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,

Gandalph · #7 March 28th, 2003, 07:30 PM

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Originally posted by Pathogen:
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,

No it won't. The stars are given names when the galaxy is created.

Fyron · #8 March 28th, 2003, 09:11 PM

You also can't change the design name file you have selected mid-game. You can change what is in the particular text file, but not the name of it.

Pathogen · #9 March 29th, 2003, 08:18 AM

Thats Probably it then. Next Time I create a game it should be ok. I had also forgotten to install the image mod with all the extra planet bmp's.
I added them later and that took ok. So this game is kind of wacked. NO time to quit now as it is interesting because I'm being hard pressed my the Flower People, aka United Floral somethings.
Thanks