Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

[DeTeEff]

I'll let my finished mission explain

 

I may be onto something here...

[DeTeEff]

Never mind

Edited June 15, 2011 by Fieldmedic

[Sotha]

Write a script that paints a gui file over the players view. Write the gui to be simple button controlled readable. Once the exit button is pressed, close gui and check off the final objective.

[DeTeEff]

Yes, but how exactly do I proceed here.

 

1. The script shall first paint the screen with the gui (button controlled readable) DONE

 

2. When the last button is pressed, the GUI shall be removed (I've set it to be visibility o) DONE

 

3. The screen goes black and a cutscene shall play.

 

But here comes a little confusion. Shall I somehow call a new script with the cutscene here, from the gui? some sort of if-string that checks in the script IF the exit button has been pressed perhaps?

 

 

If I add the cutscene in the script, directly after I've drawn the gui, it won't wait for my clicking

 

 

ALSO

 

There is a cute little windows-hand when I hover over the buttons. Is this intentional or how do I kill the hand?

Edited June 16, 2011 by Fieldmedic

[Sotha]

But here comes a little confusion. Shall I somehow call a new script with the cutscene here, from the gui? some sort of if-string that checks in the script IF the exit button has been pressed perhaps?

 

I don't know, but I would suppose gui-script can sys.trigger something in the game. There are plenty of guis in D3 that trigger ingame doors and ladders and stuff. You need to find that command: when the exit button is pressed, start cutscene and close the gui.

 

 

 

 

There is a cute little windows-hand when I hover over the buttons. Is this intentional or how do I kill the hand?

 

So no darkmod mouse cursos seen in the menus, but the windows pointer seen in windows? Sounds like a nasty bug?

[DeTeEff]

There is a big clockpointer, but when I hover there is the hand...Well, minor bug, but I'll have to tend to that later

[Sotha]

There is a big clockpointer, but when I hover there is the hand...Well, minor bug, but I'll have to tend to that later

 

Is the hand the standard DOOM 3 GUI interaction hand? Hopefully someone know how to make that stay the TDM cursor when it is moved over a button. I've a hunch that rich_is_bored may know.

 

I believe these may have something to do with this:

 

http://www.modwiki.n...GUI_item_events

 

Namely, onmouseenter and onMouseExit.

 

Is also suspect that looking at the mainmenu.gui provided with TDM may be of help.

[DeTeEff]

Yes, Greebo states, in the button briefing that it's embedded into the mainmenu so I believe the cursors are corrected in the mainmenu.gui.

[DeTeEff]

My mission is using the entity atdm:set_relations and when I DMAP I get a "warning file/tdm_team_relations.def 'editor_displayFolder' already defined". I guess this is a mere notification, nothing to worry about more than it states a change has been made in the relation matrix?

[Fidcal]

Nothing to worry about I'm sure. I think this is an unusual entity that replaces the default and that line is in both defs. But if were not then I'm sure you wouldn't find the custom entity in the internal folder - it doesn't inherit it. I think it's just an oddity of how the code is set up.

[nbohr1more]

I'll ask a possibly dumb question:

 

Has anyone ever tried changing the player's team instead of changing the team relations?

 

Does this completely fail or have no effect?

 

[nbohr1more]

Better question:

 

Does "setEnemy" still work in TDM.

 

I see it in ai_events.cpp but "isEnemy" appears to be the TDM version?

 

const idEventDef AI_IsEnemy( "isEnemy", "E", 'd' );

[Mortem Desino]

Better question:

 

Does "setEnemy" still work in TDM.

 

I see it in ai_events.cpp but "isEnemy" appears to be the TDM version?

 

const idEventDef AI_IsEnemy( "isEnemy", "E", 'd' );

 

setEnemy should be depreciated. Currently, the best script event should be setEntityRelation.

 

ai cityWatch_1 = $atdm_ai_citywatch_1; //need to declare an AI

cityWatch_1.setEntityRelation( $player1, -1 ); 
//1 = friend, 0 = neutral, -1 = enemy

[nbohr1more]

Thanks MD!

 

I see that there is currently a tracker about "changing relations" so I was looking for a possible alternate route if that is not stable...

[Mortem Desino]

I see that there is currently a tracker about "changing relations" so I was looking for a possible alternate route if that is not stable...

 

setEntityRelation() was the method used in NHAT 2. It was a simple conditional, and that was its apodosis. (If the AI sees evidence, and that suspicious player is within his eyeshot, then setEntityRelation($player1, -1))

[nbohr1more]

I must admit that I'm asking this partly to help Fieldmedic with his crash...

 

I think his idea would be easier to implement if the player could change teams from team zero (impossible?) but we'll see what he comes up with.

[Mortem Desino]

I looked at Fieldmedic's map script. There's nothing in it I see that should cause a crash-to-desktop. In fact, I have made it crash neither on my desktop nor on my laptop.

 

I could rewrite from scratch the way the whole mission does relations, but that might take me the entire day, and it wouldn't necessarily work the way he wants it to.

[DeTeEff]

It's good in some way that the game doesn't crash for some of you...

 

I'm now looking for a way to pause my epilogue script while the player is reading some text.

 

First there is a button controlled text and when the player presses the last button, the GUI shall go away and the script shall continue.

 

Just if I could get the hang of how to trigger things from the GUI, there is a ton of solutions, but now I only know how to make layers in the GUI visible/invisible.

 

I've checked in the mainmenu.gui and other guis from TDM but I can only see that buttons calls different console commands.

[Sotha]

Just if I could get the hang of how to trigger things from the GUI, there is a ton of solutions, but now I only know how to make layers in the GUI visible/invisible.

 

I don't know.. But googling gives these. Maybe they will help?

http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/OnTime_%28GUI_item_event%29

http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/OnEvent_%28GUI_item_event%29

http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/RunScript_%28GUI_command%29

http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Activate_%28GUI_command%29

 

I think RunScript and Activate are the best candidates for success..

[DeTeEff]

Hahaha, I actually found it before reading your answer Thanks anyway!

 

I didn't have a clear word for what to google for, but with some luck I found this

 

http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/GUI_commands

 

Damn, I feel like a thankless asshole asking all these questions But I have a vee bit of a panic for finishing the last steps of the mission...Only got tonight and some time on sunday evening to work...

Edited June 17, 2011 by Fieldmedic

[Mortem Desino]

The community is in for a treat. (I really liked it.)

[DeTeEff]

Good too hear Grayman found a glitch in the tension meter GUI. On some occations there is "GUI-painting-loops" that cripples the game. Those should be history by now.

 

 

[Mortem Desino]

Yeah. Shows you what I know about the GUI system.

[DeTeEff]

Don't be too hard on yourself. Revising other peoples scripting is like look into another person's mouths...revising MY scripting is like look into another people's *****

[jaxa]

So I loaded up startmap.map to take a look at it, I click on the button that previews everything (lighting and textures) and it can render pretty slow even on this 4x2.5ghz 8GB x64 machine, like 500 ms on this tiny map. Can this be optimized somehow? I am running at a fairly large resolution... 1920x1080.

 

Bug: in this view, opening the file menu causes it to flash briefly and just close. BTW, these views don't have tooltips so I don't know what they are called (wireframe, shading, textures/...caulk, full?).

 

Req: "Open containing/viewed folder" equivalent button on open/import dialogs to open the folder in the filesystem (Win7 in my case). I thought GIMP had something like this in its GTK dialog boxes but I was wrong.

Edited June 22, 2011 by jaxa