[REL] Trigger Maru 1.7.6 (Updated 24Jan08) - Page 68

MONOLITH · 10-22-07, 12:17 AM

Leovampire..... the most overworked modder at Subsim.

I salute you.

leovampire · 10-22-07, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MONOLITH

Leovampire..... the most overworked modder at Subsim.

I salute you.

I am always asking them both for stuff to work with new things I am doing so the only taking a break right now is l3th4l. He is a student and just moved as well so get's to take a break from here and I am sure he is glad too! :rotfl:

Poor Kriller every thing I do makes him want to rework his stuff more.

And Jaketoox I ask him for stuff constantly.

But they have live's I don't for the most part so I can put more time into things and get us all into more trouble LOL!!!

Duci Tater and I have a lot in common. We don't know when to stop tinkering with our work especialy when we find new stuff to work with.

Ducimus · 10-22-07, 12:26 PM

What Leo said! (thanks for fielding the question btw leo, ive been busy)

For right now, "ROW light zones specials" is NOT compatible with TMaru. The reason being, as leo cited, the zones.cfg is not compatible, and you'll get really funky results (assuming the game loads to a mission at all).

Some of the core aspects to "Row_light_zones_speical" such as the scene.dat, materials.dat, and particles.dat i intergrated into TMaru itself, so you do not need to run "Row_light_zones_speical" at all.

Eventually i'll update TM's zone.cfg with all the specials Leo's packed into the file, but not right now. Im not adding ANYTHING until after patch 1.4 is released, and this mod made compatible. Ive got enough of a birds nest to unravel after the patch, so any new additions are just going to have to wait.

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Duci Tater and I have a lot in common. We don't know when to stop tinkering with our work especialy when we find new stuff to work with.

I think someone at some point in time called this "CTD", or "Compulsive Tweaking Disorder".

Sailor Steve · 10-22-07, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

I think someone at some point in time called this "CTD", or "Compulsive Tweaking Disorder".

And if you keep doing it sooner or later your head will literally CTD.

Ducimus · 10-22-07, 04:12 PM

Sad thing is, i keep trying to quit. I seriously wish that i could just come here, D/L a mod, play the game, and be happy. I fell into this trap during Sh3, wound up tweaking the game more then acutally playing. So when Sh4 first came out, i seriously told myself, "NO MODDING". I seriously thought someone else would have come out with a mod pack. Much to my dissapointment, other then Berry, nobody has.

If the day ever comes where someone comes up with a modpack for the PTO that just buries TMaru, and blows it out of the water, i will be extremely happy. Because then i can just step down, step aside, fade into the background and enjoy things more.

Hitman · 10-22-07, 04:17 PM

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I fell into this trap during Sh3, wound up tweaking the game more then acutally playing

He...tell that to me! I have never played the full campaign in SH2

I started modding when I was halfway through and that was the end of all.

I enjoyed much RUB and NYGM because everything was done there already, but sadly there are always some minor aspects you like different, and when those end you find another, and by then you have learned enough to tweak that other annoying effect and....see it? Here we go again

Ducimus · 10-22-07, 04:20 PM

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Pacific Aces Dev Team

I keep seeing that in forum avatars. I think it's high time you boys get back in the saddle! Hell, ill even make it easy for you. Need a base to start with? feel free to rip apart TM and mold it to your own vision. I will gladly, hand over the reins, and walk away.

R3D · 10-23-07, 09:14 PM

Im having a problem with trigger maru, all my fire effects turn into large pixels when the mod is active.

anyone know whats up? (newest version 1.64

i use the graphics pack also.

Ducimus · 10-23-07, 09:47 PM

I have no idea, ive never heard of anyone having that problem before.

ReallyDedPoet · 10-23-07, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by R3D

Im having a problem with trigger maru, all my fire effects turn into large pixels when the mod is active.

anyone know whats up? (newest version 1.64

i use the graphics pack also.

There is a fix for this, I saw something a few days back, took a quick look and could not find it. Somebody will get this. Maybe check over at the ROW Thread.

RDP

R3D · 10-23-07, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

I have no idea, ive never heard of anyone having that problem before.

narrowed it down to the particles.dat file in the mod download.. works if i remove that from the mod and go back to the default one.

the bug also affected the oil slicks, turned em all into big black squares and the fire swere big orange square's,. nobody else checked the 1.64 version and got this error?

is there a setting of some kind or a line in the .dat file i can edit to fix it?

Ducimus · 10-23-07, 10:27 PM

I can only guess its something specific to a video card, driver version, or mod /texture combination. I haven't run into this problem, so i wasn't aware of it. The particles.dat is from ROW, so you could check there.

