Turtle Isle (age problems)

[dendwaler]

thx Lontahv, you made my day!.

after deleting a second (forgotten) scene, in the same blender file i was able to export again.
Some issues still remain.
When i delete my texcache file, i still cannot complete an export in one run.
but is does complete the prp files in the second run when the texcache exists after the first run.
I will change my OS to a 64bit version soon and see if this still happens when it can adress more memory.

I have only 1 realy big object and that is the Main Isle itself.

[dendwaler]

Just a little update,
I am progressing slowly,
I finally understand how to make shadows daylight situations.
Most of my experiments where to dark, now its getting better.

Here is an example from my current age.

[Chacal]

Easter Age!
How appropriate.

[Lontahv]

I see a white edge around those palm fronds. I was going to post the solution here, but I decided it might be better to make a wiki page instead.

http://www.guildofwriters.com/wiki/Alph ... oving_Edge

I recommend you use the VTBuilder trick.

[dendwaler]

thx lontav for this tip, i will try it!

A month ago the palms where ok, without white edges, and without rendering order problems.
Then after a little change everything was meshed up.
I never found what coursed it.
I still have some problems at some places.
As for example, a the bark of a tree placed behind another tree, suddenly comes to the front of the leaves from some angles.
Its horrible, these kind of problems costs me weeks of time, because i do not understand what exactly happens.
Once you have to find a solution with trial and error, you'r lost.

[dendwaler]

Your trick did it Lontav!
Now i remember that i got this problem after reducing all the texture sizes in my age.
the resizing did introduce this "edge" problem in png after reducing it from 1024 to 256 pixels.
I tried to masker it but then it was to dark as you could see.

Now everything looks good again.
Here is the result.
I have to redo many other textures as well.
Thx for clearing this up.

[Chuckles58]

I like the addition of the Moai statutes, Dendwaler. They were a prominent part of the Easter Island beginning to one of my favorite non-Myst adventure games, Timelapse.

[dendwaler]

I restarted the development of T_isle.
and try to add sounds in my age but encounter serious problems with fading 3dsounds.
I am searching and trying for days now and have set up a test age with only 1 sound emitter.
using the next script:

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Snd_Empty:
   type: soundemit
   sound:
      flags:
         - 3dsound
         - autostart
         - looping
         - localonly
      file: clftChasmTopWind_Loop
      type: ambient   
      volume: 0.5
      minfdist: 1
      maxfdist: 10

The sound is there, but no fading at all.
When moving my avie about 500 blender units.
Sounds level stays at a constant ( very high) level.

When i look into the logs wit the Elf viewer.
I see this.

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ASYS: -- Initing listener --
-370.016937, -0.329985, 12.810924
ASYS: -- Sending delayed activate --
   Streaming clftChasmTopWind_Loop.ogg via a software dynamic voice. (Snd_Empty)
Starting Fade 25.921534
Playing: cSfxLink01
Stopping Fade 28.923512
FTSP: Switching to surface - (none)

That seems allright to me.

What can be wrong here?
Any suggestion?
Anybody?

[Egon]

Instead of "- 3dsound" it should be "- is3dsound".
source

[dendwaler]

Thx Egon, .. but not succesfull.
This was another mistake i have made only in this testage, due to blindness after so many tries.

now I used this code

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Snd_Empty:
   type: soundemit
   sound:
      flags:
         - is3dsound
         - autostart
         - looping
         - localonly
      file: clftChasmTopWind_Loop
      type: soundfx   
      volume: 1
      minfdist: 1
      maxfdist: 60

Result.... no sound at all.

this is what the elf viewer says.

Ensuring file clftChasmTopWind_Loop.ogg is loadable (Snd_Empty)
Readied file clftChasmTopWind_Loop.ogg for streaming (Snd_Empty)
-383.892090, 5.369120, 3.000000
ASYS: Registering soft sound: Snd_Empty
Queue: cSfxLink01
FTSP: Switching to surface - Grass
ASYS: -- Initing listener --
-370.016937, -0.329985, 12.810168
ASYS: -- Sending delayed activate --
Starting Fade 23.854498
Playing: cSfxLink01
Stopping Fade 26.855116
ASYS: -- Sending deactivate/destroy messages --
STOPPING sound due to deactivate (Snd_Empty)
ASYS: -- Shutdown --

I changed to sound fx instead of ambient because it is a Cyan sound, it seemed to be used as soundfx by them.

But i can not image it has to do anything with that.

All sound sliders are fully opened
i deleted the sav settings before trying.


I am going crazy i think.