Ok so I am making a mod of the cis side and I added a new unit odf(cis_inf_droid_commander) and default class(cis_inf_default_commander) and the imperial arc caster and all of its required ord, exp, msh, option and tga files. Then I addeda req file for my new unit and put it in the cis req file. Then I added it to my lua and munged it and the cis side and I have the Common side too. Then I went to play the game and it loaded but crashed right after it showed the team selection screen. I then used the BF2_modtools.exe thing and it crashed too and I looked in my error log and there were lots of weird errors in it. Please help

My Error log:
The thing is, is that all of that stuff is in the req file and they have their own reqs in the req folder, except I don't know what that last thing is, never seen it before

And heres my lua if that helps:

Well, your lua says you're loading custom classes for all the cis units.

Try this to fix you lua. Change
to
Right now you're telling the game to look for custom units for all the CIS units, if you have it the way I have above, it loads the stock cis units and your custom unit separately.

Ok, I did that, and the map doesn't crash any more, but my unit doesn't load still (you can't select him from the unit selection screen),

To the best of my knowledge, you cannot load two different sides with the same name. The game just can't process it.

I do it all the time, with one DC and one not, and it works perfectly fine for me.

Could you create another error log?

willinator wrote:To the best of my knowledge, you cannot load two different sides with the same name. The game just can't process it.

This works fine, I do this all the time too and never had trouble with it.

The "dc" tells the game to look for files in:
LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\addon\ABC\data\_LVL_PC\SIDE
instead of:
LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\DATA\_LVL_PC\SIDE

Yep. "DC" stands for Downloadable Content.

Ok, heres my error log now.
That name is in the req file.

EDIT:

Ok, I saw kinetosimpus's post and decided to make a new side with my unit in it, and it worked and now I can play as my droid commander. Thank you all for helping!!

The reason for this is most likely this Make sure there really is a cis.lvl in
Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\addon\*modID*\data\_LVL_PC\SIDE

EDIT: ninja'd by OP himself

Huh? What post?

Oh, sorry kinetosimpus, I meant willinator's post. It's the morning for me and im kind of tired and I was thinking about how you changed your avatar to a smaller one and willinator changed his when I wrote that. Sorry.

I'm glad my solution helped you, but what I wrote is completely wrong. I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote that, I was probably high on lack of sleep or something.

I don't know what's going on anymore, but if it works now

willinator wrote:I'm glad my solution helped you, but what I wrote is completely wrong. I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote that, I was probably high on lack of sleep or something.

Well, it worked, so...