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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: JGZinv on January 08, 2009, 09:44:18 pm

Title: Solved: Won't update from tbl/tbm post crash
Post by: JGZinv on January 08, 2009, 09:44:18 pm

Problem: FSO won't recognize edits made to a mod weapons.tbl after a crash.

Both the entry "cycle" flag for three weapons, and edits I've made to remove a bad
image file name for two weapons go unregistered. Both the debug and regular 3.6.10
(these are a bit older, not the latest ones) exes exhibit the same behavior.

The cycle flag worked one time, then I had the crash on close of FS2 and it's not worked since.

So far I've tried:

rebooting
replacing the weapons.tbm by copying over to a new file > delete > rename
after that, moved all the tbm data over to a proper pre-existing tbl, deleted the tbm
deleting everything out of the main FS2 and mod cache folders
doing a windows disk cleanup and getting rid of everything
emptying the recycle bin

Edit - Also went an updated via the installer with new exes, no change.

I can't think of anything else to try, unless something has corrupted itself on close.
I think it was a write error... but that's all I can remember.

Title: Re: Need Help: Won't update from tbl/tbm post crash
Post by: JGZinv on January 09, 2009, 02:21:31 am

You can lock, delete or whatever this thread now - figured out the issue.

Someone added an oddly named weapons table, in addition to my table, which was
the default. Somehow I ended up with a mix in which 90% of the functions didn't work.
Why this hasn't reared it's ugly head till now.. is anyone's guess.

Good news, figured out the issue.
Bad news, I get to go back and retweak all the weapons again to match what they were
supposed to be.  :doubt: