 digits to be acceptable to the save file parser. Although I have 256 lines in my map, while 650-670 error messages popped up.....

[Cynther]

I found those options to create a scenario...so I started a new game, set the map dimensions to 512 x 256, edited the scenario options, and saved it. Then I opened the saved scenario file*, copy/pasted my coastline over the original map, then tried to load it. The first red error message from the server said there was incomplete map data, proceed at own risk. When I tried to start the game, about 650 terrain errors popped out, and it didn't start.

All the error messages were the same:
in terrain_index() [../../../../common/terrain.c::138]: assertion 'pterrain' failed.

edit: Forgot to mention I'm running 2.4.0


* opened scenario in text editor, to be precise

In which folder did you find the saved scenario? I do not see mine in [user]/.freeciv/ or [freeciv]/data/scenarios/

Thank you.

[Cynther]

I found those options to create a scenario...so I started a new game, set the map dimensions to 512 x 256, edited the scenario options, and saved it. Then I opened the saved scenario file*, copy/pasted my coastline over the original map, then tried to load it. The first red error message from the server said there was incomplete map data, proceed at own risk. When I tried to start the game, about 650 terrain errors popped out, and it didn't start.

All the error messages were the same:
in terrain_index() [../../../../common/terrain.c::138]: assertion 'pterrain' failed.

edit: Forgot to mention I'm running 2.4.0


* opened scenario in text editor, to be precise

In which folder did you find the saved scenario? I do not see mine in [user]/.freeciv/ or [freeciv]/data/scenarios/

Thank you.

Nevermind. Apparently, there are two separate save folders, one for logs and autosaves and another for manual saves. On my Win 7 system they are \AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\[Freeciv]\ and \AppData\Roaming\.freeciv\, respectively. I did not set the $HOME variable on installation, so I assume those are default locations.