How Do I Create An Ingame Object?

[sparhawk]

So I have a model that I got from Oddity and I wrote the definitions needed to show it up in the editor. But there seem to be a problem, because when I put it in the map, and then press ALT-TAB to switch between the views, suddenly they get white and I don't see my map anymore. The model also doesn't show up in the editor when I reload the map. While I create the model I can see it fine, but when I save it and reload the map it is gone. In the mapfile it exists though, it only doesn't show up in the editor afterwards, only when it is just created.

 

Also when I just created the model and press ESCAPE it also disappears in the editor window, but the entity definition is still there.

 

entityDef darkmod_lightgem_surface
{
"editor_color" 	 ".3 .3 1" 
"spawnclass" 	 "idItem"
"model"    "models/props/misc/lightgem_surface.lwo"
"frobable" 	 "0"
}

 

 

models/props/misc/lightgem_surface
{
  noSelfShadow
  diffusemap models/props/misc/lightgemsurface_d.tga
}

 

Anybody knows whats wrong with it?

 

How do you, Blackthief, or the others get their props into the game? Seems I'm missing something here.

[Domarius]

I think I know - you have to create it in the map, then duplicate it and delete the original. That is an old radiant bug. I found out about that in a mapping tutorial.

[sparhawk]

What do you mean "creat it in the map"? Edit the mapfile with a texteditor? Or do you mean: Create the model in the editor, then copy it and delete the first model?

When I put the bowl ingame, it worked normally, like I expected it to. Never had this problem before.

[Domarius]

Create the model in the editor, then copy it and delete the first model.

 

It was just something you had to do for certain objects.

[sparhawk]

OK. I will try this today.

[sparhawk]

I just tried the method proposed on d3world and it works fine. But now I have another problem. The model is very simple. It is just a diamond shaped box with a single texture being full white (RGB 255,255,255). Since it is essentialy only a simple object, it has only a few polygons. But everytime when I look at it in the map, then the map begins to stutter and framerate goes down to still images. When I turn away, the map behaves normal, only when this object is visible on screen it acts strange.

 

Any ideas what could cause that?

[Domarius]

Holy crap, now you got me stumped

 

Start again, maybe there is some residual stuff from when you were trying to get it into the map multiple times earlier.

 

Create a new blank map with a simple box room, put the object in using the method I described, and see if the same chunkyness happens.

[sparhawk]

I tried it on several different maps, where at least two of them I didn't use before with that model.

[Domarius]

I don't know, you could only compare your model witih one that doesn't cause this problem, and look at how they are made... one of the 3D modellers should have a look at this for you.

[sparhawk]

It was done by Oddity, so I expect that it is ok. especially when I consider that this is just a a very simple object with only a few polygons which I can even create myself in a matter of seconds. At least if I knew how to operate Lightwave.

[Domarius]

Wierd!