Startpack

[Sotha]

Posting an own thread as this is most likely is a problem with the startpack.

 

I've gone through the starpack tutorial ( http://modetwo.net/d...e#Purchase_Shop ) in order to create a purchaseable map for my mission.

 

I downloaded the startmap.pk4 to figure out how things are done. The packet contains a file called map_of.gui.

Is the file \guis\map_of.gui really supposed to be an empty file? I need to know the contents of this file to get the shop-purchaseable map to show it's contents when it is used.

[Fidcal]

Sorry Sotha - that is an error. I can't imagine how that became empty. This is what should be in the file. I'll fix the upload....

 

windowDef Desktop

{

rect 0,0,640,480

nocursor 1

 

windowDef background_map

{

rect 64,48, 512, 384

background "guis/assets/game_maps/map_of"

visible 1

}

// Required include for inventory map

#include "guis/readables/inventory_map.guicode"

}

[Sotha]

Sorry Sotha - that is an error. I can't imagine how that became empty. This is what should be in the file. I'll fix the upload....

 

Thanks for providing the contents so quickly! Everything is working splendidly now.

[Tels]

The startmap is great! But it really needs an update

 

Apart from the empty guy, there is an armed noble who crashes the map. Also, the map should really show how to set up the location settings

 

Oh and I think "briefing.xd" must be renamed to "mission_briefing.xd" but I am not sure if this is already mentioned on the Wiki page. Which, by the way, could use some shortening to the essentials, I found it hard to follow these long-winded sentences (sorry If you want I can take care of the wiki page.

 

Otherwise I manged to turn it into my own little mission, which is just great! Thanx!

[Fidcal]

Yeah I know - it's one of many jobs to do. I would tend to rip out all the AI now because DR can show heads and maybe one day show voices so it's hardly worth trying to keep up with them. I redid the last startmap three times because of AI changes - added a spider room - removed the spider room - now spiders are working again. It's a headache. I had to redo every single AI at one time when they changed.

 

The xd file name doesn't matter technically - unless there is some non-techy reason I don't know about. Only the xdata header name itself is critical. For instance I include my briefing xdata within say one file: heart. xd with all the readables.

 

If you want to re-work the wiki article then one suggestion might be to split it up into several pages so it is more digestible with a summarising 'hub' page with the essentials. Most features are optional anyway so simply saying something like... if you want a game map go here... if you want a shop go here. I agree when I last updated it that it was daunting even to me!