Law & Order bug?

[Urthman]

I posted about this a while ago in a thread about the Strangers Mod.  But it turns out it wasn't a Strangers problem.

I didn't use Law&Order the first time I played the campaign, so I don't know if the game was doing this at first or if maybe something on my system got messed up by later modmaking adjustments or what.

But what happens is this.  Whenever I play Law or Order in the game, when I trigger the Transform command, the character disapperars, but the replacement does not appear.  The game thinks the character is there, you can move Law (or Order) (the selection ring appears under empty space) and have Law attack and Law can get hurt by area attacks.  But there's no mesh there.

When playing with Strangers version (the Fly/Giant-size Fly) I had the same problem.  I noticed that occasionally you'd see the mesh all the way on the other side of the map, as if the game were displaying it in the wrong place.

I'm having the same problem with the mod I'm working on (like the Strangers I've stuck different meshes in the Law/Order character folders). In the Warehouse cutscene where you first meet Ant-Man/Giant-Man, Giant Man shows up, attacks some thugs, then transforms.  Ant-Man replaces him, but is not visible.  Then when Ant-Man switches back, same thing.  No Giant-Man mesh.  The level starts up and something invisible starts attacking the warehouses and saying "By the Power of Might!" or whatever Order's catchphrase is.

Anyone else ever run into this before?  Any ideas of what might be going on?

[tommyboy]

No idea.
Use ffx shapeshifter/tempform instead.

[Urthman]

No idea.
Use ffx shapeshifter/tempform instead.

I was thinking of doing that, although it kinda messes with my strategy of doing straight replacements of FF1 characters.  Also it means you can't use that character in the final levels because something about the teleporting from celestial cog to celestial cog doesn't work with shapeshifters.  Also also, I can't get the cutscene that introduces Law / Order to work right if I delete the bits where Order transforms into Law and back.

[Lunarman]

I've never seen this before, have you tried a reinstall to a different location and running the game to check if it happens first time?