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[MydKnight]

Ok, I just made a monster and have it regenning, but sometimes it dosent show as the name which is mad imp. here is a cap of a room with 2 monsters, the first is the messed up one (obviously) and the second is how it should show. Anyone have an idea where i have something broken?



Also here: ȽÝ7532?4, large mad gremlin.

[syntax53]

Originally posted by MydKnight

Ok, I just made a monster and have it regenning, but sometimes it dosent show as the name which is mad imp. here is a cap of a room with 2 monsters, the first is the messed up one (obviously) and the second is how it should show. Anyone have an idea where i have something broken?



Also here: ȽÝ7532?4, large mad gremlin.



definately never saw that one, looks like some type of corruption though :\ . you don't see that name when you're editing anywhere? besides just shutting down and running an offline recovery, i don't know what other than reinstalling would fix something like that. is it with a lot of monsters or just that one? maybe try just deleting it and recreating it.



-syn

[MydKnight]

its odd...it only happens some of the time. i was wondering if it had to do with the message block that defines the adjectives (ie, big, small, fat, etc...)

[War Hawk]

yes it does :) I had that problem... but I had to redo all my text blocks :(

[syntax53]

Originally posted by MydKnight

its odd...it only happens some of the time. i was wondering if it had to do with the message block that defines the adjectives (ie, big, small, fat, etc...)



check the textblock, it definately could. there is a tool that you can use to strip those weird characters off the textblocks under the tools menu.



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[MydKnight]

you know what, i was just flipping thru the textblocks now, if you look at pretty much most of the first few text blocks...that odd character combonation that occurs in pretty much every single text block is what im seeing on my screen. any idea why its actually printing that? by the way, what is the difference between setting up a message (which is what i did) and the textblocks?

[BlackHaze]

copy and paste it into tools/textblocks/strip characters off the end and it will take them out.. i had it happen to me until i stripped it. Monsters never regened with those names again.

[MydKnight]

Hmm, warhawk was right. Looks like there may be something kinda screwy in monsters. All the monsters in the game that use the descriptor adjectives seem to be doing that now. Is there any fix but in going thru and changing all those messages?

[MydKnight]

Um, i pasted the offending textblock into that tool and it deleted the entire string, not just the nonsense at the end :(



anyone have the textblock from the giant rat desc lying around that they could paste here?

[BlackHaze]

Don't you make backups before you edit?