:hmm: Are you running ROW textures or not? Maybe thats the problem. I should go back and check that i suppose. In otherwords, i wonder if that file is calling on a specific graphic that wont be present unless your running ROW as well.

leovampire · 10-23-07, 10:47 PM

http://files.filefront.com/firetextu.../fileinfo.html

This is a fix for that problem 9 times out of ten. Only a handfull of people has had this happen.

But install these 2 file textures in the texture folder of the mod

Data/Texture/TNormal/tex

And make sure you do not have 2 differn't particles.dat file's in your game

The particles file from ROW specificly points to these 2 files plus the Oil slik texture so if you do not have them in the game using our particles file from ROW you get these fire and oil slik problems.

This is his problem DUCI.

Unlike the old fire textures for the game the new one created for ROW is animated so it need's both texture files to work properly.

Ducimus · 10-23-07, 11:05 PM

Thanks Leo. Seems i made a boo boo, i didn't realize the particles.dat was texture dependant. Since i run your excellent mod anyway, i would never have known tell someone pointed it out to me

Just call me Dufus. :rotfl:

leovampire · 10-23-07, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Thanks Leo. Seems i made a boo boo, i didn't realize the particles.dat was texture dependant. Since i run your excellent mod anyway, i would never have known tell someone pointed it out to me

Just call me Dufus. :rotfl:

Not too bad only 7 people out of 500 download's have had this problem. But it happens so far few and inbetween that I have to find the thread page that has it so I decieded to add an emergency download for it just incase.

The particles file wasn't dependent before but in order to create the new effect's for the mod it became dependent on those 3 file's.

Just like if we manage to create new and seperate explosions just for the oil and fuel that would mean new textures to go with them as well.

Unfortunatly new effect's for the game requires certain links to new items and dependancies.

10-22-07, 12:17 AM	#1006
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Leovampire..... the most overworked modder at Subsim. I salute you. __________________

10-23-07, 09:14 PM	#1013
R3D Gunner Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 91 Downloads: 88 Uploads: 0	Im having a problem with trigger maru, all my fire effects turn into large pixels when the mod is active. anyone know whats up? (newest version 1.64 i use the graphics pack also. Last edited by R3D; 10-23-07 at 09:48 PM.

10-23-07, 10:47 PM	#1018
leovampire Eternal Patrol Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Waterbury, CT. USA Posts: 2,336 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	R3D and Ducimus http://files.filefront.com/firetextu.../fileinfo.html This is a fix for that problem 9 times out of ten. Only a handfull of people has had this happen. But install these 2 file textures in the texture folder of the mod Data/Texture/TNormal/tex And make sure you do not have 2 differn't particles.dat file's in your game The particles file from ROW specificly points to these 2 files plus the Oil slik texture so if you do not have them in the game using our particles file from ROW you get these fire and oil slik problems. This is his problem DUCI. Unlike the old fire textures for the game the new one created for ROW is animated so it need's both texture files to work properly. __________________ AIR_BASE_NAV_MAP_MOD Reflections_on_the_Water Last edited by leovampire; 10-23-07 at 11:02 PM.

10-22-07, 04:12 PM	#1010
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Sad thing is, i keep trying to quit. I seriously wish that i could just come here, D/L a mod, play the game, and be happy. I fell into this trap during Sh3, wound up tweaking the game more then acutally playing. So when Sh4 first came out, i seriously told myself, "NO MODDING". I seriously thought someone else would have come out with a mod pack. Much to my dissapointment, other then Berry, nobody has. If the day ever comes where someone comes up with a modpack for the PTO that just buries TMaru, and blows it out of the water, i will be extremely happy. Because then i can just step down, step aside, fade into the background and enjoy things more.

10-23-07, 09:47 PM	#1014
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I have no idea, ive never heard of anyone having that problem before.

10-23-07, 10:27 PM	#1017
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I can only guess its something specific to a video card, driver version, or mod /texture combination. I haven't run into this problem, so i wasn't aware of it. The particles.dat is from ROW, so you could check there. :hmm: Are you running ROW textures or not? Maybe thats the problem. I should go back and check that i suppose. In otherwords, i wonder if that file is calling on a specific graphic that wont be present unless your running ROW as well.

10-23-07, 11:05 PM	#1019
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Thanks Leo. Seems i made a boo boo, i didn't realize the particles.dat was texture dependant. Since i run your excellent mod anyway, i would never have known tell someone pointed it out to me Just call me Dufus. :rotfl: