Ship design are messed up in the shipyard,

but not during designing.

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Some of the ships I build appear messed up after I saved them. During the building process in the ship designer everything looks just fine, but as soon as I hit the save button and try to look up my design in the shipyard I get an image that is very little like the ship I designed.

Wrong design:
http://i62.tinypic.com/2a8i686.jpg

Right design:
http://i58.tinypic.com/24cgqw4.jpg

Whenever I try to upload it to the workshop I can only take a shot of the messed up design.

This started ever since the update to the 1.2 version of Galactic Civilizations 3.

I think someone over on the steam forums figured it is being caused by using parts the were created from combining other parts. He might be right as a second ship I made did not have any problems at all and had not used self created parts in that ship.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

1.2 broke some of my designs with scaling errors. I have not had a problem with new designs. 

I usually start with a basic hull and I do not use the start cube often. Someone posted that if you don't keep the cube in the center of your design, it will do what you have going on. Maybe that is the problem maybe not.

My big problem with Steam is it periodically will not let me upload designs. Just tells me it can't upload at this time.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I tried to moving the ship around using the offset, to get the cube in the middle of the ship. Didn't solve the problem, or change the problem - ship looked exactly the same.

Besides that I am also getting the problem in other models, for example the one I post in the link. However in this ship it's not the entire ship, but just a single part, that gets massively disformed.

http://i62.tinypic.com/2zz575i.jpg

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for reporting.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

BaggyJeans -- Can you provide a link to your ship design in the Steam Workshop so we can check it out?

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have discovered that some ship designs will break the workshop uploader and you have to restart c++ to fix it. Until it is fixed you can't upload ships.

I am not sure why certain ships cause a problem, but my theory is that it is caused by starting a design from a previously downloaded design. I start most of my ship designs from a hull and not the start cube. If it is a game hull, no problem. Occasionally, I will start with a design I downloaded from the workshop. I completely change the design, deleting and adding parts, to the point that it is unrecognizable from the original. If I try to upload this ship to the Workshop, it seems to screw the pooch.

I have not tested this theory enough to  be certain I am correct. I would be interested to hear if anyone has uploaded an altered  ship previously downloaded from the workshop.

I hope this is not too far off topic, since it involves ship design. It is not my intention to hijack the thread. 

 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Pshaw, here's the link you requested:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500763377&searchtext=huntress

 

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've had issues, where, after I design a ship and save it, it does not show up in my build options.  Not using any resources, just basic builds.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for the ship design.  Will check it out