Help needed Error checking my MOD (German)

[Bas]

Post the errors in the FL-Spew.txt

Also, somewhere there is LS’ ‘FL error checker’

[J.R.]

Allready tried all the Error checkers that I was able to find.
With CRC tool i mam able to find some of these issues but I dont know how to fix them… (like the jumpgate effects… maybe its because of the display time = 0 ???)
Most of the Errors dont occur ALL the time and some do like the invalid voicemessage…
here are some of the FLSPEW-Errors:

WARNING: Unknown camera type? (ChaseCamera)
WARNING: Voice message 2351700488 is invalid for voice 3073825485
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\cmn\SoundArch.cpp(360) :
WARNING: unknown Sound archetype ‘0x0’
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\Space\JumpEffect.cpp(300) :
WARNING: jump gate effect number (0) named (0x0) did not create.
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\Space\JumpEffect.cpp(300) :
WARNING: jump gate effect number (1) named (0x0) did not create.
cmn\ShapeDB.h(242)
WARNING: ShapeDB: unable to find shape ‘’
cmn\ShapeDB.h(242)
WARNING: invalid MSG id (2684724226) for voice profile (0xa2c8870d)
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Client\space\StarSys.cpp(716)
WARNING:General:Sc_FMHEAD_MOTION_WALLA_CASL_000LV_XA_% failed to map JOINT (parent: Head01, child: B_Top Lip) channel.

C:\work\builds\dalibs\dalibs-build\build\Src\EngBase\Anim\Anim.cpp(757)

and so on… and so… and so on

[adoxa]

Jason’s Freelancer Patch (and update) will fix a lot of those.

[J.R.]

THX Adoxa… helped a lot !
…but …there is one more thing that bugs me like hell:
Some of my commodities (in fact: a lot of them) apear on
ALL"base-infocards" (marked visited Base in game and F9) as for
the base buyable commodities, even if they are not explicit anounced in the market ini-file.
Changing the IDS to another range in order to get them out of my “MOD.DLL” doesnt fix this problem… :-((

[adoxa]

If your good_sell_price = 1, any commodity not listed in the market (thus getting the standard price) will show up as buying.

[J.R.]

Thanks a lot adoxa… I am very grateful for your help.
As far as I can see in this Forum you are a real FL-wizard.

…appreciated and many greetings to you in “down under”

I realized another error lately:
The minefield i made worked and suddenly I realize that the mines
doesnt do damage anymore even when they explode close to the ship…
Very strange cos they WORKED in the past…

Any clue?

[adoxa]

Not really. If you can see the mines, I guess the [Asteroids] section and its file are okay. You’ll have to check what type of asteroid you have (from the asteroid file); its definition in DATA\SOLAR\asteroidarch.ini; and its explosion in DATA\FX\explosions.ini. Sure you’re ship is just not noticing the damage?

[Gisteron]

probably earlier you had a weeker shield/armor

[J.R.]

Thats the point… tested several ships and everywhere the same effect
even with weak shields and Starflier ship.
Very strange thou… cos it worked fine a view weaks ago…
The ship is NOT noticing the damage…
Maybe a FLHOOK issue or some of my commodities_info with
volume = 0 that I ve added to display some Text to the Pilot in Cargo… or…
I dont know folks… this is so anoying…

[Gisteron]

did you change anything relative to it?

[J.R.]

Nope… just added a path inside the field inside the minefield (theres a Base inside)
with cargo-scanning patrols.
But even outside the minefield the mines explode but do NO DAMGE !

Thats what I found in explosion_ini:
effect = gf_explosion_smallship04, 0.000000

[Gisteron]

well, what do you expect us to answer… difficult case without any code samples. i suggest you to take the zone 21 in new york as a reference to do it correctly.

[J.R.]

Right.
Made an extra file in astroids and it all worked fine…. but not anymore…
Thats what I found in explosion_ini:
effect = gf_explosion_smallship04, 0.000000

[Gisteron]

the effect is irrelevant. only thing that matters are the damage value(s) and the explosion radius.

[M1C]

sorry for off-topic but: How to activate the logging into Fl-Spew.txt?

[adoxa]

FLSpew.txt is always logged; you need a patch to disable it. It’s located at %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Freelancer\FLSpew.txt (on XP, anyway). A custom log file can be created by changing the log values in EXE\freelancer.ini.

Taking Zone-21 as an example, we have:

UNIVERSE\SYSTEMS\LI01\li01.ini
file = solar\asteroids\Li01_zone21_mine_field.ini

SOLAR\ASTEROIDS\li01_zone_21mine_field.ini
asteroid = mine_spike1, -0.9, 0, 0.05, 110, 0, 10, mine

SOLAR\asteroidarch.ini
nickname = mine_spike1
explosion_arch = explosion_large_mine

FX\explosions.ini
nickname = explosion_large_mine
radius = 200
hull_damage = 40000

If you’re not taking damage, I guess something along this chain is broken.

[J.R.]

Have finally found the error:
I did change the value
[ShieldEquipConsts]
HULL_DAMAGE_FACTOR = 0 in constants.ini and had the shield
damage of all the weapons redone manually.
Since there is no energy-damage-value in explosions.ini…
so… I just added one for all explosions with hull_damage and everything is fine !!!

I am glad to have you folks here to help me with hinds.
Adoxa seems to be the magic in person afaic see here.
Thanx AGAIN !!!
Greetings

[J.R.]

Question:
How can I define an extra HP in ships. ini for a mountable “Token”
without making it a HP for Thrusters, Shields, Armor, Scanners,
Power supplies,.Tractors or Weapons since I allready use all these types of HP
for equipment and don´t want to enable players to mount
2 Power supplies for example…
Think you folks know what i mean… hope so

Edit:
I did these Tokens as commodities to work as access_code to dock via FLHook.
The downside is: you loose em when you die. thats why i ask you for
a solution to this Problem.

[J.R.]

Hmmm… seems like there is nobody with an idea to this…

[Gisteron]

define them as hardpoints for eg powerless thrusters or cargo pods.