Aurora 4x

New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: joeclark77 on November 04, 2014, 04:21:08 PM

Title: how to add new themes?
Post by: joeclark77 on November 04, 2014, 04:21:08 PM
Related to my other post (about creating a commander-names theme), I'd like some help creating a new theme.  I created the three files as required, and put them in the Aurora directory, then selected "create theme", and this is the error I get:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42080340/aurora/theme_error.png)
I can see the theme name in the drop down (i.e. in the Race Details screen) but it doesn't do anything -- I still get ship and system names from the theme I was using before.
Is this broken, or am I doing it wrong?
Title: Re: how to add new themes?
Post by: Erik L on November 04, 2014, 10:29:00 PM
Related to my other post (about creating a commander-names theme), I'd like some help creating a new theme.  I created the three files as required, and put them in the Aurora directory, then selected "create theme", and this is the error I get:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42080340/aurora/theme_error.png)
I can see the theme name in the drop down (i.e. in the Race Details screen) but it doesn't do anything -- I still get ship and system names from the theme I was using before.
Is this broken, or am I doing it wrong?

What's the longest name you tried to include in the theme? That's what this error is telling you happened.
Title: Re: how to add new themes?
Post by: joeclark77 on November 05, 2014, 12:00:37 PM
Any idea what the limit is?  I have a system name 28 characters long, a class name of 14 characters, and a rank name of 25 (just using the same ranks as the United States theme).

By the way, does the Ranks.txt file just take 8 naval ranks?  How about ground forces ranks, civilian administrators, etc?  Should those be added to the end of the list, the beginning of the list, or edited some other way?
Title: Re: how to add new themes?
Post by: Marski on September 19, 2017, 09:23:50 AM
I am resurrecting this thread because I am having same problem.
Having created all three txt files, I try to create a "Suomi" theme, only to get error 53 "File Not Found" with the title of "Error in mnu AddTheme_click"