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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 07:47:20 pm

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 07:47:20 pm

I'm having issues adding to the Species.tbl.... I can't seem to add in an entry to the table and show in the TR. I have re-made pilots and even tried alot of ways to get it to show in my TR. Any suggestions?

Hmm...Do I have to edit a .cpp entry for this thing? :confused:

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 24, 2005, 08:02:32 pm

You shouldn't have to but IIRC the limit's quite low...

Try replacing an entry and see if that works. If it does, I'll bump the limit in the code.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 24, 2005, 08:19:42 pm

There's a flag on the entries: $AlwaysInTechRoom:

It's set to 1 on the entries from the FS2 stock species table, which show up. Presumably if you set it to zero, you'll have to add it via FRED.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 08:58:44 pm

The entry matches the previous entry "Subspace" in all of it's code settings.

@WM - I tried replacing the entry, made a new pilot, and it did not work. Tell me what I should do, so I can do it on my own next time..or do it, and tell me what you did...that'd help.

(Oh, And I'm Using HOTU FS2...I downloaded the music files.)

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: Goober5000 on March 24, 2005, 10:41:55 pm

Try making it shorter.  You might have exceeded the string limit.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 10:44:56 pm

To expand the string limit, do I have to open up the tango data, or the .cpp entries in the string.tbl?

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: Goober5000 on March 24, 2005, 10:47:00 pm

Use a SCP build.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 10:54:42 pm

Here is what I did after Goob's post.

1)I deleted the subspace entry, replacing it with the new entry. New pilot: The Subspace was gone, and nothing was there.

2) Deleted the Subspace entry, replacing it with the new entry, leving the entry to have a '1' in the XSTR description area. New pilot: Same as the first time.

3) Deleted both, placed the species table in a NEWLY Extracted FS2 Main Folder, created a pilot under the default Class 99 pilot, and still got the same thing.

I'm guessing it has to do with a code or something in the .cpp references in the tstrings.tbl or strings.tbl...

I'm just guessing...

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 24, 2005, 10:56:51 pm

Try replacing the text in the subspace entry.

Then try replacing the name.

I was able to replace the text of the subspace entry with no trouble (well, except the first time I tested it out I was using the wrong mod dir)

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 11:07:29 pm

~smacks himself~

Okay... I had two versions of this running within the file at one time. I retested it by replacing Subspace and shortening the description. It worked... now to see if I can add that AFTER and keep adding. Thanks for the assisstance.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 11:21:27 pm

Yeah.... back to square one... I guess I will have to just replace all the table entries, unless someone can help me understand what to do with SCP and what Goob meant by using an SCP build.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: Goober5000 on March 24, 2005, 11:23:05 pm

Make sure you are creating the new pilot when you first start FS2, not in the Barracks.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: LeGuille on March 24, 2005, 11:24:59 pm

@ Goob, I was. I have even gone the place and made a new pilot NAME each time.

Title: the Species.tbl (Intelligence data)
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 25, 2005, 12:47:30 am

With retail builds I think the limit number was the number actually in there.

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