[DuduKrazy]

Hi. i have just registered at the hard light forums. i'm DuduKrazy. Some time ago, i downloaded a Descent 3 Ship Pack for use with Freespace 2. I installed it, but when i go to the Tech Room, there's no ships in the list. And when i try to go on a mission, the game crashes and displays this error message:

Error: Can't open model file <>
File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1902
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
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I deleted the ships.tbl file and this message didn't appear anymore. but the ships doesn't appear in the Tech Room. I tried to find the original ships.tbl file in the data folder of the original Freespace 2 but i couldn't find. What is that problem anyways? How should i do to solve the problem and get the Descent 3 ships working in FS2?

[Polpolion]

Where is this descent model pack?

[DuduKrazy]

i found right here in the forums. but i can't remember exactly the topic where i found it. the filename is d3.zip

[Dark Hunter]

Er... how did you install this D3 pack? If you did so incorrectly it would cause problems...

The original ships.tbl should be intact and whole within the root.vp file. You don't want to mess with the original tables, though (EVER), and should probably add these ships as a mod.

Here's a tutorial on how to install mods in FSOpen.

[DuduKrazy]

i found the topic where i found the D3 Ships. here it is:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38485.0.html

[DuduKrazy]

hello. can someone help me with this? or at least can someone tell me where can i download the Pyro-GX ship for Freespace 2?

[Dark Hunter]

How did you install this D3 pack?

You're not really giving us enough information. We need to know what you did and what you tried to do to determine what the problem is.

[DuduKrazy]

the zip file has some folders with some files inside. i extracted them to a created folder called D3. Then i created another folder called Data, where i placed the folders that was in the zip file.

[Dark Hunter]

OK... yes that sounds right.

Now, why you couldn't play the mission:

Because that zip-pack contains no missions. So it tried to load the standard FS campaign. But that ships.tbl only has four ships in it. So it obviously couldn't find all the ships it needed, and so crashed.

Try this: change the name of the D3 ships.tbl file to: d3-shp.tbm. That way, it can still load the main missions and ships while adding the D3 stuff.

However, I doubt you'll be able to play through any missions with the D3 ships unless you alter them so that the D3 ships are under the "Allowed Ships" list in FRED (believe it's under the loadout editor).


As to why they weren't appearing in the techroom... I'm not sure. They should have been, given the way you installed everything...

[Snail]

So your directories are D3\Data\Models, D3\Data\Tables, etc?

[DuduKrazy]

yes!