Sprite Generator... CA ?

[Makanyane]

Its definitely -sprite_script (singular)

Meghas Alexandros, haven't seen your error before

this signal that said:out of area

sounds a bit more like a graphics card glitch than a RTW error message, does that seem right? If thats possible have you done rest of process and converted the tga's the generator gives you to tga.dds files? Think game runs with them left as tga but they are bigger files that way so may overload something?????

Also check what it has generated as tga's for you to see if they look right. You should get roughly between one and five tga's for each sprite (depending on size of unit - guys with long spear get more files) and if you open tga in your graphics program you should be able to see lots of very small men per tga (well blobs really). Mainly just make sure you haven't got 100's per sprite or blank tgas. Finally check the DMB sprite line is correct.

[Roman_Man#3]

I doubt it is my graphics card, because I can run rtw and m2tw almost perfectly. I am going to put in my original preference text into the folder and see if it plays then. I will also try to take a screenshot of the message so you can see it.

It did generate the sprites. There was three of them. In the descr_model_battle text, i changed the sprite for my hastati from the original to whatever name the sprite created was called.

[Roman_Man#3]

which set of sprites do I use? I have 3 of them. I tried to take a screen of the error sign, but when I loaded the screen outside of the the game, it was the actual loading screen, except that wasn't what I saw. My guess now is maybe my moniter could possibly have gotten disconnected a bit? and can someone please post the vanilla preference text so I can see if that is it?


thanks.

[Makanyane]

Sorry I don't have original preferences - mangled mine a while ago.

Not sure what you mean by three sprites; what you should get for EACH sprite is something like:

alemanni_horse_medium_sprite.spr
alemanni_horse_medium_sprite_000.tga.dds
alemanni_horse_medium_sprite_001.tga.dds
alemanni_horse_medium_sprite_002.tga.dds

number of tga's it generates varies - and example shows naming after they have been converted to .tga.dds files, all of those files stay in sprites folder (only thing you delete is the original .tga files after you've converted them to .dds)

For that example what you put in DMB is just reference to the .spr file i.e.

model_sprite alemanni, 100.0, bi/data/sprites/alemanni_horse_medium_sprite.spr

As you mentioned hastati I assume you're using RTW not BI, I'm not sure if you might have to do something different in that as original sprites are all in packs.
(perhaps call folder with new sprite in something different to sprites and change path to match, so you know its looking there and not in packs)

[Roman_Man#3]

Thanks for your help, I don't think it generated a .spr file, but I will check none the less. I took my preferences from my other comp and put them on the one where I was having problems, and it worked fine. I will just have to fiddle with the system a bit.

[Monkwarrior]

This may sounds stupid, but I'm not able at the moment to generate sprites at all.

This is what I'm doing in RTW 1.5.

- Shortcut with -sprite_script and -show_err.
- sprites folder in Data
- sprite_script.txt in root directory; the text inserted is only

barb_peltast_dacia dacia

(I've also tested with other units)
- copied preferences by DimeBagHo in preferences folder.
- turned graphic card to 16 bits

When I run RTW with the shortcut, I get the normal behavior, but when it kicks me to the desktop, I have neither error message nor sprite in the corresponding folder.

This is a new computer:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
Pentium D 3.4 GHz
RAM 2 GB

In the old one with only P4 1.4 GHz, RAM 256 MB and GeForce MX100 I was able to make lots of sprites with the same procedure (perhaps it was with RTW 1.2)

Any idea about what I'm doing wrong?

[Makanyane]

First thing to check is that
barb_peltast_dacia
is set up as type in DMB with texture for dacia in that example.

Only problems I know of in creating sprites are to do with correct setting of 16 bit graphics and no-antialising. Depending on graphics card you may need to change those settings both within game (i.e. preferences.txt - err watch out for where you are placing that as it needs to be one in relevant preferences folder not root folder) and also in your general graphics card menu settings, as some overrule others with unpredictable results.

Also unfortunately there do seem to be some things some computers will not do - our mod had a little saga as one comp. wouldn't make sprites - whereas mine would, but mine wouldn't allow mass .dds conversion, and other would - if all else fails, either dig out old computer or find volunteer (I'll do sprites to tga stage if you send me all bits, inc DMB and script)