Fleet Ops asteroids in my mod

posted on March 27th, 2011, 2:21 am

I have 2 installs of Armada 2, one with the latest version of Fleet Ops, and one with my own A2 Mod.
I really like the asteroid fields and planetoid fragments from Fleet Ops so I'm trying to put them in my non-fleet ops mod.
I currently have the asteroids in-game and placeable as a map object but there is a slight problem:

As you can see, the asteroids themselves are appearing but I am missing some texture flat and horizontal along the entire field. Does anyone know what texture this is, or how I can find out what one it is?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks. 

posted on March 27th, 2011, 11:36 am

Welcome to the forum.

Just copy every texture, I did. That way, you're guaranteed to find the right one.

posted on March 27th, 2011, 12:45 pm

they could be sprites which would require sprite entries

posted on March 27th, 2011, 6:00 pm

well, I thought about that, but if he didn't have the right sprites, it would crash.  Which SOD are you using?  I should be able to find out what you are missing from there.

posted on March 27th, 2011, 6:18 pm

nope certain things can operate without certain sprites just like just how fo shipcs can be added without adding the engine sprites

posted on March 28th, 2011, 2:01 am

Thanks for all of the help people!  I found the texture file by searching through every line in the .sod with notepad. It was called "empty", and it's just that... empty.

posted on March 28th, 2011, 12:54 pm

lol, I figured it might be something like that.  Glad you got it working.

nope certain things can operate without certain sprites just like just how fo shipcs can be added without adding the engine sprites

In my experience, the game crashes if you don't have the sprite reference for the engine glows, but maybe I"m wrong.

[Tyler]

posted on March 28th, 2011, 12:58 pm

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The dreaded empty.tga, it once foiled me with the Cubes before. I think the guide should mention that file; it keeps outsmarting us!

Any sprite entry used in a non-sprite file (like weapon effects) will crash if they are missing, that much I know for sure. Others like engine glows might just appear as featureless blocks.

posted on March 28th, 2011, 1:01 pm

Where should it be mentioned and what exactly should the description be?

posted on March 28th, 2011, 1:04 pm

Somewhere in the modding section saying "If using any FO sods in stock, copy this texture and have the last laugh!"

Or something like that.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on March 28th, 2011, 1:07 pm

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Ok - I'll put it in the Tips and Tricks section for now. It seems there isn't realy enough information to justify a "Porting FO to Stock" page yet, so I think that will be ok, unless there are any objections

EDIT: I lied - it's now in the FAQ section here