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5thHorseman wrote:

Tassyr wrote:Erm, help- something broke. What'd I do wrong?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gd696pux07as310/WTF.png

Based on the discussions elsewhere about null rooms on ships causing problems I looked at my old files with new eyes, and found the problem. It seems to be a bug in SuperLuminal. I don't know all of the occasions where this will happen so here's what happened to me:

• Have a mod that works fine. For me it was Asteroid.ftl from this very site
• Import the FTL file into SuperLuminal
• Delete a room. It cannot be the last room you added. For me it was room 9 out of 18 rooms.
• Export that file as an FTL file
• Use Modman.exe to load that FTL file, see that the hull image is skewed like yours is.
• Load back into SuperLuminal, see that the hull looks okay.

To actually fix the problem, I investigated the two FTL files and found that the room I had deleted was room 9. The old FTL file has this room. The new one jumps from room 8 to room 10.

I edited the ship's TXT file (where it lists rooms and doors) to change the room number of room 18 to room 9. I then changed all references to room 18 in the doors to 9. I then moved the data for room 9 from the end of the rooms list to between rooms 8 and 10. Finally, I went into the blueprints.xml and made sure there were no references to room 18 there. It was just a hallway so there were not.

I manually zipped up this FTL file again and loaded it, and bammo, everything's fine.

From what I can tell, because room 9 is not referenced in the FTL file the game creates its own room 9 in the upper lefthand corner, and then the rest of the ship (hull, floor, shields, etc) is skewed to this new center.

kartoFlane, let me know if you need more info. I also have 3 FTL files in various states:

• Working FTL with extra room I want to delete set to "artillery" so I can find the room number.
• With that room deleted and the problem occurring
• With the problem fixed manually

I'll happily upload all 3 of those your download if you need me to.

5thHorseman wrote:I can't see how it could be any other way. The ONLY difference between Asteroid_2 and Asteroid_3 is the asteroid_2.txt file and the only difference between those files is that room 18 is changed to room 9, and 3 doors that said they connected to room 18 now say they connect to room 9. 18 isn't referenced in the xml files because it's a hallway.

I did not load asteroid_3.ftl into SuperLuminal before loading it into FTL to see that it was fine. That text file edit was all that was needed.

dalolorn wrote:Seeing as you linked to my post, not only has it since been determined that null rooms (a name i use for 0x0 rooms) are safe, but I should also add that upon further investigation, I found that the number of rooms matched the number of visible rooms perfectly. In other words, there was nothing wrong with that.

dalolorn wrote:Seeing as you linked to my post, not only has it since been determined that null rooms (a name i use for 0x0 rooms) are safe, but I should also add that upon further investigation, I found that the number of rooms matched the number of visible rooms perfectly. In other words, there was nothing wrong with that.

Tassyr wrote:So, er. I'm confused. How do I fix this problem...?

5thHorseman wrote:I edited the ship's TXT file (where it lists rooms and doors) to change the room number of room 18 to room 9. I then changed all references to room 18 in the doors to 9. I then moved the data for room 9 from the end of the rooms list to between rooms 8 and 10. Finally, I went into the blueprints.xml and made sure there were no references to room 18 there. It was just a hallway so there were not.

I manually zipped up this FTL file again and loaded it, and bammo, everything's fine.

kartoFlane wrote:Alright, updated the 13-08-20 release with fix for the room indexing bug.
Also made the editor capable of viewing ships with 0x0 rooms -- ie. the editor doesn't crash when you attempt to open such a ship. I have yet to implement a way to select/modify/create 0x0 rooms.

speedoflight wrote:Or just a room with 1x1 size but with the edges in red or something like that (which indicates the size is actually 0x0)