Invisible Ships

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The invisible ship problem is still around. I can't say what the root cause is. It seems to only affect the base designs and unmodified hulls (that is, where you don't artistically design the ship). I have noticed a few things recently:
1. Even if you do not check the 'Save as Template' box, the game will save all of your designs as templates.
2. Playing as the Iconians I used a small hull (Do the Iconians have the old Torian hulls?), and just threw some weapons on. Building them gave no problems. You could see them in the list, on the planet, and in space. I upgraded the design in the shipyard, and instantly it turned invisible. I went into the template list (where I believe both were visible), deleted the previous design, and upgraded all the existing ships. The result of this was that the ship reappeared in the shipyard, was blank on the planet view and in orbit, could be seen when launched, and was also invisible in the fleet and battle icons.

I still don't understand what's going on, but perhaps this will give someone a lead. I have also seen the Torians build huge defenders. I think that the hull may be scaled wrong. The small icon for the ship is also messed up, it looks low-res.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I still get this as well, primarily on Constructors, and I think Transports too as they weren't appearing on my fleets even though the fleet was in the triangular formation signifying 3 ships.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've seen the rather oversized Torian defenders as well. Seems kind of odd. Drengin Super Dominator corvettes also still invisilbe in TA Beta 3A.
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My invisible ships seemed to be fixed when I was told to del or rename my GC2TwilightArnor folder in my documents. Then when you restart the game it resets everything to the origional settings and the game creates a new folder. Since I've done this I've had no problem with invisible ships, however, I admidt I haven't been able to play as much lately do to an icreased busy schedule. This, however, did not solve the problem in games that I had started in the origional folder and then tried to move back into the new folder. Those games still had the invisible ships, I have started several games since then and I have not seen this in any of my new games since I implimented this.

If this works for you guys I would suggest that you respond to this likely and would be nice then to have Stardock post this in one of thier fixed bugs pined posts so that it may help others with this problem.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ya I had a colony ship go invisible. Will send a debug soon!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
check above, Hawawaa... see if that works, that was in response to an e-mail I got from codecritter regaurding my post on this via link

Invisible / Distorted Ships TABeta1 1.8c/ and TABeta 2 (UPDATED POST)

Dear Seilore,

I received your last message. Unfortunately, I tried playing as Torians with Terran ship style and was unable to reproduce the problem.

Is this something that happens often or every time? If so, please try renaming your /My Documents/My Games/GC2TwilightArnor folder. This will reset the game to its defaults and you will be able to restore it later by renaming it back. Try loading your game and starting a new game after doing that.

Please let me know if this helps. If not, please try a reinstall if you haven't already just to make sure you're not missing ship files.

CodeCritter
Stardock Corporation

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Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Sorry all the earlier posts of mine in this topic seem to be a temperary fix. As I played the new beta and was able to get more time on it than I have in the past few weeks I had the same problem reappear. I e-mailed CodeCritter my saved game and Debug.err along with the picture below.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Running TA B3C (0.92[b].004) from 12/14 I'm getting invisible constructors again. I'm going to delete my My Games\TA galciv folder and will send in a save game/debug.err if it's still happening after that.

One thing that's was strange is that my very first constructor was visible, but after that, gone.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have not had the invisible constructors (not in a long time anyway), but I still "see" "invisible" Drengin Super Dominator Corvettes. The "Vengeance" class corvettes that appear in the event where one civ's leader is assasinated also "appeared" "invisible." On reload of the saved game though, the Vengeance Corvettes became visible.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I deleted my GC2TwilightArnor folder from My Games and let it recreate it, but it didn't help. I've sent in a save w/ debug file to Stardock (and just realized I forgot to reference this thread, drat).