Thanks Brad!

-HM

Ha Haaaa! Yes! Custom Opponents is working fine now. Thanks Brad!

Right now we're at a loss as to what would cause that.

I would almost suggest a full reinstall of everything from scratch and delete the gc2twilight directory from \my documents\my games

 

Hmm, the custom opponents works now and Altarian tech tree is in place, but some of the descriptions when you research them seem to be shifted to the left, i.e. in a column to the left and not reaching all the way to the right. I also suspect that some of it spills beneath the window and is not reachable by the scroll button. I say this because I could see a few lines beneath the tech description window when scrolled all the way down. This happened when researching the Precursor history part of the tech tree. I will try to get a screenshot and I hope it's not only me.

Yes, I think they got deleted somehow, 'cause mine was gone as well. You can make them again, though, so not a huge problem.

I'm also getting the "string not found"-problems. I did absolutely clean install (uninstall with SDC, removed all game dirs and My Games-stuff) but the problem still persists. Running Vista if that makes any difference.

A most welcomed fix for anyone familiar with custom race playfield setups... not to neglect though is the new naming convention; previous version (DA#25) had those as "*.customracexml" while (TA#27) saves them as "*.raceconfigxml" (not to be confused with "*.raceconfig" from DL) -- just to make sure we can't mixup the newest with bad or absent call lines.
Bof, it's okay... it's just a matter of copy-paste carefully the whole 39 races of X-Worlds and adapt them to the TotA features and tech-trees.

I'm still boggled down though why the actual mod paths aren't taken into account when the multiple customs pick their graphics from specific locations;

- If they are located in the Install folder, the call_lines are again being re-written as to indicate the proper path & original location.
- The *My Documents/...* is once more the default structure and any multiple races baring the common #12 must be located in that root also for proper operation. Indirectly that is.
- And unless, the normal principles of a true Total_Conversion are applied to a Mod (via the regular method with "Raceconfig.xml" for 0to12 listings), there is no other way around distributing multiple races (such as mine) without enforcing manual edits of the race_files by downloaders.

Disappointing, but it's alright. I understand.
Solid and stable stuff, nevertheless so far.

PS: It takes such a looooong time to build a Terror Star, i almost went in as cheat-mode just to try it out - but, i fought the temptation as to ruin the cream pie effect once i legally can inflict ONE final blast to crush the darn Drengins who are - as we speak - driving me nuts, up the walls and off to the races for proper defenses!

I too uninstalled GC2 and all the files related in mygames and progrm files. I then reinstalled the game in entirety and found the exact same string not found errors. I'm running Vista and had no problems with String Not Found on my XP machine That would be two uninstalls of TOA and 1 uninstall of GC2, DA, and TOA.

I'm feeling pretty lucky that I have an XP machine that runs GC2 well, although about two hours into a game the turn button greyed out and wouldn't come back. I did get a save game though.

Hope this helps in some way. And I appreciate Stardock's and Frogboy's hard work!

I'm also suffering the "string not found" problem.  I also did a full reinstall (from Impulse, since SDC was giving me the endless loop problem) on Vista, but with no luck.  I'm remembering to delete the My Games Twilight directory every time.  Weird...