Dino replacement help

[Ansgar Odinson]

Trying to replace the wild terror birds that spawn on the Ragnarok map with Deinonychus. I have replaced 3 other dinos without issue but this one doesn't seem to be working. Maybe someone could point out what I am doing wrong

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="TerrorBird_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Deinonychus_Character_BP_C")

[Gran]

That Line looks okay, any mods? If Yes list them.
And you might want to post the whole game.ini to check

[Lori37]

http://www.gamewalkthrough-universe.com/Walkthroughs-Guides/Ark-Survival-Evolved/Game-Server-Customization/Dino-Spawn/default.aspx

use that one.... problem solved

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Lori37:

http://www.gamewalkthrough-universe.com/Walkthroughs-Guides/Ark-Survival-Evolved/Game-Server-Customization/Dino-Spawn/default.aspx

use that one.... problem solved

Would be awesome if deinonychus was actually in the tools. And yes, I tried replacing a different dino and swapping it out.

Originally posted by Gran:

That Line looks okay, any mods? If Yes list them.
And you might want to post the whole game.ini to check

About 40 mods but none of them alter dinos. Just structure and decoration mods mostly.

[𝔇ave]

if you post the whole Game.ini like Gran asked someone might be able to see an error that was overlooked.

[Lori37]

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

Would be awesome if deinonychus was actually in the tools.

oh, sorry about that.... guess it hasn't been updated recently :-/

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by 𝔇ave:

if you post the whole Game.ini like Gran asked someone might be able to see an error that was overlooked.

Sorry, here it is https://pastebin.com/BsiytAcP

[Gran]

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

Originally posted by 𝔇ave:

if you post the whole Game.ini like Gran asked someone might be able to see an error that was overlooked.

Sorry, here it is https://pastebin.com/BsiytAcP

first quick answer, the first thing i noticed while browsing through there are empty lines in it.
Don't do that, empty lines are always problematic cause ark might just skip anything below.

edit: except the empty lines i didn't saw anything wrong above the Terrorbird swap. So fingers crossed after removing the empty lines everything should work.

one question out of curiosity "BionicRex_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Adolescent_C" where does that come from ? i can't find any reference to that.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Gran:

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

Sorry, here it is https://pastebin.com/BsiytAcP

first quick answer, the first thing i noticed while browsing through there are empty lines in it.
Don't do that, empty lines are always problematic cause ark might just skip anything below.

edit: except the empty lines i didn't saw anything wrong above the Terrorbird swap. So fingers crossed after removing the empty lines everything should work.

one question out of curiosity "BionicRex_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Adolescent_C" where does that come from ? i can't find any reference to that.

Those lines are not in the version I publish, those are only in the version I work with for the purpose of keeping things organized. As for the bionic rex, I just searched for bionic in the game files and directly copied it from the file name

[Gran]

Then I'm a bit on a loss here. Your game.ini looks fine and from the extend of change you did i don't need to ask if you stopped the Server before he change and did a destroywilddinos after.
The only reason could be that they are somehow have a different Creature ID.

one possibility would be to use this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1404697612

when equipped you can show the Creature ID with CTRL-D

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Gran:

Then I'm a bit on a loss here. Your game.ini looks fine and from the extend of change you did i don't need to ask if you stopped the Server before he change and did a destroywilddinos after.
The only reason could be that they are somehow have a different Creature ID.

one possibility would be to use this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1404697612

when equipped you can show the Creature ID with CTRL-D

For a long time I had the terror birds swapped out for Raptors and that worked great. Then I decided instead to swap them out for deinonychus and now just nothing spawns. Ill try using that. Although the admin spawn code I got the creature ID from certainly worked for manually spawning.

[Gran]

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

For a long time I had the terror birds swapped out for Raptors and that worked great. Then I decided instead to swap them out for deinonychus and now just nothing spawns. Ill try using that. Although the admin spawn code I got the creature ID from certainly worked for manually spawning.

did you try to spawn in one Deino manually with the ID from the replace ?

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Gran:

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

For a long time I had the terror birds swapped out for Raptors and that worked great. Then I decided instead to swap them out for deinonychus and now just nothing spawns. Ill try using that. Although the admin spawn code I got the creature ID from certainly worked for manually spawning.

did you try to spawn in one Deino manually with the ID from the replace ?

Indeed, it worked

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Gran:

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

For a long time I had the terror birds swapped out for Raptors and that worked great. Then I decided instead to swap them out for deinonychus and now just nothing spawns. Ill try using that. Although the admin spawn code I got the creature ID from certainly worked for manually spawning.

did you try to spawn in one Deino manually with the ID from the replace ?

When I said earlier that it worked, it worked as in the spawning a single raptor worked, using that same working spawn ID does not work for replacing the terror birds.

Thank you very much for trying to help. Im going to have to look into other ways of spawning them in

[Gran]

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

Originally posted by Gran:

did you try to spawn in one Deino manually with the ID from the replace ?

When I said earlier that it worked, it worked as in the spawning a single raptor worked, using that same working spawn ID does not work for replacing the terror birds.

Thank you very much for trying to help. Im going to have to look into other ways of spawning them in

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295978823

one of the best options, since it also contains the nests.