Adding Placeable objects to azone generated map files

[Flare83]

very nice work Derision. Anyone working on a new map pack with models included?

[cavedude]

Originally Posted by Flare83

very nice work Derision. Anyone working on a new map pack with models included?

I was meaning to start, but since each map needs to be manually created, it would take a while. Anybody care to help? We could divide and conquer.

[Angelox]

Here's Skyfire map

[Angelox]

Here's Frontier Mountains and GFaydark Maps.

Derision; Im having problems with eastwastes , it does not dump all the placed-object info. I saw where objects 1-15 were, there then jumped to 2077-2015. For example I can see CRYSCAVETEL202 as an object, but it's not in the LISTOBJ dump.

[Derision]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Im having problems with eastwastes , it does not dump all the placed-object info. I saw where objects 1-15 were, there then jumped to 2077-2015. For example I can see CRYSCAVETEL202 as an object, but it's not in the LISTOBJ dump.

I see what you mean. I'll take a look at it at some point during the week.

[KLS]

An unusual amount of -1 model entries for eastwastes. I've been going through them alphabetically... slowly... I dare someone to take a look at bloodfields, it made me cry and not with any amount of joy. =(

[Angelox]

There's another problem I noticed too, Skyfire has a lot of 'moonwalkers' (npc's get stuck and go a few steps back then forward a few, never get anywhere). I noticed at first in the entrance to Veeshan. Thought maybe it was the map , but the azone2 fix doesn't help. Then I started seeing this moonwalking bug all over the zone, with many npcs. If you can slow or freeze the frame rate , you'll see the mob gets stuck waist-deep in the ground where this is happening (the moonwalking is just an illusion). Skyfire Map I made is so gigantic because I detailed a lot of objects in hopes it would help some. But the most needed objects that are what cause the problem are not in the S3d files , they are on the Skyfire.wld files. I haven't checked any other zones, I Imagine the more irregular the terrain, the more prone to moonwalking. I saw some moonwalking in FM and really haven't check more zones - But Skyfire would be the zone to work this bug out.
In FM(Frontier Mts), most mobs walked fine, with the new fix (Dersion fix for 'BestZ Calculation for aggroed mobs), most the giants travel flawlessly over the big mountains, but once in a while you bump into a MJ fan (moonwalker). I think the 'BestZ Calculation' fixed a lot more than expected.

[Derision]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Derision; Im having problems with eastwastes , it does not dump all the placed-object info. I saw where objects 1-15 were, there then jumped to 2077-2015. For example I can see CRYSCAVETEL202 as an object, but it's not in the LISTOBJ dump.

I altered the code to print out the names of the objects it couldn't find the model for. In eastwastes, there are 2054:

$ ./listobj eastwastes | grep "not found" | wc -l
2054

Of those 2054 objects, they all use 1 of 3 models:

$ ./listobj eastwastes | grep "not found" | sort | uniq -c

      1 Model ELECTMONU200_DMSPRITEDEF not found
   1006 Model ICETREE200_DMSPRITEDEF not found
   1047 Model ICETREE203_DMSPRITEDEF not found

So all of them bar 1 are trees. I am guessing they use an animated model fragment that the .wld loader doesn't handle.

I checked all the other .s3ds, and the placeable objects with missing models generally seem to be trees, grass, flames, waterfalls, etc (all things that are likely animated), so this doesn't bother me too much, as I think they are generally the kind of objects that you wouldn't want to include in LOS anyway.

As for CRYSCAVETELE202, it is possible that the object mesh exists in the S3D, but was never actually placed in the zone by the designer, which is why LISTOBJ doesn't list it, as no objects use that model.

And KLS, I thought your comment about bloodfields meant there were loads of objects missing for that zone too, but I guess it is just the opposite

[Angelox]

Ok well, I guess what already was dumped has the houses and what not - did you have time to take a look at skyfire? I'm wondering why so many mobs there don't path properly

[Derision]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Ok well, I guess what already was dumped has the houses and what not - did you have time to take a look at skyfire? I'm wondering why so many mobs there don't path properly

I saw the two at the VP entrance, but I couldn't find any others. If you could give me a list of some other mobs affected (target, #wpinfo and give me the grid numbers), I'll look into is some more.