Missing upload data icon

[Aragon Speed]

Hi everyone, need help solving a problem.

We are just putting together the 0.7.4 patch for XTM and have come across a problem. In X3 2.5 you have the new 'Upload data' icon, unfortunately in XTM 0.7.3 it is missing.

I had assumed there had been an engine upgrade to enable the icon, and then a new line in icondata.txt to point to it. How wrong I was.

Having looked in the 2.5 cat/dat set there isn't a new icondata.txt, so I need to know what needs adding/changing to get this to work so that 0.7.4 is fully compatible with 2.5.

[Iifrit Tambuur-san]

Add the the animations.txt from the 2.5dat/cat into the patch and add your custom settings from XTM et voilá.

Or edit/add the following lines in your animations.txt

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TAT_TAGSINGLESTEP; NULL; 0; 0; 77;
//lots of
//icon entries
//
effects\menugfx\icons\icon_076_export_statistics;

I think that's all.

[moot]

Not sure how this helps, but the icon apparently only appears in a vanilla game. Stick just one unsigned script into the game and *poof* the game goes "modified" and the icon disappears, leaving behind a black space what it should be.

So it's not just a XTM problem--tho I wonder how this issue affects XTM in particular?

[Aragon Speed]

Ah, so it's a general problem. In that case it may not be fixable.

Thx for the reply, that helps a lot.

Edit:

Ah missed the first post somehow?!? That's useful to know Iifrit Tambuur-san, thx.

[Iifrit Tambuur-san]

Not sure how this helps, but the icon apparently only appears in a vanilla game. Stick just one unsigned script into the game and *poof* the game goes "modified" and the icon disappears, leaving behind a black space what it should be.

So it's not just a XTM problem--tho I wonder how this issue affects XTM in particular?

I cannot confirm that.

I load a game with a german Mod (TerraMod ) and the export statistics icon appears correctly.

Of course this Mod does not change the animations.txt

Every mod that changes the animations.txt has to edit this file in the way mentioned above.

[moot]

So are you saying that having animations.txt in the last cat file will fix the problem? Cos I have a few false patches such that my X3R folder runs up to 14.cat (BetterSpokenText, UniTrader's HUD, and low poly roids), but only 11.cat has the animations.txt file. And there's no Upload icon, of course.

[Locksley]

And to confuse the issue even more - I got XTM and a bunch of other scripts and fake patches.

In the beginning there was no icon but lo, there was added content and the icon now is light.

I never paid attention to when it happened but I think it might have something to do with me adding the Military Hud and/or the fix for Khaak fighters.