Question regarding the Auroran ships.

Hello!

First of all, great mod!

Now to the brief story before my question;
I was messing around with the .XML files. Thought i'd add some ships here and there, mostly to see all the models in action.

So, i added a few Asuran ships to the Tau'ri building list and all looks fine, Icons for the ships are there in the Build menu. Constructing them with no problem. But; once you call the ship in the game crashes. I realized pretty soon that there were some crucial Asuran ship .ALO files missing from the models map.

My guess is then that the models have not yet been implemented into the mod, I've tried to search for "something" regarding the Asuran models, but i couldn't find anything that came close to my question.

Am i correct or are they simply missing from my models map?

I shall await your answer dear Stargate Team.

Regards,
Edmald.

hello edmald, and welcome to the forums!

I was messing around with the .XML files. Thought i'd add some ships here and there, mostly to see all the models in action.

Welcome to the club. I had the same idea, messed around with all asuran and wraith .xml units for a while, and all of a sudden I get team member ^^

But; once you call the ship in the game crashes. I realized pretty soon that there were some crucial Asuran ship .ALO files missing from the models map.

Yap, the game crashes if you try to load a .xml unit on a map that has a missing name in the <Space_Model_Name> tag.

You cant be aware of that, but we have 2 versions of the mod. In the admin version there are some models we never released by now. Its possible the .xml of that unit already exists. So yeah without model this leads to the crash you experienced. There are lot of other sources for crashes (see www.stargate-eaw.de/index.php/de/compone...eaw-anti-bugs-thread ).

Thank you for a quick and an well informing answer!

I figured it was something like that. I know nothing of how to write a XML code from scratch or how it works really. Sadly it took me longer then i dare admit before i realized some files were missing. I got quite frustrated at first when the ship caused crash. I added lines of codes to to the modifications i wanted from other known -to-work- ship-files. Eventually i ventured to the Models map and saw the missing files. So to test my theory i changed the Space_model on the Asuran Frigate to a Deadalus model, and it worked perfectly.

Huge facepalm *Sighs*

So to gain access to such fantastic models, it is requiered to be a member of the Team i assume?

All right. I shall wait then for the GC.
Once again, thank you both for quick reply.

I know nothing of how to write a XML code from scratch or how it works really.

Neither did I when I started ^^

Sadly it took me longer then i dare admit before i realized some files were missing. I got quite frustrated at first when the ship caused crash.

Yeah, this game engine and its millions of possible xml errors are indeed very frustarting. Even if you exactly know what you're doing its time intensive and sometimes frustrating to get the things working.

If you wish to learn more about xml coding I can offer some basic Tutorial videos (coding is in part 10 and above):
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLild8kZ8-...aGqLWuJdGFSSXlrv3B_9

Thank you for a quick and an well informing answer!

You're welcome

Thank you, i will check it out!