Please help me (Atrocities and others...)

[LuboS]

Hi everybody, I`m a newbie and need help with Star Trek mod. I downloaded all Star Trek Races (all v.1.71 Gold) and extracted them to \picture\races\..., *.emp files placed to \Empires\..., design name files to \dsgnnames\... and than start new game and added all ST Races. Everything looks O.K., but than I discovered that for two races (Ferengis and Cardassians) pictures are wrong and shows ships and race portraits for any predefined race (for example Abbidon,Amonkrie,Sallega ...).
I don`t understand why, because proper AI-files are loaded (when I look at race info window in game, its show proper General History,Society descripions ...etc.) only pictures are wrong.
Ferengis are in \Pictures\Races\Ferengi folder, Cardassian in Pictures\Races\Cardassian folder, names of each ship pictures are correct, pictures has proper sizes ...
Please, explain me, why game don`t recognise these pictures ... Is problem in *.emp files ???
I`m running SEIV Gold (v 1.60 Gold)
thanx for any advice

LuboS

[Suicide Junkie]

If you are using the "Add existing race" button, you can change the shipset. Randomly generated races will choose the shipset that exists in the folder with the AI files.

There is absolutely no reason why you cannot load an EMP, and then edit the settings in it, including the shipset used.

If the shipset for a particular race cannot be found, then SE4 will load a random shipset for that race each time you load SE4.
The likely cause is a minor typo in the images or the folder name.
The text before the first underscore in each shipset image must be exactly the same as the folder name.
I'm not sure if it is case sensitive, but it can't hurt to check the case.

[ 12 April 2002: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[LuboS]

Suicide Junkie,
thanx for your reply. Problem is that, there is no minor typo in the images or the folder name

http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/LuboS/Ferengi.jpg

I really don`t undestant why this not work, when for other racies is everything O.K.
thanx for your time

LuboS

[ 12 April 2002: Message edited by: LuboS ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Perhaps there are a few bitmaps missing?

Try making a copy of one of the races that do work. Then copy in all the ferengi bitmaps. Sort them by name, and see if any don't have a partner.

[Fyron]

If a few bitmaps were missing, then the game would load the generic pictures for those missing ships, instead of loading an entirely different ship set.

[capnq]

There's a quicker way to compare them than copying the files; just open the Ferengi folder and another shipset folder in two different windows.