Topic: Need some help here....

[Centurus]

I posted this in the Galaxy EVO thread, but thought I'd get better results if I made a dedicated thread.  First off, here's the situation again.

I successfully got the Galaxy EVO working in SFC3.  In 3DS Max 5, I hardpointed the model and damage pointed it as well.  The damage points seem to be working nicely, and the specs, as far as I can tell, are working beautifully for the ship.  She's got 17 phasers, all type 11F, and 8 Quantum Torpedoes. 

In the refit screen, everything shows up, everything is refittable, and all the arcs for each weapons point shows up when you click the Arc View button at the refit screen.  When a mission loads though, the very last hardpoint, number 25, doesn't show up in mission.  It doesn't show up in the UI for the ship in mission.  Doesn't show, doesn't fire, like it doesn't exist. 

I've double checked, triple checked the model itself and the hardpoints, and everything is in order, I've double checked and triple checked the specs I wrote up for her, and went over the ship in the SFC3 Hardpoint Placement Editor at least 50 times, and still, in game, the damn thing doesn't want to show.  It shows in the refit screen, and I know its active, but in mission, it's just gone.  I can't figure it out. 

I'm honestly thinking of taking out a couple hardpoints of the ship, reducing the total weapons loadout to a total of 23 weapons overall, or just deleting that last torpedo hardpoint and having only 4 forward firing torps and 3 aft firing.

I really want to get this 25th hardpoint working properly, so if anyone knows what's going on, I'd really appreciate it if they let me know.  I know it can't be the fact that I have 17 phasers on it, cause I've hardpointed ships with more than 11 phasers before, all with 100% success. 

Any idea?

[Centurus]

BUMP!!!

[Centurus]

Good news and bad news. 

Let's start with the good news first.

First off, the GalaxyEVO for SFC3 is pretty much finished.  Just gotta write up some background story for the ship, and she's ready to fly, with specs included.  This ship is a BEAST!!!!  Don't take it on unless you want to die.

Bad news.  Apparently the refit screen in game will only recognize hardpoint 25, but the rest of the game can only use 24 hardpoints.  Hardpoint 25 can never be used when in a mission.  I found this out by trying to equip several other ships, including stock ships, with hardpoint 25, and even though it shows up at the refit screen, it will not show up at all in mission.  Like it was never there to begin with.

So, now this is how the Galaxy EVO stands for SFC3.  She will come equipped with 17 phasers, type 11F, and 7 Quantum torpedoes, 4 fore, 3 aft.  The specs that I will include with the ship HAVE ONLY BEEN USED WITH A FRESH INSTALLED PATCHED T 534B!!!  I'm going to include this with the readme.  You'd be surprised at how many people download a ship, install it, and find that it won't work, and most of the time, they're installing it into say GAW, IW, NDF, or Dominion Wars, or other mods.  Oh well.

To everyone, thanks for your help.  I do appreciate it.  I wish this 25th hardpoint though would work.  Maybe one day someone will make it work.  *shrugs*  Oh well.

Thanks.