Normally at least one other person in the world has had my dilemma, so I don't (normally) need to post a message on any particular board. But the WWS forums don't have it. It's not on this forum. It's not in any of the FAQ's I've read. It's not in any tutorials or any documentation of any kind that I have been fortunate enough to find. So I'm getting off my lazy rear (sort of... >=) and posting a question.

I use TibEd and a lot of the XCC utils to mess around with RA2. Right now I'm making a mod for it, and it's basically going to be a new game. I'm not messing with the current units, and I'm not cloning the GI and giving him a Tesla bolt like I did the other C&C games (C&C, RA, TS, etc. :) I'm going all out with this--you might call it a whole expansion pack.

Now, getting to the point. I'm having no trouble at all adding voxels (well, I can't figure out how to add/remove Sections in the HVA files, but I get around that well enough). I've added several voxels already. And I have no trouble modifying attributes for the infantry and structures. But when I try to add (or even modify) the images themselves (such as, the buildup sequence for Structure X, or the SHP file containing the green/yellow/red status images for that structure), I get nothing. Literally. When I start the game, I see ground. I can select the unit or structure, and it draws the little white box around it, but there's no image there. Like the SHP doesn't exist.

Now, I do get error 258 now and then when I go to assemble the SHP, but it creates the SHP. XCC Mixer can view the SHP with no trouble at all. RA2, on the other hand, doesn't acknowledge the SHP's existence.

It only messes up on units and structures using SHP, though. I have had no trouble changing the loading screen (which is also SHP) or the New Campaign animations (the insignias with the arrows pointing toward them when you put the mouse over them - Allied on top, Tutorial on mid, Soviet on bottom...Also SHP), but I just can't seem to get the unit/structures to work.

There was one SHP that I did, and I can't remember how I did it (ack), for a new structure that, when I made it, was also disappeared, but when I went to the options menu then returned, it suddenly appeared. If I moved the screen to another part of the map, then moved back, only half of the structure would be missing. Mind, though, that this only happened one time, and it was the closest I have ever gotten to a complete, working, new structure.

Can anyone help me with this, or am I utterly alone in the universe? (If I'm utterly alone, don't bother to answer that. It should be obvious in due time. :)

Thanks ahead of time,
-MN