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Trying to use some custom weap. sprites gives blank sprite?

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:20 am
by LostAmongStars
See my thread title--I'm experimenting with custom weapon sprites and when I try to apply some of them to my guns, I get the "blank sprite", the little white square with the orange ring inside it--what gives? I thought that sprite only popped up when an .ini file called for a sprite that wasn't there--but I can see the sprites in my program files folders, so what am I missing? Thanks for the help, guys!

Re: Trying to use some custom weap. sprites gives blank spri

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:24 am
by Zalausai
In the weapon's ED2 tab, you must click the "custom sprite" dialog box. (It's the third from the top) You will have to manually select the sprite for each weapon. You can skip doing it again if you want alot of the same weapon since copy/paste carries over the sprite.

Re: Trying to use some custom weap. sprites gives blank spri

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:37 am
by LostAmongStars
That's what I'm doing. Go to ED2 tab, select "Custom Sprite", get a Windows Explorer window, go through the BSF folder to find the weapon sprite you want, right? I'm doing all that, but then when I select a sprite that I can -see- in my Windows Explorer, it takes me back to the editor and I get a little white an orange square that looks like the engine core.

Re: Trying to use some custom weap. sprites gives blank spri

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:12 am
by Zalausai
Hmm. If these are the ones that came with the repack and are all in their intended locations, then I have no idea.

Go through this checklist, it's the best that I got.
1. Make sure that your version is up to date. (put the .exes into the BSF directory) viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7034
2. Make sure the sprite files are located in the BSF directory in the "custom sprites" folder. Most of them have a folder that goes within that folder.
3. If it is a newer custom sprite that you made yourself, make sure that it is in .gif or .png format. Note: .bmp is a poor choice as a sprite. It is meant as a background.

That's all I got. Since it isn't triggers, there isn't much else that I can do.

Re: Trying to use some custom weap. sprites gives blank spri

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:09 pm
by LostAmongStars
Hey, well thanks for the advice :D I eventually gave up on trying to use that particular weapon sprite and used a similar looking one in another folder, then whipped up another ship. Tomorrow I'll go back through my sprite folders, see what glitches, and check that against your checklist. I may have just found a weird bug :P However, I am running on a fairly old PC right now on loan because my laptop died a few weeks back--so we'll see what happens when I get running on some modern hardware again.