Working on a new submarine sim: Sub Commander - advice needed!

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by TheGeoff

If you're running it fullscreen, try running it windowed.

There lies el-problemo! Thats odd.

[TheGeoff]

Ah, ok. I didn't think to test the mouse controls in fullscreen mode! I'll see what I can do about that.

By the way, to answer your question from last page:

I'm having trouble with the new sub editor. I've copied the sub 'triton' and renamed it 'tritonbeta' I've opened the sub editor, opened 'tritonbeta', clicked on 'edit objects' and moved one of the generator room bilge pumps to the reactor room to deal with leaking reactor coolant or flooding the reactor with sea water in future. I've saved the new sub under 'tritonbeta' and loaded the sim. For some reason , my crew is no where to be seen, I get messages that the crew can't find their pathway (the same as when you want them to get through a locked door), and I get a barrage of low oxygen warnings and sirens. what's going on?

Your problem sounds like it's in the areas.ini file, if in doubt copy the original version from the triton folder and replace the one in your tritonbeta folder. The new sub editor seems to have some rare bugs in loading/saving, I think the creator is working on it.

[Tango589]

I've copied the 'triton' sub folder and renamed it 'tritonbeta'.
I've opened 'tritonbeta' in the sub editor and moved one of the generator room bilge pumps to the reactor room by altering its coordinates.
I've saved this new layout.
I've changed sub_folder to 'tritonbeta' in game options.
I've tried running sub commander and at the end of the loading bar I get the 'Illegal Memory Address' box.


Damn it.

[TheGeoff]

Very odd - if you zip the tritonbeta folder and email it to me or attach it to a post I can take a look if you want.

[Tango589]

Tritonbeta folder is sent to subcommandergame@gmail.com .

Good luck.

[TheGeoff]

Looks like there are a couple of compatibility issues using the java submarine editor with version 0.23.

To make a submarine compatible:
First, I recommend opening the .ini files in Notepad++ or similar, because regular notepad screws up the formatting.

1. Open objects.ini and add "UI_folder = default" under the [GENERAL] heading
2. Replace the [TURBINES] section with:
   [TURBINES]
   number=2
   turbineobj1 = 9
   parentreactor1 = 1
   turbineobj2 = 10
   parentreactor2 = 2
3. Open areas.ini, go to Edit -> Replace...
   Tell it to find "AREA_" and replace with "area_" (without the quotation marks)

The sub should now work fine with version 0.23. Sorry for any inconvenience caused and thank you to Tango for pointing out the problem.