Pictures didn't display or just me?

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I'm trying to build a new aircraft carrier that looks like the top picture. However, what I end up with is the bottom picture.

USS Independence [uses Kitty Hawk as a basis]

CV62.SH CV62_A.SH CV62T.SH XCV62.SH
_CV62.pic _CV62_A.pic _CV62T.pic _CV62TD.pic _XCV62.pic

I used the hex editor on the .SH files to tell them to look at the listed .PIC files.

It's as if the program doesn't know how to find the cat officer, island, tower, and a/c tugs since I changed the name of the ship.

I tried adding the file ~KITTT.OT {aka Kitty Hawk Tower} and changing its name and insides to match (i.e. ~CV62.OT), to no avail.

Giving away secret on Carrier building, new carrier w/tower.
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Ok due to the many requests in my email I have decided to share how
you make a new carrier and keep the tower... You can only do this for
a small number of extra carriers(like 1 so far for the Nimitz or
Kittyhawk shape !ha!)...
This is how I did it...... I made the Clem into the Eisenhower by
changing the shape file in the CLEM.NT file from the clem.sh to the
nimz.sh and by copying and renaming the NIMZT.SH to CLEMT.SH thus
replacing the clem tower... Thus I have Two Nimits class carriers...

Addition editing will be required of the skin files as the towers now
overlap the deck edge elevators but this is just a texture fix to
solve..

Next to get another Kittyhawk class carrier I simply replace the
NIMZ.SH file in the NIMZ.NT file with a new Conn.SH fle(renamed and
hexed copy of the KITT shape for Constellation)and replaced the
KITTT.SH file in the ~KITTT.NT file with CONNT.SH(hexed copy with new
skin of the KITTT.SH file) thus I have two new Kittyhawk class
carriers with towers and the Eisenhower...

Now to get the Clem back as a usable carrier I simply added another
carrier and used the CLEM shape .. The clem shape and tower are hard
linked thus you dont lose the tower when you make a new one..

Also to make an additional Clem shaped carrier simply use the XCLEM
shape(You will have to copy the CLEM_A.SH shape and rename it
XCLEM_A.SH if my memeory serves me) in another NT file and you have
two Clem shaped carriers.......

So as you can see there is really no mysterious way to make new gains
in FA, you just have to do some unorthodox thinging is all.....

Just let you imagination wander and you usually end up finding
solutions...

CAG Hotshot
VNFAWING Sim Develoment Center Admin

Go it; thanks!

It may be a few days before posting. I want to consolidate all your tips into one file.

Thanks for the response. As I was suspecting, yet hoping wasn't true, it is hardwired into the code. That's unfortunate. I could live without the tower, cat guy, and a/c tugs, but the island/bridge is a rather significant portion of the ship.

Update: If you are willing to share, I'd like to post your collection of tips & tricks on my website.

This got me checking out old FA sites today. Remember these:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021009030526/http://centurian.bravepages.com/main.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20020405232044/http://centurianny.tripod.com/

Maybe this will help. It's from my tips & tricks back in 2003 and you'll recognize the author:

All the tips I have are posted in my Misc folder

ftp://ftp.frontier.com/pub/users/usnraptor/Fighters%20Anthology/Misc/