Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Deep Ellum, Texas, USA
Posts: 5

ok...ikm currently trying to merge a few mods into one...lucky me it's not working. I keep getting this when ever i try to open up FRED2...

Error: Error parsing 'ships.tbl'
Error code = 1.

File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\Ship\Ship.cpp
Line: 1709

Call stack:
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FRED2.EXE 0064ec0e()
FRED2.EXE 0064ec88()
FRED2.EXE 0063a544()
FRED2.EXE 00639528()
FRED2.EXE 00639731()
KERNEL32.DLL bff7363b()
KERNEL32.DLL bff942e7()
------------------------------------------------------------------

go figure..i have no clue what it means. help if you can. or i can send you all the mods that im trying to merge so you can do it for me then tell me how afterwards.
thank you for your time.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Welcome to the VWBB!

Well I'm not positive but it has something to do with where in the .tbl files you put the info for any mods. Specifically in weapons, you have to put the right weapon in the right group. There is a section for primary weapons, a section for beams, etc. If anything is in the wrong spot then you get that error message.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Lo-Fidelity All Star
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HeX....it specifically says SHIPS.tbl, not weapons. Check the size of the ships.tbl and if it's over 380k it won't work, delete something.

If you want me to try to figure it out, email it to me @ Farcaster@hotmail.com

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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Yeah, delete comment lines.
Everything behind a ";" is a comment and can be deleted. YOu know that EVERY Ascii symbol takes 1 byte or so... (thanks to Cirian for that info)

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Registered: Aug 2000
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I think there is also a ship limit in FS2 anyway. I remember that for the longest time fighters that were supposed to be Astaroths were coming up as Ulysses because there were just too many ships in the file. When I removed a couple of custom ships, Astaroths reappeared.

Just to alert you to potential problems in the future involving huge ships tables.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Deep Ellum, Texas, USA
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Thanks for the info guys...i have kinda figured out the problem but i think your right on the too many ships part but the size issue isnt always true. i had a ships.tbl that was 460k and it ran...only once because i decided to try and modify it even more. big mistake. the reason i think the ships thing might be true is because i had some 10 to 15 custom ships on there. thanks again.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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Oh, that´s waaaaaaaaaay to many

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Deep Ellum, Texas, USA
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i kinda figured that. but thanks for the help. right now im trying to speak with dark about a project i have been working on but if any of you know how to make the ship models. totally complete. your info will be greatly welcomed.

thanks from Kane Rage

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Registered: Jul 2000
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That´s what I´m also having problems with...

I have the finished cob file, but how do I put that damn thing into FS2 ? I converted it to a pof file and s on, but Fred always crashs if I put anything in there...

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Deep Ellum, Texas, USA
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see i have an even worse problem..i cant get that far. i dont have any programs able to create a 3D model. and im not sure on how to get it without spending alot of money which i dont have because of my business.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Somewhere in Germany ;)
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Hm.. I don´t know about any free modeller software...

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