FA2 replacement art not showing in snow theater only?

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

I'm not sure I've encountered this before, but I haven't made much in the way of wintery city maps, and it's only now that I'm working on a proper road tileset that it's becoming feasible.

All building art is in the same ecache.mix so there's no issue of some unreadable mix with all the snow art, and yet, FA2 will not override the original snow art with the replacement?

Anyone encounter this, or is something wonky on my end? Is this something that can be fixed in SP ?

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

If using latest fa2sp.dll from Secsome, try adding Theaters section to FAData.ini like

[Theaters]
0=TEMPERATE
1=SNOW
2=URBAN

Unlike game, in FA2, ecache is topmost in mix loading, so it shouldn't have been a mix loading problem. With latest fa2sp.dll you can define your own mix files in FAData.ini to override game content for FA2. Check the document file.

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

You mean this?

Code:

[ExtraConfigs]
buxu\123.mix=Yes
money.txt=No

; This means FA2 takes {FA2PATH\buxu\123.mix} into consider, and if not found the file,
; it will search the file in {GAMEPATH\money.txt}, if this one still doesn't have the file,
; FA2 will try to find the file as it used to be.

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Try like

[ExtraMixes]
0=buildings.mix
1=units.mix

Should be able to use folder path too like
1=mix\units.mix ; in mix folder under FA2

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

I tried ExtraMixes and ExtraConfigs, nothing changes. Even specifying the filenames=yes.

Remember it is overriding temperate and urban art.

Also renaming the ecache.mix to expand.mix makes no difference.

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Check with map renderer to rule out any theater specific naming or graphics or art entry or other problems.

Check with original FA2 to rule out FA2sp.

A known bug with FA2 is with shp having radar color 0. Such shp can be re-saved in SHP Builder with save as option to get non-zero radar color.

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

Like I said, in all respects it works, CNCMaps, the game itself, only FA2 is borked.

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Use - https://ppmforums.com/topic-18679/tsra2-shp-radar-colour-editor/

Check if your snow shp files have radar color values as all 0s.
If so, make it higher.

G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

I keep telling you that's not it. I just opened 4 of the override shps, just to show you none of them are zeros.

I edit them like literally every other building, resaving the original shp with new images.

This is an FA2 problem.

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