ReadText Error

[-XeNoN-]

Recently i've been trying to add my custom ship to XRM but i always get ReadText17-***** error, i have director which loads that t file. But whatever i do the error is still there. The other names are correctly displayed only my ship is affected...

Is after the new update something changed in that matter and if so can someone point me in right direction how to make custom director/script and t file. Thanks.

[X2-Illuminatus]

Nothing should have changed with regards to loading text files with the latest update. Have you tested, whether you can load other texts from a custom text file? General things to check are the correct formatting / encoding of the text file itself (UTF-8), possible xml errors (forgotten > or <), wrong language id in the file or the file name, text id mixup in the text file or the TShips file.

[-XeNoN-]

The X3Editor showed correctly...i have triple checked everything. Only in game it returns the error.

Anyways replacing did of the ship with other one in XRM did the job right and correctly displays the name because my custom ship uses same id as previous ship that used that id.

I could send here my custom director and t file if you wish...

[BlaxTorm]

i have a similar problem just changed a shield name which appears ok in the editor and also worked with other mod but it's not working in this one i tried new xml file tried placing inside and outside cat file to no avail

[BlaxTorm]

just found why! i was using a different file name for replacing a object name in the game which doesn't work because since the file has a different name (even if the same id as 17 it won't read it) or at least it did not this time.

[UniTrader]

in that case you could also have modified the setup script to point to your changed t file number or create a new setup file do load your additional t file

[BlaxTorm]

ohhhh teach me senpai

[BlaxTorm]

you see scripting is not my strong, at all...

[X2-Illuminatus]

In future, please use the edit button to prevent two or more of your posts from appearing directly after each other without someone else having the chance to reply.

As for using text from text files, only the main text files (numbered 0001, 0002 and 0003) are loaded by the game by default. All other (custom) text files, which you add yourself and which you want to read from, must be loaded manually. You can do that by using the load text: id command in a setup script. Setup scripts start their name with "setup." (without the quotes) followed by whatever you want to call your script and are automatically loaded on the start / loading of a (modified) game. They are used for things like registering command slots or hotkeys, loading text files and creating global variables - so all the initial parameters, which may be used later. The actual script function, in case there is one, should always be outsourced to other (plugin) scripts though.
If you want to learn more about scripting, I suggest reading the MSCI Manual (written for X2: The Threat, but still accurate for the Script Editor in the X3 games). You can also check our MSCI reference for explanations of specific commands.

[BlaxTorm]

thanks! yeah just noticed there is an edit button XD sorry