Serious probs

[UltraMantis]

http://ftlwiki.com/wiki/Modding_Ships

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ROOM
1   - room number, starting from 0.
7   - x coordinate, starting from 0. 0 is the leftmost position a room can have. 1 moves it 35 px to the right, moves it 70 px and so on.
8   - y coordinate, starting from 0. 0 is topmost position. Same as x, each number moves a room by 35 px.
2   - width of a room. you can use any but the game expects 1 or 2 only. each value represents a 35x35 px block.
1   - height of a room. save as above.


DOOR
2   - x coordinate. same as rooms.
2   - y coordinate. same as rooms.
0   - number of room to the left, or above the room you are connecting to (except for airlocks. use number of room you are connecting to in that case).
1   - number of room you are connecting to (except for airlocks. use -1 in that case).
1   - is the door horizontal (0) or vertical (1).

If airlocks dont work, probably the order of conected rooms is reversed.

[Spearka]

okay, though i know i sound like a complete douche asking this, but i have tried creating airlocks and moved the shield image, but in both instances, it crashed the game, so i would like to ask someoen else to do it instead
attatched the most recent data file in previous post

[UltraMantis]

I checked your data, and it looked good.
Tried patching it and started FTL... all good.

The problem is not in the shiep blueprint or ship.txt/ship.xml. The only issue i have found is that airlocks did not empty the proper rooms. Otherwise the pathing works well, and all rooms are reachable.

For airlocks:

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DOOR
2 - x coordinate
7 - y coordinate (coordinates are fine btw)
1 - room to vent (this is the problem, incorrect rooms are being vented)
-1 - -1 is empty space
1 - door orientation: 1- vertical, 0- horizontal (this is ok)

[Spearka]

okay, the airlocks now work, but the shield image is still off-center, i also made some new room images for the rooms i made (since there isn't any existing room images) but it causes the game to crash, as per usual, i am attatching the data file and also the interior files

interior.zip

data.zip

[UltraMantis]

To get the shield image to match, the best idea is to load both the ship and the shield as layers in an editor. Once you are happy with the position of the shield, crop or resize canvas and export the shield image only. Then export the ship image. Both images must be the same size in order to align properly.

As for the crashes, well there's another typo in the blueprints.xml:

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      <engines power="2" room="0" start="true" img="room_prometheus_engine"/>
         <slot>
            <direction>right</direction>
            <number>1</number>
         </slot>
      </weapons>

The ending tag is </weapons> and it should be </engines> A copy paste error.

I suspect that your computer screens will not glow properly but i could be wrong. You wont get the FTL ones to align easily, so you may have to make your own. Use the room sprite as a base image, then make a selection to include the screen you wish to glow. Add a new layer and paint the glow colors there, then save only that layer as the _glow.png file.
You can ommit the _glow.png files entirely, the game will work fine, except the screens will allways be grey.

Keep up the good work, this ain't easy to do.
GIMP is a program you can use to acomplish both the glows and the shield alignment.

[Spearka]

To get the shield image to match, the best idea is to load both the ship and the shield as layers in an editor. Once you are happy with the position of the shield, crop or resize canvas and export the shield image only. Then export the ship image. Both images must be the same size in order to align properly.

As for the crashes, well there's another typo in the blueprints.xml:

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      <engines power="2" room="0" start="true" img="room_prometheus_engine"/>
         <slot>
            <direction>right</direction>
            <number>1</number>
         </slot>
      </weapons>

The ending tag is </weapons> and it should be </engines> A copy paste error.

I suspect that your computer screens will not glow properly but i could be wrong. You wont get the FTL ones to align easily, so you may have to make your own. Use the room sprite as a base image, then make a selection to include the screen you wish to glow. Add a new layer and paint the glow colors there, then save only that layer as the _glow.png file.
You can ommit the _glow.png files entirely, the game will work fine, except the screens will allways be grey.

Keep up the good work, this ain't easy to do.
GIMP is a program you can use to acomplish both the glows and the shield alignment.

i did the alignment, but i do not know if this works since the game won't even start up due to "runtime" errors, i have no idea what is causing this

[kartoFlane]

This usually means a syntax error of sorts. Try checking whether you haven't made some kind of typo, or wrongly placed space.
Comparing to vanilla files might help.

[Spearka]

This usually means a syntax error of sorts. Try checking whether you haven't made some kind of typo, or wrongly placed space.
Comparing to vanilla files might help.

i am pretty sure that isn't it, i never actually got a runtime error due to typos before and even so, i checked for spelling errors and got none

[shark]

This usually means a syntax error of sorts. Try checking whether you haven't made some kind of typo, or wrongly placed space.
Comparing to vanilla files might help.

i am pretty sure that isn't it, i never actually got a runtime error due to typos before and even so, i checked for spelling errors and got none

You aren't helping us help you. If you're pretty sure you know where the error isn't to be found, post the parts of the code you're unsure about.

[DryEagle]

a single misplaced > or / is enough to cause the game to crash out with runtime errors. as is an out-of-range number. or all kinds of other things. check everything