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Badges and Ship/Missle Trail Bugs.
Tristan	#1 Posted on 28-06-2006 01:19
Posts: 304 Joined: June 28 2006	Firstly I'd like to express how much I've been enjoying this mod. By far the best for HW2, and I've tried quite a few. Only a couple of problems, ... Firstly the beautiful custom badges don't seem to work. When I open up the badge selector when trying to skirmish, the application closes. I tried deleting the "[" and "]" in the badge file titles but it hasn't helped. Secondly, when I played the earlier Point Defense Systems (5.2, I think.) the fighter/corvette and missle trails were still intact. Now, the trails have disappeared completely. Any ideas?


Sun Tzu	#2 Posted on 28-06-2006 11:22
Posts: 528 Joined: September 08 2005	Trails were removed to reduce lag. Badges should work even if you're playing on a Mac. Make sure you did not forget any square bracket in any file name in both badges folders (the one in data and the other in bin).


Tristan	#3 Posted on 28-06-2006 22:56
Posts: 304 Joined: June 28 2006	Quote Sun Tzu wrote: Trails were removed to reduce lag. Badges should work even if you're playing on a Mac. Make sure you did not forget any square bracket in any file name in both badges folders (the one in data and the other in bin). Badges still aren't working. I even deleted all of the parenthesis, after trying without the brackets (which didn't work either.) and it still just closed the application immediately.


Sun Tzu	#4 Posted on 28-06-2006 23:24
Posts: 528 Joined: September 08 2005	What are the specs of your PC and what version of PDS are you playing?


Tristan	#5 Posted on 28-06-2006 23:32
Posts: 304 Joined: June 28 2006	Quote Sun Tzu wrote: What are the specs of your PC and what version of PDS are you playing? It's a Macintosh. Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4. Pretty sure this is 7.6, PDS. But I recently updated to the Alpha 3 thing. However, the badges didn't work before that, either.


Sun Tzu	#6 Posted on 29-06-2006 09:13
Posts: 528 Joined: September 08 2005	Ah I did not take the time to make 7.6 mac compatible. I'm not sure any other mac user did. So I can't help you immediately. There was a reported issue with the syntax of the missile weapon files (the mac version being much less flexible). I am not aware of any issues with the badges and I doubt there is, since the same badges do work on prior versions of the mod. But I don't know it for sure. I'll put my nose into the files at some time this week-end since there are less football games to watch now


Tristan	#7 Posted on 29-06-2006 23:17
Posts: 304 Joined: June 28 2006	Thanks a bunch. Much appreciated.


Phantom	#8 Posted on 30-06-2006 17:44
Posts: 62 Joined: March 28 2006	Is there any way to put back the engine trails? im a 1337 n00b


Silent_Assasin	#9 Posted on 30-06-2006 22:15
Posts: 43 Joined: June 28 2006	Yeah, if anyone can tell me how to get those things back in there that'd be awesome. I have a pretty high end pc so I would like to give it a try. Even though I must admit that a late game 4 way skirmish made my computer cry a couple of days ago :skull:. My cpu dislikes large numbers of strike craft ead:. USMC Pilot candidate


Tristan	#10 Posted on 10-07-2006 10:10
Posts: 304 Joined: June 28 2006	Mmm. Badges still don't work. I've tried (nearly.) everything. I guess most of you have very little input since I imagine you're mainly PC-based, but if any Mac-users got their badges to work, let me know please, ...


Sun Tzu	#11 Posted on 10-07-2006 10:17
Posts: 528 Joined: September 08 2005	I play HW2 on a mac. As I told you, badges work fine on my end if you remove square brackets from their names. If that don't work on your end, try isolating the problem adding one badge after the other into the folder and see which one(s) are buggy.


Tristan	#12 Posted on 11-07-2006 07:02
Posts: 304 Joined: June 28 2006	Thanks a ton, Sun Tzu. Finally got them to work. Deleted the Mobile Suit Gundam and Real World Country flags/insignias since they used multiple colors. Worked perfectly.

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