[Antares]

Sigh.  

Played through some of the standard FS2 campaign.  The training simulators and first few missions play okay, but I get this crash to desktop at "Lion at the Door":

Error: Can't open file
File:.\model\modelread.cpp
Line: 1543

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0062e0db()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 005ba964()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 00672149()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0065ce28()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0065cff3()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0065d1ab()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 005d0b40()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0065f111()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 005d0bcd()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0066060c()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 00660691()
    fs2_open_C01082005.exe 0041b75a()
    kernel32.dll 7c816d4f()
------------------------------------------------------------------

It sounds like the Rakshasa model is causing this, but other missions give other problems.  Some work fine, but others crash when the 'mission loading' screen is about halfway done or when I hit 'commit'.

Flags: -spec -glow -jpgtga -targetinfo -orbradar -3dwarp -dnoshowvid -env

I played around with these a little, but switching them on and off doesn't seem to change anything.  Problems occur in 3.6.5. and WMCoolmon's subsequent builds.

EDIT: I forgot.  I'm using all the media stuff--mv_zpack, adveffects, aseffects, music, and the additional vp with bob's new herc.

[taylor]

Are you using OpenGL or D3D?  Try the other and see if you get the same problems.

[WMCoolmon]

Try taking out the mediaVPs and see if that fixes it.

[Trivial Psychic]

Um, its looking for Lightspeed's remapped Cain.  The original Cain/Lilith model was cruiser03.pof, so he used the standard map as a base for his Lilith map, and then made some changes and created a different map for the Cain, but he had to make another model for it.  I'm guessing that you are missing the model, but your tables are looking for it.

[WMCoolmon]

That'd explain it.

[Antares]

I did some playing after removing the media VPs, and everything worked fine.  No mission loading problems or crashes.

I'm working from a fresh install, so whatever's borking me up is probably in the VPs themselves.  I don't have any other mods or enhancements installed.  You might want to check the VPs for funky table/model problems.

[karajorma]

Dammit. I meant to answer this one but when no one bumped it I missed it last time I logged on and forgot completely about it.  

The answer is pretty much what Trivial Psychic describes. The ships.tbl in mv_aseffects.vp has a reference in it to Cruiser03x.pof which is the Cain pof that Lightspeed's effects use. This pof was in the old 3.5.6 version of  mv_models.vp but is missing in the current version.

Removing mv_aseffects.vp should end the problem for now (but will also remove all the new features of those tables). This is however less drastic than removing all your media.vp files.

[Karza]

I fixed the problem by getting Lightspeed's latest shinemap pack, that includes the file in question. Putting it to the \data\models folder fixed it, but the game still crashes when loading a mission. Here's what the debug build told me about it:

Warning: Couldn't fix up turret indices in spline path

Model: cruiser01.pof
Path: $path02
Vertex: 1
Turret model id:13

This probably means the turret was not specified in ships.tbl
File:U:\src\cvs\fs2_open.testing\code\Ship\Ship.cpp
Line: 6448

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
parse_create_object()    parse_object()    parse_objects()    
parse_mission()    parse_main()    mission_load()  
game_start_mission()    game_enter_state()    gameseq_set_state()
game_process_event()    gameseq_process_events()    WinMainSub()
WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 77e8141a()
------------------------------------------------------------------

[Trivial Psychic]

That's the Fenris.  It would seem something's corrupt with your copy of the model.  There is a way to fix this but you have to load up the model in PCS.  I had this same problem with Raptor's up-gunned Orion from a year ago, and I had to edit it in PCS to fix the problem.

[operator]

Originally posted by Karza
I fixed the problem by getting Lightspeed's latest shinemap pack, that includes the file in question.  

Where does one get this pack.. i'm having the same problem.

[Steel]

or can it be fixed in the current, relavent media vp?

[Antares]

It might be more prudent just to ask Lighty to upload the file somewhere for download.  The whole shinepack is a whopping 86 megs (link).

[operator]

This is going to sound stupid, but where do the files in the zip go?

[karajorma]

Download this and stick it in your main FS2 folder. That should cure the problem for now while remaining an obvious enough that people remember to remove it when the media vp's are updated.

[Karza]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
That's the Fenris.  It would seem something's corrupt with your copy of the model.  There is a way to fix this but you have to load up the model in PCS.  I had this same problem with Raptor's up-gunned Orion from a year ago, and I had to edit it in PCS to fix the problem.

PCS? And what exactly needs to be done with it?

[Primus]

PCS: http://dynamic6.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php?pagename=PCS
Dl: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alliance/

But I can't tell you how to do it...

[Karza]

In other words, someone else's problem .

[Primus]

Indeed
(great place to live by the way)

[operator]

Originally posted by karajorma
Download this and stick it in your main FS2 folder. That should cure the problem for now while remaining an obvious enough that people remember to remove it when the media vp's are updated.

Thank you

[karajorma]

No problem. I had to make the VP to fix the problem for myself anyway so why not share it