[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Eternal One
Well, there's atleast one bug in your loading function.

glow_bank *bank = &pm->glows;

should be

glow_bank *bank = &pm->glows;
From quickly looking, I can't spot anything else. I can't do more "looks" at the moment, I'll try at evening.

I don't see this...

Also what would be nice would be some way to turn them on and off with a SEXP, for all those missions with derelicts...

[Inquisitor]

Well, CVS isn't just for final stuff, it's for collaboration, backup, and a convenient way to let others test stuff out.

You can do all sorts of stuff with CVS to "mark" your in dev build That's the point of it

It is very cool, btw.

[Bobboau]

coolmon, you don't see it becase I edited it, look were it says [q] that was but I  just changed it becase the  forum thought I meant as in italics tags

[Bobboau]

just like ^ that ^  

[Bobboau]

ok, I just found it crashes when I select any other ship (ie one without glow points) maybe the glow point rendering and thruster rendering are fighting each other

[Bobboau]

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case ID_GLOW:{ //start glowpoint reading -Bobboau
//
char props[MAX_PROP_LEN];
pm->n_glows = cfread_int(fp);
pm->glows = (glow_bank *)malloc(sizeof(glow_bank) * pm->n_glows);
Assert( pm->glows != NULL );

for (int q = 0; q < pm->n_glows; q++ ) {
glow_bank *bank = &pm->glows[q];

bank->num_slots = cfread_int(fp);

if (pm->version < 2117) {
bank->glow_bitmap = -1;
} else {
cfread_string_len( props, MAX_PROP_LEN, fp );
// look for $glow_texture=xxx
int length = strlen(props);
if (length > 0) {
int base_length = strlen("$glow_texture=");
Assert( strstr( (const char *)&props, "$glow_texture=") != NULL );
Assert( length > base_length );
char *glow_texture_name = props + base_length;
if (glow_texture_name[0] == '$') {
glow_texture_name++;
}
bank->glow_bitmap = bm_load( glow_texture_name );
if (bank->glow_bitmap < 0) {
Error( LOCATION, "Couldn't open texture '%s'\nreferenced by model '%s'\n", glow_texture_name, pm->filename );
}

}
}
for (j = 0; j < bank->num_slots; j++) {

cfread_vector( &(bank->pnt[j]), fp );
cfread_vector( &(bank->norm[j]), fp );
if ( pm->version > 2004 ) {
bank->radius[j] = cfread_float( fp );
//mprintf(( "Rad = %.2f\n", rad ));
} else {
bank->radius[j] = 1.0f;
}
}
//mprintf(( "Num slots = %d\n", bank->num_slots ));

}
break;
} //end glowpoint reading -Bobboau



I think I had broken the thruster loading part, or I may have fixed it without knowing how, but I did something here and it worked in game untill I targeted one of the fighters

here is the EXE and test pof (note there is are some small errors in the new pof data, but they are mearly cosmetic)

[Fineus]

I couldn't seem to get this to run - can you post up some instructions (yes, by rights I should know where everything goes but I tried a combination of stuff and nothing seemed to have any effect)... also, when running the mod if I targeted a hostile ship the game crashed out to Windows...not sure if that's just me or a general problem with the sub-targeting code....

[Nico]

Originally posted by Bobboau
it worked in game untill I targeted one of the fighters

[Bobboau]

well just put the fs3 exe and the other files in the main fs2 folder (there should be three small pcx graphics in this, I forgot to include them when I first uploaded the file then remembered a few hours later if you are missing these redownload)
the canges wont show up in the tech room in this version, but they will in game, but only on the ulysses (only model I have modified so far)

[Inquisitor]

Bobboau, you are using this thread EXACTLYH how CVS should be used, FYI

Can I browbeat you into using it?

[Bobboau]

well how does it work

[Bobboau]

well I'm gona clean house and start over, I'm thinking I may have done something a while ago and now it's broken something and I would have no Idea what or were it is, so I'm reloading the origonals and copy\pasting the changes I have posted here, then completly rebuild everything, lets hope I screwed something long ago and forgot about it

[Fineus]

Whatever works
I managed to get the release version working - very impressive! And yes I was an idiot, didn't notice you knew about the "crashing on target" bug. But aside from that it's really good looking so far.

[Inquisitor]

Another plug for CVS: You can roll back code changes if you screw something up

[Bobboau]

well if I can get this working I'll get CVS, as for the problem I still have no Idea wha tis causeing it, it seems the game doesn't like me adding thins to the polymodel struct

[Kitsune]

I'm downloading it to test now, but for those who have a better idea of how to check this stuff...

Has anyone tried disabling the target view in the corner before targeting other fighters?

Does it work if you target a friendly/enemy ulyssus?  (Since they've already been set up with them.)

[Fineus]

I don't really see how changing the IFF of a ship should make any difference to how the game interprets glow points on the ships...

[Bobboau]

ok I realy think it has to do with the two things I added to the polymodel type def, don't know much more than that tough
it seems sheild code gets broken as well as targeting stuff

[aldo_14]

Um, not to nitpick (go knows I haven;t even got past the point of reading the files in notepad), but wouldn't it be as effective to allow the $ND entries to work in both Glide and Direct X, but with the addition of possibly some lighting effects (maybe like those made when lasers are fired) to make it 'anti-aliased' visually.

[Kitsune]

Well Thunder, they said that it would be an enemy ship would cause it to crash.  But he only has ONE ship rigged with the glowpoints.

So I'm asking if it would crash if the enemy ship was a uly.