Problem Building&Assigning new (static) drone to custom ship

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Hello. I am making a personal custom faction, together with a fighter-surveyer ship start.

I had some problem to successfully creating the ship in the real game. Here is what I've tried; I made template and design, added my ship on StaticShipBlueprintDefs,ShipClassDefs, tweaked a startingship ability on AbilityDefs to grant ship & added names and description on several ***Text.xml.  And I get no ships when the game starts.

It is weird, at least to me, since when I use pre-provided "ScoutStaticBlueprint" with any other things same, I normally get the exact ship what I customized(both appearance and components). Though I can at least use the ship in-game, so it seemed satisfactory. 

Unfortunately, I met this problem again since I want to add a "custom drone" on my startingship. Since their are 4 rooms (assault interceptor escort guardian) for drone in FactionShipStyleSetDefs and currently using only 3(except escort), I placed my drone class between <InitialEscortFighter> and <\InitialEscortFighter>. Then I designed drone & etc, oops. I have the same problem again because I added a 'new' staticshipblueprint. I don't want to replace drone design again this time, because the three drones are already have their positions in GalCiv3. 

 

So...Here's my question: How can I assign new 'static' ship design and put it in my game? I don't get which step that I missed, so Step-by-Step would be so appreciated. Thanks.

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Found why I couldn't get the startingship. It was not on the ship list in FactionShipStyleSetDefs.xml. But now it is still frustrating...  

 

Now it is written in the mothership's description that it has 2 escort drone properly, but in actual battle the drone does not appear.

 

Any suggestion for suspicious point is welcome. Thanks.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

hi,

you have to create

the escort fighter's blueprint in ShipBlueprintDefs.xml

the escort fighter in ShipClassDefs.xml

and in the ShipStyleSetDefs.xml

It is important, your files are pointing to the correct blueprints and files. In your carrier module, you need escortfightercap, the shipclass should point to the escort fighter blueprint, and the shipstyle should point to the escort fighter class.

I had the same problem since crusade with my additional fighters but last time they worked. Unfortunately I screwed up something else, so I can't check if they still work.

Did you checked your debug.xml? Usualy you can see there whats wrong.