[Angelus]

Hi, i'm new to FS2 modding.

I work on a mod/ mission for BtrL.
I found in TBP a model, which could be useful for my mod ( have permission to use it), but i have problems open it in PCS/ PCS2.
I tried to put it ingame, but FRED gives me an error message:

Error: Bad ID in model file <moonland.pof>
File  : D:\C++\Freespace\fs2_open 3.6.9\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line : 2014
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that build the executable]

call stack:

Any ideas how to fix that?

thx in advance.

[Hellstryker]

Why even use PCS? Cant you just throw its model file into the VP along with the table entries?

[Angelus]

Why even use PCS? Cant you just throw its model file into the VP along with the table entries?

Tried that, but FRED gives me that error i posted above.

PCS gives me an error too:

"This file is not a POF file - PSPO signature check failed."

[Kazan]

that error is self explainatory

[Jeff Vader]

Why even use PCS? Cant you just throw its model file into the VP along with the table entries?

Throwing something in a vp can be ignored at this point. The first part is to get the damn model working, and indeed as you said, it is recommended to get the proper table entries to go along with it.

[Angelus]

that error is self explainatory

If the engine don't recognize that as model in BtrL, why does it show up in TBP? I thought they share the same engine.

[Wanderer]

Where did you extract the model and with what?

For example using VPView with the large TBP 3.4 vp file most often produces corrupted files. If that is the case use some other VP file extractor/archiver like WMC's Maja or some other such.

[Angelus]

Where did you extract the model and with what?

For example using VPView with the large TBP 3.4 vp file most often produces corrupted files. If that is the case use some other VP file extractor/archiver like WMC's Maja or some other such.

Thx, i used Maja to extract them ( hint by Karajorma ), but it didn't worked for some reason. Just found Maja express 0.81 and it worked!

THX to everyone!!

[shiv]

Why not jsut to use VPView?

[Jeff Vader]

Why not jsut to use VPView?

using VPView with the large TBP 3.4 vp file most often produces corrupted files.

VPView has a nasty habit of not being able to handle large files.

Besides, Maja is cross-platform.

[shiv]

For me Vpview handled big files such as BtRL vps or TBP vps.

[blowfish]

For me Vpview handled big files such as BtRL vps or TBP vps.

Apparently not for everyone though.

[Getter Robo G]

Different tools seem to work for people differently so just go with whatever works for you.

I often got corruption form Maja when it first came out (don't know about updates?). 0 kb pof files

Worse case scenario get the files directly from the creators (no extractions) or at least a correctly extracted one.

[karajorma]

VPView 1.3 can handle them. VPView 2.0 beta chokes.