Hello again!

My mod has been going along sluggishly (ah, procrastination...), and I have only two questions that I can think of at this moment.

One: Unusable vehicle
I imported the civilian warthog from Coldsnap (with Tiamat's permission), and there were no errors or misplaced files that I knew/know of. It loaded just fine, compiled just fine, everything was dandy. My happiness, however, was cut short by the inability to use the darned thing. There are no messages saying 'Press E to enter -thingamabobber-', and I can't enter it. It still flies around like a normal vehicle, but it is not drivable to the extent of my tests. Is there a way to make it usable, or is it bugged if not on Coldsnap without a file or two that I don't know of?

Two: Irregular file size
The original that I'm modding off of is 48.6 MB, and my mod is generally around that; but, sometimes it jumps to the 90's and above. This has happened on one other mod I've tried, and I have yet to figure out why. It seems to happen irregularly.
I just remembered a Tool output, I'll put it in here: "Cache pack file bitmaps adds/misses: 1056 for 53.49M", and "cache pack file sounds adds/misses: 648 for 14.96M". I haven't seen any reference to missing bitmaps anywhere else, only the Tool output.


So, any help available? It'd be appreciated. Thanks.

One: Your missing the animations to get in.

Two: Map files change depending on how much extra stuff you add in. If you change any bitmaps or sounds from the stock ones, it will have to put it with the map instead of just getting it out of bitmaps.map or sounds.map.

One: Where might I find the correct animations?

Two: So, I'd have to edit bitmaps.map in order to return the file size back to normal?

One: Use the model_animations tag from Coldsnap

Two: You can't edit bitmaps.map to allow the new bitmaps in any easy way that I know of. Just live with the extended map size.

how the hell did you even get in contact with tiamat?

that's what I wondered, too.

I highly doubt he did.

It's a wondrous thing called 'Xfire'. Yeesh.

If I take the model_animations from Coldsnap, won't that wreak havoc with the other vehicle animations?

Edit: I was thinking of a different file. I believe it's currently using the correct file, but I'll check anyway.
Edited by Vlad on Dec 23, 2009 at 03:23 PM

It might, but the custom animations for this vehicle are in that model_animations tag. Or, you could change the seat label of the vehicle, but the animations would be different.