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News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu May 03, 2018 8:46 am

So I formatted one of my bots today, giving her an alt mode for the start of the star wars hunt and it's now not showing up anywhere. It just shows a broken picture icon. I choose the alt mode listed 413 assault shuttle.

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Thu May 03, 2018 8:58 am

No worries, it's just one of HMW's quirks.

Some of the alt images don't always work when recoloured, this is a good example.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu May 03, 2018 10:18 am

Thanks psych, her alt appeared in the mission logs so it can still be verified :lol:

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Fri May 04, 2018 12:46 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:So I formatted one of my bots today, giving her an alt mode for the start of the star wars hunt and it's now not showing up anywhere. It just shows a broken picture icon. I choose the alt mode listed 413 assault shuttle.

Can you provide some URLs where I can replicate this problem? thanks!

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Fri May 04, 2018 12:54 pm

I went through all of ZeroWolf's character pages and the alt modes showed up for all of them. Wasn't sure which mission or arena logs to follow-up with. Does anyone have any character pages or mission logs or arena logs where characters aren't displaying correctly?

by **Wingz** » Fri May 04, 2018 1:17 pm

Seibertron wrote:I went through all of ZeroWolf's character pages and the alt modes showed up for all of them. Wasn't sure which mission or arena logs to follow-up with. Does anyone have any character pages or mission logs or arena logs where characters aren't displaying correctly?

If I'm understanding Zero correctly, this is a prime example:

Longrack used repair 6 times, at:

5:56
7:11
8:47
8:52
9:09
9:38

However, the alt image doesn't display in the log when he uses Repair like it does for the other characters.

Others, the little icons are broken while the big icons show up, and vice versa. I'll try to get a few examples of those for you, if you'd like.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Fri May 04, 2018 1:18 pm

So, it seems the colour selected alts are all broken right now, can I suggest, to make this alt hunt in anyway playable, that we all agree to revert to base colours until it's fixed?

by **Wingz** » Fri May 04, 2018 1:21 pm

Not a bad idea :lol:

by **Bun-Bun** » Fri May 04, 2018 1:29 pm

And now all the custom colored alts are broken...
So I suppose we're all on equal standings now.

Although the Assault Shuttle that Zero was talking about is still broke even without the custom color. (just the small Icon, the Large Icon works)
(my character with that Alt)

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri May 04, 2018 2:10 pm

https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/team_view.php?id=104423

Sorry Seib! I was busy so I didn't see the thread notification :-)

the link above shows the alt broken on my end. I went through some of the mission logs and Haze Abyss alt mode was there but all the other players lost theirs

by **turbomagnus** » Fri May 04, 2018 3:20 pm

I... suppose. But it will have to be later tonight for me; I'm playing HMW between doing something else right now and I'll need the time later to note down the 'proper' colors as I default them out so I can restore them after the problem is fixed...

by **Bun-Bun** » Fri May 04, 2018 3:35 pm

turbomagnus wrote:I... suppose. But it will have to be later tonight for me; I'm playing HMW between doing something else right now and I'll need the time later to note down the 'proper' colors as I default them out so I can restore them after the problem is fixed...

lol
You must have an even worse memory than mine.
Then again I'm not super specific on mine, just kinda gettem in the general area as last time.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri May 04, 2018 3:54 pm

One of mine is broken in the default colours as I've not really had much need to change them yet...though now it's broken on team view and on the registry. Fine in mission logs

by **turbomagnus** » Fri May 04, 2018 5:18 pm

Bun-Bun wrote:
turbomagnus wrote:I... suppose. But it will have to be later tonight for me; I'm playing HMW between doing something else right now and I'll need the time later to note down the 'proper' colors as I default them out so I can restore them after the problem is fixed...

lol
You must have an even worse memory than mine.
Then again I'm not super specific on mine, just kinda gettem in the general area as last time.

Well, for most of them I can guess, but some like Longarm (Sheriff's Department) and Bodge-Job (Highway Incident Response Vehicle) are based on the colors of specific organizations, so I like to have those as close and consistant as possible, y'know?

Not that it seems to matter much since it looks like it's been fixed...

by **Bun-Bun** » Fri May 04, 2018 5:23 pm

Except ironically for the one that Zero reported that seemed to have started all this.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri May 04, 2018 5:45 pm

Yeah, that sounds about right.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Fri May 04, 2018 6:16 pm

I think I just fixed the alt mode problem that was originally reported. The problem that you guys are talking about was caused by me fixing the other problem. It should all be good now. If not, please provide URL examples so that I can replicate. Thanks!

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Fri May 04, 2018 9:57 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:One of mine is broken in the default colours as I've not really had much need to change them yet...though now it's broken on team view and on the registry. Fine in mission logs

Can you confirm that is working now? If not, please provide URLs so that I can replicate the problem. Thanks.

Like steve2275 on Facebook · by **steve2275** » Fri May 04, 2018 10:09 pm

if it helps https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwa ... hp?id=1138 i can see all of mine

by **turbomagnus** » Sat May 05, 2018 8:18 am

Uh, yikes and yoinks, guys...

My team's alts are displaying properly now - missions, registry, character and team pages, etc. - but it looks like the alt modes page itself has now gone screwy.

I went to it - https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/altmodes.php - and every alt there (at least on the Autobot side) is now white regardless of previous color and some of them like the 806 Futuristic Fighter are displaying with the crossed-out G1 Prime image...

by **Overwatch** » Sat May 05, 2018 9:07 am

Same on Con side with the white-washed alt list. Non-issue though, the alts display as they normally would when selected. I reset one of mine and it displayed normal both as default colour and custom colour.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sat May 05, 2018 9:43 am

Hazes alt shows up now perfectly, though I worry about all the mess that followed in trying to get her fixed :lol:

thank you for the help

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon May 07, 2018 1:05 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/team_view.php?id=104423

Sorry Seib! I was busy so I didn't see the thread notification the link above shows the alt broken on my end. I went through some of the mission logs and Haze Abyss alt mode was there but all the other players lost theirs

Which character has an alt mode broken in your team view above? They all look good on my end.

Can you provide the links to your mission logs so that I can look into those problems as well. Please let me know some specifics about which characters are missing alt modes in the mission logs you provide. Thanks.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Mon May 07, 2018 1:28 pm

Oh they are all sorted now thanks :-)

I already reported it in the broken alt mode thread, guess I forgot to reply back here :lol:

sorry for wasting your time seib :-)

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon May 07, 2018 1:54 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:Oh they are all sorted now thanks I already reported it in the broken alt mode thread, guess I forgot to reply back here sorry for wasting your time seib

No need to apologize. It had been a few days since I had worked on these problems, and it was confusing me about having different topics regarding the same issues. I couldn't remember what had and had not been resolved yet.