[Modding Question] Ship section entity <culture> is missing required locator <locator name>

[Deon_ac]

Dear community.

Whenever I mod an existing section, let's say, of a transport ship, to add a gun to it, I get the following errors in the error log, for every culture type:

[05:23:11][section.cpp:327]: ship section entity "mammalian_01_transport_ship_entity" is missing required locator "small_gun_01"

[05:23:11][ship_design_templates.cpp:403]: Section template "DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_SECTION" with entity "mammalian_01_transport_ship_entity" is missing locator "small_gun_01".

I assume it complains about finding a place to put the locator I created on the model.
I tried to create a file gfx\model\ships\mammalian_01 and make _mammalian_01_ships_entities.asset in it, and add the following line to the transport there:

            locator = { name = "small_gun_01"    position = { 0 0 0 } }

However that does not seem to fix the error. Could someone give me a few hints how to handle it?

My mod file contents are below:

Spoiler

ship_section_template = {
    key = "DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_SECTION"
    ship_size = transport
    fits_on_slot = mid
    entity = "transport_ship_entity"
    icon = "GFX_ship_part_core_mid"
  
    component_slot = {
        name = "SMALL_GUN_01"
        slot_size = small
        slot_type = weapon
        locatorname = "small_gun_01"
    }
  
    small_utility_slots = 2
    medium_utility_slots = 2
    aux_utility_slots = 1
}

As a separate question, this does generate an error:

[05:23:11][ship_design_templates.cpp:219]: duplicate section template found. Multiple sections are named [DEFAULT_TRANSPORT_SECTION].  file: common/section_templates/transport.txt line: 11

Does this simply mean that I replaced the section, or will it actually store two copies in the memory and some errors may come from it? Is it safe to mode sections like this, or am I supposed to replace the whole file?

 

[tokillthelight]

I was googling today trying to figure out this exact issue, and managed to work it out myself.

Each ship will have certain hardpoint slots to attach your components. If you use a name different to what I assume is in a DLL file, it will throw these errors. So how to resolve? Just use the available names, they dont have to match. I modded a Titan, the bow (front) section only has a single slot (xl_gun_01) and I have been able to attach point defence and strike craft slots there.

You can find what the names of the points are on each section by looking at the appropriate file in common > section_templates > [ApproprateShipTypeHere].txt

Let me know if that doesnt make sense and I'll try clarify