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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Arculis on March 12, 2004, 02:33:40 pm

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Arculis on March 12, 2004, 02:33:40 pm

I went and modified a vasudan support ship, retextured it and turned it into a fighter craft, provided all the animations and hud stuff it needed and stuffed them into a VP file which I placed in the main FS2 directory. Then I created a table file and placed it in the data/tables directory and replaced the GTF Hercules with my own ship, the GTF Calypso. But when I run little mission I created to test it out, my new ship isn't available to be used, but the Hercules is still there. Why isn't it replacing it? Where did I go wrong?

Title: I don't get it
Post by: aldo_14 on March 12, 2004, 02:35:44 pm

Is your table file in the VP itself?  If so, what is the VP name - VP's are accessed alphabetically, so if you have a VP later in the alphabet it'll be overriden by the one before.

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Arculis on March 12, 2004, 02:36:47 pm

The ships.tbl file is in the data/tables directory, outside the VP. Only the textures and model and things needed to put the ship together are in the VP.

Title: I don't get it
Post by: aldo_14 on March 12, 2004, 02:39:09 pm

hmm.... so nothing is showing up in the game?  i.e. no model ingame or anything?

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Arculis on March 12, 2004, 02:42:05 pm

The ship doesn't exist in the ship selection screen. Its still the same old Hercules...

Title: I don't get it
Post by: aldo_14 on March 12, 2004, 02:50:27 pm

Ingame or in Fred?  i.e. is it just not showing in the ship /. loadout slection screen - suggesting a problem with the interface stuff - or is the model not actually being found atall?

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Arculis on March 12, 2004, 02:55:32 pm

It just plain doesn't show up anywhere. Not in FRED, not in the tech database, not in the ship selection screen, not in the game. All I can figure is that the ships.tbl file isn't being used at all, but I don't know why.

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Taristin on March 12, 2004, 03:15:46 pm

Are you sure it was saved as a .tbl file? It may have been resaved as an rtf, or a txt...

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Arculis on March 12, 2004, 03:38:26 pm

Yes, its a .tbl file. And it opens just fine in TBLVIW32, so its not in a bad format.

Title: I don't get it
Post by: kasperl on March 13, 2004, 03:43:53 am

do you have any tables in the /data or in the freespace main dir?

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Arculis on March 13, 2004, 01:39:05 pm

Yeah, that was the problem. Just don't ask me how it got there...

Title: I don't get it
Post by: Bobboau on March 13, 2004, 06:17:58 pm

this sound sort of like my old GTVF Mercury.