3DS Max for Beginers

[Christopher]

I always wondered if their was a way to produce a linking book using responder/link, and logic/python/xLinkingbookGuiPopup, and logic/python/UAMVarLinkingbook.

With the responder you can make a linkung book without popup. Andy made a tutorial about it. I always made my own GUI Popups for this...

also what the heck does Render/Unleash Satan do, Id hate to have him running loose in one of my ages

It does nothing. AFAIK it was a testiing component or something like this. But it doesn't export anything.

Christopher

[GPNMilano]

I always wondered if their was a way to produce a linking book using responder/link, and logic/python/xLinkingbookGuiPopup, and logic/python/UAMVarLinkingbook.

With the responder you can make a linkung book without popup. Andy made a tutorial about it. I always made my own GUI Popups for this...

also what the heck does Render/Unleash Satan do, Id hate to have him running loose in one of my ages

It does nothing. AFAIK it was a testiing component or something like this. But it doesn't export anything.

Christopher

Judging by what's done in the plUnleashComponent of the max plugin, it looks like UnleashSatan was originally the ForceRunTime lighting option way back in the day. plForceRunTimeLight is currently used for the Day/Night cycle in Gira. (Though it's not a necessity to use it to get the same look.)

However that's just my speculation. The two components, code wise, are identical to each other hence why I'm assuming it was the initial test for it and just never got taken out.

EDIT: Nevermind, I read the code wrong on initial glance.

Unleash Satan sets both RunTimeLightingOnly and Preshading. While force runtime sets RuntimeLightingOnly to on, and preshade to off.

[Karkadann]

what about the responder/link, and logic/python/xLinkingbookGuiPopup, and logic/python/UAMVarLinkingbook. is it possible to produce a linking book for the open source game engine using these files

[GPNMilano]

what about the responder/link, and logic/python/xLinkingbookGuiPopup, and logic/python/UAMVarLinkingbook. is it possible to produce a linking book for the open source game engine using these files

Since I'm not sure where UAMVarLinkingbook is distributed I can't read the source code to let you know. But I'm guessing not. Not without modifying xLinkingBookGUIPopup to do so.

[Christopher]

what about the responder/link, and logic/python/xLinkingbookGuiPopup, and logic/python/UAMVarLinkingbook. is it possible to produce a linking book for the open source game engine using these files

With the responder you can make a linkung book without popup. Andy made a tutorial about it. I always made my own GUI Popups for this...

You can't use xlinkingbookGuiPopup.py, because it uses the resources from bkBookImages.prp. So you have to make your own GUI if you want a popup. (There's also a tutorial for that.)

Chriostopher

EDIT: You can however use xLinkingBookGUIPopup if you want to make a linking book to one of cyan's ages. The pictures of these ages should be in the prp file.

[GPNMilano]

You can't use xlinkingbookGuiPopup.py, because it uses the resources from bkBookImages.prp. So you have to make your own GUI if you want a popup. (There's also a tutorial for that.)

Chriostopher

EDIT: You can however use xLinkingBookGUIPopup if you want to make a linking book to one of cyan's ages. The pictures of these ages should be in the prp file.

You can still use xLinkingBookGUIPopup.py. Provided the texture for the linking panel is within the age somewhere. For instance, Descent has the cover for Watson's journal within the age not in bkBookImages.prp.

However the panel has to have the suffix *1#0.hsm or else it won't work. There's a few other ages I believe that do this as well. (Maybe Teledahn and Garrison. Can't remember off the top of my head.)

[Deledrius]

I hate those hard-coded names; that stuff is all pretty hacky. I fixed up xJournalBookGUIPopup to allow proper data-driven (that is, selected by the Age builder/not shoved into a tertiary Python script), and we can possibly do the same for xLinkingBookGUIPopup if necessary. Currently Gehn is using it for the Tre'bivdil book in the 'hoods without anything special, so it's definitely doable right now for Age builders to create standard linking books. As GPNMilano says, you simply need to provide the linking image in the Age files and name it correctly to be auto-found.

[Christopher]

You can still use xLinkingBookGUIPopup.py. Provided the texture for the linking panel is within the age somewhere. For instance, Descent has the cover for Watson's journal within the age not in bkBookImages.prp.

Good to know. I thought it doesn't work. I am not exactly sure, but you has to include the pictures with ImageLibrary component. At least that's how I got the picture from my Yeesha page to work.

Christopher