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Silveressa
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Why am I unable to mod the player.entity files successfully?

August 9, 2009 10:17:17 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I'm trying up update my "empowerment" mod to entrenchment v 1.03 but ruinning into a really frustrating error

every time I try to alter the PlayerTech.entity (or  psi or phase) to include th extra anti fighter turrets I get a mini dump error.

I know the turrets work becuse when I replace another item in the menu with the gun it loads fine.

Also I have the turrets listed int he manfiest as folows:

TXT
entityNameCount 1 (or more whenever I can add more after I get one to worl)
entityName "PLANETMODULE_PHASEORBITALPOINTDEFENSE.entity"

etc..

The eng.str is also 100% correct

and even with the bug report turned on in the settings I still get just the usual mini dump garbagbe.

I'm at my wits end here tryign to figure out why this won;t work.

any help would be deeply appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

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Silveressa
afdummy
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Reply #1 August 9, 2009 11:41:12 AM
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I know you said you updated the Enitity.manifest file but did you update the count within the PlayerTech.entity file?  For example:

entities
               planetModuleInfo
                Page:0
                                            count 9
                                            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALMETALEXTRACTOR"

If the count is not updated then having an extra item in there will cause a dump.  Hope that helps and if not sorry!

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Reply #2 August 9, 2009 9:17:38 PM
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Problem solved, I discovered I was using an incomplete entity.manifest file.

Once I copied the one form the entrenchment directory it ran without a problem.

 

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GoaFan77
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Reply #3 August 9, 2009 10:11:21 PM
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I've gotten that failed to convert " to and enum value when I've forgot to put the second quotation mark, so you might want to check that. Otherwise I don't know.

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Reply #4 August 9, 2009 10:27:11 PM
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Thanks, I found out it was in the entity manifest, (seems a few lines at the bottom got cut off hence the missing "

using a new copy of the manifest solved the problem.

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Reply #5 August 9, 2009 11:15:21 PM
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  Glad to hear it.  Let us know when you've posted it!  I would love to give it a go. 

-Teal

 

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harpo99999
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Reply #6 August 10, 2009 12:10:07 AM
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sileressa, in my modding utilites pack there is a manifest maker that will add all of the entity files from a mod,entrenchment AND sins - four that cause crashes in entrenchment into a complete entity.manifest, as well it can also make the other manifests that might be needed

harpo

 

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Reply #7 August 11, 2009 11:59:23 PM
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That would save me so much work!!!!! 

-TeaL

 

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Reply #8 August 12, 2009 12:11:22 AM
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teal it is in my modding utilities pack 1.1 just use one of the links at the bottom of the page

harpo

 

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