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Wierd SOD Problem

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Adam_Atlantian

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I have no idea what is going on. I know it's the SOD but I dont know why. I export the model out of MS3D and into the Aramada 2 SOD file. But when i go to view it in storm viewer it crashes it. And when i try to play the game crashes.

However, it works fine for Armada 1. I even put the sod in armada 1, cejcked it. then copied it to aramada2 and it still crashes. Gah!

Any clues or ideas as to WTH is happening?
 
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My own experience of a model crashing is that the textures aren't saved right that being instead of being uncompressed TGA's they were saved as compressed TGA's.

Try checking that in your Armada 2 folder. ;)

Also if you are using lightmaps you have to save it as a Armada 2 SOD, if you are not using lightmaps you can save it as either a Armada 2 or Armada 1 SOD file though I always personally save them as Armada 2 SOD files.
 
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OMG!

I feel so stupid. I had altered the textures to greyscale and forgot to reset the color depth!

Thanks Majestic. I was this close to attacking my computer.
 
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Your welcome, I had the same problem when Syf sent me the Parallels Peacekeeper Vigilante, it kept crashing the game and when I resaved all the textures it started working. :)

Its a common problem/mistake, like missing a " in a odf file. ;)
 
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