Problems with making a custom weapon.

[TheThirdNexus]

I've been making a custom (chocolate based) ship. Without the custom weapon I've been trying to make it works fine, even if it isn't entirely balanced (I made it in superluminal). Now i'm trying to make a custom weapon for this ship. However, when I put it in SMM, I get an unexpected innerPath error, and when the game runs the ship isn't there at all.

Can someone have a look at my file and tell me whats gone wrong and how to fix it please? Thanks.
FTL file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rh53vslcr4rzwhm/Choco.ftl

[RAD-82]

If the file you provided is the one you are trying to test, then you have a folder problem. The .ftl file should have data and img folders, not a Choco/data and Choco/img folders.

If that isn't your problem, another possibility is in your blueprints.xml.append file.

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<blueprintList name="STARTING_WEAPONS">
	<name>LASER_CHOCO</name>

You didn't close the blueprintList, and that is probably causing an error. However, you don't even need that, so you should just delete it.

I noticed some other things related to the graphics. I made some minor changes, the most notable one being the position of the ship. I can't test my changes, but I think it should be more centered now, if I didn't swap vertical and horizontal values by mistake. Other changes include the removal of some little thing in the top-right corner of the _base graphic, resizing the dimensions of the _cloak graphic (+10 pixels to the top, left, right, and bottom) so it fits the ship, and resizing the _floor graphic so it is the same size as the _base graphic.

edit (April 25, 2014): Received message, "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached." Removed this file which should no longer be needed to see if it helps any.

[TheThirdNexus]

Thanks so much for your help! I've got it working now, and i'm not having any more problems. Thanks for the graphical changes as well.