List of oddities

[Phoenix-D]

You could do that to. Just give it a target type of planet.

It is odd though; giving something in the purchaseship enemy file an asteroid for a model works fine. Giving it a model of a planet crashes the game..

[Taz-in-Space]

Hmmm, something about how the program handles textures? Try something else graphically simple - like a sun?...

[Phoenix-D]

Found the problem. Override textures don't work for ships, and there WAS no default texture for that .x file. Making one fixed the issue.

What this means, is you need a seperate .x file and texture for each killable planet. Not a big deal, since you don't want too many of them- each will have its own AI, and lots of them will slow the game down.

[Phoenix-D]

And after a little messing around, I now have a completely functional, attackable Planet Earth.

Blows up real good, burns nicely too (which looks strange). Still need to edit the firing points for the "weapon platforms" and give it a proper portrait.

EDIT: well, not completely functional. About every other time I start up, I crash with an invalid floating point. Hmm.

[ November 17, 2003, 04:02: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[Taz-in-Space]

The game crashes on start-up? That would seem to indicate that a variable field was getting bad input - except that SHOULD crash it EVERY time...

Does it crash only after going through on a RELOAD? That would indicate that the bad value was being generated IN THE GAME.
Try this: load program from scratch, if no error then save and then blow up planet; and reload saved game. If it crashes on a RELOAD, that would indicate the bad value IS generated.
If above happens: Try load from scratch and play as above. BUT then get out of game ENTIRELY. Then load on a fresh start - If no error then you just proved the above.

If the crash error is truly random then I haven't any suggestions...

[Phoenix-D]

As far as I can tell, it only crashes the first time I start the game with a DIFFERENT ship type (I have two).

So, if I select the Terran Destroyer to start, crash. If I restart and select the destroyer again, all is well.

If I restart and select the Gunboat, crash. And vice versa..

[Taz-in-Space]

That would seem to indicate that there are some files loaded at the start of a NEW ship that is NOT loaded when using a ship same as the Last one loaded...

And I take it that this crash did NOT happen before the planet was blown up? Weird!

Sounds like a job for the Mighty Malfador Machinations Mastermind!!