For some reason, whenever I save a FireGraft exe file and add in my custom MPQ, the custom button sets that I created in FireGraft are completely blank when I play the game, and when I open up the exe file again in FireGraft, they are blank. I've re-done the work countless times (before, it would still show up in-game, but now it doesn't). What's the issue?

By the way, the button sets that are becoming blank are entries 98, 99, and 100 (these are custom ones, obviously).

Any chance you could send your mod to me and describe exactly what you're trying to do so I can reproduce it?

Without a closer look, my best guess is something got corrupted or broken. I doubt this is the cause, however, since I've added custom button sets in FireGraft before and they worked just fine.

Indeed, I had no problems with it until now. I'll PM you an FG file and instructions when I'm on my computer tomorrow.

I may have fixed it by making a new FireGraft file but I can't check until tomorrow. In other news, my iscript.bin has been corrupted.

But really, how did that happen? What kind of errors, if any, do you get? It might be fixable.

I was using PyICE and it encountered an internal error whilst trying to save. I then found that my iscript.bin file was 0kB and wasn't added to my new .mpq or .exe, so I was effectively short one .bin file.

Isn't there still an iscript.bin file in your mod's .mpq, or its FireGraft .exe?

No, like I said. I was adding the corrupted/blank 0kB file so it didn't work.

Don't matter because, in the end, it doesn't take much longer than an hour to re-do all that script-work, and I found a better way of implementing new shadows to boot. It all turned out for the better.

Gonna request that this stays open because I want to make sure FireGraft doesn't act up anymore. If it still is acting up, I'll post here again.

EDIT:

iscript.bin has been restored to a better state than before, but FireGraft is still reverting all edited button sets (buildings and the like) to their unedited states, and all new button sets have been wiped clean.

Angel, check your PMs.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 14 2011, 9:12 pm by Pr0nogo.

You're not doing something like editing files directly in the FIreGraft EXE at the same time as you're changing button sets, are you?

Oh no, but I have the .mpq I load open in WinMPQ. Would that conflict?

It's weird because the DAT Requirements and Units sections aren't reverted, just the Button Sets sections.

No, the MPQ being open shouldn't be a problem. If the actual EXE were open in WinMPQ, that might be an issue.

Nah, just the .mpq that FireGraft loads when I save it.

Thanks for the PM.

I've checked it out, and any attempt I make to even view the custom button sets causes FireGraft to report access violation errors and stop working. This, plus the fact that your file is mysteriously missing all EXE edits (even the non-working ones), leads me to believe that your mod's .fgd file is corrupted. My best guess as to the cause of this is that some data is missing from the file, as your .fgd's file size is considerably smaller than that of a clean .fgd.

I think you'll have to make a new EXE and redo the changes from scratch. While I would offer to try to uncorrupt your mod, AFAIK only DoA knows the .fgd format, so unless you can get a hold of him, no dice.

That is in fact the second tine I've started fresh with a clean mod. That mod was new when I PM'd you with it.

I assume, then, that I need to download a more recent release of FireGraft. I'm pretty sure my current version is the first translation DoA made from 1.15.1 to 1.16, and thus lacking in EXE Edits. I'll grab a more recent version and see what happens.