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  1. Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

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    Posted · Edited by Frost_Salamander

    Has anyone experienced the following issues and can offer advice?:

    • I'm having a problem where some beta testers have reported that belt-attached keys aren't frobable on some AI. I haven't been able to reproduce it at all, and not everyone has reported it.  It might be intermittent as well (i.e. it will work on reload, etc).
    • In a couple of places I have some visportals in outdoor areas (i.e. not simply covering a door or window).  If you cross them the ambient light changes slightly.  These aren't separate locations with different ambient settings or anything.  Not sure what's causing it.

  2. Things that could be improved

    in The Dark Mod

    Posted

    1 minute ago, SeriousToni said:

    Regarding sound. I always wondered if anyone thought of a two layer sound system at some point. I always felt that it seems awkward to hear the guards talk crystal clear all over the hallway when you're around the corner 100 meters away.

    I don't know how it is called technically but some game propagate two sounds for one sound source. One normal sound that has full volume if you're close to the audio source. And one muffled or echoey sound that plays full volume of you're further away. The two fade into each other and then one of them vanishes depending on your distance to the audio source.

    Would this be also possible in TDM? Maybe without doubling the audio files but using the 3D audio / EAX feature? Did someone play around with this in that regard already?

    @SeriousToni IIRC you were asking in another thread a while ago about dynamically changing sounds, or triggering different ones when you enter a room and stuff like that.  I was just reading this about the sound override property and it reminded me about that conversation.  It looks like you can use this property do maybe do some of that stuff you were asking about? https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Location_Settings#Sound_Override

  4. Beta testers wanted: High Expectations by Frost_Salamander

    in Fan Missions

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    7 minutes ago, Acolytesix said:

    Hoping you remember where this room is. The first 2 pictures are of a un-eatable muffin laying on the floor to the left of the stove.

    In the elevator, what is the middles button for?

    The fountain in the park seems to be exploding with water. The water flow is not going Into the fountains base.

    The last one is of the guy I KO'd who then dies. This time I left him where he fell, then there was no problem. It was when carrying him to hide him that he dies.

    As for who to kill. You said don't kill any "innocents", which is confusing. All other games it's don't kill the "un-armed", which would be the innocent. Armed guards/people usually mean hostile, not innocent. Like in some FM's, but then I should be able to walk past them as well without getting attacked.

    PS-I'm so glad the "screenshot" function works again on the new PC :) 

    Mods can this moved again? 

    @Acolytesix- can you make sure you post in the beta thread instead of this one please (this one is public, the beta thread is only for logged-in forum members): https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21822-beta-testing-high-expectations/

     

     

  9. DarkRadiant questions

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    Posted

    What type of leak is it?  Is it an entity that leaks to the void, or a visportal being dropped?

    Have you tried looking at the pointfiles (File -> Pointfile)?  Then CTRL+SHIFT+k to follow them to the leak.

    Also, this is the thread people usually use for help (ignore the 'newbie' in the title, everyone uses it): 

     

     

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  10. EFX preset spawnarg for Location entities?

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    5 hours ago, thebigh said:

    How did you get this to work? I cannot get the sound to update by scripting this sort of thing: 

    $location_room1.setSpawnArg( "ambient", "snd_somenewsound" );

    if location_room1 is a location_info entity and snd_somenewsound has been defined in the atdm:location_settings entity. It just goes back to playing the original sound when I go back into room1.

    I used setKey() instead of setSpawnArg(). Not sure what the difference is but it worked.

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  11. Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, JackFarmer said:

    This also happens to me regularly when I create cylinders with small diameters. The item from the project below is very close to the world origin.

    image.png.e90a33e1ff0eb64f617137bc5c5a22dc.png

    Do you mean the edges on the cylinder?  You can round those out just by fiddling with the Patch Tesselation in the patch inspector:

    image.png.d153612087e1a6fdd0e2a3d4db6363a9.png

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  13. Add usability/accessibility settings to the main menu

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    4 minutes ago, Wellingtoncrab said:

    I think more accessibility and customization options should be exposed in the main menu. Even as a new player when you’ve gotten to the point you understand what a cvar even is, looking them up often when you aren’t sure what you are looking for is even available is not a good experience. Given just how much discussion and disagreement there has been about the blackjack over the years, offering the new feature (which again I like btw) but making it something you can easily disable if you prefer in the game menu is a no brainer imo. 

    I also don’t like the idea that things which can give players motion sickness, such as camera animations, are not directly adjustable and accessible in the game menu.

    So I don’t really see a reason why any of these should not be included, given there is real estate available in menu.

    Agreed, except to say that a new player shouldn't have to even know or care what the hell a cvar is.

    Time for things to move on a bit...

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  14. EFX preset spawnarg for Location entities?

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    15 hours ago, thebigh said:

    True. However, if the EFX settings are read from a file I think you'd need to pull the switcheroo script trick because those are determined by the name of the atdm:location entity. I suspect that changing its name spawnarg during play would be asking for all sorts of trouble.

    Well you don't need to change the name of the entity, only the ambient/ambient_light spawnargs on it.  That's what I did anyways.

    I did actually try the 'switcheroo' trick first, but kept getting errors about multiple entities with the same name even though I was removing the old one first.  No idea why.  Then I tried the spawnarg thing and that worked so I left it at that.

