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I'm making a weapon, but I have three issues"

1.Weapon appears as a black box.

2.Projectile nonexistant.

3.Shooting sound doesn't work.

Links to dropbox: 1.Working with Basic Laser image and black box projectile ala no sound:https://www.dropbox.com/s/3o1wu9skvhm8z ... r_shot.ftl
2.Not working with black box weapon image, nonexistant projectile and no sound:https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3tgf2yan2rp2 ... r_shot.ftl

That's all folks.

http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17442

next time, post this there.
Sorry I am bad at things such at this. can't help you to much.

R4V3-0N wrote:http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17442

next time, post this there.
Sorry I am bad at things such at this. can't help you to much.

Not everything has to be dumped in the Q&A thread, Rave. Specific questions on functionality are fine, if a mod-maker needs help getting their mod to work.

TheNewbie, to answer your questions:

TheNewbie wrote:1.Weapon appears as a black box.
2.Projectile nonexistant.
3.Shooting sound doesn't work.

Your issues are basically caused by faulty code and poor file structure. Compare with the code for a heavy-laser shot: Right now your actual sound-file is arranged as shown on the left: This is what the code would look like: The file structure on the right is "suggested," and helps keep things organized. The code would look like this. Notice the pattern yet? The secret is that sound FX basically ignore the "audio/waves" portion in resources.dat.
You have the same issues for your projectile and weapon art - your code is telling the game to look one place when your art is in another.

I looked at the first download and noticed that file structure problem. I think Kieve did a decent job explaining that.

Once that black box issue is fixed, I noticed that the actual graphics and the animation sheets aren't going to match up. You'll likely need to fix those.
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I think the animSheet should look like that for the image I altered and attached here. You'll still need to deal with the ion_gun weaponAnim and the projectile animations.

Kieve wrote:

R4V3-0N wrote:http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17442

next time, post this there.
Sorry I am bad at things such at this. can't help you to much.

Not everything has to be dumped in the Q&A thread, Rave. Specific questions on functionality are fine, if a mod-maker needs help getting their mod to work.

I thought anything minor such as graphics or weapons or drones goes to Q&A and larger things such as overhauls, unique / different, or larger issues go have there own thread, sorry.

I had this exact same question before on a new thread and was redirected to Q&A. apologies.

You won't believe how much I appreciate your help guys!
If I manage to fix the problem, FTL Experimental Warfare will be up in less than a month.