Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:00 am Post subject:
Adding Animations Crashes TS
I have a strange animation problem with TS. I recently decied to fire up my old mod I had made and see what kind of improvements I could make with all the info I've larned here. The problem is, the mod crashes every time I load it, even though it was in perfect working order when I saved to CD, and was again when took it off to test back then.
I know what's causing the internal error, its the Animation list in Rules.ini . Seems I can't add ANY new animations to the list, not numbered after 707, or in the empty spots in between. I erase the list of my new animations and wa la! TS loads and works, until I fire a weapon that uses a new animation which can't find its partner in rules.ini! lol.
But the story gets stranger still. I rembered I had a really old copy of the mod on another CD,so I plug that versions rules into TS ( which has 31 new animations) and the game works perfect. Yet if I edit the list in any way, bam, TS gets an internal error when loading a map. The only idea I can come up with to explain this all is that when I made the mod, I had Win ME, now I'm trying to edit it and Play in XP Home.
Another thing is that I get horriable lag durring the game, I have a 1GH comp with an 64MB ATI All in Wonder 8500DV with 640+ memory and it still ran better on a 233HZ comptuer with 96 memory. Why me? lol.
Thanks to all who can help, its 3am so sorry if I'm going on and on. I just want my mod to work.
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject:
maybe you should try to use the exactly numbers used by SMIFFGIG in his tutorial. As for the lag, check the backgroun programs running with Tiberian Sun. Believe me, a clean P233 MMX is able to run faster than a Athlon 1GHZ if the Athlon is also running Norton Antivirus + GetRight + ICQ + AIM + MSN + Yahoo + spywares from Kazaa + WinAMP + some other programs... _________________
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject:
Re: Adding Animations Crashes TS
hi triforce, welcome to the PPM Forums, have fun.
I don't know for your animations crashes but i suggest you to "clean" a little your PC. Check also your directX diag to see if you have not problem, if, reinstall it
launch disk clean, reg clean and do a defrag during the night
with that your comp will gain a lot in speed.
If you still have problems, i think you should do a format if you can save your files, it's the best solutions, with that your comp is like a "new comp"
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you're having a very strange problem... because as far as I knew, TS cannot crash because of animations. If it can't find an animation or if it can't display it properly, the animation just won't show up. One thing that's for sure though, you don't need to add weapon animations to the list in rules.ini in order to run TS properly, only active animations need to be listed in order to be displayed. It seems to matter for the save game feature though...(See SMIFFGIG's tutorial in the tutorial section, and especially the replies on it..) I somehow have the feeling you're having the same problem as me, but my mod crashes during the loading of saved games, yours crashes during loading of a skirmish... QUICK_EDIT
I'll look at the animation tut again, I didn't know only building animations needed to be listed, that will really cut the list short. As for the lag, I only run one thing at a time, I've checked System resources and its usally only 2-3% filled, and don't use Kazsa. No anti-virus either, I need to get a new version beacuse my old one won't load. I did do a stuipd thing when I installed XP, I copied over ME instead of replacing it, I should really fix this but I just think of all the files I have to back up. I'll try defraging and see if that helps some. Thanks for all the help!
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Good News! I got it all in working order. I had to Cut and Paste the whole Mod onto fresh ini's, as it seems TS didn't like the old ones made a year ago. Just my luck ! I did come across something neat while I was remaking it. If you reorder the vehicles list so that it reads the lowest tech units frist and then going in build order, you elminate the messy list if you happen to losse your War Fac. Just build a new one and come back in the same order as you got them. I think it works this way for buildings too, although I haven't tried it. I can't belive how messy the list are! I renumbered the animations list (don't ask why I did it, I'm still not sure) and you have a total of 420ish open slots from the last used to 707. I also tried messing around with getting a single mcv for my third side, It resulted in some insane base building by the AI. Ever seen GDI AI build 6+ Adv. Tech centers? Its fun to blow it all up! Thanks for the Help.
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Do you know why the AI gets their base built so much faster than you, and seems to always have a better economy than you, even if you have more harvesters? Their building costs are cut in half. Which means, half the money to build buildings and etc., and it takes half the time. This is a proven fact, try a map with no tiberium and add up the total the AI builds. They'll stop at a point. _________________ Over and out,
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Do you know why the AI gets their base built so much faster than you, and seems to always have a better economy than you, even if you have more harvesters? Their building costs are cut in half. Which means, half the money to build buildings and etc., and it takes half the time. This is a proven fact, try a map with no tiberium and add up the total the AI builds. They'll stop at a point.
