Ship not showing up at dealer

Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:42 pm by Bejaymac

One quick question, what's the LOD settings in your shiparch, for a custom ship it should look like this

LODranges = 0, 1600

If that isn't it then mail me the CMP & MAT and I'll check that it's not the problem, address is in my profile.

Rancor the simple fact that he can enter the shipdealers to see his ship isn't there tells me that he's referenced the model properly, if he hadn't he would have been staring at his desktop after clicking the shipdealer room icon.

**shuffles off with a new headache**

Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:33 pm by xkaliboor

it may b wise to check your references on the shiparch.ini file..
i've had a problem like that once and all it was, was a misreferencing.. ^^;

or rather.. LACK of referencing XD;;;

jst a thought.

~x marks the spot. step and burn!

Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:35 am by ChrisKenobi

@xkaliboor

I'll recheck my references in shiparch.ini.

@Bejaymac

my LODranges are 0, 2000 In the tutorial I read I was told that should be used. I'll try changing it to 0, 1600.

@Rankor

When I get home I go through your checks; I know for one that I had put my 3db file in:equipment\models\commodities\nn_icons\cylonraider.3db

Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:24 am by Rankor

As Chris said: "When I get home I go through your checks; I know for one that I had put my 3db file in:equipment\models\commodities\nn_icons\cylonraider.3db"

The 3db file can remain in the same folder as your ship cmp & mat file. The main thing is to make sure the shiparch.ini references where that file is.
Here is an example from my own files:
Under: DATA\EQUIPMENT\goods.ini

[Good
nickname = D1954X_hull
category = shiphull
ship = D1954X
price = 2500000
ids_name = 237095
item_icon = SHIPS\CUSTOM\D1954X\D1954X.3db

My 3db file is in the same folder as the cmp & mat files for ease of referencing since the ship itself isn't really considered a commodity, but rather "equipment" .

As for LOD ranges on custom ships...
I have them set at : 0, 999999

Edited by - Rankor on 7/27/2007 4:36:34 AM

Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:06 am by Ogu

As long as the LOD ranges are at least around 1500, you should be able to see the ship.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "it won't show up" in the dealer. This could mean a few things:
1. There is an icon for your ship when you go to buy it, but you can't see your ship in the little rotateable preview window.

2. You can't see the ship in your icon (ie, the icon is black or clear), but the ship actually shows up in the preview window.

3. There isn't an icon for your ship showing up, so you can't buy it at all. If this is the case, there should be an empty ship sale location - by this I mean that if you made it for sale at Manhattan, there would only be two ships for sale instead of 3.

Remember, you can only have 3 ships for sale at a ship dealer. Any more won't show up and you'd crash when you went to the ship dealer.

Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:16 am by ChrisKenobi

Ogu, my problem is option 3, when I go to Manhattan only two ships show up at the dealer; the Rhino and the Patriot..

Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:19 pm by Ogu

Alright, can you post an updated entry from Shiparch.ini, your two goods.ini entries and the market_ships.ini entry? I'm not seeing anything right off...

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