Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Zoo Tycoon 2 Designing Centre (ZTDC). We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
The Further Problems Of Gloria; might as well make my own topic...
Topic Started: Jun 22 2007, 06:45 PM (876 Views)
Gloria
Member
Okay, another animal, another problem.

I'm working on my Serval and went to test it ingame for the first time. Well, the icon is in the menu, when clicked it brings up a caracal to place. Hmm... Okay, so I go back and change the .bfm, realising I had forgotten to edit that.

Testing it ingame after editing the .bfm, when I click on the animal's icon the game crashes! Eek!

I went back and checked the bfm, the nif, and the ai files to make sure something wasn't misnamed, but it all seems to be in order (unless of course it's not and I just missed something stupid again).

Could this problem have something to do with my meshed model?
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Steenbok28
Eco-Warrior and Complete Lunatic!
DL Mod
Depends... Did you edit the model using just NifSkope? If so, it shouldn't be the problem.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Gloria
Member
Yes, just NifSkope.

I didn't do the low-res model because I couldn't get it to "paste over" correctly. I'm hoping in the process I didn't severely mess something up with the model itself. : \
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
adam1990
Member
You should try checking your entities folder for an adiitional codename for the Caracal, and replace it with Serval.

If this doesn't work, make sure your lang file is right so it says Serval in the game, and make sure your image file has your codename, not the name of the Caracal.

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Penguinman
Member Avatar
Admin and Coding Master
Admin
The first test I would recommend is temporarily change the model from your edited one to the original, then we can start to pin down where the problem is :)
Check out my site where you can get many of my downloads here.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Gloria
Member
Okay, tried it, the animal works with the old model.


Soo... I guess I'm back to square one with my mesh editing. : \

Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Steenbok28
Eco-Warrior and Complete Lunatic!
DL Mod
I can probably say that you messed it up with the pasting over... :(
I can see that being the problem.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Gloria
Member
I don't think that's it. I tried re-doing it with only the BAREST of edits (removing the ear tufts) and it still crashed.

Then I tried doing it with the "sanitize before save" option turned off and the game didn't crash, but rather froze up to the point where I had to switch the computer off to get out of it. x_X

There must be something I'm doing wrong. Perhaps removing the entire block which contains the ear tufts is the wrong thing to do?
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Penguinman
Member Avatar
Admin and Coding Master
Admin
Wait, did you delete vertices in blender or something? It's important that you DONT change the number of vertices in the model unless you really know what you are doing.. there's tons of extra steps to that.
Check out my site where you can get many of my downloads here.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Gloria
Member
No, I did it in Nifskope. The ear tufts are a separate mesh, which I had simply deleted, but now it appears that just doesn't work.

I think I'm going to have to try a different approach.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
catc
Member Avatar

Senior Mod
There are usually two other meshes under the main one which are hidden, if you can't see them, go to Render>Show Hidden. Try deleting those two as well, everything including and in between the NiTriShape to NiTriShapeData. Other than that, I'm not sure how to help you with this, meshing is a difficult thing itself.
Do you want downloads? Access most of ZooMania's catalog of downloads here: http://downloads.zoo-mania.info/index.php?action=downloads
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Gloria
Member
I did delete the ear tufts on all three models... I right clicked on the first line of the the block and selected block>remove.


Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Penguinman
Member Avatar
Admin and Coding Master
Admin
That's a bit surprising cause I know removing blocks on objects works.. however animals are a bit more annoying so I dunno... thats quite strange,
Check out my site where you can get many of my downloads here.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
catc
Member Avatar

Senior Mod
You can't remove a whole branch with animal nifs (a branch is several lines in the nif that have to do with each other) which is what you need to do with your animal. You are going to have to delete more than one block per mesh, instead, delete all the lines (or blocks) in between the NiTriShape and NiTriShapeData, including NiTriShape and NiTriShape Data.
Do you want downloads? Access most of ZooMania's catalog of downloads here: http://downloads.zoo-mania.info/index.php?action=downloads
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Gloria
Member
Huh... I tried doing that, Catc, but it still freezes/crashes the game. : \

Is there more stuff I should be getting rid of? Two of the NiTriShape blocks don't have anything in between them and the NiTriShapeData block.

Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Animal Coding Help · Next Topic »
Add Reply