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Thread: Changes not saving / showing in game. Wrong "modified"date.20 Jan 2018, 17:13 PM - In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Changes not saving / showing in game. Wrong "modified"date.20 Jan 2018, 12:04 PM Unless you count UI icons. No. One thing I just remembered data had disappeared from the hierarchy in mod tools and I had to re-add a "new table of contents" /Data. and set the burn folder again. As that in it's self is weird I'm guessing it could be related. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Changes not saving / showing in game. Wrong "modified"date.20 Jan 2018, 11:06 AM I've had an odd problem with the Tools this morning. For some reason I found that none of the changed in attribute editor where actually showing up in game after I rebuild. I renamed the British HQ "Pink Fluffy Unicorn Palace" .....for testing purposes of course and it's sitll the boring old "field headquarters" I searched the forum for some reference and I found some old posts about things not writing the correct place. As far as I can see; it's doing that fine and then copying to the mods/turning folder as intended. I played around trying to work out the problem and discovered there was another...quirk going on. When I load into COH2 the mod won't show at first. I wait 20 seconds or so and It will appear in the list. I then discovered the "last modified date" was inconsistent. When I look in the mods/tuning folder I discover that the "last modified date" on the .sga file stats the 15th which is last time I did built the mod. The "last modified date" on the .sga file in the mod directory however says the 20th which is today. I've tried manually copying the file from the mod directory to mods/tuning thus replacing the .sga file with the newer date. I'll load into the game, no mod shows. Wait 20 seconds and the .sga file once again shows the 15th and the mod shows up in the game. I'm at a loss. It's almost like the game is loading from some backup somewhere but that doesn't make much sense to me. It's worth noting this is only happening with one mod. I have a small test environment and that's working fine. It's just the main mod that's the issue. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Use items from the "VISUALS" category in Attribute Editor.16 Jan 2018, 17:09 PM In the world builders visual category in object placement there's a few unique and pretty cool things. None of them have .abp files though so is there anyway I can load their likeness into an .ebps file I make for them? Thanks In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British Emplacements - Need help understanding them.16 Jan 2018, 10:19 AM Yeah you're on about "squad_ignore_pathfinding" = "True" I did have the set but I hadn't realised the mod had failed to build after I put the gun in the emplacement and changed that value. The game was still running behind a multitude of other windows and I didn't notice xD In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British Emplacements - Need help understanding them.16 Jan 2018, 07:01 AM Going to take some time to explore the WB Tutorials I didn't know about those so that's great. Having issues with the weapons spawning outside as apposed to inside the "pits" at the moment so looking at something else will be nice. Bofos/MortarPit seem more...tedious to mod. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British Emplacements - Need help understanding them.15 Jan 2018, 11:53 AM Sorry for asking but what do you mean by build variable? I can't say I've seen that before. I vaguely remember editing an abp file once before although I can't remember why so I'll have a crack at that soon. I use the NIS Function too, it's where I experiment with the various states but there's a method to view the crew too? Not sure how that means I can calculate coordinates between models but to be fair I am dumb as a box of rocks xD EDIT: Yeah I had done an abp edit before but it was different as it was a simple case of replacing a file on an identical file path. This time as I basically need to use a new .apb file for this new "bofos" so as not to effect the other one. If I create a new one lets call it "pit_small2.abp" it gives me an error about referencing a file that doesn't exist in the attribute editor. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British Emplacements - Need help understanding them.15 Jan 2018, 10:40 AM SneakEye your help has been amazing I don't think I'd have got that working without your help. I've got it perfect to how I want it now and I'm so pleased with it so t hank you very much. I do have some more questions I hope you don't mind but you seem to know this stuff back to front. I'd love to know how you got so proficient. I'm mostly self taught with what I can do and lean on help from others where I can't work it out but in absence of any resource telling me exactly what certain values are supposed to do it's not exactly fast going. Anyway questions mostly emplacement related. 1) I figured out how to remove...well hide the mortar in the mortar pit; but how does one do this for the bofos? 2) Is there anyway to effect a visual change on the silhouette when placing the structure. If there's no weapon in a mortar pit, then I don't want to see two mortars when I'm placing the emplacement. Image to show what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/bJTuM5N.jpg 3) Is it possible to want of a better term 'sink' the emplacement into the ground so smaller weapons can fit in and visually shoot over the emplacement side without clipping? 4) I noticed in a screenshot from your mod you made a mortar pit for the soviets using the MG nest. I tried to do this months ago but gave up because I could take the rood off with a damage_state but I couldn't put the accompanying fire out that came with said state. 5) The big question. Is there some resource or program that lets me look at the "coordinates?...markers?" of an animator. I mean how can I find out where hard points are and where to attach weapons and such. Let's say I wanted an upgrade to spawn another entity on the left of a building, how would I specify where it spawned? Same query with crew If I'm gonna for example shove a pak40 or 6lb at gun in a bofos emplacement base, how do I know what crew and sync_attach I should be spawning in crew_ext? In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British Emplacements - Need help understanding them.14 Jan 2018, 14:38 PM Really close to having this the way I want it. Found another problem though in that when the emplacement dies, the gun remains operational and crewed without the emplacement. Even worse is the gun is indestructible. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British Emplacements - Need help understanding them.14 Jan 2018, 13:02 PM Ah thanks for the reply. What I actually did was replace the weapon on the entities hard-points with the variants from the base guns instead. That seems to have done the trick. In: Modding and Tools