@treborblue

I have not yet modded more than a couple of minor experiments, mainly because for a while the game was changing too often.  And once 4.1 was released, I just plain forgot that I wanted to mod.  But now I am reminded

So basically, if you do make the tools, I would most likely use them.  Count me in as interested.

Porting the old tech tree to the new system didn't go well.  I've had to re-code a lot.

The upside is the GUI is all new, updated most of the look to be more inline with Crusade.

The downside is there is no modding of new trees, the old code just wont work with the new system. Not all features are ready.

You can filter the tree based on race traits and select which mods to show in the tree.

By default no mods are selected, and no filters applied to race traits. You will see the entire tech tree.

You will need ASP.Net Core 5.0 Runtime installed. You should be prompted to download it. Choose 'Download Hosing Bundle'

There may be bugs. 

Installer

Installer

or

Zip Files

N.B.

If you have Precursor Worlds and Crusade DLC installed there is an error in the the file DLC4_PlanetTraitDefs.xml that will cause the tech tree not to load. 

You will get a Null Reference Exception message.

To fix load the file '\Galactic Civilizations III\DLC\EXP2_Crusade\DLC\DLC4_PrecursorWorlds\Game\DLC4_PlanetTraitDefs.xml ' into a text editor,

Go to line 740 or search for <Scope></Scope> and delete this line. Save and try the tech tree again.

According to the schema is should not be empty. (Although it passes the schema check)

I will add a workaround in the next release.

Added workaround.

Does it crash to Desktop?

It should catch any errors and not crash.

This is the offending code,  remove the line in Red.

  <ExtremeTypeModifier>

      <Modifier>

        <EffectType>Promethion</EffectType>

          <Target>

            <TargetType>Colony</TargetType>

          </Target>

        <BonusType>Flat</BonusType>

        <Value>5</Value>

      </Modifier>

      <Modifier>

        <EffectType>SensorPower</EffectType>

          <Target>

            <TargetType>Colony</TargetType>

          </Target>

        <BonusType>Flat</BonusType>

        <Value>12</Value>

      </Modifier>

      <Triggers>

        <OnEvent>OnConstructShip</OnEvent>

        <Scope>Queue</Scope>

        <Target>

          <TargetType>Ship</TargetType>

        </Target>

        <Lifetime>Target</Lifetime>

        <Modifier>

          <EffectType>ShipRange</EffectType>

          <Target>

            <TargetType>Ship</TargetType>

          </Target>

          <BonusType>Flat</BonusType>

          <Value>3</Value>

        </Modifier>

      </Triggers>

      <Triggers>

        <OnEvent>OnColonizePlanet</OnEvent>

<Scope></Scope>

        <Target>

          <TargetType>Faction</TargetType>

        </Target>

        <Lifetime>Instant</Lifetime>

        <Modifier>

          <EffectType>Promethion</EffectType>

          <BonusType>Flat</BonusType>

          <Value>5</Value>

        </Modifier>

      </Triggers>

    </ExtremeTypeModifier>

Can you take a look a the logs ...Documents\Galactic Civilizations III ToolBox\Logs. 

See if there is any reason for the crash.

That is the error I was talking about, AFAIK its only that file that has an error.

Try this Installer 

I've added a quick workaround for the null xml error for this particular file. Also enabled debug logging.

If you still get issues,

try a clean install of the tool, delete the \Documents\Galactic Civilizations III ToolBox folder.

Verify your GalCiv files.

Let me know how you get on.

Can you zip the Documents\Galactic Civilizations III ToolBox\settings folder and send a link.

I think its something to do with language texts.

Everything looks fine. 

Its parsing the tech tree and stats ok. But doesn't start the rendering. Not sure why.

I am Downloading GalCiv on to another PC to see if I can reproduce the error.

The language setting is english and with the 'opt_in_update' in steam.

The program crashes to desktop in the same way with the latest version of the installer.

Here is the logs file.

Yes, the Windows message window is displayed.



I'm not a programmer, and I'm more interested in the creation side than the programming side, that's why I would prefer a graphical tool to make the changes.

Working fine for me, with Precursor Worlds and Crusade both installed.

Steam version, English language. I wasn't using opt_in_update when I made my last post. I installed opt_in_update and tried it again just to be sure and it still works.

Quoting Unknown_Hero,

reply 46

Hello treborblue,

It seems that something is wrong with the Intrigue expansion.
If I remove the folder "EXP3_Intrigue" the program does not crash and I get an error message.



Here is the logs file.

This is a different issue.

It does however highlight the issue that the tech tree assumes that the user has Intrigue installed, I must fix this.

Previously in your logs the tool had already processed all the relevant xlm files including Governments defs. 

It had also passed the sorting of the trees and parsing all the stats. 

For some reason it failing when rendering the tree components.

The language files are loaded and cached when they are first required, in this case during rendering. This is what led me to think it was language related. 

I will move the caching of the language files before rendering to see if we can catch your error.

After validating and saving the paths I get this window when I click on the "Exit" button:

Here is the logs and settings folders.