Custom Deck- game crash issue

by **KnowledgeJunkie7** » 29 Apr 2013, 18:24

First of all, thanks for your time for anybody who reads this. I have a deck that I built (mostly) by following thefiremind's basic 2013 modding tutorial (using his TEST_DECK_1234 stuff as a base and just editing it to include what I want). After I had finished editing/adding the cards I wished to have in it (but before editing any uids or the other folders like "TEXT_PERMANENT" or "AI_PERSONALITIES", I ran the deck through Gibbed's pack tool and was able to see / use it in a campaign game (I hadn't finished adding all the necessary illustrations, etc. so some cards weren't displayed properly).

Now, however, after editing the deck file (to DECK_7701 as a base) some more and editing the names and headers so everything is custom (I followed the advice here to do 7701101 for the land pool uid, 7701201 for the deck.xml uid), as well as adding in some entries for the TEXT_PERMANENT/DECKS folder by copying/editing stuff from RiiakShiNal's DotP DLC v 1.2.2, I find that whenever I have my packed .wad in the Magic 2013 folder, the game crashes during the initial loading. I'll include the .wad here if anyone could be so kind as to take a look at it and see if anything jumps out at you as to why it would cause an issue? Or perhaps test it yourself to see if it works for you?

Any help is appreciated.

by **thefiremind** » 29 Apr 2013, 19:09

I scoured the whole WAD for anything I know that could crash the game when loading, but I found nothing I can be really sure about. Just 2 things:

Re-download my Mass Polymorph from the card creation request thread: I got it wrong the first time and I replaced the old one with the fixed version. This doesn't cause a crash, though: it just doesn't work.
DATA_ALL_PLATFORMS\ART_ASSETS\TEXTURES\DECKS\EN_POPULATION_BOOM is a JPG file instead of TDX. Maybe this could make the game crash, but as I said, I'm not sure.

by **KnowledgeJunkie7** » 29 Apr 2013, 21:42

Nice catch on the filetype, I replaced it with the correct file and redid the TEXT_PERMANENT files because I noticed an issue there and it's working now! I am making some final tweaks on the deck's formation and then I will upload it again here. Thanks so much!