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[Guest]

i saw it done in a zone once. they had changed all the ship names to Starcraft ones. anyone know how to do this? thanks

[Mine GO BOOM]

From FAQ, How can I rename ships and/or descriptions?

[Guest]

i can't find the shipinfo.dat file. i'm guessing that i gotta make one then, right? if so, do i just use notepad and save it as "shipinfo.dat" ?

[Mine GO BOOM]

Correct.

[Guest]

okay, i followed the template and made the changes and put it in my server file, but nothing happens. so i made a lvz file and loaded it, but still nothing. what am i supposed to do with the dat file?

[SuSE]

you want a .ini

Code: Show/Hide outfile=whatever.lvz file=shipinfo.dat

make it with buildlevel (most recent one), upload to server

and

add "misc:levelfiles=whatever.lvz" to your .cfg for whatever arena you desire

if there is no "levelfiles=" setting in your [misc] sections, just drop it right in there yourself

[Guest]

that's what i did when i said i made a lvz file. i already have one that repalces a few graphics so i just tacked "file=shipinfo.dat" on the end of that section and ran buildlevel again and replaced the old lvz with this new one.

but the names ingame are still the same...

[SuSE]

hrmmm

is it possible that it doesn't work so well with .38?

maybe because it doesn't all extract to the folders...hrmm

Miney?

[Smong]

[Guest]

No good. the zone went down a long time ago and i don't have the files from it in my zones folder anymore. does anyone know of another zone that is running and does this?

[SuSE]

there's nothing wrong with the method, you don't need another zone's .lvz to do this

just build a .lvz with shipinfo.dat in it like the example, upload it, add it to misc:levelfiles= and that should be it

[Guest]

It's not working... i don't get it, i followed all the steps, checked and re-checked to make sure there wasn't a spelling error anywhere, everything matches up, but still the names in the games refuse to change.

I even put the shipinfo.dat lvz file in its own one and added it to the cfg along with the other, original lvz file. I've even took out the old one and just had the shipinfo.dat lvz in by itself. it refuses to work.

[SuSE]

Right, well wait for Mine to reply.

[Mine GO BOOM]

Post your .lvz. This public or a private subarena? I know there was a bug with the public arena renaming ships (would work if you re-entered it via ?arena or ?go), but not sure if that was fixed.

[Guest]

Hmm... yeah, it's a public arena, but I tried re-entering via the ways you said and it still wouldn't work. Here's the lvz.

[Doggeti]

Perhaps the space in Weapon M-23. Don't know

[Smong]

[SuSE]

mine is on and I still haven't seen shipinfo.dat functional in any .38 zone

I'm going to put up my test server now and verify

[SuSE]

Checked it out. It doesn't work with .38

My guess is that it's looking for shipinfo.dat in your zone folder, but can't find it because .38 doesn't extract the files. Same goes for ship images. The new .lvz-added ship previews on the main UI don't show because they're not in the zone folder.

[Guest]

So there's no way to do it on .38? Shoot. ...

You said the same went for ship images as well. Does that mean I can't do custom ship sets either? Who was in charge of making .38?!? Please tell me this'll be in .39.

[SuSE]

I'm saying that's my guess. I don't know for sure, someone surely does.

I said the same goes for the ship images on the main UI - the main screen you usually see the eight ships to select - if the zone has its own .lvz-added ships, you should see them instead of the standard ones, but you don't - not unless you put the images into the zone folder yourself.

[SuSE]

supposedly if you place a colon before the filename

[Smong]

Slightly on topic:
commands.hlp works, although that is ingame and not on the menu.

[SuSE]

yar, that's in-game

anyways, wait on the "file=:shipinfo.dat" - buildlevel.exe rejects it - I'm waiting for an explanation from Ekted on ssforum