Shipset question |
I recently tried modifying BlackSwan's interstellar alliance shipset, but found a problem I don't know how to fix. Whenever I try to use the shipset(vree), the game acts as though I selected the Interstellar Alliance shipset instead.
So what happens is:
1:create race
2: select Vree shipset
3: save race
4a: reopen race to edit or
4b: start game
5: discover tha the game is using the IA shipset instead of the Vree shipset.
My theory concerning this is that somewhere inside the shipset data is a text string it uses to identify itself. This is currently the same as in the IA shipset. Thus the game can't tell them apart.
how do I fix this?
Re: Shipset question
Ah, yes. that was the problem. 
I still have a problem with getting the sphereworld model to work as a ship. the game keeps deciding it's enormous and drawing an appropriately giant circle around it, even though the model is actually kinda small.
Re: Shipset question
Make sure you've got appropriate scale factors in the shipset's XFileClasses.txt file.
Re: Shipset question
I'm still trying to figure out what those are. I have the model size set to 25. I've tried reducing the scale factors but that makes the model shrink. 
Re: Shipset question
Answering from memory as I'm at werk. But IIRC, in your race folder is a file called "Vree_main.txt" or something like that. The file I'm thinking of is only 8 or 9 lines of text stating things like:
Vree speech file := Vree/Vree_speech_file.txt
Vree shipset file := Vree/Vree_Shipset_file.txt
Here's where I think your problem is. Vree shipset file := IA/IA_shipset_file.txt
This is pointing to the wrong file and causing your problem. *I think*
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