[UNIT] PPQ unit art and questions thread

[PPQ_Purple]

So what was it?

Mysterious error. I restarted the unit from scratch and it went away.

Just spitballing here - civs have secondary colours; is there really no way to invoke it on a unit with something teamcolor.bmp-related?

You'd think that you could. But realistically the best I can do is make a mesh like he described. And than it looks odd as well. Some color combos just don't work terribly well I am afraid.

My current fix is as you said, black text with a gray border (white looks horrible on lighter backgrounds). But than darkening the BG to match the flag looks bad as it blends in and you loose the outline.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

And behold! The truck commeth!

Spoiler :

I am not going to be able to make it better than this. And I am not going to try.
Now I just have the easy work of finishing the custom animations and I'll be done.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

And for those that prefer the 6 axle variant.

Spoiler :

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Autobots...transform and roll out!

 

[<Nexus>]

I am not going to be able to make it better than this. And I am not going to try.

And it doesn't need to be any better
Thank you for doing it

 

[PPQ_Purple]

A question. This truck of yours is supposed to be for a non combat unit right? As in it does not need damage states or combat animations but it does need like animations for the activate action?

 

[<Nexus>]

Well... The units upgrading to it (Caravan, Trader and Freight) are not 0 units and can only defend but it's only to defend them from animals (basically).
So, no it doesn't need combat animations.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Basically I want to know if I need to figure out how to make this thing fight. Because I have no idea what combat animations for an unarmed truck would look like. And I don't feel like adding a MG on top.

EDIT: I have something in mind...

 

[<Nexus>]

Basically I want to know if I need to figure out how to make this thing fight. Because I have no idea what combat animations for an unarmed truck would look like. And I don't feel like adding a MG on top.

I think this would be ideal:

Spoiler :

No, just kidding
There is no need for combat animations, since the other 3 has none either.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

The start of a transformers line of units...leading to a transformers mod?

Scroll up I said it first..

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Sorry but no. I am not really into them. I used to be. Well sort of. Basically where I was from the cartoon was newer aired back when I was a kid. So I only saw a little bit from here or there but nothing substantial. Still I thought the idea was awesome.

And than the modern movies came and just completely ruined it for me.

 

[<Nexus>]

Sorry but no. I am not really into them. I used to be. Well sort of. Basically where I was from the cartoon was newer aired back when I was a kid. So I only saw a little bit from here or there but nothing substantial. Still I thought the idea was awesome.

And than the modern movies came and just completely ruined it for me.

Hahaha! Similar here
When I was a kid I loved the comics and the cartoons. Than 15+ years later I rediscovered the comics on the net and I was shocked: "What?! I really liked this?! It's so lame "

But to repeat my answer: No, there is no need of any combat animations for the truck.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I was only kidding

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I am having trouble adding custom sounds into the game. Long story short I have a custom mod for testing these things and I have:

1. Copied the Audio3DScripts.xml, AudioDefines.xml, AudioDefinesSchema.xml and AudioScriptSchema.xml to my mod.
2. Added the appropriate code into the first two files, basically copy pasting some default sounds and than changing the paths.
3. Added the appropriate values into my .kf files.

For the purposes of this I'll call the stuff in "Audio3DScripts.xml" as the "sound tag" and the stuff in "AudioDefines.xml" as the "sound source".

And so far the situation is such:

1. Using my custom tag from Audio3DScripts does not work. No sound is played.
2. Changing the sound source in the custom tag to a vanilla sound does not work. No sound is played.
3. Changing the sound source of a vanilla sound to my custom source works perfectly.

So something is clearly the matter with my code in Audio3DScripts.xml. Can you tell me what the trick is?

I literally just copy pasted AS3D_UN_SAM_MISSLE and added it to the top of the file.

   <Script3DSound>
       <ScriptID>AS3D_UN_PPQ</ScriptID>
       <SoundID>SND_PPQ</SoundID><!-- If I this ID to any of the existing tags I can hear it in the game. -->
       <SoundType>GAME_SFX</SoundType>
       <iMinVolume>90</iMinVolume>
       <iMaxVolume>100</iMaxVolume>
       <iPitchChangeDown>-4000</iPitchChangeDown>
       <iPitchChangeUp>4000</iPitchChangeUp>
       <bLooping>0</bLooping>
       <iMinTimeDelay>0</iMinTimeDelay>
       <iMaxTimeDelay>0</iMaxTimeDelay>
       <StartPosition>NONE</StartPosition>
       <EndPosition>NONE</EndPosition>
       <iMinVelocity>0</iMinVelocity>
       <iMaxVelocity>0</iMaxVelocity>
       <iMinDistanceFromListener>0</iMinDistanceFromListener>
       <iMaxDistanceFromListener>0</iMaxDistanceFromListener>
       <iMinDistanceForMaxVolume>500</iMinDistanceForMaxVolume>
       <iMaxDistanceForMaxVolume>1000</iMaxDistanceForMaxVolume>
       <iMinCutoffDistance>7000</iMinCutoffDistance>
       <iMaxCutoffDistance>7000</iMaxCutoffDistance>
       <bTaperForSoundtracks>0</bTaperForSoundtracks>
       <iLengthOfSound>0</iLengthOfSound>
       <fMinDryLevel>1.0</fMinDryLevel>
       <fMaxDryLevel>1.0</fMaxDryLevel>
       <fMinWetLevel>0.5</fMinWetLevel>
       <fMaxWetLevel>0.5</fMaxWetLevel>
       <iNotPlayPercent>0</iNotPlayPercent>
   </Script3DSound>

