Ship Modification - Designer Issue

[PhoebusRevenio]

Issues:

• Ship types are duplicated when I click "New Design"
• The top ships are the game's original ships.
• The bottom ships are my modified versions
• If I attempt to create the game's "Corvette", it'll have 300 hull like normal, no combat computer options, and no section options and cannot be used.
• When I click on my modified "Corvette", it'll have 400 hull like it should, it'll have the original game sections and my new sections, and it'll work as expected.

I modified the ship_sizes from the original game, and have a new one named "00_sm_shipsizes.txt"

It modifies HP and costs and build times and such of most of the ships and stations in the game.

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to avoid duplicating this list of design options. I've attempted to name the file "00_shipsizes.txt" to just overwrite the original file, but that didn't change anything. I've changed the name of my section template files to the original names, and they don't really change any thing at all. (Original sections are not overwrited, and the game functions the same as before).

I've posted a picture of the issue. (If I use other mods with modifications to ships, the list duplicates more and more). Currently, this is what happens with just my one mod modifying or touching ships.

 

[PhoebusRevenio]

Bump...

 

[PhoebusRevenio]

Any ideas?

 

[PhoebusRevenio]

Bump.

 

[The_KotU]

think this has to do with the issue of the defines lua issue, so the game (keep in mind this is just a simple assumption) as it used to all be in the defines.lua file, which modders use to override or define stuff, as it got changed to text file (known issue and they are going to fix this), instead of it being over written its just appended....so you get your duplicates again a guess... i have not opened any folders to back this surface thought of mine

not sure though, you can give it a look

 

[PhoebusRevenio]

I'm not sure if I found anything related to ships in defines...

But I could check again. Thanks for offering some help.

 

[darwithe]

I was also having problems getting anything in the section_templates folder to do anything but at least in my case it was because I forgot the "s" at the end of the folder name.
As for the duplication problem, well if what you wrote in your post is accurate then that is also a file name problem as the vanilla file is "00_ship_sizes.txt" not "00_shipsizes.txt"

If that isn't the problem, *shrug* no clue, but good luck!

 

[PhoebusRevenio]

Wow, I guess avoiding an overwrite doesn't actually work very well in this situation, it just causes that duplication issue.

I used that exact file name and now I don't see the duplicates, thank you!

 

[The_KotU]

Glad to hear that that worked, it was a blind guess *thumbs-up*