problem with making imported sprites work

[metaldemon]

hey guys, i got a problem with making imported sprites work.

if i copy sprites from another WAD file and import them between the SS_START and SS_END, the'll work fine. but if i make my own, and put them between 'em, it says:

ERROR:
bad frame caracters in sprite *insert first inserted sptrite here...*

what should i do? jump out of the window?

[Enjay]

*insert first inserted sptrite here...*

And there you miss out the critical bit of info!

Look closely at the "first inserted sptrite" message that Zdoom gives you. It probably contains information about a typo that you made in your sprite naming or something similar. If you still can't see it, report back here with exactly what the message says.

[metaldemon]

sorry... i had to explain that too...*doh*

look: for example: im making a machinegun. so my sprites are named: MACHAO MACHBO etc... well imagine that i have 4 sprites for it. and MACHAO is on top of the imported sprites... then it says:

ERROR:
bad frame caracters in sprite MACHAO

when i delete MACHAO from the sprites list and from my decorate, it says:

ERROR:
bad frame caracters in sprite *MACHBO*

so assuming that all of my imported sprites have the problem, what could it be?

[Enjay]

Well, first of all, you are not posting exactly what the error message says as I'm pretty sure that Zdoom spells "characters" correctly. Seriously, it is important to post exactly what the report says because it may be saying something that is almost unnoticable (like a very minor typo) thay isn't obvious to see. I know that has been the problem for me when I have seen this error.

I don't remember if this error gets logged to the console but you could try starting zdoom by adding +logfile log.txt to the command line then open the file log.txt that Zdoom creates and copy/paste the message from there.

However, there is one thing that I have spotted.

If you have accurately reported the name of your sprite "MACHBO", it is wrong. It should be "MACHB0". ie, the last character should be a zero, not a letter "oh".