redleaf on 13/1/2016 at 16:10
What does that mean when the monologue tells you your ai is a bad position?
And when it tells you that only about half of your lights are reaching surfaces.
And when it tells you that an object is out of the world, but when you check it, it is inside an airbrush.
Also, a couple of times it said it coudn't find skins for some ai, but when I looked in the Mesh/txt16 folder - they were still there. This message always goes away on reopening NewDark.
R Soul on 13/1/2016 at 17:15
Bad position: I think this means the AI is partially or fully in solid. It could indicate a mistake so it's worth checking it out.
Lights reaching surfaces: Radius is X, light is more than X away from the nearest surface. Doesn't count when X = 0, but some radius is usually useful.
Out of world: The physics model of a moveable object intersects the terrain. It's easily done with barrels because spheircal phys models match the height by default, but barrels are also quite narrow.
ZylonBane on 14/1/2016 at 00:59
Quote Posted by R Soul
Lights reaching surfaces: Radius is X, light is more than X away from the nearest surface.
Or, the light is in solid.
john9818a on 15/1/2016 at 17:48
You will get alot of these errors if you MeOnly an area brush that covers a smaller part of your map. This is to be expected.
redleaf on 16/1/2016 at 06:31
Thank you! Amazing all the stuff you guys know.
RSoul: The AI in question is encircled by a solid hoop, though not touching it. I did this to prevent the AI from leaning out through the bars of a hanging cage in an interrogation chamber. Is this error serious enough that I should change it? I will have to check my dumb waiter for the Out of World problem.
About the lights: I read the posts on inner radii for lighting, which I always left at zero (I don't remember any map building tutorial mentioning the subject), set an inner radius for each light, and suddenly all my lights reached surfaces!
John: Yep. I've been using MeOnly quite a lot. Many of those errors do go away when I Show All and re-optimize.
redleaf on 21/1/2016 at 04:04
RSoul: The dumb waiter was partly in a solid. Thank you.
