Mappers preparing for Standalone

[Sotha]

How should a mapper prepare for the standalone?

 

I'm making a mission and would like to use gibs model from the /gibs category in DR. I know these are D3 assets. I also know they are being replaced with free standalone assets.

 

Can I just use the D3 gibs assets and then when standalone comes, the free gibs are put in the same place as the D3 assets are and my stuff just works with standalone. And that the replacing gibs are roughly same, oriented the same way, simply snap-on replacing the D3 assets?

 

Or will the standalone gibs be somewhere else or be completely differently oriented? Do the mappers need to go back and re-orient replaced assets they used in their old missions?

Can I just happily use D3 assets I know will be replaced or should mappers now carefully avoid soon-to-be-replaced assets and start to use them only once the standalone TDM is released?

 

What is the policy one should take now?

[Springheel]

If everything works properly, D3 assets should be replaced in such a way as mappers don't have to adjust anything. This won't always be possible--the zombie animation rig has changed, for example, which means joint names are different. Mappers will need to manually adjust any def_attach on zombies that refers to a joint. However, in most cases; models, textures, simple entities, etc, the change should* be fairly transparent.

 

* although given that literally hundreds of assets are changing, don't be too surprised if we overlook something.

 

One thing mappers should definitely NOT do is use any new D3 assets in their unreleased maps. I know this is a bit of an annoyance, because there are some assets which are being replaced, and could actually be used, but without knowing for sure, you could easily wind up using an asset that won't exist in the next update.

[Shadowhide]

winter harvest use "info_player_teleport" entity from D3 entities list.Will compatibility break or info_player_teleport was replaced as info_player_start which is D3 entity too ?

[Springheel]

I'm collecting a list of everything that needs to be replaced on a map-by-map basis. Haven't gotten to Winter Harvest yet.

 

wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Missing_assets_by_map