Added Ship Mod crashing FL when selecting from Dealer

Possible things 2 do
–- add a “HpPilot”
— check “ids_name” of [ship] and [good]
–- convert dds textures to tga

@F!R

Why convert the textures from DDS to TGA? As long as they are square there should be no issues with their use, (i know you can use odd sized ones as well but they normally don’t work). The obvious advantage to DDS textures is the file size, considerably smaller than using TGA

… just bad experience. ;D

And if you see “just an empty bay with those circular mounting FX and nothing on top.”
i d bet on the textures.

I’d also suggest you post your error log using FLSpit. Maybe it will be more telling than just the symptoms.

I’ve just downloaded your ship, I’ll take a look and see what’s wrong with it for you.

@ F!R, believe it or not but FL prefers DDS to the TGA format, which is one of the reasons DA switched to DDS half way through development.
If your having problems with DDS then I can only suggest that your card drivers might be the problem.

EDIT

Your icon is the problem, the pathway is correct, so I suspect either a corrupt mesh or the wrong texture type.

I never “butcher” a vanilla icon, I always make a new icon using the icon template that comes with the .3db exporter plugin.

What can i say.
I had models crashing Freelancer
and i switched textures - even only a few of such a model -
to TGA and it worked ok.
Never seen something similar the other way.

So i can’t belive, that FL likes DDS better than TGA.

Might be my graphic card or drivers,
might textures not square, might be 2 simple

• but that concept works 4 me and it works fast.

And most of the WTS models also use DDS (mostly) textures.
Reason: size. The rest: my incompetence + laziness.

The following line in your script is why you have invisible textures-

LODranges = 0, 75, 150, 1000

This tells FL to switch to the different LOD meshes in the CMP, you however don’t have LOD meshes, so there’s nothing for FL to draw on screen, what you should have is “LODranges = 0, 2000”, which is the maximum distance a ship of this size can be physically seen on screen.

Osprey’s tutorial was how I used to make icons, but since the arrival of the .3db exporter I haven’t used it, it now takes 10x as long to make the texture as it does to make the finished icon, and as long as you remember to change the group & material names in the template, you will have an infinite supply of icons.

FlSpit never does show errors for this kind of problem, any mesh errors (cmp, sur & 3db) are a CTD without a log entry.

WARNING: alloc_equip: Archetype[0x8000bec6] not supported/equippable!

That’s a regular vanilla FL error, a capship base or wreck has something mounted in it’s loadout that shouldn’t be mounted (make it cargo ;)).

EDIT

One fixed Icon

Apart from the texture being upside down for a TGA there was nothing wrong with it, so it looks like the 3db was corrupted, the icon in the above link uses your texture converted to DDS and was created in seconds using the 3db exporter ;).

To get the CRC problem fixed rename groups and
materials of your ship to unique names like “myshipy001a” …
and export it again.