Adding new orleans class

posted on February 11th, 2013, 4:53 am

Hi everyone, this is my first post here.

I'm working on a mod to add a New Orleans class ship to the game. so far it works, and it has build buttons and everything. The issue I have is when the ship kills something and ranks up, the game crashes and gives me an error, but it doesn't have an error number so i can look it up... can someone help?

posted on February 11th, 2013, 6:22 am

My best guess would be to make sure there isn't a typo. Check nextrankclass and make sure it corresponds to an actual file and remember not to include the .odf extension.

posted on February 12th, 2013, 6:18 am

I checked that, it seems to be ok, same with all the other ODF's. Can't find anything mispelled.

Any other ideas?

posted on February 12th, 2013, 6:29 am

be much more helpful if you attached the .odfs...

posted on February 12th, 2013, 6:20 pm

Thats a very good point, sorry I forgot about that, here you are! I'm putting this in several parts, since i'll add all the odf's i have on this

Attachments

fed_neworleans.txt

(3.71 KiB) Downloaded 285 times

all_veteran5.txt

(3.44 KiB) Downloaded 294 times

all_cap_veteran.txt

(18.44 KiB) Downloaded 274 times

posted on February 12th, 2013, 6:20 pm

here's part two

Attachments

fed_neworleansr4.txt

(3.77 KiB) Downloaded 289 times

fed_neworleansr3.txt

(3.71 KiB) Downloaded 301 times

fed_neworleansr2.txt

(3.71 KiB) Downloaded 279 times

posted on February 12th, 2013, 6:21 pm

and here's the final part

Attachments

fed_neworleansY.txt

(3.71 KiB) Downloaded 291 times

fed_neworleansr6.txt

(3.84 KiB) Downloaded 279 times

fed_neworleansr5.txt

(3.83 KiB) Downloaded 278 times

posted on February 12th, 2013, 7:53 pm

im nearly 100% sure to all of your rank up odfs you need to add basename = "sodfilenamehere" to them as when they rank up it doesn't find a corresponding SOD named the same to give it.

P.S. you might not need the brackets around the sod file name, can't remember if you do or don't but that would be your issue

posted on February 12th, 2013, 8:22 pm

I have it towards the bottom of all of them. its basename = "fed_neworleans"

I tried without it there, and the ship doesn't load properly. with it there, the level one ship loads, but still can't rank up without crashing.

posted on February 12th, 2013, 8:40 pm

Try adding this string to all files beginning with rank 2

Code: Select all

originalclass = "fed_neworleans"

And triple check to make sure there is no typo in the nextrankclass

posted on February 12th, 2013, 9:05 pm

Added that in and unfortunately still no luck.
I wish the error had some sort of code associated with it so i can see why the game crashed lol
I appreciate the try though, hopefully i can get this going with some help, because I'd love to release this ship to everyone :-)

posted on February 21st, 2013, 3:58 am

Still trying to get this to work, does anyone else have any idea?

posted on February 21st, 2013, 4:13 am

Crashes from a level up are most likely due to a missing hardpoint, a weapon being on an incorrect hardpoint, or a weapon otherwise being problematic - it doesn't have to even be on the next rank to cause a problem if I recall.

Easiest way to check any of the following is to use another ship with the newOrleans sod, replacing just the sod entries. Add in the hardpoints you want to use and see if it crashes.

posted on February 26th, 2013, 1:38 am

Gave that a try, still no luck with the hard points matching up... I wish i was a bit better at this LOL

posted on February 26th, 2013, 9:51 am

only issue i can find from initial checking is the file extensions are txt not odf but if you would like send me a copy of your mod and i'll take a look to see if i can find anything wrong or if i can fix it for you