Need some help with custom Techtree, Game keeps crashing

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Okay, so I've been trying to make a custom tech tree by copying the Generic tech tree and modifying from there, however my game crashes whenever I start a map with a race that has the custom techtree.

Here's the Techtree's xml code: http://pastebin.com/hwpwUjVa

And here's the debug.err code after the crash: http://pastebin.com/Rf0Q3cF5

(Pastebins so as to not have a wall of text in my post)

Can anyone help me with figuring out what the issue is?

EDIT: Okay I was stupid, I forgot to make a "Race Name"TechSpecializationDefs.xml file. Did that and it stopped crashing and worked like a charm. Sorry for asking for help for such a simple solution.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Start by telling us what's unique about this tech tree (what you added, changed, etc) so we're not looking for a needle in a haystack.

EDIT: I noticed in a lot of places you changed the Generic Names. Any particular reason for this?

EDIT 2: I found the problem when I tried to download your file. You saved it as a .txt file. It needs to be saved as an .xml

EDIT 3: Turns out the actual solution was different, but equally mundane.

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Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The line in the debug that you should look for is the one before dumping begins:

Debug Message:  Building tech tree for node: ClusterEngineeringTech

It fails to generate the Engineering/Industrial tree line.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

EDIT: Found the solution to my issue, edited original post.

 

Quoting Vidszhite, reply 1

Start by telling us what's unique about this tech tree (what you added, changed, etc) so we're not looking for a needle in a haystack.

EDIT: I noticed in a lot of places you changed the Generic Names. Any particular reason for this?

EDIT 2: I found the problem when I tried to download your file. You saved it as a .txt file. It needs to be saved as an .xml

There aren't many unique bits thus far to be fair, just some generic name renames in the food, research and manufacturing trees. Here's the specific techs that I modified directly, aside from the renaming Generic to cluster thing. Added small capitalized dividers telling which line the techs are from to the pastebin (not in the xml file itself): http://pastebin.com/75dBB8ig

I was led to believe through reading other issues in the forums plus looking at the other techtrees that techs and other things can't share InternalNames. In the other techtrees shared techs have InternalName "Race Name""tech name".

It's saved as a .xml on my computer, I just copy and pasted the whole file's code to pastebin, thus when trying to download it it's going to be a txt file.

Quoting pendrokar, reply 2

The line in the debug that you should look for is the one before dumping begins:


Debug Message:  Building tech tree for node: ClusterEngineeringTech


It fails to generate the Engineering/Industrial tree line.

Would there be anything specific that did that would cause the tree to not generate? I've looked at it and the other base techtrees and don't see how mine would fail to generate while the base ones work fine. Here's the beginning of the tech line and the two techs that require it:

<Tech>
<InternalName>ClusterEngineeringTech</InternalName>
<GenericName>EngineeringTech</GenericName>
<DisplayName>ClusterEngineeringTech_Name</DisplayName>
<TechTree>Cluster_Tree</TechTree>
<ShortDescription>ClusterEngineeringTech_ShortDec</ShortDescription>
<Description>ClusterEngineeringTech_Dec</Description>
<ColorDef>TechOrange</ColorDef>
<Icon>GC3_Engineering_Tech_Icon.png</Icon>
<Bink>GC3_Interstellar_Craft_Temp.bk2</Bink>
<ResearchCost>0</ResearchCost>
<Tags>NonMilitary</Tags>
<AICategoryWeight>
<Military>18</Military>
<Growth>16</Growth>
<Tech>10</Tech>
<Diplomacy>6</Diplomacy>
<Expansion>20</Expansion>
<Wealth>8</Wealth>
<Influence>12</Influence>
<Fortification>14</Fortification>
</AICategoryWeight>
<Prerequ>
<Techs>
<Option>TechTree</Option>
</Techs>
</Prerequ>
</Tech>

