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Zeebie

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Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« on: November 15, 2011, 11:41:46 am »
DF keeps crashing on startup with the error "Missing plant gloss."  Any ideas on how to fix this? Let me know if there is a better place to post this.

EDIT: the crash is when I try to load a saved game. It's just the one most recent save, I can load others.
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2011, 11:51:47 am »
You playing with mods?
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2011, 12:11:21 pm »
No mods, just the LNB with Ironhand graphics.  It's been running fine this way for months.
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2011, 12:54:05 pm »
You might want to move this to the modding forum, as a missing plant gloss is a problem with the raws/graphics and how the game is reading them. For the moment though did you make any changes to the raws/graphics/init file before this error started happening?
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2011, 01:04:59 pm »
Quote from: i2amroy on November 15, 2011, 12:54:05 pm
You might want to move this to the modding forum, as a missing plant gloss is a problem with the raws/graphics and how the game is reading them. For the moment though did you make any changes to the raws/graphics/init file before this error started happening?

No, I've never edited any of those files.
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2011, 07:12:54 pm »
Quote from: i2amroy on November 15, 2011, 12:54:05 pm
You might want to move this to the modding forum, as a missing plant gloss is a problem with the raws/graphics and how the game is reading them. For the moment though did you make any changes to the raws/graphics/init file before this error started happening?

i2amroy, no one on the mod forum seems to be responding. Do you happen to know what files I should be looking at to fix such a problem?
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2011, 10:44:58 pm »
I downloaded your save file (posted on the bug tracker), decompressed world.sav (using code from my "beastextract" script), then opened it in a hex editor and found the problem - the plant name for MEADOW-GRASS is corrupted (the first 8 bytes are garbage, leaving just "RASS" at the end). After typing "MEADOW-G" on top of said garbage data, I was able to successfully load the fortress (though everything looked rather strange due to me using a stock ASCII tileset with no custom graphics).
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2011, 10:47:07 pm »
Thanks for handling this Quietust. I tend to run into problems sometimes since the whole Mac vs. Windows thing messing stuff up. Normally it doesn't come into play, but with things like compressed worlds I run into problems some times.
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Re: Crash: "Missing plant gloss"
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2011, 09:40:21 am »
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate your help around here.
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