  17. EFX preset spawnarg for Location entities?

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    8 hours ago, thebigh said:

    Currently it's possible to change a room's ambient light and sound by using a script to swap out one atdm:location for another

    I needed this functionality as well, but I found that simply updating the ambient spawnargs on the location entity (via a script) worked fine, although like you said you had to leave and come back into the room.

    Anyways, getting slightly off topic :-).

     @stgatilov does the original ask make sense? I'm never sure if we should wait and hope for the dev team to see these, or just add a feature request to the bugtracker....

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  18. EFX preset spawnarg for Location entities?

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    Currently if you are implementing EFX in your map, you need to maintain an .efx file: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Setting_Reverb_Data_of_Rooms_(EAX)

    If you are using presets only, all this is is simply a 1:1 mapping of location entities to an EFX preset.  Doing this in a file is kind of tedious and error-prone, as you have to check each location entity in your map, and then check the file to make sure you got the location entity name correct, or didn't leave one out, etc.

    Would it be a worthwhile feature request to be able to just set the EFX preset with a spawnarg on the location entity itself?  Something like: 

    "efx_preset"    "WOODEN_SMALLROOM"

    Also, the location entity has other zone-related information, like ambient sound, ambient light, etc.  It would just make sense to have the EFX here as well.

    This would only make sense for the presets, since you just need the preset name.  If you wanted to do anything more complicated, the file could still be used.  If both are used for the preset, one could take precedence over the other (the spawnarg pehaps).

    I don't think anything would need to change in DR either, as it's just a new spawnarg on the entity.

     

     

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  19. Random Article of the Day...

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    1 hour ago, SeriousToni said:

    Has there ever been a printer, regardless of the manufacturer, that worked right?

    Seriously, I can't remember a time in my life where I didn't have printer problems.

    Agreed.  I have an Epson that is at least 10 years old.  I would estimate that about 50% of the time when I go to print something, it doesn't work.  Either a paper jam, or some mysterious ink problem or something else that only a series of rebooting, cancelling/retrying print jobs, fiddling with buttons or jiggling things can fix. After which, I still won't know what the problem was.  The frustrating thing is, it just won't die and we don't use it THAT much that I can justify getting a new one (and the last thing I want is another printer).  I literally fantasize about taking a baseball bat to it.

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  20. So, what are you working on right now?

    in TDM Editors Guild

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Epifire said:

     In this case I'd recommend the FBX to LWO batch converter for heavy use. I wouldn't expect anyone to really know about it, as I don't think we've really talked about this anywhere yet. I'd intended to write an article on the wiki to document how to set it up, but that kinda fell by the wayside since Greebo directly incorporated it into DR.

     

    I've been using the FBX to LWO converter on my current project.  I only noticed it because it was in Greebo's Github account and I happened to need it at the time.  It's pretty straightforward to use: https://github.com/codereader/FbxToLwo

    I didn't know it was integrated into DR 🤦‍♂️. I guess that's the File -> Import/Convert Model option? 

     

  21. Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

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    Posted

    10 hours ago, Dragofer said:

    I had to pseudo-bind those clasps to the safe door by letting them translate to an absolute world position depending on their own and the safe door's rotation, via the scriptobject. Looks like a bug that this falls apart when the whole safe is rotated.

    Thanks - I've raised bug reports for both issues.

  22. Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

    in TDM Editors Guild

    Posted · Edited by Frost_Salamander

    On 2/19/2023 at 11:55 AM, Frost_Salamander said:

    How do you use the new security safe prefabs?  I've added 'safe02_standing_combination_lock.pfbx' to my map.  The number wheels have a spawnarg called 'slot', which I'm guessing is the unlock code for each wheel?  If so, it looks like the default combination is '123'.  When I play the map and set that, nothing happens (the safe doesn't unlock nor does the wheel become frobable).  What am I missing?

    To add to this, the wall safe version without the combination lock (safe03_wall.pfbx) has some issues as well.  If you place it in your map and then rotate it 180 degrees, when you unlock the safe the clasps around the lock both shoot out to the right.

    Now, normally when this kind of thing happens with prefabs, you just go and tweak the 'translate' spawnargs to correct for the rotation. However the values for the clasps are only '-2 0 0' and '2 0 0', so only 2 units in opposite directions.  That doesn't account for them shooting off what looks like about 32 units in the same direction (see screenshot).

    So, there's a couple of nice looking prefabs added here for 2.11 but it appears they are both unusable either due to bugs or lack of some knowledge.  Who knows about these?  @Dragofermaybe?

     

    safe.jpg

  23. Location based Sound barks possible?

    in The Dark Mod

    Posted · Edited by Frost_Salamander

    I also had a scenario in my current map where I wished the location system could be triggered by an AI (although I can't remember what it was now 😂).  Or maybe allow the location entity in the room target something once the location is entered by either the player or some other entity so no scripting required? Potential new feature request maybe?

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  25. Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

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    Posted

    28 minutes ago, Geep said:

    Probably the .script file that's needed, but unfortunately can't be included with a prefab. Maybe there's a comment somewhere in the prefab (or in the wiki or forums) that says what script it needs and where to find it. (The similar combination setup I used earlier doesn't involve "slot", so clearly uses a different script that I what I have.)

    I would have thought that if it's included as a core asset, the script objects should be bundled with the game.  There is no comment on the prefab itself.

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