AI portrait changes every turn ?

[Me Loonn]

I just started playing a solo game with TDM + FQM that i put together, and made few changes in components,txt (modded engines to faster).

About round 2x i made contact with AI race. This is where it got odd; the race portrait changes every turn, one round its EEE, another its klingon and so on !

Any ideas whats wrong ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Slynky]

As I recall, it usually means that you haven't downloaded the shipset that is necessary.

Sometimes, I just let it go because it doesn't matter that much. But if you are in need of seeing the same shipset, you need to see what shipset it is and download it and unzip it to your "pictures" folder.

[Ed Kolis]

Ah, the elusive "Polymorphs!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Watch out because they might seem harmless for a while but then when they convert into horrible tentacle monsters that suck out your emotions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Gwaihir]

So that's why my girlfriend left me! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

I always thought she just didn't like that I cancelled dates to play turns! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Darn you polymorphs, darn you all to heck!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

who me, addicted to SEIV? Never! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ May 05, 2003, 07:49: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

[Me Loonn]

Ah... so it seems, TDM-ModPack didnt include pics for some of the species http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Well, where can i get them pics then ?
I'm good at searching but my finding skills are lacking http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[oleg]

Originally posted by Me Loonn:
Ah... so it seems, TDM-ModPack didnt include pics for some of the species http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Well, where can i get them pics then ?
I'm good at searching but my finding skills are lacking http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It should. TDM is a very throughout project. I surprise this issue turns up. Find the race that is missing and report it to TDM guys. Most likely you have some unfortunate misshap, since we all have TDM installed and never saw transformers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Me Loonn]

I checked and it seems all stock races have subfolders in TDM mod folder, but they only contain AI txt files, no pics ..

Well i did put TDM and FQM together, mayby i did sumthing wrong (not unusual if i did http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif )
heres full list "no-pic" folders in TDM 3.20 (3.20 is in modinfo.txt)

Abbidon
Amonkrie
Cryslonite
CueCappa
Drushocka
Eee
Fazrah
Jraenar
Krill
Norak
Phong
Piundon
Praetorian
Sallega
Sergetti
Terran
Toltayan
UkraTal
Xiati
XiChung

[Fyron]

Those are the default races, so they do not need any images. They will be loaded from the default folder. Compare the contents of TDM-Modpack\Pictures\Races with TDM-Modpack + FQM\Pictures\Races and see if any folders are missing.

[Me Loonn]

Nope, i used your instructions from galileo.spaceports.com/~kazharii/fqm/Combining%20TDM+FQM%20Deluxe.html (http://galileo.spaceports.com/~kazharii/fqm/Combining%20TDM+FQM%20Deluxe.html)
and all seems to work (im gettin my *** kicked), but portraits.

I guess ill just copy the pics from unmodded folderm see if that does it ...

[ May 06, 2003, 13:11: Message edited by: Me Loonn ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Me Loonn:
I guess ill just copy the pics from unmodded folderm see if that does it ...<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Since the lack of the images in the mod isn't causing the problem, copying them in isn't likely to fix the problem.

What is the name of the race that is switching images? Ignore the pics and look at the empire description and get the name. That will tell you which image folder is missing.

Geoschmo