Bikerdude: - questions

[Jesps]

Have you tried changing 'fiduration' and 'foduration' to something higher, say 5?

[Bikerdude]

yeah, doset help. The prob is TDM, wont start playing the second ambient until it has finished playing the first etc. And there in lies the rub, am I doing something wrong, is it a bug, is it even supposed to work that way..?

[Bikerdude]

Grass edge/path decals:

 

just spotted the above mentioned decals, what's the basic of how to user these as the wiki article I found dosent help me much..

[Serpentine]

They're just patches, you... put them along the edge. That said I'm writing up a really easy guide to doing the blend method which is ~super easy~. So I'd give me a week and see what comes of that

[Tels]

You could always try to edit out the "gap" of the ambients. Another method would be that we alow you:

 

* to specify some sort of "skip" spawnarg that says "start playing this ambient X seconds into it"

* or find a way to allow more than one ambient to be player (which I think a lot of work)

 

Demagogue might answer this better than me.

[Bikerdude]

Another question:

 

Doom/TDM the last week or so is really slow to compile, as in the text is either going at medium speed, crawling up the screen - normally it whizzed up etc.

 

Before I start ripping things apart to try and figure out what the issue is anyone got any ideas..?

Edited February 21, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Fidcal]

Grass edge/path decals:

 

just spotted the above mentioned decals, what's the basic of how to user these as the wiki article I found dosent help me much..

I've just added a better explanation but it's one of those things that's fairly easy but lengthy to explain so it seems more complicated than it really is!

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Grass_Edges

[Bikerdude]

Thanks Fids..

 

Doom/TDM the last week or so is really slow to compile, as in the text is either going at medium speed, crawling up the screen - normally it whizzed up etc. Before I start ripping things apart to try and figure out what the issue is anyone got any ideas..?

Anyone on this one

[ungoliant]

that tends to happen to me if i dmap while an FM is still in play on the screen. Goes much faster if you go back to main menu before dmapping.

[Bikerdude]

well in my case it turns out it was a either corrupt doomconfig.cfg or a erroneous setting within said file. Replacing with one from my stock tdm backup archive cured it.

 

WB btw, just read what said about moving - arse.

Edited February 22, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Bikerdude]

Ok, what am i missing here, since upgrading to 1.04 I have had to up the gamma in TDM and when I compile a map where are the compiled file being put...(nothing new is appearing in the maps folder, .ass etc)

 

[update] Never mind, it seems to be working now....

Edited February 27, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Bikerdude]

this may have been asked already and if so typologies, but..

 

whats the cvar to turn of the main menu music - I have doom running at the same time as DR and to be honest after 6 months of it I am kinda getting sick of hearing it now.. In fact can the option to turn it off be added to a future release..?

[Aprilsister]

You know it's amazing that this has just gotten to me now too... quite a testament to the excellence of the track actually!

 

Anyway, the cvar that is supposed to work is: tdm_music_volume = "<a number between -40 and 1>" but it doesn't work as far as shutting of the sound only adjusting it... so you never get silence. And, btw, it just correlates to the Ambient slider in the Options, which also fails to work as far as silencing goes.

 

So, I have figured out how to do some things.

 

• You can create a directory structure in your darkmod folder like this ".....darkmod\sound\meta\menu", right?
• Then you take whatever track you want to hear and convert it to a 16bit 44.1khz PCM ogg and call it "amb_nocturne_menu.ogg"
• Voila! And violas to if you want.

...

 

Or...

 

Here I made you a pk4 that will work. You needn't do anything but put this in your "darkmod" folder (deleting the "(Silence).txt" bit and leaviing the "pk4" of course)

 

...

 

Or... this one is more fun it's got music, just different than what we've been hearing for all this time... (this one you delete "(RO).txt")

 

See if you recognize it

 

Nah... too big for the forum... sorry... if you want it I'll put it elsewhere. Let me know.

Edited March 6, 2011 by Aprilsister

[Springheel]

Mute button?

[Bikerdude]

See if you recognize it ;)Nah... too big for the forum... sorry... if you want it I'll put it elsewhere. Let me know.

Thanks fr this!

 

Mute button?

Spings, Other games have the option to turn down/off the main menu music. And besides when I am map building I have doom constanting running alongside DR and the only time I want to hear anything is when doom has finished compiling and in-game etc.

