I was having difficulty getting the Anubis and Amun to stop crashing the game when trying to get them to display with the fluff text in the tech room.
From my origional post: Well, I don't have trouble actually editing the files, just with the two ships, the Anubis and the Amun. I'll post the examples of what causes the error:
$Name: PVB Amun
$Short name: VBomb7
$Species: Vasudan
+Type: XSTR( "Heavy Bomber", 1)
+Maneuverability: XSTR( "Very Poor", 1)
+Armor: XSTR( "Heavy", 1)
+Manufacturer: XSTR( "PVN", 1)
+Description: XSTR( " ", 1)
+TechDescription: XSTR( " «insert fluff text here»", 1)
$end_multi_text
The above allows the ship in game, but no text string.
$Name: PVB Amun
$Short name: VBomb7
$Species: Vasudan
+Type: XSTR( "Heavy Bomber", 1)
+Maneuverability: XSTR( "Very Poor", 1)
+Armor: XSTR( "Heavy", 1)
+Manufacturer: XSTR( "PVN", 1)
+Description: XSTR( " ", 1)
$end_multi_text
+TechDescription: XSTR( " «insert fluff text here»", 1)
$end_multi_text
Which is in the same format as all other ships causes the crashing.
The cure for it was to make the following change from:
$Name: PVB Amun
$Short name: VBomb7
$Species: Vasudan
+Type: XSTR( "Heavy Bomber", 1)
+Maneuverability: XSTR( "Very Poor", 1)
+Armor: XSTR( "Heavy", 1)
+Manufacturer: XSTR( "PVN", 1)
+Description: XSTR( " ", 1)
$end_multi_text +TechDescription: XSTR( " «insert fluff text here»", 1)
$end_multi_text
To:
$Name: PVB Amun
$Short name: VBomb7
$Species: Vasudan
+Type: XSTR( "Heavy Bomber", 1)
+Maneuverability: XSTR( "Very Poor", 1)
+Armor: XSTR( "Heavy", 1)
+Manufacturer: XSTR( "PVN", 1)
+TechDescription: XSTR( " «insert fluff text here»", 1)
$end_multi_text
Removing
+Description: XSTR( " ", 1)
$end_multi_text fixes the problem, and I was able to play through the entire FS1 port without trouble. There only seems to be a couple of ships in the table that actually use that particular tag. Haven't figured out what it is for, but...
it works anyway.
