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Old June 26th, 2004, 09:14 PM

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Default truncated ability descriptions bug

I'm modding some components, and I changed the ability descriptions, but now they are bizarrely cut-off in the game. I didn't do anything unusual, just changed the text. But now, either one line of the description is removed, or half of the text is cut off, so that only the tops of the letters are visible. I've tried everything I can think of; adding extra spaces at the beginning and ends to using "soft" enters as opposed to "hard" enters at the end of the description, but it only seems to make it worse. Sometimes, it doesn't even print the descriptions at all, it just puts the dot there, and then nothing after it.

Anyone know how to fix this and how to prevent it happening again?
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Old June 26th, 2004, 09:22 PM
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Default Re: truncated ability descriptions bug

very easy.

The component description (not the ability description) is too long. If you make the component decription shorter, than the ability description will display properly.
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Old June 26th, 2004, 09:26 PM

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Default Re: truncated ability descriptions bug

I thought that might be the case, but there are other components with longer descriptions and they aren't effected.
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Old June 26th, 2004, 09:41 PM
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Default Re: truncated ability descriptions bug

Both the component description and the ability tag descriptions have finite lengths that the game is able to display without any bugs. If the component description falls below the image for the component, the ability tags do not display properly. Long component names that require more than one line to display reduce the amount of description text available before bugs occur. Unfortunately, the only solution is to reduce the length of your descriptions.
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Old June 26th, 2004, 10:34 PM

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Default Re: truncated ability descriptions bug

I noticed the same problems in AIC descriptions for the Zenith Urban Centers... BUT I found a way to view the full descriptions, and I forget exactly how to do it. I think it's like when you add them to the queue and right click on them, it will display the full description? That may not be *exactly* it but its something like that
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Old June 26th, 2004, 10:38 PM

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Default Re: truncated ability descriptions bug

something like that...but you're on the right track...
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