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Could not locate text

by Steve Lamperti · in Torque Game Engine · 10/24/2003 (2:45 pm) · 1 replies

I'm seeing some Could not locate texture messages that I don't understand in my project. I know this subject has come up before, and I have read some of the other posts on it, but I find that I am still confused as to what is happening here, and I would appreciate it if someone that understands it better might be able to clarify it for me.

First it is looking for the texture data/shapes/player/base.lmale. I really have no idea where this one comes from, as I cannot find base.lmale, or just lmale anywhere in either the engine, or in my scripts.

Then it tries to locate data/shapes/player/crossbow, and data/shapes/player/clip. Also texture names that I cannot find, certainly with that path. (The crossbow stuff is currently in the crossbow subfolder of the shapes folder.)

Then It gives me about 7 or so

Could not locate texture:

With a blank texture name.

I know that I could comment out the 'Could not locate texture' error message, but I really do not like this solution, as I will be adding textures in the future.
I know that I could also add dummy textures in the locations that it is searching, but this also doesn't seem like a clean solution. What I would really like to do is to figure out where it is coming up with these texture names and paths, and remove the initial request.

If someone has any suggestions, I would appreciate hearing them.

#1
10/25/2003 (7:27 am)
The lmale bit is a hold over from tribes. Try looking for the string "male"; it's probably being concatenated with other stuff depending on the type of armor the engine thinks you have selected.