Ship without icon

[Doober]

I just captured the ship with the model ConvoiShip1 and now that I have it, it says it is a Dutch Two Decker, but does not show an icon of a ship in the ship screen when I hit F2. Any ideas why this wouldn't be showing? I looked in the ship_init.c file, but it has been awhile since I messed around so I can't really remember what needs to be changed for the icon to show. Any ideas?

 

[Captain Maggee]

It probably doen't have an icon yet

I know there is characters that dont : and I would imagine it is the same for ships

 

[Pieter Boelen]

There's a whole bunch of ships that don't have their icon-code set up properly.
Strangely enough, there's also some ships that do have proper icons, but not always.
It's usually got to do with the lack of either a refShip.all attribute or the following code:

	refShip.BI.Tex = 10;
refShip.BI.Pic = 1;

Strangely enough, the ConvoiShip has BOTH. :wacko:

 

[Doober]

That's the code that I thought governed it, but apparently, something is blocking it from showing. Very strange.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Indeed; I suppose eventually we'll need to check it all.
Actually, we've got some vague ideas of making screenshots of each ship show instead.
If we ever get to that, this'd get solved as well of course.

 

[Doober]

To further confuse the matter, I got the Wicked Witch and the icon for the Wicked Witch was missing at the transfer ship screen. Once I sold the two-decker that I mentioned above, the icon then appeared for the Wicked Witch. How weird is it that it appears to not only be following its own code, it seems to be influencing other ship's code.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

REALLY weird. I know the Black Pearl, for example, DOES have an icon.
But not in the Select Storyline interface. Huh???