 

[SaibotLieh]

I am having trouble adding custom sounds into the game. Long story short I have a custom mod for testing these things and I have:

1. Copied the Audio3DScripts.xml, AudioDefines.xml, AudioDefinesSchema.xml and AudioScriptSchema.xml to my mod.
2. Added the appropriate code into the first two files, basically copy pasting some default sounds and than changing the paths.
3. Added the appropriate values into my .kf files.

For the purposes of this I'll call the stuff in "Audio3DScripts.xml" as the "sound tag" and the stuff in "AudioDefines.xml" as the "sound source".

And so far the situation is such:

1. Using my custom tag from Audio3DScripts does not work. No sound is played.
2. Changing the sound source in the custom tag to a vanilla sound does not work. No sound is played.
3. Changing the sound source of a vanilla sound to my custom source works perfectly.

So something is clearly the matter with my code in Audio3DScripts.xml. Can you tell me what the trick is?

I literally just copy pasted AS3D_UN_SAM_MISSLE and added it to the top of the file.

   <Script3DSound>
       <ScriptID>AS3D_UN_PPQ</ScriptID>
       <SoundID>SND_PPQ</SoundID><!-- If I this ID to any of the existing tags I can hear it in the game. -->
       <SoundType>GAME_SFX</SoundType>
       <iMinVolume>90</iMinVolume>
       <iMaxVolume>100</iMaxVolume>
       <iPitchChangeDown>-4000</iPitchChangeDown>
       <iPitchChangeUp>4000</iPitchChangeUp>
       <bLooping>0</bLooping>
       <iMinTimeDelay>0</iMinTimeDelay>
       <iMaxTimeDelay>0</iMaxTimeDelay>
       <StartPosition>NONE</StartPosition>
       <EndPosition>NONE</EndPosition>
       <iMinVelocity>0</iMinVelocity>
       <iMaxVelocity>0</iMaxVelocity>
       <iMinDistanceFromListener>0</iMinDistanceFromListener>
       <iMaxDistanceFromListener>0</iMaxDistanceFromListener>
       <iMinDistanceForMaxVolume>500</iMinDistanceForMaxVolume>
       <iMaxDistanceForMaxVolume>1000</iMaxDistanceForMaxVolume>
       <iMinCutoffDistance>7000</iMinCutoffDistance>
       <iMaxCutoffDistance>7000</iMaxCutoffDistance>
       <bTaperForSoundtracks>0</bTaperForSoundtracks>
       <iLengthOfSound>0</iLengthOfSound>
       <fMinDryLevel>1.0</fMinDryLevel>
       <fMaxDryLevel>1.0</fMaxDryLevel>
       <fMinWetLevel>0.5</fMinWetLevel>
       <fMaxWetLevel>0.5</fMaxWetLevel>
       <iNotPlayPercent>0</iNotPlayPercent>
   </Script3DSound>

I remember the sound xml files to be very erratic in their behaviour. For example, I never managed to make them modular, and even just adding commented text could make them not work properly anymore. For my Amazon mod, I got it working by only having the AudioDefines.xml and Audio3DScripts.xml files in the non-modular file part (...\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Amazon_Civilization\Assets\XML\Audio) and having added the new entries at the end of the </Script3DSound> entries in the Audio3DScripts file and at the end of the </SoundDatas> entries in the AudioDefines file.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I know sound files can't be modular. This is just a strait mod. I also tried putting the text both on top or bottom of the sound files to no effect.

Removing the comment did the trick though. So yes, apparently comments break the sound XML. I would love to have a talk with the guy that wrote the XML parser for this game...

 

[<Nexus>]

Removing the comment did the trick though. So yes, apparently comments break the sound XML.

... or even an empty line. That's what happened to me once.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Now I just need to find an appropriate sound for what I am doing and I'll be done.

 

[MightyToad]

There used to be a lot of folly sound samples posted on youtube. When I needed sounds for a different game I would download the mp3 off youtube. Then use audacity to edit it.

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

+1 on Audacity; the samples for most of the building etc. sounds I made for RI I got from https://freesound.org/ - an absolutely enormous collection where you can find most anything.