Techtree problems

posted on July 25th, 2011, 10:45 am

I'm working on a small mod where you can build ships like the Nebula Class, and have a specific tech requirement in order to be built. So I added the ships I want to build (like the Nebula) to the Eraudi Yards. I can build the vessel at tech 0, but if I add buildable after x starship chassis level, the ship won't build.

For example, let's say I want the Nebula-Yoyodyne type buildable at starship chassis level 1. So in the techtree I put fed_nebula_torpA.odf 1 fedU_chassis1.odf. Then when I research starship chassis level 1 at SF Engineering, the Nebula still appears as a red wireframe in the starship build queue and I can't build it.

What else do I need to do in order to make it work?

posted on July 25th, 2011, 12:53 pm

hm, the tooltip should tell you why you can't build it

posted on July 25th, 2011, 1:00 pm

That should be all that is required... I assume that you made sure you are testing the right avatar, since there are two Chassis researches? 

[Anonymous]

posted on July 25th, 2011, 1:31 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on July 25th, 2011, 1:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah, it tells me I need starship chassis level 1, but it can't be built even after researching it. Are you saying it should be telling me something else then?

Dom, I didn't test with Avatar since warp-in vessels like Nebula don't use Avatars. I simply used the fedU_chassis1.odf, no Y or Z.

posted on July 25th, 2011, 1:38 pm

Hm, each chassis is linked to an avatar - in this case fedU_chassis1.odf is linked to Mayson, so you must test with Mayson unless you changed other things as well

posted on July 25th, 2011, 2:01 pm

Ok, it's working for Mason. So far so good, now I need to make a Y copy and test it with Risner.

posted on July 25th, 2011, 3:38 pm

Just copy the techtree line and add a Y in the chassis in the copied line.  It should work fine.

Example:

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fed_nebula_engA.odf 1 fed_chassis1.odf
fed_nebula_engA.odf 1 fed_chassis1Y.odf

This should work.

posted on July 25th, 2011, 4:52 pm

When I copy the line and add Y to the chassis it causes the game to freeze when I launch Instant Action. I think I am going to have to make Y variants for it to work right.

But what odfs should I duplicate for the Y variants? For example, you have fed_nebula_torp.odf and fed_nebula_torpA.odf. Does it matter?

posted on July 25th, 2011, 4:55 pm

All that is needed is to add the Y - the freeze is because you've incorrectly formatted your Techtree file.
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posted on July 25th, 2011, 5:38 pm

If you really want to do the duplication, duplicate the vessels with the "A" suffix.

posted on July 25th, 2011, 5:49 pm

you actually have to do the duplication if you want to have the same vessel buildable with techtree requirements from different avatars

[Anonymous]

posted on July 25th, 2011, 6:28 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on July 25th, 2011, 6:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thx Chapman. I do plan to do the duplication but since I haven't had much practice with this stuff yet,  I'm starting with the basics. I want to make sure the little things work first before I go crazy editing everything only to find it won't work later.

The new modding system including the FPQedit is a great help so far. It's made things so much easier. Thx to the FO team. I'm going to make it so the Mckinley complex vessels have separate bonuses for each Avatar.

posted on July 25th, 2011, 6:55 pm

No problem.