Tutorial: setting up to build a standalone track

Discussion in 'Content Creation' started by CrashHard, Oct 6, 2015.

  1. CrashHard

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    Hey there, just a little tutorial on how to setup the folder and files for your one track. it has no talking, but hope you can still follow along :)

     
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  2. Tom999

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    Simple, informative and very helpful, all the right information I needed. About to release my first map thanks to this tutorial!
     
  3. torsion

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    Thanks for posting. In terms of fixing the "materials" files, it looks like we could probably fix the long-path reference and avoid having to mess with it for every new level. For example:

    Code:
    diffuseMap[0] = "levels/GridMap/art/shapes/buildings/ind_bld_mgrate-01_d.dds";
    becomes
    Code:
        diffuseMap[0] = "ind_bld_mgrate-01_d.dds";
    I haven't attempted this yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
     
  4. CrashHard

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    Hm, if that work we can save a lot of work :D And glad you guys like my video :)
     
  5. torsion

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    Unfortunately I don't think that it does work. I tried briefly and it seems that at least some of the long paths are required.

    Your video was definitely a good start for me! I did find that the video skipped at least a handful of paths that need to be changed. I found the rest using Agent Ransack, a really handy search tool. Notepad++ made short work of the changes themselves.
     
  6. CrashHard

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    Oh. Do tell, i thought I got it all. And what is ransack by the way?
     
  7. torsion

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    Woops! Looks like I was a little grand in saying "handful" - it may have been only one, or maybe I missed it in the video. When the issue of fixing paths came up in another thread last night I checked again myself. Looks like these files need paths fixed in them:

    materials.cs (many of these)
    whatever_your_level_is_called.mis
    info.json
    managedItemData.cs

    Agent Ransack is a file search tool which is very powerful. It can search for text inside files in a directory or directory tree and provides a grep-like summary of each line which contains the search terms. https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack
     
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