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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Legate Damar on May 23, 2012, 10:45:40 am

Title: Two problems
Post by: Legate Damar on May 23, 2012, 10:45:40 am

First, I need to know how I can get my mod to not play the FS2 intro cutscene when it starts. I want there to be no intro cutscene.

Second, I am having trouble with my species.tbl

I initially had 4 entries, but in the tech room only entries 1, 2, and 4 would show up (every entry had "always in tech room" set to 1, and ctrl-shift-s does not do anything). I figured entry 3 could be merged into entry 2, but when I tried that now only entry 1 will show up.

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 23, 2012, 10:59:10 am

1: Use this. (http://www.mediafire.com/?buvhvmag79289sm)

2: I'd need to see your species.tbl to tell you what's going wrong with it. Additionally, you may try using a debug build and checking the log. It may point you towards what's wrong.

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: General Battuta on May 23, 2012, 11:20:22 am

Ooooh I am 79% sure I know what's wrong - you've got an illegal character, like a semicolon or something, in there. Something that makes it stop parsing.

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: Legate Damar on May 23, 2012, 12:09:52 pm

So that patch is basically an empty intro movie? Is it okay if I just put it into the movies folder in my vp for my mod?

Are parentheses and hyphen illegal characters?

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 23, 2012, 12:18:27 pm

Quote from: Legate Damar on May 23, 2012, 12:09:52 pm

So that patch is basically an empty intro movie? Is it okay if I just put it into the movies folder in my vp for my mod?

Yup.

Quote from: Legate Damar on May 23, 2012, 12:09:52 pm

Are parentheses and hyphen illegal characters?

I'm telling you.. run a debug build or show us your table, that will make this much easier.

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: Legate Damar on May 23, 2012, 12:30:56 pm

I'll PM you the table, okay?

EDIT: Nevermind, I fixed it

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: yuezhi on May 23, 2012, 08:15:19 pm

downloading that fix makes me think the intro movie is hardcoded. I always thought i could adjust that through tables when i get around to that one day.

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 23, 2012, 09:17:15 pm

As far as I know, 'intro.ext' is hardcoded to play when FSO is run. Since an intro.ext is included with retail assets, you have to override it.

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: z64555 on May 23, 2012, 09:26:14 pm

Quote from: mjn.mixael on May 23, 2012, 09:17:15 pm

As far as I know, 'intro.ext' is hardcoded to play when FSO is run. Since an intro.ext is included with retail assets, you have to override it.

Could add an option that allows you to turn on/off the intro movie from the in-game options menu?

Title: Re: Two problems
Post by: mjn.mixael on May 23, 2012, 09:33:43 pm

sounds like a mod.tbl setting to me. You'll have to ask SCP for it.