Invisible units in Saving Elensfar & Arendia?

[irrevenant]

I've dlded the Arendia & Saving Elensfar (SE) campaigns and the Level 0 unit in Arendia and the hero unit in SE are invisible.

I assume, for whatever reason, the art assets haven't been installed properly.

(a) How do I fix it?; and
(b) shouldn't it notice when you install a campaign if required art is missing?

Thanx.

[scott]

Did you try quitting the game and restarting? That used to be the fix for getting custom art to work.

[irrevenant]

Apparently the problem (with Arendia at least) is that it assumes you've already dlded the Lvl3 Bandit pack.

IMO we shouldn't be requiring dependencies between campaigns. Is it possible to include the artwork in both or will that cause some sort of conflict?

[turin]

That's a mistake that the creator of Invasion of Arendia made. I didn't do that in Saving Elensefar, though... can you see the units in SE?

Anyway, in response to your second point... I don't think it is worth the coding effort to have the games recognize when art is missing from campaigns. A better idea is just having all of the campaigns include the proper art.

[irrevenant]

That's a mistake that the creator of Invasion of Arendia made. I didn't do that in Saving Elensefar, though... can you see the units in SE?

Not the special hero units. Meneldur & Madru are invisible (see attached screenshot).

I just installed it the standard way from the campaign server. I seem to have the portrait art, but not the unit art.

I have this problem under both Debian Linux (Wesnoth 1.0.1) and Windows (Wesnoth 1.0.2).

Anyway, in response to your second point... I don't think it is worth the coding effort to have the games recognize when art is missing from campaigns. A better idea is just having all of the campaigns include the proper art.

I thought there might be a problem with duplicated graphics clashing. If there is no such problem, I agree that any non-standard graphics should be included with every campaign that uses them.

[irrevenant]

Did you restart wesnoth before playing the campaign ?
Sometimes, this helps

I played it immediately, but have restarted since.

Incidentally, the lack of the lvl 3 Bandit pack wasn't the problem. I have it now and am still having the difficulty.

[Noyga]

Did you restart wesnoth before playing the campaign ?
Sometimes, this helps

[turin]

I have no idea what the problem is. They show up for me, even when the only UMC I have installed is Saving Elensefar.

[ponkan]

I've run into this problem under saving elensefar on bfw 1.01. Aparently, the game is looking for the artwork in the wrong directory. Default [unit].cfg file assumes that the game knows to look for the art in images/units, but it doesn't. I fixed this by adding a ../images/units/ to every image location in the .cfg's, works like a charm now. Running wesnoth from the xterm really helped to figure the problem out when it kept on saying file not found

[turin]

OK. I know what the problem was. I had set up SE to use the new, 1.1+ directory structure, with all unit images in images/units/. However, when you use 1.0+, it doesn't recognize those images unless you say units/{imagename}. I hadn't detected the problem because I test using 1.1+svn.

I've uploaded a fixed version. Enjoy!

[irrevenant]

Now Madru is visible, but Meneldur is still invisible.

I noticed when selecting difficulty level that the icons against medium & hard were visible, but not against easy. So I'm guessing he'll at least be visble when he levels up.

*EDIT* Never mind, it seems to be working now. Thanx Turin.