Unit's image confusion
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Unit's image confusion
Hi,
For the first time, I'm trying to write an era. I wish to use all of the units from my campaign. All units are included from "The_Ravagers" campaign, the era add-on does not contain additional units. This is the main.cfg and the era tag:
Now that problem is, that if f..e. Archaic Era add-on is intsalled, some of my unit's images are confused. For example, I have a units/orcs/hunter.png, and Archaic Era also has units/orcs/hunter.png, and instead of mine, the one from Archaic Era is used in the game, but the unit's other attributes are OK.
The units work perfectly in the campaign. What is causing this confusion here?
Thanks,
WhiteWolf
For the first time, I'm trying to write an era. I wish to use all of the units from my campaign. All units are included from "The_Ravagers" campaign, the era add-on does not contain additional units. This is the main.cfg and the era tag:
main:
era.cfg:
The units work perfectly in the campaign. What is causing this confusion here?
Thanks,
WhiteWolf
Main UMC campaigns: The Ravagers - now for 1.16, with new bugs!
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Re: Unit's image confusion
No, 1.12.6. It's not just one unit, every unit that has an identical image name in an installed add-on gets overridden. It's like I included those add-ons as [binary_path]'s, before the actual one. But it's not the case 
Main UMC campaigns: The Ravagers - now for 1.16, with new bugs!
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Re: Unit's image confusion
Your era adds a [binary_path], and Archaic Era and all other eras also add their [binary_path]s. If there are images with the same names and paths in several eras, then there's a conflict. The only way to avoid that is to either change your filenames and/or paths to make them unique, or to use the rarely-used explicit path style: instead of image=foo.png, use image=data/add-ons/The_Ravagers/foo.png. Technically, if one used that path style everywhere, they wouldn't need a [binary_path] at all (at least for images).
EDIT: To clarify, the reason why this problem doesn't exist in campaigns is because each campaign's [binary_path] is (or should be) isolated inside the campaign's own #ifdef MY_WHATEVER_CAMPAIGN, whereas the [binary_path]s of all multiplayer eras are all in #ifdef MULTIPLAYER.
EDIT: To clarify, the reason why this problem doesn't exist in campaigns is because each campaign's [binary_path] is (or should be) isolated inside the campaign's own #ifdef MY_WHATEVER_CAMPAIGN, whereas the [binary_path]s of all multiplayer eras are all in #ifdef MULTIPLAYER.
Re: Unit's image confusion
So I see. But in case of a conflict, what determines the primary image? Why does the archaic era image overwrite mine, and why not the other way around?
I had a naive experiment to see if it's in connection to alphabetical ordering of the names - it's not.
I had a naive experiment to see if it's in connection to alphabetical ordering of the names - it's not.
Main UMC campaigns: The Ravagers - now for 1.16, with new bugs!
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Re: Unit's image confusion
I'm not sure. If it's not alphabetical order, then I wouldn't be surprised if it was reverse alphabetical order.WhiteWolf wrote:So I see. But in case of a conflict, what determines the primary image? Why does the archaic era image overwrite mine, and why not the other way around?
Binary paths define the paths in which images/sounds/music are looked in, so when the game is trying to find a particular image by looking through its long list of binary paths, I'm pretty sure it just picks the first one it comes across. But what that order is exactly, or whether it might even be platform-dependant, I don't know.
Re: Unit's image confusion
My mistake - it is alphabetical. It's the campaign I should have renamed with a starting zero to be in the first place, not the era, since that's where the images are.
The simplest solution I found is to copy all images to the era as well, rename it to 0My_era_foo, and include it into the binary path's, next to the campaign.
This however will mean that my add-on is the "more aggressive", in the long term, won't these mechanics lead to an arms race, in whose add-on is the first? I'm not sure this system is too practical.
The simplest solution I found is to copy all images to the era as well, rename it to 0My_era_foo, and include it into the binary path's, next to the campaign.
This however will mean that my add-on is the "more aggressive", in the long term, won't these mechanics lead to an arms race, in whose add-on is the first? I'm not sure this system is too practical.
Main UMC campaigns: The Ravagers - now for 1.16, with new bugs!
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny
Old UMC works: The Underness Series, consisting of 5 parts: The Desolation of Karlag, The Blind Sentinel, The Stone of the North, The Invasion Of The Western Cavalry, Fingerbone of Destiny