I have been going through a bunch of ships I dl'ed off of Hades Combine, and have noticed some HUGE errors in the download packs. I may be able to tweak things to work, but the casual guy won't, so here are some pointers:
#1. If you put a new weapon on your ship, do not assume that the person will have downloaded that weapon pack. Put the weapon data in with the ship data if you have used a new weapon!.
#2. Make sure that all required textures are in with it as well. I just looked at a model (the Alliance Jump Gate), and out of five new textues on that thing, it is missing three. This makes it impossible to use the model unless there are redundant texture files, an those will likely make the ship look weird!
#3. Check the punctuation in the table data. Anyone who's worked with the tables knows that they must be specific down to the characters. Meaning that if one character, such as a quotation mark, is missing, the data will not parse!
Rant ended. I realize lots of people already do this, and therefore it is only the few who make mistakes. Make sure, download put-together-ers, that everything that is required is contained in the download.
P.S. Got a bizarre error on one GTWc Gryphon that I don't know what to make of. Debug build says: "mp- >nverts > 1" and goes on about some "offending code". What to do with this?