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Can anyone diagnose this?
« on: July 03, 2012, 07:36:35 AM »

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsix2i2ddc8jdp1/Lancers_testmod.zip

I am kind of at a loss here, and I am a novice at coding.  I just want to see if my ship design will work well in combat before I finish painting and building it in 3D :)

Currently I'm getting an error, saying it can't locate the variant file.  Any ideas?
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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 07:52:12 AM »

When adding ship to the campaign or mission you should use variant ID, not hull ID

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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2012, 08:14:16 AM »

When adding ship to the campaign or mission you should use variant ID, not hull ID
I made that mistake too, It was rather annoying at first haha
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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2012, 08:15:00 AM »

I once managed to break the game that way, when I tried to replace a non-empty ship in the campaign fleet and failed to provide a proper variant id (I think I left it as was.)  Not entirely sure how it broke Starfarer, but I had to reinstall after that.  z: j
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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2012, 08:25:24 AM »

that is a rather major break :o

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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2012, 08:30:01 AM »

Fresh install? Must have edited the core files, as far as i am aware, running the game only loads it, and cannot possible edit the core files, So i dont understand what went wrong lol
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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 10:12:55 AM »

Just do i like i for now,

Make your Variant ID = to your Hull ID
Works fine while its only for testing or you only intent a variant for that ship.
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Re: Can anyone diagnose this?
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2012, 12:23:18 PM »

Just do i like i for now,

Make your Variant ID = to your Hull ID
Works fine while its only for testing or you only intent a variant for that ship.
Really? Weird, I avoid using the same ID anywhere (other then when you need it to be the same) for fear of problems. Good to hear it doesn't cause any. Still, I'd rather stay careful.