The Art Bug
 

Some of you have reported to me (several times in private) that sometimes when you pick up an "alien art object", it displays "image not found".
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...8&d=1429277162
Being a clever game designer, I told you that was a peculiar trend that swept the alien art world several centuries ago, and it was actually quite valuable. (it's not a bug, it's a feature!)

Of course you knew I was full of it.

But today, as I was adding some new art objects, I finally found what was happening. I did a batch re-name of the files to see if that would help, and I ended up getting a few with the exact same name.

Which I knew was impossible... so I undid it and hoped there were no gremlins in my system.

5 minutes later, it occurred to : maybe the files are the wrong TYPE! AI only loads .png files ... so I sifted thru them, and there it was! 4 of the files were jpegs!

Problem solved.
Now on to more pressing matters...