After the latest Update for the AoE 2 DE there is an issue with the backgrounds and images in the intro and outro slides of Age of Empires 1 Return of Rome custom campaigns.
I tested this also with older custom campaigns like “Empire on the Sea” from PhillySouljah. It suffers now from the same issue, but I played it properly in June this year. I think the issue occured after the last update and it seems to affect only AoE 1 (Pompeii mode) custom campaigns.
.json file entries, which I used for the screenshot:
“SlideBackgroundImage”: “textures/campaign/pcam2/pyrrhus_background.dds”
This works in the .json file, because it uses “pcam2” - an official folder - as source
“SlideImageSequence”: “textures/campaign/Seleucids/1/intro/%d.png”
This doesn’t work since the last update, because it uses the mod folder “Seleucids” as source. It works, if I use an official folder like pcam2.
As you can see on the screenshot, the background works properly. Why? Because I used an official folder as source in the .json file.
The image, which is not shown correctly, uses a folder created for the mod (“Seleucids”). If I put the folder manually within the official folder of the game, it works. So for some reason the game cannot properly load images for intro and outro slides from a mod.