Ship Deployer, I know its been covered before but...

dakka · Post by **dakka** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:44 am

I have tried repeatedly to get it to work but so far nothing, i create my ship i add in the shipdeployer 'thingie' and, while having it selected, i click the 'Edit' key and choose the 'Custom Stats' button, i go to 'Set Name' and enter the name of my ship, this does not work, i try again with .shp at the end nothing. Since my ship is in the custom folder in my 'D' directory i enter the path, and i have checked there are no spelling errors, however once entering the full path D:\Battleships Forever\Custom Ships\TestFighter.shp i then save the ship enter sandbox and find out that i get the error:

Invalid ship file!

Then it goes:

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 0
for object ShipDeployer:

Error in code at line 13:
obj.speed = l_special2

at position 14: Cannot assign to the variable

Then i press ignore, the game does not crash but no ships will spawn.

Thankyou in advance for anyhelp.

Oh and feel free to laugh at my noobiness but an answer that worked would be mutch appreciated, also i am using the 0.90d version of the game.

erdrik · Post by **erdrik** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:10 am

Set Name names the ship deployer.
Ship Filename is the value you want. it should be the last one under the Edit tab.

EDIT: Edit for errors. Still, ship filename is the value you want.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:32 am

Sometimes the spawner code wigs out. You may have to make the ship a second time to get it to behave itself. I'll go and poke at the code in a bit, see if I can't fix that.

dakka · Post by **dakka** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:18 pm

Okay, i created a ship, basically all it is is a few sections and the ship deployer and a flak cannon, however when i press the 'Edit' key, with the ship deployer selected, the only options it comes up with are:

1.Move
2.Delete
3.Custom Stats
4.Clone
5.Paste Module Parameters

i don't know if i'm doing this wrong but i don't know which edit key your reffering to and where exactly ship filename is, feel free to rant at me for being and idiot as long as you answer.

dakka · Post by **dakka** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:27 pm

oops, i was being a ****ing retard i was pressing the edit key at the top and not the one at the side, thanks for the help.

edit: okay then another question for you, i saw this video on youtube about some guy testing out the shipdeployer on youtube, he would deploy the ships by clicking on the shipdeployer and then were he wanted them to go to, however when i do this all it does is deploy the ship under the deployer, is thier anyway to get them to automatically go to a certain point