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Error message on opening custom sips which need custom sprit

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This is my first post, so do not except a lot of information. Anyway, my question is regarding custom ships and sprites. I have placed all of my downloaded custom sprites into the custom sprites folder, it all works fine in ship maker, ship sections and weapons work but when I go onto sandbox in the main game, and spawn a downloaded ship, error messages keep popping up and saying that ship sections and weapons cannot be found. I have been desperately trying to find a solution to this problem but keep ending up empty handed. Any solutions?
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I can try to help, but I have some questions to assess the situation.

Do the sprites load in shipmaker you load the .ini file (If there is one)?
If there is no .ini file, how did you load the custom sprites?
Did you change the colors or some weapons or sprites?
Which sprite sets did you use?
Which weapon sprite sets did you use?
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Re: Error message on opening custom sips which need custom s

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@Zalusai sprite ini files don't mean anything. It's quite easy to load custom sprites without them. Coloring them is also irrelevant.
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It would be best if you could actually post the error message you get into the forums. Also, do you have the ThrusterDX version of BSF?
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I got an error message when coloring a point beam in the wrong field.
When I load without using an .ini file, there are those few rare sprites that give me problems.
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A .Ini file functions like a save file but instead, it loads your own handpicked Sprites
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Can you post the Error report so we can Provide you with the Missing sections
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Re: Error message on opening custom sips which need custom s

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for your various questions I have some answers,
On ship maker, I loaded the custom sprites through going to tools then onto group arrange and here is the error message:
ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object __newobject1016:

Missing sprite!

Custom sprites\TBE_Shields\TBE_Shield3.png

They are all like this exept the custom sprites are ship sections from downloaded section packs
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Re: Error message on opening custom sips which need custom s

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You may want to try and move the TBE_Shield3 to the Folder TBE_Shields at the Error and it will fix it
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