[BlackDove]

Originally posted by Kazan
since posting that build i fixed a crashing bug related to the POF file having zero PINF strings [load the Charon in 1.x and check if it has zero strings BlackDove, if that is it then right there is why it was crashing]
 

Charon won't load at all. But that's beside the point really. I maybe don't have the textures proper and the paths done as you said, considering I didn't understand what I'm supposed to do with em.

[Kazan]

PCS 1.x won't load the charon? then how did you convert it

[Trivial Psychic]

I've been testing out some TBP models with it.  The B5 model and Ja'Stat models cause it to CTD.  While *another* model causes a windows error and crash.  Same with Hyperion model.  The Midwinter model resulted in this error:

The instruction at "0x0d5f15e0" referenced memory at "0x00000004".  The memory could not be "read".

My second time trying the Midwinter resulted in a simple crash error.  Same for Omega, but the OmegaX openned fine.  The Shadow craft, the Shn'Tan, Zephyr, and the Th'Nor have no textures displayed at all.  The Vorchan merely lacks textures on the multi-part twin-barrel turrets, while the Avioki only has textures on its pylons and nowhere else.  Any jumpgate, whether it be EA or Narn, single arm or pre-configured, all cause a crash error.

[BlackDove]

Don't ask me dude, I just try to open the thing and I tell you if it works  or doesn't

[Kazan]

OK tp.. ill try and load b5 with her

[Kazan]

TP: are the missing textures animated textures?


one crash source located on B5... she crashes after trying to render the first time.. trying to locate that crash now

two crash bugs fixed thanks to b5.. but she freaks the lighting system out

[edit again]
oh meng.. it's not flipping out the lighting system - DDS textures are generating an IL_INVALID_FILE_HEADER error..

[edit yet again]
yep... size2 != 32.. hrm.. /sigh.

DDS support = null then

nope... Paint Shop Pro 9 won't open those DDS files either... something  is wrong with them

[Kazan]

man-oh-man bsp generation is shot... this is going to be a nightmare to debug.. an absolute nightmare.


i may just rewrite it from scratch possible if i can understand the data enough.

[Kazan]

ok i don't have to make sense of prelist, postlie and online - they never put anything on them.. sweet

so it really is a binary tree

oh.. and kiss flatpolygons goodbye

[Bobboau]

pre list and post list I can understand, but they didn't use the on list!?! is that even posable?

oh and goodbie flat polies, you won't be missed.

[Kazan]

explain prelist and post list - the only list being used by either V's generator or my origional one was the front list and back list

[edit]
get on ICQ!

[Bobboau]

I mean I can understand them not being used, isn't the on list needed the pollies that get intersected by the split plane.

I don't have IQC installed currently, and I'm planning on sleeping soon

[Kazan]

ok.. i think i can handle this (only one poly should be in the "onlist" from what i have read and that is the poly you use to postion the list if you choose so - otherwise you should "cut" the polygon in two and place one half on each side)

[Getter Robo G]

"You got GMail Kazan!"


I sent ya like 5-6 .pofs that I made screensots of in game and that work just fine. Some were made with pcs1, I bet other were made with modelview or high poly pof2 cob (not sure cant rememebr but if you need more later I do have lots of pcs1 only models to send you).

I figure if you can see how other ones were converted maybe it will spark something.

Anyway how about a remember size window feature so I dont have to resize teh window each time I opena model while the program is running? Also teh NEW button doesn;t erase teh current loaded one. Will you add a support for glow maps so you can see what teh final model will look like in game? L8tr!

[Kazan]

i'm doing calculus at 3am - somebody shoot me

[StratComm]

*StratComm pulls out rifle*

Glad I'm not the only one up late

BTW, you should look in the Ferrium internal when you get a chance.

[Kazan]

once i get done with the calculus of this method of BSP splitting and make it work it should be more difficult to send her into infinite recursion - because then it will take literally two copys of the same polygon to set her off

[WMCoolmon]

It needs geomodding!!!

[Kazan]

rotfl

cutting a polygon with a plane is bad enough

[Kazan]

hey bob.. check my code

Requires: polygon to actually be bisected by plane
Expects: polygons to be a triangulated mesh

Code: [Select]


void SplitPolygon(kaz_vector &polygons, int polynum, vector3d plane_point, vector3d plane_normal)
{
kaz_vector splitpolys(2); // 0 = front vert, 1 = back vert
kez_vector pairs;
kaz_vector points;
pairs.resize(polygons[polynum].verts.size() * 2);
pcs_vertex temp;
int i, j = 0;;
float uvdelta;

        // using a pairs list cuts down on having a special-case
for (i = 0; i < polygons[polynum].verts.size() * 2; i += 2)
{
pairs[i] = j % polygons[polynum].verts.size();
pairs[i+1] = j+1 % polygons[polynum].verts.size();
j++;
}

// compile the new list of points
for (i = 0; i < pairs.size(); i += 2)
{

if (DistanceToPlane(polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]].point, plane_point, plane_normal) == 0.0
|| DistanceToPlane(polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i+1]].point, plane_point, plane_normal) == 0.0 )
// one of these points lays on the plane... add them both without modification
{

AddIfNotInList(points, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]]);
AddIfNotInList(points, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i+1]]);
}
else // neither of them was not on the plane.. are they on the same side?
{

if (InFrontofPlane(polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]].point, plane_point, plane_normal) ==
InFrontofPlane(polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i+1]].point, plane_point, plane_normal))
// both on same side - add them
{
AddIfNotInList(points, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]].point);
AddIfNotInList(points, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i+1]].point);
}
else
// different sides - cut and add
{
uvdelta = FindIntersection(temp.point, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]].point,
polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i+1]].point, plane_point, plane_normal);
temp.norm = polygons[polynum].norm;
temp.u = uvdelta * (polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]].u - polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i-1]].u);
temp.v = uvdelta * (polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]].v - polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i-1]].v);

AddIfNotInList(points, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i]]);
AddIfNotInList(points, temp);
AddIfNotInList(points, polygons[polynum].verts[pairs[i+1]]);
}
}
}


// split the polygons with the list we have

int in = 0;
for (i = 0; i < points.size(); i++)
{
if (DistanceToPlane(points[i].point, plane_point, plane_normal))
// there WILL be two points in the list this is true for
{
AddIfNotInList(splitpolys[0].verts, points[i]);
AddIfNotInList(splitpolys[1].verts, points[i]);

if (in == 0)
in = 1;
else
in = 0;
}
else
{
AddIfNotInList(splitpolys[in].verts, points[i]);
}
}

// triangle our new polylist
TriangulateMesh(splitpolys);

// replace our current poly with polygon zero - add the others
polygons[polynum] = splitpolys[0];
in = polygons.size();
polygons.resize(in+splitpolys.size()-1);
for (i = 1; i < splitpolys.size(); i++)
{
polygons[in+i] = splitpolys[i];
}
}


[Getter Robo G]

Jumps in front of the field of fire "NOooooooooo!" (Vader Voice)

He's not DONE yet, plus he has to finish Ferrium next!!! (Gose for the Force choke and then rememebrs he is NOT a Sith Lord)...

"Hmmm.... Here's my hand, now CHOKE YOURSELF private!"