Advice? Adding new Stellar Ability Types

[Stormwaltz]

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[Fyron]

Can you post a zip file containing SystemTypes.txt, StellarAbilityTypes.txt, and PlanetSize.txt, so we can see exactly what is causing the error? You are probably calling for a "planet name" in SystemTypes.txt instead of a "planet size". The "planet name and size" are in PlanetType.txt.

[Stormwaltz]

I didn't know how or where to upload files here, so I put the zip on my own webspace. I hope that's okay. You can find it here.

Thanks for the help. ^_^

[Fyron]

You can upload files to the first forum Category on Shrapnel, entitles Scenarios\Mods Uploads or something like that. Make sure to upload files in there in the proper threads. Now to look at your files.

[Fyron]

I know changing the Stellar Ability Types works. I did so in FQM for planets in Ancient quadrants so they have more ruins. I can not see a problem with your files, but SE4 definitely does not like them.

[Fyron]

Well this is weird....

I changed all the asteroid names in PlanetSize.txt to fit with the size. Now, Se4 makes asteroids with pics. But, their type is listed as "None - ", with no size. And they have no name displayed on the system map. Very weird...

I think that it might be a hardcode issue with Asteroid objects. I can not see any difference between what you did and what I did with Ancient Planets in FQM, and those work fine. Send a bug report email to se4gold@malfador.com along with your modded data files. Hopefully this is a bug that MM can fix for us.

Ok... if you change the names of the types in StellarAbilityTypes.txt to not have the words used as size classes (tiny, small, etc.) in the name, then you get asteroids with appropriate pics, abilities, and everything, except that their Type is listed as "Rock - ". So, this is the best solution I can find at present. Still send in a bug report to MM.

[ May 06, 2003, 18:47: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]