Oscar's little big problems.

[Oszkár Winkler]

I need to place a dead priest (ragdoll) into my map but cannot find the model in the ragdoll section in DR. Any suggestions?

[Fidcal]

I'm just guessing here:

• Create darkmod - Ragdolls - atdm:env_ragdoll_builder_priest (note this is not in the Bodies folder.
  
• The above does not seem to have a model; it just appears as a cube
  
• Give it the spawnarg model with the value tdm_ai_builderpriest
  
• That shows in DR but I don't know if it works OK in-game
  

Does that work?.

[SiyahParsomen]

nope it doesn't work. I tried that and he need to define def_head too. Even you did, head is apart from the body.

[Fidcal]

If the priest is not near the player start then a workaround is to create a live priest then create at his feet:

 

darkmod - Playertools - atdm:playertools_mine

[Tels]

If the priest is not near the player start then a workaround is to create a live priest then create at his feet:

 

darkmod - Playertools - atdm:playertools_mine

 

Nasty This could be done cleaner (and more silent) by adding some sort of script that simply kills the priest at map start.

 

Of course, not having an easy ragdoll for him is an oversight. Is this simply missing in our entity list?

[Springheel]

If you make a bugtracker entry and assign it to me I can look into this. Probably just an outdated entity or something.

[Fidcal]

OK, done. http://bugs.angua.at/view.php?id=3083

[Springheel]

I've fixed it for 1.08, but you can use the following entity in the meantime:

 

entityDef atdm:[your name here]

{

"inherit" "atdm:env_ragdoll_humanoid_base_newskel"

"editor_usage" "Ragdoll for builder_priest"

 

"model" "tdm_ai_builderpriest"

 

"def_head" "atdm:ai_head_builder_priest"

 

}

[SiyahParsomen]

Springheel,

 

I think you didn't check other ragdolls. There are several problems on others too.

 

Citywatch_new,

Pagan_common,

Mage01 are broke.

 

Noble_man has body of citywatch.

[Springheel]

I think you didn't check other ragdolls.

 

I only checked what was reported.

 

Thanks for reporting the others...they're now fixed for 1.08.

[Oszkár Winkler]

Blood decals simply do not apper in my mission. I tried them with brushes and patches as well. What can be the problem?

[Sotha]

You took the blood decals from darkmod folder. The ones from the darkmod folder are not visible in game.

You have to use the ones from the D3 assets. That has the downside that your mission will have difficulties with standalone TDM in the future.

 

However, should someone create almost identical D3 free blood decals which we could use, and they were included in darkmod, I think missions with D3 references could be converted with a simple find&replace script.

[Sir Taffsalot]

Shouldn't there be blood decals that CAN be used in the DM folder anyway? These are great for dungeons, making the city look gritty and murder scenes.

[Mortem Desino]

However, should someone create almost identical D3 free blood decals which we could use, and they were included in darkmod, I think missions with D3 references could be converted with a simple find&replace script.

If someone did give the darkmod team more blood decals, we would use material shader name replacements. Every mission that ever used D3 blood splats would automatically use the replacements.

 

That said, could someone please make blood splat decals?

[Springheel]

Every mission that ever used D3 blood splats would automatically use the replacements.

 

Which means the replacements would have to be quite similar to the originals in size, orientation, etc.

[simplen00b]

I thought decal creation would be similar to creating textures, but the Decals wiki page links to this tutorial which doesn't seem to have much to do with decal creation as far as I can see (but I may just be put off by how hugely complicated it looks). Is it really that difficult or is there a wiki page I've missed?

[Springheel]

Decals are just textures that have transparent sections. There's nothing special about making that actual image; the shader needs a few special keywords, but you can look at other decals and copy them.

[simplen00b]

Decals are just textures that have transparent sections. There's nothing special about making that actual image; the shader needs a few special keywords, but you can look at other decals and copy them.

Cool. I'll try to have a play around with them when I have the time (and energy) (darn these warm muggy nights ).