The Seraphim - A custom Ship OXP from start to finish.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:36 pm

Scarecrow wrote:
As an aside, I'm checking the ships in the front end, where it cycles through all the ship types in the game. I'm assuming that the shaders would be working in this part of the game?

To answer your question, yes, shaders do work in the demo cycle. This does raise a point in my mind, though.

This may be a dumb question, but, given the bolded sentence above, are you sure the entry in the demoships.plist is referencing the ship you are customising? If there's a discrepancy, you'd only see the version in the demoships.plist, rather than the actual version you're editing..

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:27 pm

Okay, further to my last post on the previous page, I retried the code. I decided not to try and be too clever and instead of interpreting it, I used the lines from the Dredgers OXP exactly, swapping out my own texture names and is still doesn't like it.

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materials = 
			{
			"seraphim.png" = {shininess = 20; specular = (0.75, 0.75, 0.8, 1.0);
					normal_map = "seraphim_n.png";};
			};

The log gives me this:

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[plist.parse.foundation.failed]: Failed to parse ../AddOns/seraphim.oxp/Config/shipdata.plist as a property list using Foundation. Retrying using homebrew parser. WARNING: the homebrew parser is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Oolite.
Parse failed at line 51 (char 1658) - extra data after parsed string
    [plist.homebrew.parseError]: Property list isn't in XML format, homebrew parser can't help you.

Crow

Post by **another_commander** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:28 pm

Which line is line 51?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:36 pm

The syntax is correct. Possibly you have stray junk like hard spaces, or maybe GNUstep’s parser has problems with the lack of spacing around some of the braces.

If you posted the file, we could fix it.

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:18 pm

That makes the most sense

Here you go. This is the Shipdata.Plist:

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{
viper =
	{
		aft_eject_position = "0.0 6.5 -28.0";
		ai_type = "route1patrolAI.plist";
		cargo_type = "CARGO_NOT_CARGO";
		energy_recharge_rate = 4;
		exhaust = ("0.0 0.0 -12.5 3.0 3.0 12.0");
		forward_weapon_type = "WEAPON_BEAM_LASER";
		has_ecm = yes;
		laser_color = "magentaColor";
		max_energy = 180;
		max_flight_pitch = 1.8;
		max_flight_roll = 2.8;
		max_flight_speed = 320;
		missile_launch_position = "-1.5 -5.6 2.0";
		missiles = 1;
		model = "seraphim_main.dat";
		name = "GalCop Viper";
		roles = "police oolite-viper";
		scanClass = "CLASS_POLICE";
		subentities = (
			"canopy 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"gun 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"pilots 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"wings 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 -9.0 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* 25.0 0.0 -20.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 9.0 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 9.0 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* -25.0 0.0 -20.00 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 -9.00 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 -9.0 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",	
			"*FLASHER* 25.0 0.0 -20.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 9.0 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 9.0 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* -25.0 0.0 -20.00 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 -9.00 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
		);
		materials = 
			{
			"seraphim.png" = {shininess = 20; specular = (0.75, 0.75, 0.8, 1.0);
					normal_map = "seraphim_n.png";};
			};
		};
		thrust = 32;
		weapon_position_aft = "0.0 0.0 -27.5";
		weapon_position_forward = "2.1 -5.5 23.5.33";
		weapon_position_port = "-12.5 0.0 0.0";
		weapon_position_starboard = "12.5 0.0 0.0";
	};

"canopy" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_canopy.dat";
		name = "seraphim canopy";
		smooth = yes;
	};
	
"gun" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_gun.dat";
		name = "seraphim gun";		
	};
	
"pilots" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_pilots.dat";
		name = "seraphim pilots";
		smooth = yes;
	};
	
"wings" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_wings.dat";
		name = "seraphim wings";		
	};
}

//

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:20 pm

AARGH! I think I've just realised what's wrong. I think I've put it inside the sub-entities section, haven't I?

sigh.

I'll test it. brb.

Crow

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:30 pm

Okay, that didn't work.

However, I noticed that the close bracket above the line thrust = 32 appeared to be unnecessary - which would explain my previous errors. I deleted that, and it's now compiling without any complaints.

YAY! \0/

However, the Seraphim is once again showing up with apparently no shaders on it

Boo!

