huh. whaddaya know. now that i've run a debug build i'm getting
Warning: Unable to load starfield bitmap: 'nebulA1-main'!
File:D:\C++\Freespace\fs2_open\code\Starfield\StarField.cpp
Line: 3033
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]
Call stack:
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parse_bitmaps() parse_mission() parse_main() mission_load() game_start_mission() game_enter_state() gameseq_set_state() game_process_event() gameseq_process_events() game_main() WinMain() WinMainCRTStartup() kernel32.dll 7c816d4f()
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all the way up to nebula14 or something. and i've got all of lightspeed's nebula installed.