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Offline Redstreblo

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FRED crashes, custom wing names (Vasudan Imperium)
Well in my efforts to resurrect Vasudan Imperium I have run into a little bit of a snag. I started FREDing and on save it crashes and the save file cannot be opened. I can use the .bak file.

It seems to crash each time I change the custom wing names so I started troubleshooting to try and find exactly when it is that it crashes.

I added a ship, saved, I made a wing, saved, changed custom wing names, saved ... etc.

I am creating a new mission for Vasudan Imperium so I am using the custom wings: Aries, Virgo, Libra, Cancer, Pisces.

I can create Aries wing and save the game fine, but as soon as I add Virgo FRED crashes and I need to use the .bak file and cannot make any progress.

Please give some advice as to what I may be missing in making custom wing names, I went to editors, mission specs, custom wings and changed all the wings appropriately. I wonder if there is something that I am forgetting.

It's annoying that now that I want to get back into this I hit a significant road block that will only delay this further  :(  :banghead:
I, Aries one, have proved myself superior to the legendary Terran pilot Alpha one! Let the Vasudan people take pride in this accomplishment, and take the Parliamentary Vasudan Empire to victory over the inferior Galactic Terran Alliance! Long live the Emperor!

 

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Re: FRED crashes, custom wing names (Vasudan Imperium)
Well in my efforts to resurrect Vasudan Imperium I have run into a little bit of a snag. I started FREDing and on save it crashes and the save file cannot be opened. I can use the .bak file.

It seems to crash each time I change the custom wing names so I started troubleshooting to try and find exactly when it is that it crashes.

I added a ship, saved, I made a wing, saved, changed custom wing names, saved ... etc.

I am creating a new mission for Vasudan Imperium so I am using the custom wings: Aries, Virgo, Libra, Cancer, Pisces.

I can create Aries wing and save the game fine, but as soon as I add Virgo FRED crashes and I need to use the .bak file and cannot make any progress.

Please give some advice as to what I may be missing in making custom wing names, I went to editors, mission specs, custom wings and changed all the wings appropriately. I wonder if there is something that I am forgetting.

It's annoying that now that I want to get back into this I hit a significant road block that will only delay this further  :(  :banghead:
Are you using 3.7.2 Final? Can you try running a debug FRED executable and provide the debug log of the crash?
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(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

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<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

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Offline Redstreblo

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Re: FRED crashes, custom wing names (Vasudan Imperium)
ah apparently my link on my desktop is attached to 3.7.0 instead of 3.7.2 ill give that a shot...

EDIT: It works :)
I, Aries one, have proved myself superior to the legendary Terran pilot Alpha one! Let the Vasudan people take pride in this accomplishment, and take the Parliamentary Vasudan Empire to victory over the inferior Galactic Terran Alliance! Long live the Emperor!