Trying to add a ship

basic question

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I'm fiddling around with a mod and am having trouble adding in an additional ship.  I know the ship file works since I do not get a crash when I use and existing ship name and just replace it.  I also know that I have the space in the menue to add in the ship (I'm fiddling with a mod that has other factions with more ships offered than what I am trying to add). 

I've gone into the PLAYER"faction name" file and under "frigateInfo -> page 0:" changed "count" from 6 to 7, then added in the " entityDefName "Frigate_faction_name" " just like every other entry in that list.  To make the file describing the ship itself, I renamed an existing file and edited (weapons, manuever, and research re-reqs). 

What am I missing that I need to edit to make this work?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

1st- what MOD are you editing?

2nd- what RACE are you editing?

3rd- EVERYTHING IS EXTREMELY CASE SENSITIVE!!

4th- have you added the strings to the [your language here].str (Strings) file?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

You can also open up your user.setting file (Settings folder in the mod path) and at the bottom set showErrors to TRUE. Then instead of a minidump you will usually get a more descriptive error message that shows you which line in which file caused the crash and a brief explanation on what the engine was expecting on that line.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the help.  Here is the error I am getting

 

Entity Ref not found: Frigate_Minbari_Tishlan

I know the name matches the file (I copied/pasted it from renaming it).  Anything else to try?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Did you add it to the entity.manifest file? Every new file you create has to be added to the manifest (goes into your main mod folder, right outside GameInfo) or the game won't recognize it.

This is the basic format of the entity.manifest:

TXT
entityNameCount 2
entityName "AbilityAbilityGuidance.entity"
entityName "AbilityAdaptiveShield.entity"

..etc. Just whatever new entities you have. You do not have to list the ones already existing in the base game.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

No problem :) Glad I could help.