Stars without names, oops

Pathogen · #1 March 28th, 2003, 03:38 AM

I am using FQM deluxe and TDM. I set the two up using the instructions in FQM help directory, but somehow have something wrong.
Some of the star systems have no names. Also I have noticed there is no list of names for ship designs. That isn't a problem as I creat my own ship names, but having stars without names might creat trouble.
I'm a bit confused where to place what files.
I created a directory called "TDMandFQM" and placed files in "data" directory. Also placed picture files from the FQM directory into the regular SEIV directories.
OK so can anyone tell me where I might have misplaced the name files?
thanks

oleg · #2 March 28th, 2003, 03:43 AM

Easy. Use a large System_names file. FQM comes with a very nice file. Standard SE (and TDM) supplies only 100 names in system_names file. Obviously, you have a galaxy with more then 100 systems !

Fyron · #3 March 28th, 2003, 04:02 AM

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Also I have noticed there is no list of names for ship designs.

Is there a dsgnname folder in the FQMandTDM folder? If there is an empty one there, delete it.

Pathogen · #4 March 28th, 2003, 06:42 PM

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Easy. Use a large System_names file. FQM comes with a very nice file. Standard SE (and TDM) supplies only 100 names in system_names file. Obviously, you have a galaxy with more then 100 systems !

I do have a large systemnames.txt file in the
TDMandFQM data directory, copied it from the FQM deluxe folder. I also copied it into the default data directory to be sure.

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Is there a dsgnname folder in the FQMandTDM folder? If there is an empty one there, delete it.
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I There is a dsgnname folder but it has what looks to be TDM name files in it.
I removed the directory to test the game but it didn't fix anything so I replaced it.

Any other ideas how to fix my missing names in the star systems?
thanks

dogscoff · #5 March 28th, 2003, 06:44 PM

Are you sure you're actually playing the game from the modded directory? Do you use the mod-launcher? If not, what does your path.txt file say?

Pathogen · #6 March 28th, 2003, 07:23 PM

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Are you sure you're actually playing the game from the modded directory? Do you use the mod-launcher? If not, what does your path.txt file say?

Yes I am using the mod launcher.
It's probably something simple that I'm over looking. I've only explored a small courner of the game and most stars have names with only a few being blank, odd.

thanks for everyones suggestions, I try each one out to see if it fixes anything. But then again once a map has been generated can placing a file in the right place suddenly fix my missing star names?
thanks again,