doesn't show up in shipyard

I have designed a ship and gotten graphics for it, but it still won't appear in the shipyard. Any idea why? :blink:

There are several possible reasons for why a ship doesn't show up. The one's I can think up off the top of my head are:

• The Availability bits are preventing it from showing up

• You might need some Require bits set (I haven't gone through the Nova code in very much detail, so that's just a shot in the dark)

• The TechLevel was not entered correctly

• Another ship of the same Display Weight is preventing it from appearing (do any of the standard ships have that bit set?)

• If you have it set to only appear some of the time, you might just be that unlucky

PBoat

This post has been edited by PBoat101 : 31 January 2005 - 07:00 PM

You missed one reason... He might not have set the buyrandom field (in the ship resource) to a positive number. Since you probably want your ship to show up 100% of the time, it shoud be set to 100.

In fact, that was PBoat's last point.

Oopsie, I thought he was talking about bits with crons or something like that.

Well, since I can't see anything wrong with it, I've attached it, so if anyone can find anything wrong with it, I would be extremely grateful.

--edit--
Hmm, attachment doesn't appear, very strange...

This post has been edited by Procyon : 02 February 2005 - 08:10 AM

Are you sure you hit "show in post" after attaching the file?

This post has been edited by Zacha Pedro : 02 February 2005 - 09:29 AM

There's a limit of 100k per post. If it's too large, try removing some images from it or something - I'm sure they won't be necessary for us to help you.

Ok, took out everything I could, but its still too big for one post, so I' gonna post the ship here and the pics in the next ones.

Attached File(s)

• ship.zip (393bytes)
  Number of downloads: 13

Here's the pics...

Attached File(s)

• shipyard.zip (7.31K)
  Number of downloads: 5
• target.zip (6K)
  Number of downloads: 8

And here's the rest of it. Sorry about spreading it out, but it was really big, even after I compressed it.

Attached File(s)

• spin_rleD.zip (69.35K)
  Number of downloads: 12

Ship RID 896 is out of range, it needs to be from 128-895. I think 895 is reserved for the escape pod, but I could be wrong. Try a lower number.

I use anything in the mid to high 500's. These are guaranteed open, unless you've already used them.

That worked, thanks guys.
wanders off, muttering,"How could I have missed it?"

But now, strangely, when I buy the ship or hire it as an escort, as I leave theplanet the game crashes. What gives? :blink:

Well I'd assume that's a problem with the shan/sprites, though I don't have .rez convertor on me right now to check it out.

Did you also change the ID of the shan?

Yep.

I don't think the rles have been imported quite right. Check this post for how to import.

Also create a debuglog and take a look at it. It's usually fairly helpful for finding problems.

To create one, simply stick a blank text (not a word file, it must be a text file, as created by notepad or an equivalent) named debuglog.txt in the main nova directory, and launch nova. Work up to the point where it crashes, then take a look at the log.