Problem when making changes to base.wz

[aubergine]

From what I understand, base.wz is a .zip file renamed to .wz

I can expand the zip, getting it's folder structure, etc. But, on a mac, if I then re-zip it and rename to a .wz I get a crash on game load (report attached).

Any ideas?

Alternatively, is there a way I can experiment with creating javascript AI files without modifying base.wz? For example, could I put it in my mods folder or will the game only look for AIs in the multiplayer/skirmish folder inside base.wz?

[vexed]

There shouldn't be a need to re-zip it, datadir just needs to point to that data, and then it should be good to go.
However, I have no idea how the mac builds work being a dmg.

*edit, it seems whatever you changed, you did it incorrectly. That is why it crashed.

[aubergine]

Steps to reproduce:

* Find WZ app in Applications folder
* Show package contents
* Locate base.wz and create a copy of it on desktop
* Double click base.wz to unzip it
* Right-click resulting folder and "compress" to get a base.zip
* Rename .zip to .wz
* Overwrite the base.wz in the "show package contents" game folder

So I hadn't changed anything in the base.wz as such. Should the base.wz zip file have a root folder called "base" or should it just have the files / subdirectories in there?

[aubergine]

Also, I've been poking around some mods and from what I can see a mod is a .wz containing a folder structure that is the same as what's supplied with the game? So are mods sort of overwriting what's in the main game files/folders of same name?

I looked at http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/ModsAndMaps but it wasn't clear what files/folders go in a mod?

[Berg]

I looked at http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/ModsAndMaps but it wasn't clear what files/folders go in a mod?

An example of a mod is to make a data/base/texture/new-texture.png
the new-texture.png using the name of a texture already in warzone data/base/textures folder
This then you compress and call yourmod.wz and place into the mods folder and run it using the commandline call for that mod..

if you want to change the base.wz content you can but if you do change names or add more content you will need to modify the wrf folder content to reflect your changes.

I use ubuntu to run warzone and have no need for the .wz files i just do my changes in the folders..

If you can compile warzone on your mac then it should remake your changes into a wz file...but as its a mac i know little about that

I made a sorta tutorial on models it has some insight into wrf files http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/wzgra ... p?f=3&t=12


Note that you dont need the data/ folder for base.wz thats just how the structure is in linux...

[aubergine]

Thanks

While developing a mod, do I need to keep updating the .wz file, or can I just have a folder structure in the autoload dir? -- Just checked, I can just use folder structures while developing = nice

Also, is there any way to get WZ to refresh a mod without quitting/reloading WZ?

[aubergine]

Hrm, run in to a problem.

While the game indicates that it has found the mod (shows the mod name in top-left on main menu screen) it's not actually making the AI in the mod available unless I compress the folder structure in to a .wz

Any ideas?

[cybersphinx]

Works for me, putting the files into mods/autoload/nullbot/multiplay/skirmish/...

[aubergine]

Could it be something to do with the /data folder mentioned earlier? Not sure if that comment was only about base.wz or whether it applies to mods also?

Found the problem.

I had this sort of path: autoload/multiplay/skirmish/ = bad

Instead of: autoload/whatever/multiplay/skirmish/ = good

I know cybersphinx mentioned that in the post above, but for some reason my brain didn't spot it.

[dak180]

Steps to reproduce:

* Find WZ app in Applications folder
* Show package contents
* Locate base.wz and create a copy of it on desktop
* Double click base.wz to unzip it
* Right-click resulting folder and "compress" to get a base.zip
* Rename .zip to .wz
* Overwrite the base.wz in the "show package contents" game folder

So I hadn't changed anything in the base.wz as such. Should the base.wz zip file have a root folder called "base" or should it just have the files / subdirectories in there?

The compress command may not give you the same folder structure as was in the original file, which would be why it would not work.

Vexed is right though, anywhere you see a .wz file you could instead have a folder of the same name (minus the .wz) and it should work.

That is in fact how it is tested on the mac; it is not until the dmg gets put together that they get zipped up.

[aubergine]

Yup - the folders are working fine now - I must have had a "senior moment" when I was constructing my original folder paths lol.