FM, this is related to the AICM values in the beginning of rules.ini.
(AICM stands for AI Coefficent of Money, or, as i call it, AI Cost Minus )
In my mod, i use some AI cheating (Nod is getting cloaked harvesters (which you can buy too,btw) along with PROC2 and PROC3 with have AIBuildThis=yes) But i've significantly lowered the AICM values, so the AI doesn't have the buildspeed advantage as much QUICK_EDIT
I doesn't really matter if the AI cheats for me or not, I'll still end up lossing! I've taken up intertest in my mod again, its SO much easier than Renegade and more rewarding when you get to load it up and not get "Internal Error" . I'm trying to give it a different feel from TS, or actually, what I think TS should have been. Heres something I put together last night. Is PPM still hosting new mods? I'd like to see what others think about my mod.
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Prehaps I should reveal some information. The mod's story takes place right after firestorm, where GDI abandons all civilians to protect the Tacitus, and Nod is ever increasing its propaganda after their triumph of CABAL. The Civilians finialy fight back, and form thier own Faction, the National Civilian Militia or NCM.
Theres around 6 new units for both GDI and Nod, 1 new sturcture each, and of course a new side. NCM is a mainly a low-tech faction, using mainly tanks and vehicles from TD. Their power lies in their infiantry, which replace Nods role. Nod moves to more stealth type units, and GDI has more hover tanks.
Super Weapons are all upgraded, killing any building but the CY in one shot. NCM has their own SW, an ICBM missile with a Nuke Warhead.
There are lots of improvements aswell, Buggy's and wolf's actually kill infiantry now, and live to see another day. Basic aircraft can move into the shroud now, but bombers/banshees can not. Verten upgrades are improved, and all units self heal when eilite. Most of the broken animations work now, and I added smoke to the end of the refinery fireball (really cool I think) Each side also has 1 insane game-ender unit, An overpriced, over powered unit that kills anything in 1 or 2 shots. Its not to be taken as serious part of the mod but its there if you want to kill loads of AI really fast. _________________ The Cake is a Lie!!!
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:49 am Post subject:
Do you wanna a forum for your mod here? If the answer is yes, PM me the name of your mod and the description of your forum.
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lol its true... from my view it looks like all the units just found a few crates... but you must admit its not made for perfection and looks like a bunch of copy paste work to me... hell the top pic even has ra2 icons! thats just disrespectful to ts... anyway i guess im sry... QUICK_EDIT
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very half assed mod. also why the forums so laggy!!!!
Techno, you're going too far IMO. If you have critisism, make sure it's constructive critisism, not just shouting some random insulting words. Ever tried making good cameos?? Ever tried making them look like these cameos belong together? (Which is very hard, believe me) Ever tried making a mod, or even a decent map? (...)
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i have made mods and i have made maps for many games and half assed is a good constructive word for his icons.... and its not that hard to make the themes the same... he coulda used photoshop or even better left em alone.... QUICK_EDIT
I really don't think the camos need a theme as in color shecme, but they need to be the same at some level, which most of them are: they are all or will soon be hi-res. Its imposible to find all the TS units with the same backdrop, some of them can't even be edited to a new backdrop beacuse they blend in to much in with render. A icon should do 3 things: Show the user what it is/does without any text, how it moves/operates, and most importantly, scream "BUY ME!" The defult TS cartoon icons don't do that last one for me.
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Techno quit it, if your not going to say anything useful then dont say anything at all. This mod looks good, i will admit that its not at the same standard as TS: Retro but i have yet to see any other mod, for any other C&C game (not counting redgen :p) that is. At least he spent the time to work things out, to plan his mod, to balance it and IMO to make something that people can look at and say "Wow, that looks cool". I have yet to see anything from you that has even made me want to open a thread with your name on the front. I dont want to sound rude, but really i have no choice. Its fine to criticise his cameos, IMO a few of them could do with being slightly better (stealth generator, APC), but if you have never tried it yourself, and i have seen no evidence to disprove this theory then who are you to say they are "half assed". Same with the mod. If i could give out official warnings i would have, so count yourself lucky and let this be a lesson. If you dont like it, dont play it, its as simple as that. QUICK_EDIT
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