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Why is my ship the Boadicea?
So, I've got a ships.tbl entry:

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$Name: GTI Eddystone
$Short name: gefbase
$Species: Terran
+Tech Description:
XSTR("[REDACTED]", -1)
$POF file: GEF_Habitat.pof
$Detail distance: (0)
$Density: 2
$Damp: 0.2
$Rotdamp: 0.2
$Max Velocity: 0.0, 0.0, 0.0
$Rotation time: 100.0, 100.0, 100.0
$Rear Velocity: 0.0
$Forward accel: 0.0
$Forward decel: 0.0
$Slide accel: 0.0
$Slide decel: 0.0
$Expl inner rad: 50.0
$Expl outer rad: 400.0
$Expl damage: 50.0
$Expl blast: 1000.0
$Expl Propagates: YES
$Shockwave Speed: 250.0
$Default PBanks: ()
$Default SBanks: ()
$SBank Capacity: ()
$Shields: 0
$Power Output: 0.0
$Max Oclk Speed: 0.0
$Max Weapon Eng: 0.0
$Hitpoints: 20000
$Flags: ( "capital" "big damage" "in tech database" "in tech database multi" )
$AI Class: None
$Afterburner: NO
$Countermeasures: 0
$Scan time: 2000
$EngineSnd: -1
$Closeup_pos: 0.0, 1.0, -800
$Closeup_zoom: 0.5
$Score: 50
$Subsystem: sensors, 7.5, 0
$Subsystem: communication, 5, 0

So, y'know, it's the GEF habitat from BP, reflavored as a GTA installation. Nothing weird there, right?

Well...


Why is my ship the Boadicea?!

I've checked GEF_Habitat.pof in PCS2, and it looks right there. FRED shows me the systems for the Boadicea (probably reading them from the POF), but the TBL info is correct. Nothing else references either ship or model.

I really don't know what to make of this.





EDIT: I don't know if this was related or not, but I also had several copies of FRED hanging out in my process list after they should have been closed.
« Last Edit: February 27, 2018, 10:04:44 am by xenocartographer »

 

Offline JSRNerdo

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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
You forgot $End Multi Text, so the tech description is your table entry while the actual ship is the Boadecia which is the ship next down the line
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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
Well shove all the planets in the universe up my ass, that fixed it.
« Last Edit: February 27, 2018, 01:04:28 pm by xenocartographer »

 

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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
BTW there's a button called TBL Info in the window you get when you double click on the ship in Fred.
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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
BTW there's a button called TBL Info in the window you get when you double click on the ship.

Yeah. I checked that, but for whatever reason, it showed the "correct" values - just the cometary habitat stuff, I mean, and not the Boadicea stuff.

 
Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
Didn't such things resulted in debug warnings on earlier builts?

 

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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
Didn't such things resulted in debug warnings on earlier builts?

Don't recall it. It just parses the entire ship table as just part of the tech description, and since the tech description is just another string it just skips a ship entirely which has some really odd effects but doesn't throw a formal error.
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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
A missing "$End Multi Text" will cause an error, but one wasn't missing; it just didn't find the one the modder was expecting.
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Re: Why is my ship the Boadicea?
Yeah, I'm not really sure how you would even detect that programmatically.