[REL] S3D - Silent 3ditor

[Bando]

It's great

[CaptainCox]

The end of the Minitweaker draws near hail the Minitweaker
And long live S3D:p

[pontius]

Thank you again for your great tool, it is a very good help for me.

One thing I came across is:

When i am adding manually a new 3D- or Non3d- Node I tried to give them new ID and the correct Parent-ID using your tool. So I changed the ID's and your Tool shows the correct changes, but somehow it didn't work correctly.
Looking into the nodes with the hexeditor I saw, it only changed the first appaerance of the Node-ID and Parent-ID. I found also a second appearance of these ID's in the nodes that had to be changed, it would be great if your tool could do this too.

It was the really first time i tried hex-editing, so maybe i am just overlooking something

greetings,
pontius

[skwasjer]

This is by design (right now). As you've seen, changing an id breaks the tree as child nodes no longer reference an existing node. You'll have to go through the file and update each place where the id is referenced.

There's a few reasons why I didn't implement this (yet): it is complicated and risky. The main reason is there may be places where an id sits, but I don't know about it (in particular: specific properties with an id, other external files, or even unknown chunks). If I'd update the places I know about now, you'll run the risk of having the file only partial updated. Inexperienced modders will assume 'all is good' and there the trouble starts. At least now you know there's a manual fix up to go through.

So, it is up to the modder to rebuild a tree structure chunk by chunk (node by node) where changing id's is involved.

[pontius]

Thanks for the answer, it sounds reasonable to me. As long as we put new Nodes in manually, it will be no problem also changing the ID's manually.
(But maybe in future it will be possible to just get a new node with correct ID's just by pressing a button? :hmm

Keep up the good work!
Ah, and I really love the way you made assigning materials really easy

Greetings,
pontius

[tater]

Found something it won't open.

Data/Library/ShipParts/guns_radars.sim and Data/Library/ShipParts/guns_radars_02.sim. _03.sim opens fine.

The error dialog says, "The specified Type must not be a generic type definition. Parameter name: t"

tater

[skwasjer]

Thanks, I'll have a look... I've made some improvements to the parser already, and it should show better messages (indicating the actual problem), and hopefully less too...