[Kazan]

is anyone using my species update... just curious

[Deepblue]

Explain please?

[TopAce]

I suppose it is the stuff which allows you to have more than three species.

[phreak]

Inferno and Reci are using them

[Kazan]

awesome... i saw in today's CVS commits that something about fixing more divide by zero errors with the species stuff for TBP - so they must be working on it as well, althought i haven't heard anything of it on the forums

[RandomTiger]

I think it might just have been bad data Kazan.
TBP arent officially using fs2_open so there are a fair few bugs with it. Either way I fixed it.

[Black Wolf]

TI will be using it, twill finally mean we can get all these Aesir ships out of the Terran Section

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by PhReAk
... Reci are using them

Apparently.  Er, I think DG has it working now, i'm taking somewhat of a backseat in this

[Stryke 9]

The one with the big table of dozens of species where you can control the friendly/hostile settings? Well, a lot of stuff I've got in the works for a couple months from now hinges on that.

[diamondgeezer]

Hi everybody!

I have a fourth species running happily now, using that species_defs table thingy. I'm interested in setting default IFFs, mind, and preferably FRED ship list colours, that kind of thing. No idea about how to do that, hint hint

[Kazan]

FRED should have colors..i could have sworm i commited that

teams is a whole different story

[Raven2001]

I'm going to use it on CITM, but is there anywhere where I can see how to work with that feature???

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Kazan
FRED should have colors..i could have sworm i commited that

Well you certainly posted a screenie of FRED's ship list with the Knossos on purple instead of black. But that spec isn't in the species_defs table.

[Jonathan_S47]

I am having some problems with the Species_defs.tbl. When I try to run fred it crashes and gives me an error about the icon.tbl. When I try to run FSO it crashes and gives me an error about the sounds.tbl. I haven’t messed with the icon.tbl and the sound.tbl work before. When I pull the Species_defs.tbl out everything works fine again. Is there something that I am missing?

; -----------------------------------------------
; Species_defs.tbl
; Derek "Kazan" Meek
; FS2 Open Species table
;
; -----------------------------------------------

#SPECIES DEFS

$NumSpecies: 4

;------------------------
; Terran
;------------------------
$Species_Name: Terran
   +Debris_Texture: debris01a
   +Shield_Hit_ani: shieldhit01a
$ThrustAnims:
   +Pri_Normal:   thruster01
   +Pri_Afterburn:   thruster01a
   +Sec_Normal:   thruster02-01
   +Sec_Afterburn:   thruster02-01a
   +Ter_Normal:   thruster03-01
   +Ter_Afterburn:   thruster03-01a
$ThrustGlows:
   +Normal:   thrusterglow01
   +Afterburn:   thrusterglow01a

;------------------------
; Vasudan
;------------------------
$Species_Name: Vasudan
   +Debris_Texture: debris01b
   +Shield_Hit_ani: shieldhit01a
$ThrustAnims:
   +Pri_Normal:   thruster02
   +Pri_Afterburn:   thruster02a
   +Sec_Normal:   thruster02-02
   +Sec_Afterburn:   thruster02-02a
   +Ter_Normal:   thruster03-02
   +Ter_Afterburn:   thruster03-02a
$ThrustGlows:
   +Normal:   thrusterglow02
   +Afterburn:   thrusterglow02a

;------------------------
; Shivan
;------------------------
$Species_Name: Shivan
   +Debris_Texture: debris01c
   +Shield_Hit_ani: shieldhit01a
$ThrustAnims:
   +Pri_Normal:   thruster03
   +Pri_Afterburn:   thruster03a
   +Sec_Normal:   thruster02-03
   +Sec_Afterburn:   thruster02-03a
   +Ter_Normal:   thruster03-03
   +Ter_Afterburn:   thruster03-03a
$ThrustGlows:
   +Normal:   thrusterglow03
   +Afterburn:   thrusterglow03a

;------------------------
; S4
;------------------------
$Species_Name: S4
   +Debris_Texture: debris01a
   +Shield_Hit_ani: shieldhit01a
$ThrustAnims:
   +Pri_Normal:   thruster04
   +Pri_Afterburn:   thruster04a
   +Sec_Normal:   thruster02-04
   +Sec_Afterburn:   thruster02-04a
   +Ter_Normal:   thruster03-04
   +Ter_Afterburn:   thruster03-04a
$ThrustGlows:
   +Normal:   thrusterglow04
   +Afterburn:   thrusterglow04a


#END

[diamondgeezer]

FRED doesn't support the icons table if you add more species to it. You have to rename it when you launch FRED, then rename it to icons.tbl when you start FS2. Very annoying.

Also, you need to add flyby sounds for your new species to your sounds table. Look at the very bottom of - clone the Shivan entry and edit it to suit your new species.

[Kazan]

that's because when you change those species numbers you also have to alter the sounds and incons tables -- dig up the origional species_defs.tbl thread and RTFM

[Bobboau]

someone should explain what to do to fix that in the error message

[Jonathan_S47]

Thanks. I have the problem fixed and both FSO and Fred are working fine now.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Kazan
is anyone using my species update... just curious

I am.