Simple guy needs simple help. New member :-)

[anonymousmoose]

posted on December 5th, 2011, 11:48 am

Last edited by anonymousmoose on December 5th, 2011, 11:53 am, edited 1 time in total.

I need some help please.

Started downloading all sorts of wondering things for Armada 2.

But I cant get the ships icon to work. When you guild a ship, the icon which should show the picture is either blank or it is nothing. Same when you select the ship etc.

Example; I downloaded the Excellsior & Mirinda class ships. The excellsior is showing no icon pic (but it does show the icon on the build bar, but when you click, nothing in the build list) at all the the Mirinda just a grey box all the time. The ships work, fly, fight fine.

The tga files are all in the C:Program FilesActivisionStar Trek Armada IITexturesRGB folder

I assume its got something to do with the gui_global.spr file and the
# Federation wireframes

This is what the instructions asked me to do:

# Federation wireframes

@reference=64

b_fmiranda gbfmiranda 0       0       64      64

@reference=128

fmirandaw1 wffmiranda 0 0 128 128

fexcelw1 wffexcelr 0 0 128 128

posted on December 5th, 2011, 2:12 pm

Is this stock A2 or FO A2?

posted on December 5th, 2011, 4:31 pm

Hey there welcome to the forums =D

and judgine bby the dir path he said, its just Standard A2, in which case:


Your going to need to alter the Tech1 techtree, a good example of what to add is (anywhere is fine):

F_miranda 2 fyard fresearch...


althought my A2 cooding is rusty heres how that works,

Its goes: ODF name of your ship, number of requirments, ODF names of the required objects.

hope iot works

posted on December 6th, 2011, 10:04 am

Still no luck... heres what the tech1 looks like:

// ***[ FEDERATION SHIPS ]************************
//
fconst.odf    1 fbase.odf                          // construction ship
ffreight.odf  2 fbase.odf fmining.odf              // mining freighter
fcargo.odf    2 fbase.odf ftrading.odf              // cargo ship
fsrepair.odf  2 fbase.odf fupgrade.odf              // repair ship
fscout.odf    1 fyard.odf                          // scout (venture class)
fdestroy.odf  1 fyard.odf                          // destroyer (defiant class)
fdestroy2.odf 1 fyard.odf                          // destroyer (sabre class)
fcruise1.odf  2 fyard.odf fresear.odf              // cruiser1 (akira class)
fcruise2.odf  2 fyard.odf fresear2.odf              // cruiser2 (steamrunner class)
fcruise3.odf  2 fyard.odf fresear.odf              // cruiser3 (intrepid class)
fcolony.odf  2 fyard.odf fresear.odf              // colony ship
fassault.odf  2 fyard.odf fresear2.odf              // assault ship (iwo Jima class)
fgalaxy.odf  1 fyard2.odf                          // battleship (galaxy class)
fbattle.odf  2 fyard2.odf fupgrade.odf            // battleship (sovereign class)
ffrigate.odf  1 fyard2.odf                          // frigate (andor class)
fspecial.odf  2 fyard2.odf fresear2.odf            // special (nebula class)
fexcelr.odf   1 fyard.odf     // Excelsior Refit
fmiranda.odf  0     // frigate (miranda class)


The two at the bottom are the added ships.

posted on December 6th, 2011, 12:08 pm

Greetings, Anon. It's probably just a beginner mistake, there's a lot that can go wrong when you don't know what you're doing. TF wrote a detailed guide for getting it right, available here: http://armada2.filefront.com/file/Minor_Mod_Tutorial;67690 

Also, if it is stock A2 related, someone please move it to the stock a2 section.

posted on December 6th, 2011, 3:40 pm

It seems like those instructions were incomplete 

This is what the instructions asked me to do:

# Federation wireframes

@reference=64

b_fmiranda        gbfmiranda  0      0      64      64

@reference=128

fmirandaw1        wffmiranda  0  0  128  128

fexcelw1        wffexcelr  0  0  128  128

There's no build button for the Excelsior, b_fmiranda, which is peculiar for sure.

Also make sure the files that were in the download were named appropriately to the references in the sprites. It could be that the files have a misspelling which leads to the non-showing images.