Couple of 3ds Plasma plugin questions

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Re: Couple of 3ds Plasma plugin questions

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Thanks for your help rustee. I started the age from scratch and I still can't get it to work...

One question about what you've written:
-I couldn't find any information about an .fni file in the Wiki. However, it seems as if Drizzle24 creates a file like that because it is in my Uru installation /dat-folder

So you got my file (with your modifications) to load in Uru? Even if I change the index number to 1 I still get the same behaviour.
Do you use Drizzle24 to get the age into Uru? Do you then use "/link agetest" to link to it? Or do you always use the Nexus?

So many questions ..... sorry ;)
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Re: Couple of 3ds Plasma plugin questions

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If Drizzle creates a default fni file then just skip that line.
If you don't want the default settings then http://www.guildofwriters.com/wiki/FNI_Settings

Yes I got your age working.
Yes I use Drizzle24 and I type '/link agetest' from Relto (it's actually 'testage')
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Re: Couple of 3ds Plasma plugin questions

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Would it be possible for you to upload the working files? Just so that I can check whether the problem is in my setup.
Because even if I create a new age from scratch and take all the things that we have discussed so far into consideration I still can't load the age.

(and you already know my filenames better than me :P )
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Re: Couple of 3ds Plasma plugin questions

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!PROBLEM SOLVED! :)

Your upload made me realize the problem, rustee ... you changed one little thing intuitively without mentioning it here ;)

It's the Sequence Prefix

I had read THIS WEBPAGE with a list of possible sequence prefixes.
There it says:
But you shouldn't use anything over 2^16-1 = 65535, as some versions of the engine will not allow it.


So I chose 55555 for my age. That simply isn't recognized by the engine.
rustee deleted one of the 5s making it 5555 - now everything works perfectly!

Thanks for your help. Now let's talk about all the exciting things that you can do with this plugin - lightmaps anybody ;) :lol:
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Re: Couple of 3ds Plasma plugin questions

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Ah so it was 55555. I suspected it could be the problem so I changed it to 3 digit number first (perhaps at this stage is began to work) and then I thought I changed it back to make sure it's not the prefix that caused problems. But it turned out I forgot one digit.
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It's great to see you all making progress with the plugin!

<public service announcement>
Just a side note: the list of all age sequence prefixes can be found here. I added 5555 to the list, reserving it for you, TheMagician. For the benefit of everyone reading this thread, please use this link for registering new ages.
</public service announcement>
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Robert, I would like to request 9375 - 9380 please.
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Gotcha covered, ZURI - they're now on the list.
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Thank you sir!
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