This is getting silly. I just “reinstalled” FL (deleted the directory and all saves, copied a backup of vanilla installation I always use) and activated the mod again… The same behavior. It undocks OK, hull gets damaged instead of shield. What the hell?

I’m from the same team. Strange thing happened to me yesterday.

After a long time I started the mod and tried to repeat the crash. I don’t remember changing anything before, but this time one of the broken ships undocked without a crash.

That isn’t all, though. I noticed a crazy bug with it. My shield was up as I was being hit by a station. All effects showed a shield hit, but the shield level wouldn’t budge. Hull was getting damaged instead!

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Not to mention trading / tractoring bots.

I want to ask you about death fuses. The usual behaviour is that when you repair, your ship stops dying.

Is there an easy way to prevent that?
I have a solution, but there may be some other easy way.

My solution
I have a dummy [CollisionGroup] that also calls the death fuse.
At the start of the fuse the collision group is destroyed. That way even if the ship repairs, this group stays destroyed - and the ship keeps dying.

It’s possible I’m just too picky. This works, so asking for better might be asking too much.

Obviously, vanilla capships would still crash. I had to rewrite their fuses … and let me tell you, I was quite upset with DA.

Thanks. Sorry if some of my comments look like nitpicking.

Well really, what do you expect? Anyway, it now ignores float/integer if the size is not a multiple of four.

I just expected it to handle the exception, really.

I admire your fast reaction time

Hello, folks!

First, great job everyone! It’s a wonderful tool.

Second, a little bug report from the 3.0-wip:
Open some string data and try to interpret it as float array (which is apparently wrong). There’s a good chance of an unhandled exception to pop up (the program survives). Same with Integer array.

I used it on the file “data\interface\hud\3dnavpoint.3db” where I opened the material in there and its “Type” entry (screenshot).

Exception text (interpreting as float, Integer says basically the same)

System.ArgumentException: Destination array is not long enough to copy all the items in the collection. Check array index and length.
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)
at System.BitConverter.ToInt32(Byte[] value, Int32 startIndex)
at UTFEditor.EditFloatArrayForm…ctor(TreeNode node)
at UTFEditor.UTFForm.EditFloatArray()
[…]

Third, a few ideas / feature requests.

• Some way of viewing wireframes. I’m not sure how they are commonly edited, but maybe some feature could help with that as well,

• Viewing/export of materials with the modifications they did to the basic texture (like colouring),

• I have common extensions associated with UTF Editor, but it doesn’t seem to pick up the files if I tell Windows to open them in it,

• Maybe even drag&drop of files onto the program window to open them…

I’ll be sure to post if I find something else.

EDIT:
It has trouble with “data\interface\interface.generic.vms”, whatever that contains. If I try to “Show Model” or “View” the VMeshData of its part interface.generic-2.vms, it shows an error: