Help. my boats arent moving. + a few other problems

[flametard]

Things were going well in my world building, but i hit a stumbling block.
my boats dont move foreward or backward.

the boats arent the only ones not moving, my helicopter setting doesnt move the throttle did nothing, the balloon control acts like a car. any ground vehicle that controls like 1 doesnt move foreward or backward. 0 is the only ground vehicle that works. also, vehicle modes 6 and 19 did not move foreward or backward (top down flight and crow flight) airplane mode works fine though.

oh while Im here, i may as well bring up another issue. I programed 4 types of wildlife to spawn, but I only saw type#1 spawn. Im sure i got all the animations and textures right because i changed wildlife#1 to different types and still it only generated the type of wildlife i set as number one and not 2, 3, or 4. what did i do wrong?

also, can an island only have 4 types of wildlife or is there a way i can put more types of wildlife in my world?

so do any of these problems sound familiar to anyone? i tried a reinstall, but my world was still there, and i tried *resetmap and it logged me out and said 'map has been reset' or something. but when i logged out and logged back in, my map had not been reset. same heightmap, same textures, same 400 toga men that i set walking around. and the same boat problems.

please help! cause i dont wanna uninstal All the universal stuff, cause i dont wanna lose my cobra MK and my phasers!!! thanks to the ppl who make this game and the people helping provide recources. u know who u are!

-stimutax

[flametard]

oh, and when i go from fullscreen to small windows i get a message that says something like "there was a problem with your direct x'
or something.

so what do you think?

[Fooli]

- re. your vehicle problems. Either there's something basically wrong with your game install, or (most likely) there's something fundamentally wrong with your settings

- you can only have 4 different wildlife at the moment. Which ones are displayed is affected not just by the wildlife settings stuff in *settings, but also by the "Clientside max wildlife limit" setting in your client's small mode options (F1 - General Options). If you have that set to 128, for example, then you'll only ever show 128 wildlife models on any world. And if it's your world, and you have it set to, for example, 400 wildlife #1, 200 wildlife #2, and 50 wildlife #3, then it'll just show 128 wildlife #1. If you change the client limit to 500, you'd get 400 #1, 100 #2... and so on.


- uninstalling the game has no effect on your galaxy character... as long as you remember your username and pass, you can uninstall/reinstall (and use the same user/pass info) and you'll be fine

- the fullscreen/windowed thing is a bug. Doesn't break anything, just makes life a bit annoying when you have to quit & restart.

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[flametard]

Ok Im going to uninstall and reinstall everything and start from scratch being mindful what settings i overtweak. and this time i will test the vehicles first. thanks!!

[flametard]

I deleted everything universal and reinstalled everything. the boats now work!! so does the vehicle 1 types. also, the topdown flying mode '19' is working.

thank you, i can progress with the building now, but i wanted to mention that
the balloon setting still acts like a car, and the helicopter now is able to spin, but the throttle bar seems to not be affected by pressing insert and delete. are the settings for balloon and helicopter really hard to make work or am i still screwed up?

the balloon is set on type 18 and it drives just like the car.

When i first re-installed, the helicopter throttle moved when i pressed insert but the helicopter didnt take off ,i think it ma have wiggled a bit tho.

but now the throttle for the chopper is frozen in the off position.
anyways, thanks for the answers!!

[DvdGStwrt]

Well the settings for balloon and helicopter and other flight vehicles is tricky to get just right. Lots of fiddling to counter your gravity settings and to get the speeds you want to match the size of your world.

However I find that since the last update my balloon is not working, and I too am getting that error message, I just got it tonight.

Now I know my settings were working and I haven't muddled with my old vehicle settings, waiting pateintly for .5 to use notebook to change them in masse.

Perhaps a bug in the auto update? I'm still using Ver 0.50.4

[flametard]

my balloon and helicopter works now. my settings were not turned up high enough.