[diamondgeezer]

Pretty sure I already posted this thread once, but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, I want to add a fouth species, the main aspect of which is flyby sounds. Currently flyby sounds are assigned to each of the three species in the sounds table. I've been told that four species are now supported, so I tried adding entries to the sound table but it just resulted in the game freezing as the mission was about to start (ie. when I hit the commit button after the briefing).

Any chance we could avoid this kind on nonsense by assigning flyby sounds in the the ships table, defaulting to the sounds table if none is specified?

[kasperl]

you need a species tbl.

do a search on "new species added" or something. it was done by Kazan.

and you could check the wiki for info, there should be something in there too. if not, please make something.

and i thought there was an ship specific flyby sound thingy available too. once again, try searching. i recall Icefire making some usefull comments on that too.

[Taristin]

I put up a link in that other thread you made... lemme find it


EDIT
Here http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,18186.0.html

[diamondgeezer]

Well I'll be damned. I missed that thread entirely when it was at the top of the page. That was dead handy, cheers Raa

[diamondgeezer]

Aargh, this is doing my head right in.

Okay. I have the species_defs table with my fourth species set up (no smart ****ing comments from you, Woolie).

I have the sounds table set up with flyby sounds for the fourth species.

I have a fighter of the new species with the appropriate name in the species field.


I finally got the game to load without an error, but now when I click the commit button it just CTDs. I have not got a ****ing clue what I'm doing wrong.

[kasperl]

IIRC you need to define everything in the sounds table, also the stuff your not using.

i could be very wrong, off course. most likely, i am wrong.

edit:

post 2500 for me.

[Solatar]

Whereabouts do we define things such as initial team and color in FRED?

[diamondgeezer]

I just wish all this stuff could be defined in the ships table without all this ****ing about with the species code which few people if any understand

[Solatar]

That would be great.

[diamondgeezer]

Seriously dudes, I need help with this.

[kasperl]

DG, i understand, but the last tabling i did ended up in nothingness pretty quick. i can't do anything but point you to Kazan, and pointing you to the wiki "new page" system once your done.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I just wish all this stuff could be defined in the ships table without all this ****ing about with the species code which few people if any understand

This is why I keep pushing for ship specific tables, rather than the current setup. Its just silly.

[Goober5000]

I'll take a look at the species code to see if I can make it more user-friendly.  In the meantime, you'll have to ask Kazan.

[diamondgeezer]

That's the first thing I tried. He told me to ask Bobboau...

Seriously Goob, if you can get some of this stuff out of the code and in to the tables it would make life a whole lot easier. Hell, I'll make a point of testing your experiments for you

[Goober5000]

Kazan was the one who wrote the species code...

Yeah, I'll try to fix it.  I can't guarantee it'll be anytime soon, though - you'll probably have to wait a few weeks.

[diamondgeezer]

*pulls up comfy chair*

*waits*

[phreak]

*gives DG a JD while he waits*

actaully Woo got the species code working for the next chapter of inferno, so the EA and ancients have unique glows

edit: heres an example

in species_defs.tbl

Code: [Select]


#SPECIES DEFS

$NumSpecies: 5

;------------------------
; Terran
;------------------------
$Species_Name: Terran
+Debris_Texture: debris01a
+Shield_Hit_ani: shieldhit01a
$ThrustAnims:
+Pri_Normal: thruster01
+Pri_Afterburn: thruster01a
+Sec_Normal: thruster02-01
+Sec_Afterburn: thruster02-02a
+Ter_Normal: thruster03-01
+Ter_Afterburn: thruster03-02a
$ThrustGlows:
+Normal: thrusterglow01
+Afterburn: thrusterglow02a

//followed by vas, shivan, etc.
#END



in sounds.tbl

Code: [Select]


#Flyby Sounds Start

$Terran: 0 T_flyby1.wav, 0, 0.75, 1, 200, 400 ; * Terran ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)
$Terran: 1 T_flyby2.wav, 0, 0.75, 1, 200, 400 ; * Terran ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)

$Vasudan: 0 V_Flyby1.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * Vasudan ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)
$Vasudan: 1 V_Flyby2.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * Vasudan ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)

$Shivan: 0 S_flyby1.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * SHIVAN ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)
$Shivan: 1 S_flyby2.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * SHIVAN ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)

$Ancient: 0 AFly.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * Vasudan ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)
$Ancient: 1 AFly2.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * Vasudan ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)

$EA: 0 flyby.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * Terran ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)
$EA: 1 flyby.wav, 0, 0.85, 1, 200, 400 ; * Terran ship1 flyby player sound (3d sound)
#Flyby Sounds End


[diamondgeezer]

I'm pretty sure I have all that stuff done correctly. I've also got my new fighter with the appropriate value in the 'spaeices' field of its table entry. Also, FS2 demanded I fiddle with the icon table so I added a fourth entry to each category of icons. Now it just CTDs when I hit the commit button.

I'm going to go and have another look at everything. Standby


[EDIT] OK. I can make it work if I have my fourth species fighter set to freindly (which is default) - I'm testing this in a standard one-on-one set up BTW. But if I set him to hostile I get some truly funky errors. Example:

Error: Can't open file <ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ>
File:E:\Languages\Visual Studio Projects\Visual C++\fs2_open\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1427

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------

[phreak]

i wont know whats wrong unless i have the tables.  im figuring this is for Reci so thats a no-no.

[diamondgeezer]

I'll talk to Aldo, I imagine we can send you the tables if you think you can help...