Question re Map editor and Planet Pak 1.9

DavidG · #1 September 28th, 2003, 11:41 PM

ARGGGGG This is frustrating. If I load my map in plain old unmodded SE4 it looks OK. But when I try to load in in the StarTrek Mod I get tons of images showing up wrong.

Edit: Woohoo Got it to work by deleting SectType.txt from the mods data folder. Although why sectype.txt would have any effect on a saved map is a bit of a mystery

[ September 28, 2003, 22:53: Message edited by: DavidG ]

Slynky · #2 September 29th, 2003, 12:08 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Thanks Slinky.

Do you have any of the planet pak images installed?

(PS A ringworld image is a small one the same size as the planet image. It looks like a ring around a star. On my system many of the images seem to get replaced with them)

Sorry, just looked at it in regular SE4. I guess the planet paks change the look of the planets?

DavidG · #3 September 29th, 2003, 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Thanks Slinky.

Do you have any of the planet pak images installed?

(PS A ringworld image is a small one the same size as the planet image. It looks like a ring around a star. On my system many of the images seem to get replaced with them)

Sorry, just looked at it in regular SE4. I guess the planet paks change the look of the planets?

WEll not they are not supposed to do that. Like all the image paks they just add new ones and should not effect the old images. Thats what is so confusing.

Captain Kwok · #4 September 29th, 2003, 12:51 AM

Secttype.txt affects a map greatly since it is responsible for corresponding the planet/star/warp point with its picture.

Captain Kwok · #5 September 29th, 2003, 12:59 AM

I don't know what your problem is. I can load and play the map with the Star Trek Mod that I have installed. I can also edit it in the map editor.

It seems like some of your mod files are incorrect and that's what causing the problem.

I was using Star Trek Mod 1.2.0 and PlanetPak 1.8 - what Version of the Trek Mod where you using?

DavidG · #6 September 29th, 2003, 01:06 AM

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:

I was using Star Trek Mod 1.2.0 and PlanetPak 1.8 - what Version of the Trek Mod where you using?

I'm using trek mod 1.2.5 and planet pak 1.9.

Man things are just going from bad to worse here. my map looks ok now in unmodded so I decided to load the planet pack again. Now when I load the Trek map that comes with the mod none of the new images show up! I'm at the point were I want to reinstall the game. Now if I could just find the damn CD.

Captain Kwok · #7 September 29th, 2003, 03:37 AM

If you are loading the trek map into the map editor then you need to make sure that you're launching it from the mod launcher with the Star Trek mod chosen - or set path.txt to the star trek mod. The map editor will use whatever the path.txt and those data files, just like the game...

Another possible solution is that Atrocities may have included an incorrect secttype file...?