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IIRC Volt_Cruelerz did that for Animosity and it made Sins crash.
Figures. Can make it temporarily join your side, with disable engines/abilities/phasejump. Best I got.
Yeah, trying to make friendly ships attack each other crashes the game.
How are you making them join your side temporarily?
They added a switch for ChangePlayerIndextToFirstSpawner with Rebellion.
I couldn't get it to work in my testing though so I figured it was bugged..
Also, working on adding a faction-specific SB for the AR with beam weapons instead of lasers. When I add in the constructor for the new SB, I get this error:
Assert @ C:\Projects\P4\SinsRebellion\Release\CodeSource\GS/Entity/EntitySystemHelpers.cpp(715)
starBaseName == sourceAbility->GetIAbilityPtr()->GetDef()->m_buffApplyAction.entityTypeToCreate
For the record, it does still build a functioning starbase.
Check your creationSourceAbility in the starbase entity. Sounds like it's not matching up with the ability you are using to create the star base.
I wasn't aware of that field but upon changing it, the error still displays.
Is it not in the list of starbases for the player?
It is.
If your still getting that error then you still have a misconfigured CreateStarBase to creationSourceAbility somewhere.
Double check all the star base creationSourceAbility entries to make sure the corresponding ability is actually creating that star base.
Then double check you don't have two Abilities trying to create the same star base type.
There should be a 1-1 correspondence between these two entities.
I literally copied and pasted the name from one to the slot of the other.
And? I'm suggesting to you how to troubleshoot and identify the problem.
And I've checked through all those things multiple times and I'm not seeing what my problem is..
Post, I fix.
From AbilityDeployStarBasePsiRebel.entity:
buffInstantActionType "CreateStarBase"instantActionTriggerType "AlwaysPerform"starBaseType "StarBasePsiRebel"
From StarBasePsiRebel.entity:
statCountType "StarBase"creationSourceAbility "AbilityDeployStarBasePsiRebel"
And did you check the other star bases and abilities to make sure they still match up and you didn't copy/paste something inadvertently into one of those?
Whole file set.
There's gotta be something missed, a second set of eyes on more than just a couple snippets is necessary here.
Entity.manifest too.
Zombie, yes I did indeed check the other starbase files I've modified.
Anyways, Psychoak, link.
While you're at it if you happen to stumble across the reason for the Novalith+Nova Dereg error, that'd be much appreciated as well.
Will check the mod out after dinner. Should be much easier to debug than my current projects. A nice, peaceful break.
Well, the missing research prereq was easy enough. You have to make the base research an actual prerequisite.
Otherwise, you get situations where the ability is available, but isn't leveled.
Add
NumResearchPrerequisites 1 ResearchPrerequisite Subject "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PLANETMODULEACCESS_CANNONTECH_LOYALIST" Level 1
To AbilityTechOrbitalcannonLoyalist
Still trying to figure out this other one.
Edit: Found it. Capitalization fail in Entity.manifest. You have StarbasePsiRebel.entity, should be StarBasePsiRebel.entity.
Capitalization mismatches don't throw the expected errors for not finding the corresponding files, instead they break down in game in various ways. Infinitely stacking buff files for instance.
Thanks
And hey, if you ever get too bored, you can always debug the original version of Massive Cargo Bays/AbilityIsDunov.entity from Capital Identities
Heh. I already have a 100+ file interconnected ability system I need to finish writing.
Does this mean you manually type in your entity.manifest file Volt? Harpo has a nice manifest program, and as you're in CS I'm sure you can make your own if I can.
Yes, I manually type my manifests. Yes, I could make a tool for it. Yes, I know there are tools for it. I've just never taken the time.
A simple script would have taken less time than you spent debugging that issue, then involving someone else's time to debug the issue.
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