NEWSA+SIMBION_tweaked Support and Gameplay

[EggChen]

OK, I see what you did...

Sorry to be a pain, ignore the request if it is a problem!!

What I was after was the level object (obj) file exported into ogf, now if I understand you correctly it may have to be exported into maya, then a bone added, and converted to ogf. As it appears like a beat up APC already it could be a nice effect. Next time your in game, check out a fixed APC like the one near the exit to Cordon, you'll see what I mean by the difference with a "live" APC.

Anyway, don't waste any time on it until v3 is out, (of course if it is possible at all).

[Nightwatch]

I'll do it for you as soon as possible.
I haven't tried an SDK object file (from its library) to export it to OGF, but through the Actor editor it should be doable I guess.
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For anyone else who want to transform/convert an OBJECT file into OGF, it goes like this:

I worked through MAYA. When it's exported as skeletal-object the material keeps its bones, as much as I could see. (but bardak's plug-in into the MAYA needs to be installed for it to load an OGF file first.)


OGF-->into MAYA, work on it, then -->skeletal object (from MAYA)-->then-->into SDK-Actor_Editor, then (You can't do any work on it there), export it-->OGF, then into the game.

I have used a perfectly alright (and firing) APC then crashed it, so that I could control the way how it should look in my vision, as far as I could pull it up of course.
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OK GUYS, THIS IS THE NEW MISSILE DAMAGED APC. CHECK THE CRASHED, TWISTED BODY WITH TEARS AND HOLES ON IT!
Molten tires, molten headlights, broken/meolten machin egun, crushed turret,...etc...

[rockingmtranch]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet I'm not going to recognize STALKER anymore am I?

[busetibi]

love ya work guys

[Nightwatch]

Thanks busetibi and rockingmtranch

Second try came out better, didn't it? This time I worked on this APC more than two hours, that's only on MAYA.

Now I also added some burned out corpses and body pieces under the APC and scattered around it, too.
I loosened the bones, so that after the explosion and the fire, you can enter the cargo section (picture in the back page, but the APC is this new one from outside view) and inspect the inside.

---As far as I can see, GCS had plans to make the APCs more useable by the military, and enabling possibly the NPCs (and maybe actor, too) to get inside it, inside the cargo section, and jump out of it in the game. Then, maybe they abandoned it, because there are still seating plan inside.

[audioave10]

Looks Great...Nightwatch.
and...Ultradad....I can hear the loudspeakers when you enter a town:
"There is a Murderer in the vicinity...Kill the Murderer imediately"!

[Nightwatch]

Thanks audioave10.
Yeah, Ulradad seems to have got himself a steam-roller going in the game.
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I made the damaged APC's skin (after the hit) look more beaten up. So it's the end of this project now. I'm racing towards the relase of the mod. PDA got some touches as well.

Btw, although it has been mentioned here before, I want to thank EggChen for his great idea again, for he was the one who suggested that it would be a good idea to be able to turn the APC into a blown up/damaged one, instead of the (vanilla way of) having a couple of car tires left behind.

[Grump642]

Playing 2.4 while I wait. Just got stuck in a room with a circle of blue lights. There IS a way out, right?!?! Just yes or no, please.

[jamie1992]

if yoir where i think u are thn yes.

[Grump642]

Thanks, I shall get right on it.
OK, I give up. I can blow open the door I came in, but then I can't get back in the room. And I can't get thru the locked door. Hint!!

[NatVac]

Grump642, that's a waste of electricity.

You should make it a waste of something else.

[busetibi]

how you going Grump642?

[fiznerpin1962]

Thanks, I shall get right on it.
OK, I give up. I can blow open the door I came in, but then I can't get back in the room. And I can't get thru the locked door. Hint!!

Dude. I don't know about you, but funny blue lights bug the shit out of me - I would be inclined to want them gone. I might even be inclined to want to shoot at 'em.....

[Ultradad]

Hello there

I have hit a bit of a wall in prypat, i keep getting this error and crashing to desktop

[error]Expression : no_assert
[error]Function : CXML_IdToIndex<class CSpecificCharacter>::GetById
[error]File : e:\stalker\patch_1_0004\xr_3da\xrgame\xml_str_id_loader.h
[error]Line : 112
[error]Description : item not found, id
[error]Arguments : gar_bandit_war_2_zombi

Not sure what the problem is but any help would be grateful

[busetibi]

I hate to ask....
you haven't tried to merge any other mod/files with NEWSA have you?

[Nightwatch]

Yup, it looks like a merge done there, or an unintended damage to an xml file, a string id cannot be read, maybe it's not added, closed properly or the required string ID does not actually correspond in the relevant file, in your xml files.
Cure: run your set up again, choosing the same option, it'll take about a minute and won't harm your ongoing game.

[Nightwatch]

OK, Guys, while continuing ahead with the last test run (and doing some stuff added meanwhile as seen),

THIS IS THE FINAL WORK OF BLOWN UP APC WRECKAGE ....left after an APC is hit, blown up and burnt

(in vanilla, only the smoke and two car tyres left, and sorry, a piece of pipe as well)

CHECK HOW PROUDLY THE APC STANDS IN EGGCHEN's EVENING SUIT



THEN A NW310SP MISSILE FROM FN2000NW SPX FINDS IT THERE



RESULT:
VERY BAD FOR THE APC AND THE OCCUPANTS ....(check the bodies) ....AND A RAIN STARTS
==FROM ALL ANGLES==









AND YES... YOU ARE NOT MISTAKEN!
THERE ARE NOW THREE APCs IN FRONT OF BLOCKPOST HQ IN CORDON (in EXTREME MODE Only)

[rockingmtranch]

They look AWESOME! I have a feeling that I won't see them in that condition for some time though LOL. Maybe myself but not them

[Ultradad]

I hate to ask....
you haven't tried to merge any other mod/files with NEWSA have you?

Hello there

Thanks for the reply but only thing on my system is Stalker and Newsa+Simbion v2.4 . I zoned out and back in and have kept away from the area that is causing the problem and its been ok since. I also had the same kind of message but it was the usual hunter pathing problem around the school

I think the game is out to get me, it must be trying to make harder mobs for me

Wow Nightwatch, those screen shots look awsome . I know i am going to be in a world of pain in your extreme mode