Getting error on start-up : III

» Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:29 pm

Ok so I'm getting this error when using my latest version of Rebirth.

"bip01 Tail4" missing. Then the game shuts down.

I'm quite sure it could be related to some sort of animation thingy.

Help!

Edit: Now it works?! Really strange. Anyhow any insight into this would be nice, since it might show up again.

» Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:53 pm

I seem to recall having this problem before, and I believe I fixed it by removing the animation replacer files I'd been using.

However, when I searched my HD for "bip01", I came up with this, from the MCP Readme:

For animators
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The improved animation patch has support for new bones, but they have to be named correctly. The engine has three bone groups, lower body (root bone, base spine and legs), upper body (spine1 and above, right arm), and left arm (left clavicle and arm bones). For animations to work together a bone has to belong to one of these groups. The patch changes the bone checks from strict match to substring match, so you have to append to your bone's name, a bone from the group it will attach to.

Typical use would be: If you want a bone "CustomBone" to be part of the lower body group, name it "CustomBone (Bip01 Pelvis)", for upper body group "CustomBone (Bip01 Spine2)", for left arm group "CustomBone (Bip01 L UpperArm)".

A full list of acceptable non-conflicting bone names to add are (add Bip01 in front of them):
Lower body group - Pelvis, L Thigh, L Calf, L Foot, L Toe0, R Thigh, R Calf, R Foot, R Toe0, MRT, Tail
Upper body group - Spine1, Spine2, Neck, Head, R Clavicle, R UpperArm, R Forearm, R Hand, R Finger0, R Finger1, R Finger2, R Finger3, R Finger4, Weapon Bone
Left arm group - L Clavicle, L UpperArm, L Forearm, L Hand, L Finger0, L Finger1, L Finger2, L Finger3, L Finger4, Shield Bone

Try to name extra bones to the closest available bone for clearness and future use.

The list of animation names are unchanged, as they are referred to by numerical IDs in the engine. It's recommended to replace the sneak animations (there are 20 available) if you need custom animations for a single NPC, as these are unused for most NPCs.

Don't know that that helps, but like I said, I apparently don't have that particular file, nor do I have an animation replacer mod, and so, it would seem, it isn't causing me problems.

» Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:36 am

Ah, I'm using an animation replacer so that might be it. Anyhow the error ain't no more, perhaps something went wrong on startup, glad it weren't releated to my mod

» Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:42 am

Ah, I'm using an animation replacer so that might be it. Anyhow the error ain't no more, perhaps something went wrong on startup, glad it weren't releated to my mod

When you get an error like that, it generally means the game can't find the necessary file in question, which generally means: 1) the file is actually absent entirely, 2) it's in the wrong place, 3) something is inhibiting the finding process. I'd suggest discovering, however much this may be a pain in the ass, exactly which one of these is the case, as I imagine it can become a problem again in the future.