Modding SEV Thread Questions

[Devnullicus]

Hmmm, not finding it. I see a number of references in messages to that file, but they all say "where is it?". So I guess I have the same question

[Captain Kwok]

I've posted a copy of the description files here:
http://www.captainkwok.net/se5resources.php

[Devnullicus]

Yeah, found them after I started widening my search past this forum

Thanks for doing that, Captain Kwok. I can definitely see why Aaron pulled them - they're seriously out of date and somewhat confusing.

Instead of relying on them, I think I'm going to hard-code the ones I know about for now and when the updated files come out, I'll read them in instead.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Is there a way to get SE5 to generate a log or report showing any errors with my mod?

[CosmoLizard]

thxs Capitain for the link, but im still a bit confused if i could ud¡se, for example "Combat To Hit Defense Plus " as racial ability?? or is just for th hulls??

[President_Elect_Shang]

President_Elect_Shang said:
Is there a way to get SE5 to generate a log or report showing any errors with my mod?

bump

[Captain Kwok]

SE:V will spit out fatal mod errors when the mod is loaded as SE:IV did. It won't tell you though if you have 1 ability required but 2 listing and things of that sort - but it would tell you if you had 1 ability listed and said 2 were required...

The "Combat To Hit Defense" ability can be used on hulls or components, and even facilities if you wanted.

[Fyron]

Captain Kwok said:
It won't tell you though if you have 1 ability required but 2 listing and things of that sort...

And it never should; that is not a data file error, it is a valid way to take out certain abilities for testing or just to leave them around in the off chance you might like to add it back in the future. Maybe a "data file verifier" could list it as a warning, but SE5 shouldn't gripe about it on every load.

[tmcc]

Haven't tried yet but there are a bunch of debug flags which all default to FALSE in DebugSettings.txt

[President_Elect_Shang]

I have been working with the debug text but have not had any luck getting it to go. I have also worked with the little log that pops up when you run the mod. Problem there is I can't read any of the four entries it is reporting. All four problems are parse problems but I can't tell where they are located at?

Is there any programs that will check formula for parse-ability? The script parse utility is for making csf files right? I have tried it to no avail.