Modding Q&A [For Quick Questions and Answers]

[cmpxchg8b]

As dunde said, that's not how you use store_trigger_param, and as I said earlier, you can't use overlay operations on props.

 

[Dawiduh]

right. i'll roll back to moving the scene prop around. only that until now it didn't work. any idea how to go for strategy nr3? the scabbard/scale thingy?

 

[cmpxchg8b]

You can't access vertex animation from the module system currently. What you can try is a combination of prop_instance_enable_physics and scene_prop_set_visibility.

 

[Lumos]

Dawiduh, you seem to have turned everything 180 degrees around while I was busy with RL stuff today.
Sending PM now.

 

[xPearse]

What does the blend_in_0 part or blend_in_ready mean in relation to animations.

 ["reload_pistol", 0,
   [2.0, "reloadpistol", 1, 15, blend_in_0],

 

[dunde]

After finishing this animation, the agent will be in ready position.

 

[ms_ts_2007]

A quick multipart question:

I want to add a spear, with only thrust damage. I know how to do that. What I want is to have the thrust to be really quick. I dont mean the troop to have 10000000 thrusting atacks per minute, but a normal number of atacks that are really quick. What determines the duration of the atack ? My guess is the animation, but correct me if I am wrong. Thus, for a item with thrust_onehanded_lance property, what is the animation file I need to mofidy and how ?

Thank you.

 

[xPearse]

After finishing this animation, the agent will be in ready position.

Ok thanks but what is different if you have a number instead of ready, also what does that 2.0 there in bold mean. Im guessing the speed of the animation, the animation ingame acts like slow motion so how would I fix that.

["reload_pistol", 0,
  [2.0, "reloadpistol", 1, 15, blend_in_0],

 

[Zirkhovsky]

After finishing this animation, the agent will be in ready position.

Ok thanks but what is different if you have a number instead of ready, also what does that 2.0 there in bold mean. Im guessing the speed of the animation, the animation ingame acts like slow motion so how would I fix that.

["reload_pistol", 0,
  [2.0, "reloadpistol", 1, 15, blend_in_0],

That is the speed of the animation. The higher the number, the slower the animation will progress. To make your animation faster, simply reduce the number.

 

[xPearse]

After finishing this animation, the agent will be in ready position.

Ok thanks but what is different if you have a number instead of ready, also what does that 2.0 there in bold mean. Im guessing the speed of the animation, the animation ingame acts like slow motion so how would I fix that.

["reload_pistol", 0,
  [2.0, "reloadpistol", 1, 15, blend_in_0],

That is the speed of the animation. The higher the number, the slower the animation will progress. To make your animation faster, simply reduce the number.

Yea I guessed that, thanks anyway.

 

[The_dragon]

A quick multipart question:

I want to add a spear, with only thrust damage. I know how to do that. What I want is to have the thrust to be really quick. I dont mean the troop to have 10000000 thrusting atacks per minute, but a normal number of atacks that are really quick. What determines the duration of the atack ? My guess is the animation, but correct me if I am wrong. Thus, for a item with thrust_onehanded_lance property, what is the animation file I need to mofidy and how ?

Thank you.

all you need to do is to change the weapon attack speed

 

[phantom96]

I am back! A quick question, how to make it so that when a key is pressed an animation is played... I already have the animation , it is the cheer one 

 

[GoldEagleMNE]

I am back! A quick question, how to make it so that when a key is pressed an animation is played... I already have the animation , it is the cheer one 

Put this in a mission you want..In the mission_templates..And why did you disappear?

common_whatever = (0, 0, 0, [
    (key_clicked, key_v), ##or (key_is_down, key_v),  put anything in place of key_X
], [
    (get_player_agent_no, ":agent"),
    (agent_set_animation, ":agent", "anim_cheer", 1), ##Name of the animation
    (agent_play_sound,":agent","snd_man_warcry"), ##Name of the sound
])

 

[phantom96]

Thanks

 

[wheene]

Is it possible to change/add ground texture (so you can see and use it in material painting in scene editor) without rewriting the Native texture in the main textures folder?

 

[The_dragon]

I am back! A quick question, how to make it so that when a key is pressed an animation is played... I already have the animation , it is the cheer one 

Put this in a mission you want..In the mission_templates..And why did you disappear?

common_whatever = (0, 0, 0, [
    (key_clicked, key_v), ##or (key_is_down, key_v),  put anything in place of key_X
], [
    (get_player_agent_no, ":agent"),
    (agent_set_animation, ":agent", "anim_cheer", 1), ##Name of the animation
    (agent_play_sound,":agent","snd_man_warcry"), ##Name of the sound
])

i would put a agent_is_active and agent_is_alive before agent_set_animation,else you will get some errors when you are dead and hit the button

and this is for singleplayer only!

 

[phantom96]

This code works in MP

    (0, 0, 0, [],
 [
    (key_clicked, key_m),
	(try_begin),
    (get_player_agent_no, ":agent"),
    (agent_set_animation, ":agent", "anim_cheer", 1), ##Name of the animation
    (agent_play_sound,":agent","snd_man_warcry"), ##Name of the sound
	(try_end),
]),

However I have not checked waht happens when I am dead though...

 

[Vornne]

This code works in MP

No it doesn't: you probably based that conclusion on playing in "Host a Server" mode, which is a bad way to test multiplayer mods - it is more similar to single player, for the hoster. You need to test multiplayer features using a dedicated server (you can run it on the same computer).

The get_player_agent_no is a single player operation: you need to have the key_clicked part run on the clients, which sends a network message to the server requesting the war cry, then in the server message handler you should run some checks to decide whether the sender_player_no is allowed to do a war cry (at least check agent is active and alive, maybe have some sort of spam prevention), then run the agent_set_animation and agent_play_sound on the server (so it will be synchronized automatically with nearby clients).

 

[phantom96]

This code works in MP

No it doesn't: you probably based that conclusion on playing in "Host a Server" mode, which is a bad way to test multiplayer mods - it is more similar to single player, for the hoster. You need to test multiplayer features using a dedicated server (you can run it on the same computer).

The get_player_agent_no is a single player operation: you need to have the key_clicked part run on the clients, which sends a network message to the server requesting the war cry, then in the server message handler you should run some checks to decide whether the sender_player_no is allowed to do a war cry (at least check agent is active and alive, maybe have some sort of spam prevention), then run the agent_set_animation and agent_play_sound on the server (so it will be synchronized automatically with nearby clients).

It works partially , when host cheers , joiner can see his warcy...However the host cannot see when joiner cheers? How to do the thing you mention here?

 

[JanPanbran]

whoow i make my animations in combat go up n down with teh camer, my customz?