[Bikerdude]

Question:

 

And this one is making me furious!!!!

 

As per this thread, I ask why AI in 1.04 have serious issues navigating/negotiating.. The Ai in St Albans cathedral can no longer navigate anywhere without getting stuck or going in fucking circles!

 

So the question what arg do I use to reduce the boundry Ai's use to navigate..? as atm,

 

I cant release the updated map until a work around is found or its fixed...!!!!

Edited March 6, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Springheel]

As per this thread, I ask why AI in 1.04 have serious issues navigating/negotiating.. The Ai in St Albans cathedral can no longer navigate anywhere without getting stuck or going in fucking circles!

 

You might want to ask grayman about this. He may not be reading each megathread.

[Bikerdude]

thanks Springs

 

Another question:

 

I asked this before but now its doing it again and I would like to narrow down what exactly is causing it and how to fix it.

 

When Doom is dmapping its normaly very quick (as in the text is whizzing past) but now its on a go-slow again. The fix I found last time was to delete my doomconfig.cfg file. but I don't want to have to recreate this confige every time this happens.

Edited March 6, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Fidcal]

Try moving the config away temporarily. You may find it has no effect but was just coincidence before. Hard to see how the config could affect dmapping. So it might just be the map and that could be lots of things.

[Aprilsister]

Bikerdude, here are 3 different main-menu-background-music pk4s

 

Silence!

 

Mystery (Name That Tune)

 

LEKyril

[Bikerdude]

Question:

 

Where does Dark radient store its prefs, if I can make a backup of my custome settings I wont have to redo them every time etc.

 

ta

[greebo]

Question:

 

Where does Dark radient store its prefs, if I can make a backup of my custome settings I wont have to redo them every time etc.

 

ta

C:\Users\Bikerdude\AppData\Roaming\DarkRadiant

[Bikerdude]

Thnaks greebs, i though it might be there...

 

Another question:

 

Hut how do I create secret objective that only completes when the player has entered the location? here is a screen shot of the objective's screen. And I have set "objective_ent" "1" on secret1 (info_tdm_objective_location)

 

???

[Fidcal]

I think you mean an invisible objective that only shows when it is completed right?

 

Create a target > atdm:target_setobjective_visibility and give it these properties:

 

name [eg, ShowABCobjective]

obj_id0 <objective No. = 7 in this case>

obj_visibility 1 [default}

 

On the objective itself put in the target field the name of the above: [eg, ShowABCobjective]

 

It is likely that it won't display the message 'Objective Complete' because it completed invisibly first then afterwards set itself visible. If so it needs a bit of bodging with several entities. Probably a script is better. Anyone else done this? Anyway, this is the best I can think up quickly without a script:

 

Keep the above atdm:target_setobjective_visibility

 

Also create a atdm_target_setobjective_state_1 and give it these properties:

name [eg, SetABCobjective]

obj_id0 7 [objective No. = 7 in this case]

obj_state 1 [default}

 

Create trigger > trigger_relay and give it these properties:

name [eg, DelaySetABCobjective]

delay 0.5 [seconds]

target <above SetABCobjective>

 

Create another trigger > trigger_relay and give it these properties:

name [eg, ShowThenSetABCobjective]

delay 0 [default]

target1 [above ShowABCobjective]

target2 [above DelaySetABCobjective]

 

Create another invisible objective.

This new copy stays invisible and is the real active objective

It's never seen so you can put in a comment in the text eg, Set and show #7 escape objective

Copy the rest of the first objective (have to do it manually line by line.)

In the target field put: ShowThenSetABCobjective [see above name]

 

Change the original objective:

Change the component about being in location completely to: Custom Script

 

In theory that should be it.

The new invisible objective completes invisibly when the player is in the location.

it stays invisible but...

It triggers the first relay ShowThenSetABCobjective

That immediately relays to trigger to make the original objective visible

Half a second later it triggers it to set complete and you should get Objective Complete.

 

BTW objective_ent isn't needed here because it's the player and anyway it would go on the object in the location not the location.

 

Now somebody tell me you just have to tick a box somewhere instead.

[Bikerdude]

That seems awfully complicated for what I'm trying to do Fids, why dosen't what I.m already doing work..? The same think works for entities the player can carry, as I already have an objective like that and ti work just fine - so what not the idPlayer entity as well....