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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Warp Shadow on June 29, 2008, 05:23:49 pm

Title: Inexplicable.
Post by: Warp Shadow on June 29, 2008, 05:23:49 pm

Anyone else who has modded for a while here should know this feeling. The one where a simple, straightforward task refuses to work for some god forsaken reason, despite the fact that you did everything right, the documentation says it should work and there's not a single error message to be found. In this case it's thrusterglows.

I've got the species_defs.tbl and it says terran thrusters are thrusterglow01 and thrusterglow01a for the afterburner. Just for the heck of it, I exported those two files, recolored them to red and orange respectively, and decreased the color depth and saved them. Now, the actual thrusters themselves work beautifully, red is normal and orange is afterburn, however the glowpoints of the ship are making me want to pull my hair out. I've attached a .rar with some screenshots and as you can see, the red glow only kicks in later. You can see the default blue glow from the side, and the red one slowly fades in on top of it as you turn around, eventually mixing into a weird purple thruster. Obviously it has the right name and format because it's still showing up. However the afterburner doesn't do anything. It STAYS that ugly teal colour, although it changes between types as you rotate, different types of teal that is. Can anyone help or has anyone experienced a similar problem?

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Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: blowfish on June 29, 2008, 05:32:43 pm

You also need to change thruster02-01, thruster03-01, and their respective afterburner equivalents.

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: Warp Shadow on June 29, 2008, 05:46:29 pm

Uh, I'm not finding any files of that name. Do you have the media VPs?

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: blowfish on June 29, 2008, 05:47:48 pm

They should be in MV_Effects.  Lemme check...

EDIT: Yup, they're definitely in there.

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: Warp Shadow on June 29, 2008, 05:51:31 pm

I just have thruster01, 02 and 03 and their 'a' variants as well as the .anis. Am I supposed to have them?

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: blowfish on June 29, 2008, 05:59:53 pm

:wtf:

What version of the mediavps are you using?

List the contents of the effects folder in MV_Effects.

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: Warp Shadow on June 29, 2008, 06:27:23 pm

Ok, I just went and downloaded the newest version again and they're there now :wtf:

Okaaaaay, well if it works, I'm not going to question it.

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: Hellstryker on June 29, 2008, 07:07:51 pm

I honestly think it looks pretty cool with the blue glowpoints, but meh, 'tis your game

Title: Re: Inexplicable.
Post by: Warp Shadow on June 29, 2008, 08:24:42 pm

Oh, they wont with what I have planned. I'm not modding freespace, I'm doing a total conversion. I want a new species with different thrusterglows and I'm testing out the terran ones.