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Ha yes I forgot to write about it. I tired now but tomorrow I'll write some documentation about scripting in Lua.

does it happen on all calls to spin ? Did you try all the values (0, 1, 2) ?

what happens if you replace it with 0, 1 or 2 ?

Just use the start_script function which accepts as many parameters as you want: __this.my_function = function(this, parameter1, parameter2) end __this.Create = function(this) this:start_script(this.my_function, this, this.head, this.lleg) end Since you can manipulate only variables in Lua, the mode...

Yes and with the new package builder I hope to be able to release betas more often

. Let's make some noise

would be really helpful indeed, I am going to add it right now

PS: done

This is the first beta package which includes the failsafe GUI stuffs (config tool, crash report window, critical messages display). It mainly brings: updated LuaJIT (for packages built with LuaJIT) the failsafe GUI stuffs improved bandwidth requirements for multiplayer (this breaks compatibility wi...

you need to start a script (which will then run in parallel to the function that started it) with a loop containing one cycle of the pumping animation which will be repeated until the loop ends. Something like: local ANIM_SPEED = 0.2 __this.PumpingAnimation = function(this) while true do this:move( ...

Wow, looks like the holy grail

Are you using COB or Lua ? With COB there is not much we can do without breaking OTA compatibility but Lua is very flexible and it should not be difficult to write a basic interface on top of what already exists.

Yes it is possible, just put your MTL file with your OBJ file in the objects3d folder

. TA3D will then look for textures in the textures folder

It should be possible to implement this as a Lua script. Currently there is no scripts running in background waiting for events but it can easily change

, I think I'll work on it tomorrow.

Interesting ... I didn't notice the package was broken.

Yes the free data set is the ta3d-data package but you can also find it there : http://downloads.ta3d.org/mods/ta3d_free_data_set.7z (I've just updated it)

It's difficult to please everyone and something intuitive won't be intuitive for everyone.

If you want to have a closer look at your units you can toggle the free camera mode and use the arrow keys to move and your mouse to look around

Normally SDL should be able to get a working video mode since we don't ask for a specific color depth or driver so if SDL can't do that you're in trouble because it won't be able to manage the game window. However if the game crashes and the signal handler can't do anything with SDL_sgui then it's l...

Oh yes, it is

. I used this document a lot during TA3D's development

. I have there too:
http://downloads.ta3d.org/misc/tadesign%20guide/

There are 3 ways of animating models: use default animation parameters for 3DM models (doesn't work on units) write a COB script (OTA scripting language) to animate a unit model (unit only) write a Lua script (using TA3D's Lua API) to animate a unit model (unit only) Lua is a scripting language desi...

The spin function takes several parameters (in the Lua scripting API): spin(unitID, obj, axis, speed, (accel)) Where unitID is the 'this' parameter (it's designed to be called like this:spin(this.piece, ...) ). Setting speed to something negative should make the model piece spin in reverse direction.

Actually it just doesn't read the info ... this part of the code has been left in "work in progress" mode for too long.

I think I know what's going on: TA3D uses a useonly/useonly.tdf file (you'll find this in your ta3d.cfg file in the "Game Data" variable) which doesn't list your units for a yet unknown reason. Just remove (or clear the whole Game Data variable) the useonly/useonly.tdf from your ta3d.cfg file and it...

Sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been busy these days. Have you enabled texture compression ? Since Intel chips use shared system memory the huge memory consumption could be due to textures. The backup error line is due to a small change in the backup function which doesn't tell any more when...

TA3D 0.5.x has been tested with Allegro up to version 4.2.x. Several libs like AllegroGL have been merged into newer versions of Allegro, I've not run much tests with these versions but I doubt TA3D is compatible with them, you should try the 0.6 branch which is based on SDL.

I tried to reproduce the dark buildpic bug ... unsuccessfully. Which (global) resource files are you using ?

I am working on implementing a few failsafe modules based on SDL_sgui (the small GUI I developed for SDL). So far I've replaced the critical message window (which didn't exist on Mac OS and wasn't guarantied to work on Linux) with the built-in message window from SDL_sgui. I've also added a small co...

It's indeed but this has to be fixed in order to have mods working properly.

