dmc1961 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Hi All, my first post so please bear with me. In 2017 I jumped onto the version of 0ad at the time and designed 2 scenarios which helped me get a handle on design and had created scenarios that I played a few times that worked perfectly. Some months later the version of 0ad updated so I update it (I am a Linux user) and it started to give me errors (java error I believe) so I just left it all and continued to play the supplied scenarios with the game. I have since tried both on my Linux install and Windows 7 install to load the two scenarios, both to play or edit, and the logs are showing:ERROR: Failed to load map maps/scenarios/Imperial_Conflicts__Remote_Beginnings.pmp: File_InvalidVersion Given the age of the scenarios, is there a convert or update I need? I have taken a while to get back to map design and am an old AOE/AOK scenario fan contributing maps under the dmc1961 id with my map 'series' being "Imperial Conflicts" with heavengames.... since the 90s. I did spend a long time on these two scenarios so would love to get them going - also, as I am a noob here, where is the best place to share scenarios I create once I sort them and given my primary gaming box is Windows 7 as this is where all my old man games live, is there issue with producing scenarios across platform? Imperial_Conflicts__Remote_Beginnings.pmp Imperial_Conflicts__Remote_Beginnings.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Hey @dmc1961 Indeed the map format was updated and there are conversion scripts for them. You can find them in the game's source. https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/source/tools/mapcompatibility/a18_to_a19.py 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silier Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Hello, last know update changing required version was in 2015. It looks like you were using outdated version of 0ad in 2017. Your files are using file version 5, but file version 6 is required since March 31 2015 released with 0ad a19. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc1961 Posted April 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Thanks Stan` and Angen - I have tried using the a18_to_a19.py but now get errors so I may just abandon these two and start working with new ones on the current setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, dmc1961 said: Thanks Stan` and Angen - I have tried using the a18_to_a19.py but now get errors so I may just abandon these two and start working with new ones on the current setup. What errors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc1961 Posted April 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 ./a18_to_a19.py Imperial_Conflicts__Remote_Beginnings.pmp Processing Imperial_Conflicts__Remote_Beginnings.pmp ... Warning: File Imperial_Conflicts__Remote_Beginnings.pmp was not at version 5, while a version bump was requested. ABORTING ... I was getting codec based stuff but this one is all I get now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Yeah, cause it was updated already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc1961 Posted April 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Thanks for this - I am thinking of stop pining over stuff that doesn't work and start again - at least now I have a heads up to keep an eye out for future changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 @dmc1961 It should work now (see the attachment) you'll get some errors, as some units changed, but the map will load. scenarios.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc1961 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Thank you for this - I can access it with my Linux version, but still crashes with Windows. I am not familiar enough with everything 'yet' to don't know how to migrate all the errors out so I might, as a learning enforcement, make scenarios from scratch anyway. I would prefer to use my Windows 7 (yes I am that old) box which is my Age of ... and Battlefield 1942 gaming box, to run 0ad - with scenarios creation, will they run cross-platform ok? Sorry for the noob question but just want to make sure I follow the 0ad preferred path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Yeah they should. I guess windows is a bit less permissive with such errors. For future reference you can edit the XML file directly to remove the offending entities. I actually opened the map on windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc1961 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) Thank you so much - will check this out and maybe keep going with this one and the other one I originally poster here - did you do anything to the one I uploaded being Remote Beginnings? .... as I have another map doing the same thing. Edited April 9, 2020 by dmc1961 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Nope after running the script it worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc1961 Posted April 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 Ok thanks - encouraged by your kind help with this. Will keep all things you have indicated in mind for future builds. Hope you have a great Easter break (if you get one) and stay safe with the current pandemic out there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 You too. Don't hesitate to come back if you experience any more issues or want to share your work with us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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