Animal Not Showing Up!

[JohnZTMaster]

I am making a kinda simple animal: A desert elephant. It's not showing up. Can someone help me?

[Koala Komander]

Check all files to see if you made a mistake. otherwise thats all my advice

[Animalover44]

i tried resizing the african elephant to make a smaller pygmy elephant, it wouldn't show up, i followed the directions exactly fo ape 2 exactly, can someone please help me

[penguinman]

When the animal doesn't show up it is a mistake in the entities/units/animals/ai files.

Open up each one in internet explorer or mozilla or something similar. If it just shows you all of the text like it is in notepad, then it is correct. If it shows you some sort of error or something, than there is something wrong with the file, and I would recomend redoing it. Thats usually the problem

Good luck!

[Animalover44]

ok, thanks, i'll try that

i checked all the files and they're all right, all of them showed up on internet explorer

[penguinman]

hmm

Ok I am not too sure about this, but search each one for .bfm and see if the whole path matches the path to your animal

Also ake sure that the folder containing your animal is correctly named (your codename), and make sure that all of the ai files are properly named. codename, codename_Adult, codename_Adult_F, codename_Adult_M etc.

[Animalover44]

all of the codenames are correct, i'm not quite sure what you mean by path though

[LemurGirl]

Originally posted by Animalover44@Nov 26 2005, 01:11 PM
all of the codenames are correct, i'm not quite sure what you mean by path though

Me either...I've been having quite some trouble with this too, so if someone could help that would be great!

[Doooot]

By path I think he means the lines in the files which refers to the other files the animals need. These must refer to the exact file names you are using.

[LemurGirl]

Ok, thanks a lot! That answered my question!

[Animalover44]

I still don't know what I'm doing wrong, i'm on the verge of giving up pretty quickly. Maybe I'm just not meant for creating animals

[Doooot]

Well I'm glad I was able to help at least one

AnimalLover: So all the reference in your files refers to the correct file names?
Maybe you have some open tags (it's those starting with and ending with or just )- make sure you have as many open (the first one) as you have closing (the ones with /).

[LemurGirl]

Ok, this might be your problem. When you go to the folder to get all the graphics you need to put the graphics files into the ai folder within the entities...
I hope that answered your question.
Just PM me if you need any more help with this topic.

[orka]

Hi, I'm having the same problem that animalover is having with new animals files. I'm doing malasian tapir and balck bear but once inside ZT2 when I try to get the animals they do not appear and the game crash. I checked the ui, ai, lang, entities files several times and I didn't get it. Hope anyone can help on this issue.  :whistle

[otusasio451]

Me too!!! My game doesn't crash, my animal just doesn't show up!!!! All my files are right (except for this thing where I had to delete a < to make it show up on Internet Explorer), and I'm sure I have it in the right place...SO WHAT'S WRONG!!!!!!!!!

[penguinman]

@ otusasio451: Its very probable that deleting the < is causing a problem. I would redo the file where you did that. I also found with Doooot's animal that she accidently spelled the "animals" folder wrong, she said "animal". Hopefully you can figure it out!