Eddie asked: > Bottom line up front, I'm wondering if I have a bad copy of GVB or am just > doing something wrong.
OK, I've got GVB 1.0 in front of me. The disk contains a single executable with the setup, which means there can't really be missing files. The setup should complain. I notice that it is for Windows 95 to XP. I'm installing on an elderly notebook with XP. Lots of little things which could go wrong under newer operating systems, but I GUESS if it works at all it all works. ISTR that people wrote and shared more templates, but I didn't follow that. Starting GVB. I see the file tab and go to new -> templates. I get a radio group Vehicles 2nd/Traveller 2nd/Traveller GF/Space 3rd/WWII. I load the TL8 battlesuit from VE2nd. I switch to the Vehicle tab. The Vehicle Designer Tree contains a (closed) folder with the TL8 battlesuit. It contains Legs, Body, and Frame. The Body contains the Turret and Arms -- a quirk of GVB. I open the Miscellaneous folder in the Repository Tree and and open Heavy Equipment. I drag a TL5 winch into the Body in the Vehicle Tree and a box opens to set TL and strength. I add a TL8, ST 12 winch which appears in the vehicle window. I open the Right Arm and Weapon and Cell and double-click the disruptor. I give it the compact option and close range. Seems to work. > I'm trying to learn how to use GVB. I've tried to do the three tutorials in > the help file. So I understand the basic concept of work one subassembly to > completion by the various data input methods and how to toggle through the > different repositories. I think I'm missing data though. I said I tried to > do the three because when I pressed F8 to open the repositories for the TL10 > Beowulf, my folder in the dialog box was empty. At first I didn't think much > of it, "I don't play Traveller, anyway," and went on to the Synthia > tutorial. Open Vehicles or New Vehicle from Template? > In that tutorial, I was missing the laser weapon sight from step 8. This seems to be an error in the tutorial. The laser sight is an option for handheld weapons in the weapons design. (In a vehicle mount, you'd want a real laser rangefinder and not just a red dot.) > I > thought maybe it was just mislabeled as the laser periscope. Dragged and > dropped and moved on. I got to the end and checked the Vehicle Performance > Statistics for her and everything was zeros across the board. Shouldn't she > have had some kind of ground speed at a minimum? Did you check the ground profile in the Performance Features of the Vehicle Properties? GVD doesn't second-guess that -- should a sealed mars rover with all-wheel drive get the water performance listed!? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