<!-- Begin Tech test -->

<Tech>
<InternalName>ClusterInterstellarTravel</InternalName>
<GenericName>InterstellarTravel</GenericName>
<DisplayName>ClusterInterstellarTravel_Name</DisplayName>
<TechTree>Cluster_Tree</TechTree>
<ShortDescription>ClusterInterstellarTravel_ShortDec</ShortDescription>
<Description>ClusterInterstellarTravel_Dec</Description>
<ColorDef>TechBlue</ColorDef>
<Icon>GC3_Intersteller_Craft_Icon.png</Icon>
<Bink>GC3_Interstellar_Craft_Temp.bk2</Bink>
<ResearchCost>42</ResearchCost>
<TechPoints>1</TechPoints>
<AICategoryWeight>
<Military>18</Military>
<Growth>16</Growth>
<Tech>10</Tech>
<Diplomacy>6</Diplomacy>
<Expansion>20</Expansion>
<Wealth>8</Wealth>
<Influence>12</Influence>
<Fortification>14</Fortification>
</AICategoryWeight>
<Prerequ>
<Techs>
<Option>EngineeringTech</Option>
</Techs>
<TechAge>
<Option>AgeOfExpansion</Option>
</TechAge>
</Prerequ>
</Tech>

<Tech>
<InternalName>ClusterOrbitalManufacturing</InternalName>
<GenericName>OrbitalManufacturing</GenericName>
<DisplayName>ClusterOrbitalManufacturing_Name</DisplayName>
<TechTree>Cluster_Tree</TechTree>
<ShortDescription>ClusterOrbitalManufacturing_ShortDec</ShortDescription>
<Description>ClusterOrbitalManufacturing_Dec</Description>
<ColorDef>TechOrange</ColorDef>
<Icon>GC3_Intersteller_Craft_Icon.png</Icon>
<Bink>GC3_Interstellar_Craft_Temp.bk2</Bink>
<ResearchCost>42</ResearchCost>
<TechPoints>1</TechPoints>
<AICategoryWeight>
<Military>18</Military>
<Growth>16</Growth>
<Tech>10</Tech>
<Diplomacy>8</Diplomacy>
<Expansion>20</Expansion>
<Wealth>8</Wealth>
<Influence>14</Influence>
<Fortification>12</Fortification>
</AICategoryWeight>
<Prerequ>
<Techs>
<Option>EngineeringTech</Option>
</Techs>
<TechAge>
<Option>AgeOfExpansion</Option>
</TechAge>
</Prerequ>
</Tech>

<!-- Begin Tech test -->

<Tech>
<InternalName>ClusterOrbitalSpecialization1</InternalName>
<GenericName>OrbitalSpecialization1</GenericName>
<DisplayName>ClusterOrbitalSpecialization1_Name</DisplayName>
<TechTree>Cluster_Tree</TechTree>
<ShortDescription>ClusterOrbitalSpecialization1_ShortDec</ShortDescription>
<Description>ClusterOrbitalSpecialization1_Dec</Description>
<ResearchCost>60</ResearchCost>
<TechPoints>1</TechPoints>
<Specialization>ClusterOrbitalSpecialization</Specialization>
<AICategoryWeight>
<Military>16</Military>
<Growth>14</Growth>
<Tech>8</Tech>
<Diplomacy>6</Diplomacy>
<Expansion>18</Expansion>
<Wealth>6</Wealth>
<Influence>12</Influence>
<Fortification>10</Fortification>
</AICategoryWeight>
<Stats>
<EffectType>Military</EffectType>
<Scope>Global</Scope>
<Target>
<TargetType>Ship</TargetType>
</Target>
<BonusType>Multiplier</BonusType>
<Value>0.1</Value>
</Stats>
<Prerequ>
<Techs>
<Option>OrbitalManufacturing</Option>
</Techs>
<TechAge>
<Option>AgeOfExpansion</Option>
</TechAge>
</Prerequ>
</Tech>

 

Also to the person who referred to me google, I spent a few hours reading of similar threads on the forums here not being able to find a solution to my issue. I used the forum's own search function and google to try to find problems with techtrees and crashes in general to see if anything would help. Google gives me a bunch of stuff for Galciv2 and the forum's own search function hardly gives me anything. I'll look through the threads again just in case I missed something.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Aha! No wonder we couldn't find the solution. The problem was the name of the file itself, which we couldn't see from here.

Glad you found it, OP. No shame in asking for help. Sometimes the simplest solutions only seem obvious in hindsight.