race-file does not work

[Halbling]

Hi together!

I''m new in here and I didn't find my topic yet. If there is allready an topic for my problem, I'm sorry for opening an new one and would be happy, if someone could give me the link. Thanks!

I'm writting a little campaign just for fun and myself (maybe, if it works proper, you may have a look!) with a new race. Most things I got to run on myself, this websit and other campaign were great help, but I am stuck with the "race"-file. It's in an "utils"-folder, which is opened by my _main-file. My "specials"-file in this "utils"-folder is working, so I don't belive to find the mistake there.
I created this "race"-file by chanching an other working race-file of an other campaign. I thought, this would be the best way to do it. But, as said befor, it doesn't work.

If anyone has an idea, what I could have mad wrong, it would be very great, if you could help me! I attached the not-working file, if you want to search my mistake there.

Thanks for every help!!

[James_The_Invisible]

Welcome to the forums.
Well, it is indeed read by game in that place but [race] (and also [movetype]) is a sub-tag of [units] so you should place it somewhere under it. The campaign's _main.cfg file is fine but units folder might be a better place for it. Maybe you will need to make sure that the game reads it before any unit uses it (I am not sure about this because I never needed to create a new race/move type).

[Halbling]

Thanks James!
I try something and hope it works
I did try a lot, but you gave me a new idea!

[Halbling]

It works!!!!

Finally!
I spent hours on it and now it was so easy! Thanks again!
It was not my first idea, but it was the right direction to think about it!

Now I've got to play with my race a bit!

[Halbling]

Sorry for posting again. Three times without any other comment.

But for those who got the same or a similar problem as I had, I'd like to post my solution.

Here we go:
in my _main.cfg I got these lines:

#ifdef CAMPAIGN_HALBLINGTEST
[binary_path]
path=data/add-ons/HalblingTest
[/binary_path]

{~add-ons/HalblingTest/images}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/images/...}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/images/units/...}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/...}
...
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/scenarios}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/utils}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/units}

[+units]
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/units}
[/units]

#endif

and in my race.cfg, which now is placed in the units-folder, these:

{~add-ons/HalblingTest/units/elves}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/units/humans}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/units/new_race}

just below [race] and [movetype].

Maybe not every line of these is necessary and maybe there is a smarter solution, but it works and I'm so happy about it!

[Shiki]

I think you don't need the {~add-ons/HalblingTest/units} before the [units] tag. And use [units] instead of [+units], that + is not needed anymore.

[James_The_Invisible]

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{~add-ons/HalblingTest/images}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/images/...}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/images/units/...}

Also this does nothing unless you have any .cfg files there. And you should probably switch these lines:

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{~add-ons/HalblingTest/scenarios}
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/utils}

because macros have to be defined before they can be used as far as I know.

[Halbling]

So I only need these lines, when there are .cfg fils in it. Great, thanks!

Now it looks like that:

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{~add-ons/HalblingTest/utils} 
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/units} 
{~add-ons/HalblingTest/scenarios}   

[units]
      {~add-ons/HalblingTest/units}
[/units]      

I need the units, becaus in the units-folder there is my race.cfg file. Every thing is still working fine, so I am happy