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Help Forum Start-up error has me baffled    Bearthing   9/30/2012 I DL'd my old favorite game, Docking Station, and loaded it up with some agents and metarooms. To my knowledge I did not do any kind of major editing of the game's files, yet when I try to start a world I get this error: Simple Agent: Family: 2 Genus: 24 Species: 54003 Gallery: trul.s16 First Image: 0 Image Count: 18 Created in plane: 4000 SharedGallery: DoCreateGallery The following sprite gallery was not found: .\Images\trul.s16 Windows NT/2000 5.0 build 2195 () OriginalDisplay DirectX (netbabel 148 ) Followed by this one: .\Bootstrap\010 Docking Station\hm_trumpet.cos AHE0001: Attempt to access NULL handle [{@}new: simp 2 24 54003 "trul" 18 0 4000 attr 199 bhv ... Windows NT/2000 5.0 build 2195 () OriginalDisplay DirectX (netbabel 148 ) Sun Sep 30 00:11:08 2012 - Chelsea - 2.286 b195 ...followed by many more of the first and the second, all involving some kind of .cos file and trul.s16. If I keep pressing continue, I get to a game where the sidebars work, but there's no Capillata, no norns, no anything. When I import I get the Cap, but then I get an error message every two seconds, with each option giving me a virtually unplayable game. (Can't export norns, for example.) I have no idea where to start with this one. I keep wondering if I need to find this 'trul.s16' file, but a Google search turns up nothing. I can only imagine it's related to some agent or metaroom or something, but which one would murder trul.s16 and break all these .cos files at once? Don't care; I'm a bear.   Mioonktoo     9/30/2012 I had that same problem. Just remove the hm_trumpet.cos file and, barring the possibility of any other unexpected misbehaving files, it'll work fine. It's either supposed to come with a sprite file or work with an existing one. But unless someone can prove otherwise, as far as I know there are none that exist for it. From the depths of Deep Lurkspace I emerge... And suddenly can't remember what it is I came up for.   Bearthing   9/30/2012 Thanks, Mioonktoo; that worked. What also works, if anyone else has this same error, is making the worlds first and THEN shoving all your agents in. Don't care; I'm a bear.   Malkin Manager     9/30/2012 I believe that you somehow have Hausmouse's Trumpet plant code in your world, but not the image file it needs to function. (That's packed up inside the agent file - for the game to be able to use the image file, first you need to inject the agent.) Move the hm_trumpet.cos file out of your bootstrap folder and see how that goes. My TCR Norns   Bearthing   9/30/2012 Game broke again. Same reason. Hmm. Weirdly enough, files like hoverdoc.cos seem to be affected, as well... Taking your suggestions, Malkin. Screwin' around with stuff. EDIT: Taking out the hm_trumpet.cos file fixed the whole thing. Thank you very, very much, guys. I appreciate it immensely. Don't care; I'm a bear.

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