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A Little Help, Please!; Some problems with my first project!.
Topic Started: Jan 28 2009, 07:25 PM (540 Views)
zooworld
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Hello, all. B) I am an absolute newcomer to designing and I am doing my first project with APE II. I decided to use the Pink Pygmy Zebra that APE II uses as an example as I thought it would be easier that way. Anyway, I have done the coding and I've just tested it out and there are a few minor problems with it:

1. The link to the zoopedia entry doesn't go to the pygmy zebra page, it just goes to the last page visited.

2. I must have messed up the lang file somewhere because the conservation status is not showing.

3. The pygmy zebra zoopedia page only shows the description, not all the other stuff like biome, conservation status and funfacts.

Anyway, I have checked in the common problems section and there was nothing about these problems in there so I thought I'd better post here.
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Hi!

1. Check the ui file (ui/zoopedia/entries/ZebraPygmy_entries.xml)

It musnt be capital letters, it has to look like this:

zebrapygmy

And now change the same in the lang file:

There will be a code like this:

<LOC_STRING _locID="zoopedia_zebrapygmy:entry">Pygmy Zebra</LOC_STRING>
<LOC_STRING _locID="zoopedia_zebrapygmy:text">

And that also mustnt be capital letters.

2. + 3. Take newer lang files from the XPs (at least ES for the Conservation status)
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Theres a lang file tutorial in the designer resources section that you can download which will make coding the lang far easier :)
Check out my site where you can get many of my downloads here.
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Thanks everyone! Well, I fixed those problems, but I've got some more new ones:

1. The conservation status is now showing up in the Zoopedia, but not in game.

2. In the Pygmy Zebra zoopedia entry, the pictures of the animal and the location are not showing up, there is just white space.

3. The Pygmy Zebra is not able to use any shelters, and can only use 1 of the enrichment items. I have a suspicion that this is to do with the animal's size, because young animals cannot use all of the items the adult can.
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Alot of these problems are caused by ape 2, it is outdated if you have expacks. You need to use the updated xmls for your zebra.
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I can only find the animal files for the original animals, the other animals are somewhere else, but I don't know where, can anyone help? I have Ultimate Collection and I looked at the tutorial thing that tells you where the animal files are but it didn't have Ultimate Collection on there.
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Can somebody help? B)
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Somebody can, but this is a forum, not a chat room, and people don't always respond immediately.

I don't know what number the file will be, but you should have some files called x999_999.z2f - the numbers could be anything from 0-9, the higher the total number the more recent the files are. For example, ES files are x100_000.z2f whilst MM is x200_000.z2f. For Ultimate Collection, you will always want the most recent files, so look inside the z2f with the highest number.
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