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Thread: dumb question - icon for skin mod14 Jul 2015, 19:52 PM Hello, I've started making a custom vehicle skin mod, and so far it's going well. The tutorials available here helped a lot as the docs in modding.companyofheroes.com really don't explain much. But there is one specific thing for which I cannot find any good information - icons. How exactly do I create a custom icon for my skin mod? Step-by-step instructions with size and format specs would be ideal. Or if this is clearly explained somewhere, a pointer to that would be awesome. Thanks. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: troubleshooting help20 Jan 2015, 05:31 AM I am editing a winter map with a frozen body of water. The map works. I'm editing some areas of the water to be liquid (not frozen). I do that, export, test, and it's ok. I edit more, test, ok. I edit more, test, and bugsplat! It is difficult to pinpoint what specific change causes the crash. The warnings1.log file ends with: 21:26:39.07 GAME - CreateGEWorld in 1552 ms 21:26:39.08 GAME - SessionSetup finished in 1530 ms 21:26:39.09 GAME - WaterReflectionManagerSetup 21:26:39.09 GAME - WaterReflectionManagerSetup finished in 0 ms 21:26:39.12 GAME -- Recording game 21:26:39.22 SimWorld::LoadWinCondition: - [DATAcar/WinConditions/AABattle_Annihilate.scar] succeeded. 21:26:40.29 DB -- Unable to load symbols. [Fatal] Ran out of PathSectors due to map fragmentation. Owner: unknown -- FATAL EXIT -- pathsectormap.cpp/409:! --stack trace-- Application closed with error code 1129468744 ...any advice as to what specifically I should be looking out for? Any known gotchas with editing ice which cause crashes? Thanks in advance for any help. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: (2) Keine Ruckkehr9 Jan 2014, 20:46 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jan 2014, 23:35 PMDrunkinGambit I'm looking for some advice on how to add effects such as smoke rising from a crater, dust blowing off a road, or rolling fog clouds. I can't seem to find this in Worldbuilder. If you know how to add these effects, please share! I hope someone else will chime in because I was looking for any documentation on this too. I have discovered how to add some but I always wonder if it's the correct or best way. Anyway, I'll share what little I know: - click on the "Render Markers Prox." button, between the object and heightmap buttons. - set marker mode to "action markers" - right click to drop one on the ground - select it - under the action section, "edit action" button new command --> fx_attach fx --> fx_damage --> smoke --> dmg_smoke_light_01 - "apply changes" button There are a lot of options in there and I don't have a clue what they all mean. And there are smoke fx under fx_ambient, fx_damage, fx_nis, and maybe others. I am just now starting to look through them all to familiarize myself with what's available. And of course you can check out the maps that came with the game to see what they are using. Hope this helps and if anyone knows more please tell us! In: Map Sharing
Thread: selecting one of many6 Jan 2014, 02:32 AM Is there any trick to selecting a single spline when you have several layered on top of each other? I guess the same thing could happen with splats or even objects, but I am finding that it's splines that tend to stack up and become difficult to select just a single specific one. Thanks. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: splat vs spline layering4 Jan 2014, 19:02 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jan 2014, 00:18 AMTheSphinx if you select a splat you can press the button "over/under snow" on the right side so you can determine, so that it covers everything else or not. and if you select a spline - you can put a hook at right side "on snow". the same system - if you make a hook the spline concealed all other. That was the trick! Thanks. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: Scaling objects?4 Jan 2014, 02:35 AM Is it possible to scale objects? There are just some cases where it would be ideal to use a specific rubble model if only it were 75% of the size... Thanks. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: splat vs spline layering3 Jan 2014, 23:31 PM I thought splats would always ride on top of splines, but it doesn't appear that way. I have a road (spline) and I wanted to add a crater (splat) on top of it. Unfortunately the splat is going under the spline, and I don't know how to fix that. Curiously if I move that splat around, I find that it does go on top of some other splines I've laid down, but under most. Hitting PgUp until it's the highest number (or PgDn all the way to 0) doesn't change it. Any clues? Thanks. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: Any good texture tile tutorials?1 Jan 2014, 22:23 PM I have looked but haven't found any good tutorial explaining the texture tile tool. Any pointers to one would be welcome. Going top to bottom, this is what I have figured out and what I still have questions on: Edit modes - only "exclusive" available for now so no questions there. Brush size, feather, strength, and layer counts, all ok. Chunks - I see the flat square move along the terrain but don't really know if that's a bit of information I need to keep in mind for anything. Layers - there are five buttons. The first looks like a lock, but pressing it seems to have no effect. The second is an eraser that blows away all painted texture layers in a square chunk. Guess there's no in-between when it comes to erasing - it's all or nothing. The third button is for merging layers, and this is one that I do not really understand. If I try to merge 3 layers, for example, afterwards 2 of them disappear, which is expected. But the remaining layer is one of the 3 that was already there (not sure how it picks which of the original set to keep) and the look of what was painted changed because the actual texture used in 2 our of the 3 layers is completely lost, replaced by the texture of the single remaining layer. Is that what is supposed to happen? So merging just merges the painted areas, but not the textures themselves? The next (4th) button is apparently for adding layers. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it's greyed out and I can't add any more layers. This has happened when I just have 3 layers total, so I doubt it was hitting the limit (what is the limit on number of layers, by the way?). If I save, exit, restart and reload I can then add layers again, so there's no rhyme or reason to why it sometimes stops working. Bug? The fifth layer button is for deleting a layer - no problem there. Now, each layer has a checkbox, which seems to toggle displaying a solid color (defined right next to the checkbox) or the actual texture. Is that solid color just for this visualization, or should I be paying more close attention to what color I assign to each layer? Then there's the thumbnail and texture name - all good. And the last block on each layer line seems to light up when your cursor is over an area of the terrain that uses that layer. Pretty cool way to see what layer is being used where. The next section is labeled "Burner" and I have no idea how to use it. I'm sure I'm missing something important here. The next section - "Textures" - is fairly self-explanatory except for the icons (red X, green checkmark, and a combo of both) which I do not yet fully "get". The state of each also changes depending on whether I've been working on the map in a single WorldBuilder session for a long time, or if I just reopened the application. But I don't think there's anything too critical I'm missing here - mostly just curiosity for the sake of completeness. So... if there is a tutorial out there that covers the above, please let me know. If not, then perhaps someone with a working knowledge of the tile texture tools can shed some light on the missing parts in my ramblings. In particular, the "Burner" tool is high on my list of things I wish I knew how to use. Thanks. In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: more newbie questions1 Jan 2014, 21:29 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Dec 2013, 21:05 PMSrinidhalaya Hold "R", then click and drag on the specific circle that is on the correct axis you wish to rotate. There will be a feedback display with the exact rotation in degree's, from its previous state. That's awesome. I had been wondering if the colored circles were used for anything. Thanks! In: Mapping Discussion
Thread: more newbie questions28 Dec 2013, 21:59 PM Ok, thanks. It's good to know I wasn't missing something obvious. In: Mapping Discussion