Help needed

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    I am having serious problems using the editor on the English (U.S.) version of the game. I have installed the editor exactly as described. After the editor finishes parsing, trying to load up ANY .lvl map results in complete failure. It always gives an error that it doesn't recognize something or that something is missing. I have downloaded and have all available files installed so thats not it. Roughly Half of the chaptered Log report is filled with errors that things are missing. I have already done the registry thing and made sure that the directories are pointing to the right locations so thats not it either. I have also checked for the missing files in question.....Over half of them simply don't exist. So the question is How do you get this thing to Load lvl Maps. It doesn't seem to work at ALL!!

    • Official Post

    Firstly Welcome to SoAmigos.


    As Nitemare allready said, please post the chapted.log here.
    Most eror occour while not have used the reg file. Thats important
    to get it running. Another thing is your path to SoA


    C:\Program Files\Siege of Avalon


    would be bad. Spaces are not good supportet by chaptet. Instead use


    C:\SoA


    Then edit the reg file and change everything to your path to SoA, then execute it.


    :)

    The log file is TOO large 205kb (site restriction is 200kb). If anyone has any suggestions on how I can put my log here please let me know. I am guessing it is probably me doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. My Directory is already SoA. I am working with the U.S. Anthology version if that makes any difference.

    Simple answer to a simple question. Yes. I am using the English or as some say the U.S. CD anthology version (with the official update installed) of the game which installs everything at once. For the life of me I can't figure out whats going on, every attempt to use this editor results in failure. I have followed the instructions to the letter. I have also made sure my directory is correct (SOA) with NO spaces. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. Thanks in advance.

    I really don't know anything about using the editor but ur problem may very well be the official patch. Supposedly it creates more problems than it solves.. Here at SoAmigos, you can get an inofficial SoA Patch that might do the trick for you, but I really don't know to what extent the patch (ex)changes files and besides you'd have to understand the German language fairly well, for it changes (all?) text files to the German version.
    You probably already know all of that but I simply had to be a smart ass, this once.. :D


    so long, nEoAc!x

    I don't consider you a smartass nEoAcIx, as a matter of fact at this point any suggestion(s) are welcome. I am really frustrated and utterly confused by this :bang:. It seems as though I am the only one with this problem, or if nothing else, the only one to have mentioned it. Still, I have hope that someone here can shed some light on what is going on so I can get up and running.


    My initial intention was to correct some of the mess ups and screw ups that the NPC characters had in the English version of the game (equipment being in the wrong place etc.) After doing the easy stuff, I might have been tempted to look at some other errors that were not solved by the "official" update. At this point though, I am holding off. If I can't get this editor going I might as well forget about the more complex stuff.
    It looks like that this editor would have made things a lot simpler than having to hex edit each and every value, then go back to a former save to make sure you have not "broken the map" which causes a crash to desktop.
    Unfortunately the time consumption in hex is enourmous, and I have been trying desperately to get this editor going. I NEED to be able to edit the map .lvl files for the different characters. The .pox files need nothing special, but the .lvl files are a different story......this is not a want it is a desperate NEED.

    • Official Post

    Okay, Baisicly:


    Do you downloaded the right version of ChaptEd?
    There are actually two in our DL section and one will not work.


    ChaptED


    That is the right one. It contains many files missing in SoA so you will have to install is properly into your SoA dir.


    I dont think there might be problems with the configurations of chapted because they were originally prepared for the english version.

    Alright.. I just felt like messing around with my computer for a little bit, so I set up Chapted. So far, so good! Edited the reg file with no problems, started the app and loaded any map, also with no further complications.
    I'm, too, using the US Anthology, plus the SoAmigos inofficial Patch, plus the German localization; so most of the game is in German.
    What's weird is that, checking my own directories for the files being reported missing in your log, they also do not exist! But for me, it does not end up spilling errors and all that.
    Have you tried to uninstall SoA & Chapted, and then to reinstall them? Maybe, if you could get rid of all the registry keys there are for both of them, it would make a difference? But again, if I were you, I would've already tried doing that, so you probs already have too?!



    so long, nEoAc!x


    PS: Don't forget to backup your savegames :)


    EDIT: I just checked the log file for Chatped, and it DOES return quite a lot of errors! It does not however restrict my ability to open lvl files..

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    Okay. Now i had a look into my own Chapted and SoA ;)


    Quote

    9:52:02 PM: Error: C:\Soa\ArtLib\Resources\Editor\Trigger.pox does not exist. Cannot load resource
    9:52:02 PM: Error: POX resource Editor\Trigger not found or load error


    I also haven't got that file. but my chapted doesn't try to load it. So i came to the idea that your Classes.txt may be wrong. I looked at the 3 example files we got in our DL sektion and found that thing *g*



    You just downloaded the Wrong version of chapted (or you overwrite the correct files with the examples, dunno). Your Classes.txt is completely wrong. As i mentioned in my last post, you only need the version i gave you in the link. The rest ist unneeded and old or wrong.
    :)


    So i would say: Reinstall SoA without any Patches and then install the right version of Chapted. I would also seperate the version of Soa which do you want to play from the one do you want to edit ;) (SO you have allways a backup of files etc etc)


    Hope i solved your problem :)


    I attached my chapted.log. Not one single error ^^


    thats wht it shall look like ^^

    :motz:Well, its still NOT working. :bang:I have wiped it of my drive, re-installed it, copied the downloads to the right directory and this blasted editor STILL refuses to work. I have not updated it, I have made sure the directory is SOA and I have made sure that all the directories are pointing in the right place. I have also made sure I have downloaded and am using the right version of the editor and all the needed extra downloads. I am still open to suggestions but.....this is REALLY getting frustrating!! Is it possible that there was another version of the game that this editor simply didn't work on??? I must admit I got it at a bargain price, but I am starting to wonder if everything is here that is supposed to be here. Or am I just having some of the worst luck of anyone here. Here is what the log file looks like now; there is not a lot of difference but some.


    On a different note: Most (not all) of the errors are caused by "missing files". Many of files are not missing. As a matter of fact they are under almost the exact same directory. The directories in question are sometimes missing only letter or two which is probably what is throwing things off. As you can see from the log, there are Way Too many to be moved manually, yet if i change initilization directory it throws everything else offf!! Frustrating. I will keep working on it.

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    Strange. The log files look exactly same.


    please do following:


    Deinstall SoA.
    Delete the Folder thet left (it will left!)
    Reinstall SoA (all six Chapters)
    Copy ChaptEd into your SoA dir
    Make Sure, thet the CHapted.exe is in the same Folde with the main.exe from SoA
    Make sure, that X:\YourPathToSoA\ArtLib\Resources\Editor
    exists! Then you can be sure you copied everything right.
    Edit the ChaptEdPOX.reg and execute it.


    Run Chapted again.


    Also please look into your Classes.txt


    That is what is hat to look like.
    But if it begins like this:



    You have the wrong Classes.txt


    That would Explay this "JimPlayer" what your Chapted allways tries to load. It stands only in the wrong file.



    If all thet wont work,


    Send me followinmg files in a mail please:


    ur


    ChaptEdPOX.reg
    BaseClass.txt
    Classes.txt
    ClassTypes.txt


    to schwix@gmail.com


    i will review them.