Slitherine

Hi,

I'm trying to install the Gaugamela scenario. I have downloaded 4 files (game-fixed.xml, ui.xml,scenario0.fogsg,scenario1.fogsg) into the following folder:
c:\Users\<username>\MyDocuments\Slitherine\FieldOfGlory Scenarios\Gaugamela 331BC\Data

However, when I run FoG and look for Custom Scenarios then the Gaugamela scenario isn't listed.

My OS is Windows 7 64bit.

Can anyone give me some hint why this may be the case?

Thanks.
Morbio

Morbio wrote:Hi,

I'm trying to install the Gaugamela scenario. I have downloaded 4 files (game-fixed.xml, ui.xml,scenario0.fogsg,scenario1.fogsg) into the following folder:
c:\Users\<username>\MyDocuments\Slitherine\FieldOfGlory Scenarios\Gaugamela 331BC\Data

However, when I run FoG and look for Custom Scenarios then the Gaugamela scenario isn't listed.

My OS is Windows 7 64bit.

Can anyone give me some hint why this may be the case?

Thanks.
Morbio

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\MyDocuments\Slitherine\FieldOfGlory Scenarios\Gaugamela, 331 BC (JMS)\data
That's where I found mine and it shows under Custom Scenarios.
But I'm on XP at the moment so not sure it's relevant...

Documents and Settings doesn't exist with Windows 7.

I can see all the other scenario folders within 'FieldOfGlory Scenarios', so I'm fairly sure I'm in the right place.

Morbio wrote:Documents and Settings doesn't exist with Windows 7.

I can see all the other scenario folders within 'FieldOfGlory Scenarios', so I'm fairly sure I'm in the right place.

Maybe not. It seems you have "Data" (capital D) not "data" folder.
I have Windows 7 too and I have "data"folder.
Hope this helps.

Cheers

Morbio wrote:Hi,

I'm trying to install the Gaugamela scenario. I have downloaded 4 files (game-fixed.xml, ui.xml,scenario0.fogsg,scenario1.fogsg) into the following folder:
c:\Users\<username>\MyDocuments\Slitherine\FieldOfGlory Scenarios\Gaugamela 331BC\Data

However, when I run FoG and look for Custom Scenarios then the Gaugamela scenario isn't listed.

My OS is Windows 7 64bit.

Can anyone give me some hint why this may be the case?

Thanks.
Morbio

I have the same OS. It should be located at:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Slitherine\FieldOfGlory Scenarios

The quickest way to get there is to go to the Documents folder under Libraries. Are the rest of your custom scenarios in this folder? I hope that this helps.

kilroy

OK, I'm making progress...

I figured the best way to get it to appear in the list is to copy the folder structure (and files) of a scenario I had that worked. So, Gerunium was duly copied and this appeared in the list! I copied the XML and fogsg files from the Gaugamela data folder into the new Gerunium-copy data folder and when I launched FoG and went to custom scenarios the Gerunium-copy was there with the Gaugamela battle!

I renamed it Gaugemela 331BC and it disappeared!

In desparation I renamed it Gaugemela 331 BC and it reappeared! But some of the titles and descriptions were not in the right place. I compared the structure of the XML of a Gerunium and Gaugamela and found some odd names in the Gaugamela and so I edited these to something that seemed reasonable and this corrected all the offset titles. The battle description wasn't there, instead it merely said something like 'GAUGAMELA_331_BC_DESCRIPION_P1', but I figured I could live with this.

On launching the game the battle didn't look right. I think I saw some screenshots in an AAR once and I have a vague idea what to expect from the bit I've read about the battle and I was certainly expecting Persia to be substantially bigger than Macedonia and Persia to have some MF (actually, quite a lot). The screenshot below is what I see....



So I figure the files I've been sent aren't the right ones.... they almost look like mid-development files.... or maybe a different version of the scenario.... or more likely they are corrupt, trucated or just incomplete.

Am I right? Anyone recognise this battle, is it a different version of the scenario?

More importantly, can anyone point me to a downloadable version that is correct?

Battle groups look right 0/40... 0/41

post it as a challenge and I see if it works.... PW: alex

The Perisian army looks correct for the scenario (although it doesn't resemble anything like what the Persians were supposed to have in reality) but the Macedonians look funky -- hard to tell from the distant screen shot.

Deeter

Most feedback seems to be that I have the correct scenario. I was confusing it with this version viewtopic.php?t=15726 which seems more realistic compared to what I expect it to look like.

I'm trying to see if I can post or accept the scenario now. I've just posted one with password Alex to see if anyone can see it.

Scar's sceanrio is more like it. Too bad we're not plying that one. Since there are now so many user-made scenarios, I, for one, would like to see a board of commissioners empowered to go through and cull the innaccurate scenarios (this one and Magnesia come to mind) and replace them with better ones.

Deeter

deeter wrote:Scar's sceanrio is more like it. Too bad we're not plying that one. Since there are now so many user-made scenarios, I, for one, would like to see a board of commissioners empowered to go through and cull the innaccurate scenarios (this one and Magnesia come to mind) and replace them with better ones.

Deeter

Sounds like a job for those with the FoG avatar I know Chris and Peter don't need sleep

Accepted it, lets see what happens....