Entity 2.1.24

[JacksonCougar]

Its probably best to reference what's needed though, or else your wasting resources/processing time.

[DoorM4n]

WOWOW!

[troymac1ure]

I just uploaded the newest Entity v2.1.4

Changes are listed at the top, but in short, the main additions are the ability to change collection items in the viewer & bounding boxes are fixed. A few other things as well..

[XZodia]

Did you fix the saving issues this had?

[troymac1ure]

Did you fix the saving issues this had?

I'm guessing you found the updated 2.1.3 on the FTP site. I was getting TwinReaper to test it and realized after posting it for him it didn't save. It now saves the new itmc/vehc to the map (I think. Come to think of it I haven't verified VEHC, but it's the same code, so...)

If anyone finds anything strange let me know. I only implemented collection changes at the moment, but could easily copy most of the code for Scenery/etc.
I haven't thoroughly tested the bounding box positions, but the ones I did look at on a couple different maps were all correct and the solution made sense.

...and I haven't compared rotations on the xbox to those on here, but object placement looks more natural, so if you notice the rotation is still out, let me know and I'll find a time to hook the computer & xbox up side by side and play with it some more.

[JacksonCougar]

Great update
Aside: the width values of bitmaps cannot really be trusted: when your gathering the meta to display bitmaps, ignore the width and calculate it yourself from the height, bitsperpixel, and the actual datasize

[troymac1ure]

Great update
Aside: the width values of bitmaps cannot really be trusted: when your gathering the meta to display bitmaps, ignore the width and calculate it yourself from the height, bitsperpixel, and the actual datasize

I know dealing with bitmaps in DOS years ago that they would give the width, but the actual width you needed to use had to be rounded up to the nearest WORD value, so odds became even basically. I figure this is probably the same, maybe DWord though now. I'll have to look into it sometime, although it's not a huge issue.

[Twinreaper]

BTW Troy, lovin the new color coded boxes when you select an item in BSP viewer. Very handy when items you need to move are exaclty or near exact same locations. Oh, you need to tell me what kind of vending machine you want!

[Ogrish]

nice work but theres a problem with selecting death zones.
In the previous version i tested i could select a deathzone, only by clicking select all, but it would work. In this one if i try that, i get and error messeage, then bsp viewer closes.

[troymac1ure]

nice work but theres a problem with selecting death zones.
In the previous version i tested i could select a deathzone, only by clicking select all, but it would work. In this one if i try that, i get and error messeage, then bsp viewer closes.

I just tried it on a SP->MP conversion with no problems, selecting with the mouse (very exact), Select & Select All Deathzones and this map even contains deathzones of 0 width, height, length so I dunno. I would guess that your deathzones are broken ? Have you tried it on another map?

If it is the map, send it to me and I will see where the program is crashing and try to put in a catch for it if possible.

BTW Troy, lovin the new color coded boxes when you select an item in BSP viewer. Very handy when items you need to move are exaclty or near exact same locations. Oh, you need to tell me what kind of vending machine you want!

How about a DUFF vending machine to go with the Simpsons Troy MacLure theme

[XZodia]

There not death zones there trigger volumes

[JacksonCougar]

Touche.

[Ogrish]

No maps work, not even clean maps.





Could this be a .net frameworks problem?

[troymac1ure]

Could this be a .net frameworks problem?

Hmmm, "StartIndex must be less than the end of the string". I think it has something to do with the fact I have it showing death zone names on the left sidebar instead of "Deathzone#1",etc. I'll try it on lockout and see if I can duplicate this. Otherwise I have a pretty good idea where to look now. Thanks.

** I can't duplicate it, but I think it has to do with an addition I included to update the X,Y,Z coordinates of objects as you move them (like Yaw, Pitch, Roll which, BTW is still not right )
I'm not sure why you'd have an issue and I don't. I will see if I can do a workaround though.

**** I managed to duplicate it. lol. It was where I thought it was and is now fixed. Updated version posted (build 34057).

Also, I know the clicking on the screen has to be on the EXACT center of deathzones ATM, but you can do the Right-Click on the sidebar under the SPAWN tag to select/deselect single objects

[Ogrish]

its fixed. thank you

[Twinreaper]

I was just about to say, that you can right click those spawns from the left. lol.

Also a point of interest is the fact that with the plugin you have for scnr, you cant properly adjust the height, width and thickness of volumes. I had to use an updated one from Xzodia-Bru. BTW thanks for that man!

[troymac1ure]

I was just about to say, that you can right click those spawns from the left. lol.

Also a point of interest is the fact that with the plugin you have for scnr, you cant properly adjust the height, width and thickness of volumes. I had to use an updated one from Xzodia-Bru. BTW thanks for that man!

Remind me & send it this way next time I'm on MSN (if ever). My MSN reports that there's a problem with my "key ports". I'm sure that I just need to reboot, but I always have Visual c# open with Entity running something, so I just use hibernation
I guess I'll have to close all my windows down and re-open them...

Hmmmm, come to think of it I should add that feature (volume resizing) to the BSP editor...
I found the rotation was still wrong, so I took a couple of hours tonight and sat down and actually figured it out, so now I have rotations correct. Also fixed deathzones so you can just click them now.
If there are no issues with the Collection changer, I will get around to doing the same for....whatever else. Scenery, etc.
Actually these are the short term add-ons I'm thinking of:

• Resizable trigger volumes
  Scenery changer
  Selected Items popup menu (to see and deselect selected objects)
  More options for Collections (Levitate, Weapon Type, etc)
  Correct object rotation (*FINALLY DONE*)

[neodos]

Awesome we can now place objects correctly with the sbsp viwer =) so we can place the collision box with entity sbso viwer

[Ogrish]

Ok it worked once, but now bsp viewer wont work on any maps.
But i got the previous one working.

[troymac1ure]

Ok it worked once, but now bsp viewer wont work on any maps.
But i got the previous one working.

Try the one on the H2 Apps FTP site. It should be build 3xx, but it's the newest version. This one actually has proper rotation.
I'm gone at the moment, so I won't be checking in much for a week or so.

[Dragonfire]

...does it show water levels?

[troymac1ure]

...does it show water levels?

Not if older versions didn't (and if it does it's a fluke )
Are you talking about headlong? What other levels have water (I know there are a couple methods of adding water)? Beaver creek shows something...

[DemonicSandwich]

...does it show water levels?

Not if older versions didn't (and if it does it's a fluke )
Are you talking about headlong? What other levels have water (I know there are a couple methods of adding water)? Beaver creek shows something...

Beaver Creek's...creek... is just sbsp mesh, not traditional water. Levels like Zanzibar, Dune, Headlong use the Water Definitions reflexive whom can be raised/lowered.

Oddly enough, Waterworks also has this reflexive but it's nulled and the map uses sbsp mesh with the water shader instead.

[Dragonfire]

I mean for any map with normal water, even if its added

[troymac1ure]

I've had a few people asking for the version with proper rotation, so I updated this post with that version (build 303).
Enjoy!