vendethiel1

Well, im off to my longish holidays, i wont be able to post here anymore so, before I go Thanks again for your help and patience :)

yeah i know that, i always subtract the one in other words (which is kinda stupid if you think about it, i could just enable those settings and be done with it lol ... it never occured to me, always used to do it the "hard" way). well, live and learn as they say.

Yeah I thought i was crazy when i saw it working with the settings you said ... but it should work without them aswell

Ok ... after reinstalling notepad i was getting the same wrong counts and shit ... I was about to give up when I saw what was causing it ... I wont tell you what it is, i've wasted enough of your time as it is and I dont want to make a fool myself ... again ... seriously ... Moving on ... to the next crysis :) Thank you for your time, help and patience, much appreciated.

This thing is driving me nuts ... what the hell am I doing wrong?

ummm ... This makes no sense :| Yeah I admit i didnt use those settings before, never needed them till now .. silly me but now i tried it and ... well ... you can see for yourself ...

Oh yeah? how about that? lol I think my notepad is broken or something ... ill reinstall it and see what happens

Ill try mailing it to you. Be advised, its a file taken from Soase PLUS mod, hope its ok ... i dont plan on releasing anything under my name, its just for my own fun. And yeah, the compare plugin is awesome for it. I've been using notepad++ for ages now , this isnt my first rodeo :D (ive modded a lot of games so far) EDIT : Mail sent. If you dont receive it just let me know, ill upload it somewhere.

EDIT: darn, again double post ... sorry, thought i merged it ... Update, I've finally fixed it ... I have used the MainMenuScreen.window file from the mod im merging and now apparently the menu works but ONLY if I set the string counter to my original value of 7763 despite notepad++ telling me i got more than that. Now the menu works ... everything works, no errors in dev.exe .... wierd, i looked over the string file again and I cant find

I see ... i should mention that I had been using this String file (the 1.52 one) with my current game version from the get go and the main menu was fine until i added my second planet ... as soon as i did that and fixed all errors that went with it, the menu buttons were gone ... Ive checked the lines ive added and messed with when i done the second planet and i cant find anything wrong with it. I can live without the main menu buttons, i dont really care about that but what b

Yeah so, more wierdness incoming ... By doing it like you said (last line value -2)/3 i end up with : 7763 (which is my original value, the one that i used so far in which the game works, except for the main menu issues) If I use notepad++ to count i end up with 7871 ... I've checked that file up and down and I couldnt find anything wrong with it (but its a big file, i might have missed something). I havent messed with the s

Yeah Ive always used notepad++ and when counting the entries wierdness happens. The counter sais i got in total 7871 entries but my original counter was 7763. Whats wierd is that when I set the counter to 7763 the game works fine (except the menu buttons) but when I set it to 7871 a lot of errors appear in dev exe. Stuff like : Text FileArchive missing Label. File: C:\Users\[...]\Mods-Rebellion v1.04 Dev\MyMod\String\English.str Label: StringInfo Line Nu

Ok sorry to bother you folks again but this is something new (to me anyway). I've finally managed to add my second planet and ive also added a planetbonus and got rid of all the dev exe errors however when i load my mod all the buttons are blank ... (the buttons in the main menu, are all blank, no text in it, wat?!) I should mention i didnt mess with textures or the string file ... (well other than adding the description for the planet and planet bonus, I did update the counter)</

Yeah I know but since ive been at this for hours i said i should post it ... who knows ... anyhow i did find the problem, wasnt where I thought it was, thats why it took me a while to find it ... you know the file aint small, having to look for a needle in a haystack ... Thanks for your time, ill try to avoid posting stuff like this in the future :)

Oh yeah ... found out what was wrong while i was writing my reply to you ... apparntly I didnt add the .entity extension in the manifest entry :( Silly me, i cant believe i didnt see this and ive looked at that manifest for ages lol Thanks for your help, without you who knows how long i would have looked for the solution elsewhere. EDIT: got something else that aint working ... can you see anything wrong wi

Just checked, the mesh part of the file seems ok, ive done it like my previous planet, got 3 meshes entries thus the count is 3. I've added the appropriate meshes ... should be working :( I've been over that file 4 times already, line by line and I cant spot the problem. EDIT: Got this aswell, maybe its related : "GalaxyScenarioDef Error: Invalid EntityDefName(PlanetRing) found for 'Ring'."

So I'm adding a new planet to my mod and I encountered an error I cant overcome. I've already added one and it worked fine but this one is annoying. Dev exe says "Failed to find data file 'PlanetRing'. (SubPath = GameInfo)" Now idk what that means, I have the entity file in gameinfo, ive added all appropriate voices (as far as I know) in galaxyscenariodef file and yet i get that error. Help? <p

Ok, stupid question, how do you use that? some command line? Nevermind, figured it out. Sorry for the double post, for some reason I couldnt edit my previous post :(

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="5" id="3386103"] Everyone has the convertdata.exe for their version in the install directory. [/quote] Oh. Thanks, didnt know that.

Thats not it ... I need the 1.04 version or a tool that can convert dem files ...

Yeah I've already checked that and the version I need got deleted from there to "make room in his dropbox" ... I'm not up to the current version of the game because im playing a mod of mine thats still for the older version of the game (i made it back in 1.04). I havent played sins in quite a while, now i wanted to resume playing but before I update i must update my mod ... ergo the need to convert some files.

Im sure the information is around here somewhere but I havent been able to find it. I want to make a small mod for myself and to do that I need the entity files converted to txt so I can edit them but I cant seem to find a tool that actually works. I've found a tool that converts MOST of the files but not all, it crashes when reaches some of the files and some of those files I need to edit. Any tools that work?