Campaign By_The_Sword for wesnoth 1.8.6 broken

[cdiem]

The campaign "By The Sword" (http://files.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/By_ ... rd.tar.bz2) was a campaign I was very fond of in the 1.6 version of Wesnoth; however, it's not possible running it on the current stable version. On v.1.8.6 it doesn't load, failing with an error

Unknown scenario: '01_Orcish_Invasion'

I have tried messing with the campaign files in order to fix it, but I wasn't able to fix it. Any help will be appreciated for making it possible to run this campaign on the 1.8 branch. Thank you!

[monochromatic]

Ah.. Good times, good times.
You're probably better off playing LoW. BtS was never intended to be anything special. And LoW basically is similar.

[Groggy_Dice]

The campaign "By The Sword" (http://files.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/By_ ... rd.tar.bz2) was a campaign I was very fond of in the 1.6 version of Wesnoth; however, it's not possible running it on the current stable version. On v.1.8.6 it doesn't load, failing with an error

Unknown scenario: '01_Orcish_Invasion'

Are you getting this error with the original 1.6 tar.bz2 file, or the zip file I attached in the other thread? The file up on the server is still the 1.6 version. The version that I ran through wmllint, I compressed into a zip file, and put it into my other post as an attachment. An add-on for one Wesnoth version will not work on another one; that's why they're segregated by version.

If your post is based on the 1.6 file: when I wrote, "When you run into a problem, open up a thread...", I didn't mean problems you are already getting with the 1.6 file, but problems that you run into with MY ZIP FILE.

I have tried messing with the campaign files in order to fix it, but I wasn't able to fix it. Any help will be appreciated for making it possible to run this campaign on the 1.8 branch. Thank you!

I don't know what "messing" you did, but it ought to involve running wmllint. Almost always, a 1.6 campaign will boot into the first scenario after running wmllint. You will also have to change the paths from data/campaigns to data/add-ons. There are other things that may need to be changed; I'm working on a writeup of my porting experiences right now. Ironically, writing about porting has delayed actual porting, and I haven't uploaded Cembulad yet.

[cdiem]

Thanks very much - I have downloaded the file again and the campaign works without an error. Thank you!

[Groggy_Dice]

Although I still haven't played the campaign for myself, I've gone ahead and uploaded the campaign, based on the feedback that it is already working.

I did fix one bug that I missed before. In one of the recruitment patterns for scenario 1, a space instead of a comma was used between a fighter and an archer, invalidating both. So instead of recruiting in a ratio of 5 scout : 2 fighter : 1 archer, the AI recruited 5 scout: 1 fighter. Before making up my zip file, I checked the wmlscope log. However, at the time, I thought of wmllint mainly as a conversion utility rather than a general debugging tool, so I didn't check wmllint's error messages. Apologies.

The other changes, to the _main.cfg, are pretty minor. I changed the rank from 125 to 425, since rankings below 400 in non-mainline campaigns are frowned upon. Also, I replaced the maintenance credits with my porting credit. I think by monochromatic's own account, he is not really maintaining the campaign, and he is still acknowledged as the creator and main designer.

Of course, the developers have been pushing for UMC to port to 1.9 for some time now. I have downloaded the release candidate, and I plan to start updating my ports to 1.9.