This is what the code looks like now:

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{
viper =
	{
		aft_eject_position = "0.0 6.5 -28.0";
		ai_type = "route1patrolAI.plist";
		cargo_type = "CARGO_NOT_CARGO";
		energy_recharge_rate = 4;
		exhaust = ("0.0 0.0 -12.5 3.0 3.0 12.0");
		forward_weapon_type = "WEAPON_BEAM_LASER";
		has_ecm = yes;
		laser_color = "magentaColor";
		max_energy = 180;
		max_flight_pitch = 1.8;
		max_flight_roll = 2.8;
		max_flight_speed = 320;
		missile_launch_position = "-1.5 -5.6 2.0";
		missiles = 1;
		model = "seraphim_main.dat";
		name = "GalCop Viper";
		roles = "police oolite-viper";
		scanClass = "CLASS_POLICE";
		subentities = (
			"canopy 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"gun 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"pilots 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"wings 0 0 0 1 0 0 0",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 -9.0 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* 25.0 0.0 -20.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 9.0 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 9.0 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* -25.0 0.0 -20.00 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 -9.00 -25.0 260.0 0.5 0.0 8",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 -9.0 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",	
			"*FLASHER* 25.0 0.0 -20.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* 13.5 9.0 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 9.0 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* -25.0 0.0 -20.00 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
			"*FLASHER* -13.5 -9.00 -25.0 310.0 0.5 0.5 8",
		);
		materials = 
			{
			"seraphim.png" = {shininess = 20; specular = (0.75, 0.75, 0.8, 1.0);
					normal_map = "seraphim_n.png";};
			};
		thrust = 32;
		weapon_position_aft = "0.0 0.0 -27.5";
		weapon_position_forward = "2.1 -5.5 23.5.33";
		weapon_position_port = "-12.5 0.0 0.0";
		weapon_position_starboard = "12.5 0.0 0.0";
		};

"canopy" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_canopy.dat";
		name = "seraphim canopy";
		smooth = yes;
	};
	
"gun" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_gun.dat";
		name = "seraphim gun";		
	};
	
"pilots" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_pilots.dat";
		name = "seraphim pilots";
		smooth = yes;
	};
	
"wings" =
	{
		ai_type = "nullAI.plist";
		model = "seraphim_wings.dat";
		name = "seraphim wings";		
	};
}

//

Crow

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:49 pm

Put the following in a file named logcontrol.plist, directly in your AddOns folder:

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{
    textureLoader.asyncLoad = yes;
}

Then see if you get the message “[textureLoader.asyncLoad] Loading texture seraphim_n.png” in the log.

Making the corresponding check for some other shader-using OXP is probably a good idea. :-)

Another thing you might do is add an emission_map with, say, a red and black checkerboard pattern on it. That’s a lot less subtle than a normal map, so it’s easier to be certain whether it’s working or not.

Post by **Eric Walch** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:51 pm

~~Your first example seemed okay but the whole file has a wrong material directory, 2x { but 3x }~~
I see you already corrected that

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:07 pm

@Ahruman

No, amongst all the other textureloader lines, all I get related to the Seraphim is this:

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[textureLoader.asyncLoad]: Loading texture seraphim.png

[textureLoader.asyncLoad.notStall]: Texture seraphim.png loaded asynchronously.

It doesn't mention the normal map

Crow

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:20 pm

ooookaaaaay....

I added the emission map and that showed up. Equally, it's now loading the normal map and specular map too.

hm....

Crow

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:31 pm

Okay,

I removed the emission map and it now appears to only load the diffuse and normal. It doesn't load the specular.

The body of the Seraphim (That the material applies to appears darker than the other objects).

The code looks like this:

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materials = 
			{
			"seraphim.png" = {shininess = 20;
					normal_map = "seraphim_n.png";
					specular_map = "seraphim_s.png";};
			};

Crow

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:40 pm

You didn’t have a specular map before. :-)

Are you by any chance using simple shader mode?

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:43 pm

No, I put that code in that you see above but it refuses to load the specular map. It also only loads the normal map if I also put in the emission map.

I am almost certainly running simple shader mode. How do I find out and how do I change it?

Crow

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:46 pm

Scarecrow wrote:
I am almost certainly running simple shader mode. How do I find out and how do I change it?

Menu (F2), Game Options…, Shader Effects.