Avatar shadow/ reflection / sound region

[Embreon]

Hey

Looking for some help concerning the following items

- avatar shadows -
Creating a age that has a sun with the RayShadow function on does not seem to work.
So no shadows for the avater

- sound region -
When adding a sound region and selection the sound it should make
While walking on it , no sound

- reflection -
Used the specular and the raymirror function
Does not have effect in uru...

I searched your forum a few hours and tried to solve these things but it did not help
Your help is appreciated !

Thanks

Embreon

[andylegate]

Avatar Shadows: Make sure you have Shadows On in your Game panel in Uru (I know, sounds stupid, but you'd be surprised).

Footstep regions: What are you putting in? How are you putting them in? We need more info to help you. Here's the tutorial link too:

http://guildofwriters.com/wiki/Adding_footstep_sounds

Reflections: the only way to get reflections in Uru will be through the use of Enviormental maps (unless you're using a waveset for water, and then it's optional). Realize that enviormental maps are static, not dynamic, meaning you will NOT see you avatar in them. With wavesets you can see your avie's reflection if you don't use a enviromental map, but it's buggy and won't show correctly.

[Embreon]

Hey , thanks for the quicke responce

Avatar Shadows : Shadows in the ages of Cyan work , so the settings should be ok ...
Footstep regions : going to try the tutorial , used the tutorial of the wiki
Reflection : will give it a go with the enviormental maps ..

Thanks again

Embreon

[Embreon]

Hey

I have been trying to get the footstep region working but it seems that the logic setting for the region is completely different

the tutorial has
type : region
regiontype : footstep
surface : grass

I have
alctype : region
prpregion : footsteprgn
footstepsound : 0

So i thought looking for a installation wiki on the forum
Installed blender 2.45 with the gow-pyprp-1.5.0 and installed python 2.5.2
But after doing so i could not create a new book and the only option's I had were
- creat a new book ( did not work)
- create a new spawnpoint
- create a generel region
- create a footstepsoundregion

Could someone send me his script file so i could finaly start age writing ...
e-mail: stevenjongerden@wanadoo.nl
Of would someone know how to fix this problem ...

Thanks

Embreon

[andylegate]

First I would HIGHLY recommend you download the latest version of Blender, 2.48a

Next, it sounds like a classic case of Blender does not know where your script files for the plugin are. After version 2.44, Blender moved it's scripts folder to you My Documents part of your hard drive, unless you told it not to. Go into Blenders User Preference and click on the File Paths and check to see where it's pointed for your script files.

Version 1.5.0 of the plugin does not use alctype. It's now just simply "type"

[Embreon]

Installed blender 2.48a
Installed script directory in the source file because I use Vista and don't have a My documents file ( is not created under Vista )
Copyed the gow-pyprp 1,5 files to the script directory ( used the files in de src file )
Used the my preference section to link blender to the script file.
Script -> add pyprp -> add book -> nothing happens

Blender python script:
Compiled with Python version 2.5.2.
Checking for installed Python ... got it !
Creating default book ....
Done.
Setting default funny settings....
Done.
Setting default AlcScript settings...
Done. Book succesfully created!

But there is no book in Layer 3 .....
So there is nothing to write ....

[Trylon]

Book objects in layer 3 aren't used anymore
Books are now described through a text file named "Book". Find it though blender's text viewer. It's in the same list as the AlcScript file

[D'Lanor]

The book is in the text editor. I suggest that you take a look at the "First Basic Age" tutorial.

[Embreon]

pff , that it was that simple ....
I used the alcus tutorial and actually thought it would be the same ...
Thanks for the help !

Embreon

[GPNMilano]

pff , that it was that simple ....
I used the alcus tutorial and actually thought it would be the same ...
Thanks for the help !

Embreon

Embreon, I suggest you stick to the majority of the tutorials on the wiki. As the current progress of age creation is centered here, much of the alcugs tutorials are incompatible with the current release of the plugin. There are a few things that are not, and those tutorials have been transfered here as well.