First off, would anybody mind explaining to me the differences and similarities between LOL and LO? files? Or are they the same thing?
Primary question:
Could somebody give me a rundown on how I would implement a LO? file for the Terran Civilian? I am trying to work it so that the unit can carry minerals and gas tanks (and power ups too I suppose) without crashing. I remember seeing this done once in a different mod and I thought it would be quite neat if I were to implement this too.
With a LO? file, the ? can be replaced by a number of letters, so you'll see .lol, .loo, etc. You can change the .lo? file a unit uses in the images.dat entry. You'll undoubtedly also have to do a bit of iscripting in addition to that to make civilians mine minerals, though.
In that case, I will try to get the Civilian to use the SCV's LO? file and the Civilian to use a plain work animation. Thanks.
I think I've gotten it to work, up to the point of carrying the resource itself. However, it seems that the moving animation while carrying a mineral will trigger a crash. Could anybody help with this?
(Bleh, double post.)
It seems that the Civilian's idle animation crashes occasionally too. Or maybe that was something else...
EDIT
Oh dear, it appears that I can't simply use the SCV's LOO file. It's probably because of the number of frames that are different.
EDIT
I need some advice/knowledge: in the images.tbl file, can I make a new entry that can be read through DatEdit? Right now in line 929 (an added line) of TblEdit, I have typed "terran\civilian.loo" and for DatEdit, the Civilian's Image's Special entry has the value of 930 (since DatEdit uses 0 for NONE). However, when I try to run with the 930 setting in DatEdit, StarCraft crashes, saying that it cannot read "unit\" or something properly. Could anybody help with this dilemma? More particularly, have I reached/broken a limit with the entries somewhere? Do I have to replace a TBL entry instead of adding one? Please help.
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 14 2009, 11:50 pm by New-.Hydrolisk.
F*ck, StarCraft keeps saying:
The problem occured while trying to load a file
unit\
The system cannot find the file specified
SOLVEDI replaced one of the Dropship's LO files instead of trying to refer to 929/930.
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
