I was going to delete this but I think it has instructive value. If this happens to you, replace your ra2.cfg file with one from a clean copy of the game. Problem (knock on wood) solved.
All of a sudden, none of the BFE modifications I make to my robots' chassis are working outside the bot lab, like this one:
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/40915thorgrim.png)
I think the problem may be with RA2 because they're all doing this. Please help - all the replicas I've made in the the past 8 months are ***ked if I can't get this resolved. I tried moving them to a fresh copy, no dice.
Could it be that I moved the files from one computer to another? I remeber I sent one to Helloface and it didn't work for him, even though it worked fine on my computer.[/s]