DerpHammer

[Timnaka]

Thank you very much

[Timnaka]

Is it possible to make units able to walk through buildings?
I know the plane you get via cheatcode can just fly over entities but that's not exactly what I'm looking for

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

3 hours ago, Timnaka said:

Is it possible to make units able to walk through buildings?
I know the plane you get via cheatcode can just fly over entities but that's not exactly what I'm looking for

Check template_structure and its obstruction component.

[Timnaka]

37 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Check template_structure and its obstruction component.

Thanks, but I think I formulated my question poorly.
I only want specific units (spells, ghosts and the like) to be able to walk through buildings while still being impassible for regular units.
I've been tinkering with the obstruction component in template_unit but I can't get it to work the way I want it to.

[Timnaka]

so it's been a while since I posted
DerpHammer 2.0 is progressing slowly, but it is progressing!
I just ported it over to the Alpha 25 Pre-release version (the second release candidate specifically)
everything went well, except I'm having issues with the structure tree
for the Dwarf faction it is completely broken and I'm getting these messages, though I don't know what they mean:

for the Empire faction, the tree works but I'm still getting some of the messages:

I've tried looking what I did differently between the two to find out why one works and the other doesn't, but I can't figure it out...

[Lopess]

Hello. Do you have the files in the logs folder with errors? It's probably simple. If you have a repository on github with the project can also be useful.

 

[s0600204]

Have you altered the Structure Tree within your mod at all? Perhaps increased the amount of "Trainer Units"? (Do you have a file called: gui/reference/structree/Sections/Trainer/TrainerSection.xml ?) If so, you will need to change style="StructNameSpecific" to style="StructNamePrimary".

As to the other error, could you check that all templates listed in the StartingEntities section of your simulation/data/civs/{civ}.json files exist? (If they don't then you should also see errors when starting a "Random" (instead of Skirmish or Scenario) map with that civ in play.)

[Timnaka]

10 hours ago, s0600204 said:

Have you altered the Structure Tree within your mod at all? Perhaps increased the amount of "Trainer Units"? (Do you have a file called: gui/reference/structree/Sections/Trainer/TrainerSection.xml ?) If so, you will need to change style="StructNameSpecific" to style="StructNamePrimary".

As to the other error, could you check that all templates listed in the StartingEntities section of your simulation/data/civs/{civ}.json files exist? (If they don't then you should also see errors when starting a "Random" (instead of Skirmish or Scenario) map with that civ in play.)

That solved it!
Thank you very much!

[Timnaka]

Oh boy, I haven't posted here in over a year...
I've continued working on DerpHammer despite my silence (even though I made some months long hiatuses along the way) and posting some progress updates over on my Mod DB page.
I've had some struggles here and there, but mostly I've been able to figure stuff out by myself.

That said, there are some problems I can't seem to solve on my own.
Most recently, I've tried to have my units change color based on the player's color, like the vanilla units do!
But for some reason it isn't working even though I just copied how it's done in the base game...

In the example here, I want the pants of the orcs to be the player color.
I've copied the file structure from the actor file of the female citizen, just changing the textures to my own.
(fabric.png is a transparent image and fabric_spec.png is single flat color)
But no matter what I do, in-game the pants just show up as pitch black.

What am I doing wrong?

[Stan`]

3 hours ago, Timnaka said:

In the example here, I want the pants of the orcs to be the player color.

Given your pants are black I think it might be GIMP at play. There is a weirdly undocumented feature of GIMP when exporting a PNG

> Stanislas Dolcini:
The background color on a png of a full alpha pixel becomes the background color of the brush when exporting [...] 

Try to set your background brush to white.

If that still does not work, add a white layer with 1% opacity below your texture prior to exporting to png.

Also note that actors do not change color, only actors with templates do.

PS: Would you like to make your mod available on mod.io for all A26 users ? 0ad.mod.io

This way it can be downloaded from the game. It just needs a team signature to check there are no viruses in it.

[Timnaka]

33 minutes ago, Stan` said:

Given your pants are black I think it might be GIMP at play.

I didn't use GIMP for my textures, I'll go give this a try!

33 minutes ago, Stan` said:

Also note that actors do not change color, only actors with templates do.

I'll keep that in mind.

33 minutes ago, Stan` said:

PS: Would you like to make your mod available on mod.io for all A26 users ? 0ad.mod.io

That sounds neat! I'm not confident to release my current build as there's still some work to be done, but once I'm ready to release it I would be interested.

[Timnaka]

It worked!!!
Thank you very much!!!

[Lion.Kanzen]

32 minutes ago, Timnaka said:

It worked!!!
Thank you very much!!!

is your mod up to date?