It seems it's already in the FAQ

Hi and welcome back on the forums

This is a real problem. Maybe we could use a kind of (explicit) dependency system so you would have to say somewhere: my mod needs OTA, OTA + BT, OTA + CC or another mod ... so you would explicitly tel TA3D what to load and what to look for.

you can set as many as you want, the variable in ta3d.cfg takes a comma-separated string list

It may be a numerical stability issue (the moving algorithm tries to minimize an "energy")

Now you can also take into account the average number of copies of a unit during a game. If it's designed to be unique then you can put more polygons on it. Adding more polygons will be more useful for FPS view or big zoom factor than default camera settings so it won't be lost anyway

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A unit is made of several pieces. Each piece can have up to 32768 polygons and up to 32768 vertices. You can have as many pieces as you want so there is no real limit, only the processing power available to render the unit and the RAM required to store it :P. However, in order not to hurt performanc...

Hi! You can use several model formats: 3DO - OTA's format, no UV-mapping, compatible with OTA (can use any GAF texture in TA3D, including 32bits ones) 3DM - TA3D's own model format, supports UV-mapping, GLSL shaders and default animation (useful for map features, you can use it to simulate the wind ...

I hope there is no report about missing DLLs because none is missing

. I only tested on my virtual machine which has all the DLLs somewhere not only in the package

and right now I don't have my own computer (I am in an Internet cafe) so I can't test the package.

Tiens c'est un curieux problème ... je retesterais mes paquets plus en détails. Sinon il devrait être prossible de faire fonctionner TA3D sans l'installer dans les dossiers du système au cas où vous auriez peur de casser quelque chose, il faudra seulement le lancer depuis le dossier où se trouve le ...

I´ve just checked your files, everything seems correct. I think there is definitely a bug in TA3D. I am in vacation in Spain right now so I won´t be able to fix it before I am back (sunday next week).

do you use the mod system or do you use global files ? Normally mod files should have priority over global ones unless there is a bug.

I've been working on a way to build packages for all supported platforms automatically. Mac OS support is still missing but it already works for Linux 32/64 bits and windows. TA3D is compiled, packaged and Linux repositories are updated with a single command :). I've just built new packages (revisio...

Clearing the cache should help indeed. I am going to build a new package, there is a new option that does it automatically (even better it just doesn't use the cache

).

PS: the new packages are ready

Well it explains why TA3D couldn't load textures then

Ok, I've added the filename to the logs :). I've seen this: [Sat Jul 10 13:40:19 2010][ta3d][error] [obj] could not load texture ! Did you put the texture and MTL files in the textures folder (either in ta3d/textures or ta3d/resources/textures) ? TA3D won't find them if they're somewhere else. I am ...

yeah that's in order to save some space and bandwidth. Join a compressed archive (zip, rar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, 7z, ...).

I do but the code is huge and it's difficult to find something related to a line in the logs if I don't have the logs. Lots of code tells which file has a problem, but not all so I really need some keyword to do a search in the code. What does this log look like ?

Wow, looks like you're really having bad luck. Can i suggest the log file say in what file it found an error ? For this I have to know which part of the code produces these log lines, that would be easier with the log lines :(. FBI files refers to model files, that may be related. Also try to clear ...

Ok, according to the stack trace this is a bug in the model structure parser (the module which is responsible for transforming standard meshes into TA3D's internal structure). Which model format do you use ? PS: try notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/fr/site.htm ), it should read anythi...

hm, I've run a few tests with armcom1.gui and sidedata.tdf on OTA, it seems it doesn't care that much about sidedata.tdf content (at least with 3.1 patch). So I made TA3D aware of sidedata.tdf menu order but I priority is given to GUI files which seems to reproduce OTA's behavior but I am not quite ...

It uses the .gui files and the .tdf files from the download directory. It should not be difficult to take into account the order from sidedata.tdf, I'll do that when I have time.

Indeed that's nice

. I am currently moving from Paris so I won't have much time to fix the menu bugs until I am done but after I am in vacation

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I've just tested with only totala1.hpi and totala2.hpi and discovered a nasty bug that was crashing the whole thing. Try to play with the rev31.gp3 file from the 3.1 patch, or add a few archives from TA:CC (like ccdata.ccx, ccmiss.ccx for campaign missions, ccmaps.ccx for maps). You can also play wi...

Hi !

According to the logs, there is something wrong with at least one resource file. Do you use modified HPI archives, files or a mod ? Which game archives did you install ?

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