Patriot City (FFVTTR) black_bullet template bug?

[Artemis]

I have been playing Patriot Cuty for the first time but have run into an error message several times saying

"alert: No character template was found to generate possible actions for!, black_bullet"

I've re-installed both the original Patriot city and the patch but the problem still persists and I've also checked FFEdit and where the IS a template for a character named black_bullet, so i am oficially stumped... - Any advice?

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

If it isn't crashing your game, don't worry about it.  The engine kicks up error messages all the time, but many of them don't actually hurt anything.

[Artemis]

 :doh:
I should have mentioned that it IS crashing my game shouldn't I?
:doh:
I really AM a moron :wacko: :blink: :wacko:

[stumpy]

Can you give a little more detail when this is happening? Is it right when you launch the mod or when you load a saved game or start a new campaign or when you enter any map or just certain maps, etc?

As usual, after this error occurs, post your script.log file (or ff.err if script.log is empty) and maybe the last 20 or so lines of your ff.log if it has anything that looks related.

To aid in diagnosis, before a crash happens, start a Rumble Room session (doesn't matter which one or what characters you use), then open the console and enter the following three lines (one at a time):

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from datfiles import *
Campaign_ReadCharacters().get('black_bullet')
Campaign_ReadObjects().get('black_bullet')
Then find those lines and their output in script.log and post them here.

See the stickied thread in the Technical Issues forum if you aren't sure how to do any of that.


The good news is that I am almost sure I had this problem myself and I got around it. The bad news is that it was a long time ago, so I'll need some help recalling what happened and what the fix was.

[Epimethee]

The Black Bullet is an FFX 2.x character whose template was included by error in FFX 3, hence the error. You should delete the template from FFEdit.

[Artemis]

Thank you all very much for the replies and of course all the help you have offered.
Epimethee - your advice worked , thanks alot - but also thanks alot to stumpy and catwhowalksbyhimself!