[Timnaka]

4 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

is your mod up to date?

It should be, besides maybe some minor issues I haven't found yet.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Just now, Timnaka said:

It should be, besides maybe some minor issues I haven't found yet.

A26 ,right?

[Timnaka]

7 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

A26 ,right?

yes!
I completely missed that A26 released last month until yesterday
then I spent the whole day getting things to work

[Timnaka]

Another question about textures that change to the player's color:
Is there any way to retain transparency fo some parts of the texture?

I really like the new feature of the banners for formations, since it allows me to easily include unique banners for every faction. However, since I don't want to make every banner a simple square or to individually model every flag shape, I was gonna use transparency to get differet flag shape. However, the player_trans material turning everything fully transparent into solid black is thrwing a wrench into that.

Left is how it is supposed to look like, right is how it actually looks currently.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

6 hours ago, Timnaka said:

Another question about textures that change to the player's color:
Is there any way to retain transparency fo some parts of the texture?

I really like the new feature of the banners for formations, since it allows me to easily include unique banners for every faction. However, since I don't want to make every banner a simple square or to individually model every flag shape, I was gonna use transparency to get differet flag shape. However, the player_trans material turning everything fully transparent into solid black is thrwing a wrench into that.

Left is how it is supposed to look like, right is how it actually looks currently.

You can only use one kind of material blending per object or actor. You could either give the golden fringe its own geometry in the mesh or make the fringe a prop with its own material blending (basic_trans.xml).

[Timnaka]

2 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

You can only use one kind of material blending per object or actor. You could either give the golden fringe its own geometry in the mesh or make the fringe a prop with its own material blending (basic_trans.xml).

I see.
I'll have to work around that then!

[Timnaka]

So it has been almost 2 years since my last post here.
I've been working on DerpHammer throughout that time, getting better at 3D modelling and slowly learning how templates work and stuff. (the comparison of the steam tank models does a good job at showing my progress I think)

For the most part I've been managing to figure out stuff on my own, but there have been some issues that I just don't know how to solve. One of them is this error message that gets triggered by AI players (it appears once for every AI player at the beginning of a game). As far as I can tell, the only template with the 'unrestricted' class is the ambient buzzard and that one doesn't seem to be the culprit, so I really don't know what the cause would be.

[Timnaka]

Another thing is in regards to sounds and animations.
I decided early on to not have animations for most of my units, mostly to make things easier for myself. Unfortunatly that means the units do not make any sounds when attacking, building, etc.

Is there a way to trigger those sounds without needing to add animations to an actor? I tried looking at the variants but I'm very lost as to how exactly they work.

Now there are some entities that do require animations (most notably gates opening and closing, as well as gyrocoptors having spinning propellers), but I haven't quite figured out how to export them from blender into 0ad, so for now those use jury-rigged solutions until I figure it out.

(Admittedly I haven't really looked much into how to animate in Blender to begin with)

[Stan`]

Hey nice to see you haven't given up on your mod after all this time

Regarding the first error maybe you have an outdated simulation/data/pathfinder.xml file in your mod ?

10 minutes ago, Timnaka said:

Is there a way to trigger those sounds without needing to add animations to an actor? I tried looking at the variants but I'm very lost as to how exactly they work.

Sadly no this is an engine limitation. The only exception is Buildings (with the BuildingAI component) where there is an explicit call to play sounds in js script.

11 minutes ago, Timnaka said:

Now there are some entities that do require animations (most notably gates opening and closing, as well as gyrocoptors having spinning propellers), but I haven't quite figured out how to export them from blender into 0ad, so for now those use jury-rigged solutions until I figure it out.

(Admittedly I haven't really looked much into how to animate in Blender to begin with)

Let me know if you need help with this. See also https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/AnimationExportTutorial

[Timnaka]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I did check the pathfinder.xml, but the only difference are the various custom passability classes I added. The 'unrestricted' class itself is the same as in the vanilla file. (I'll share it here if you want to take a look for yourself)

As for the animations, thanks for the tutorial! I'll try to look into that.

pathfinder.xml

[Stan`]

Btw you might consider putting you mod on 0ad.mod.io to make accessible to more people

47 minutes ago, Timnaka said:

 

I did check the pathfinder.xml, but the only difference are the various custom passability classes I added. The 'unrestricted' class itself is the same as in the vanilla file. (I'll share it here if you want to take a look for yourself)

Mmh strange :/

[Timnaka]

15 minutes ago, Stan` said:

Btw you might consider putting you mod on 0ad.mod.io to make accessible to more people

I'll put it on there once I finally get the new version ready for release!