redleaf on 7/7/2016 at 13:33
Is there a way to edit the gamesys as a text file? A lot of my earlier missions used Dedx which has a ton of things in it that I will never use. For a couple of missions I was able to set DARK as the gamesys and add in my custom things, which makes it a much neater gamesys. But for others, when I tried that method, I got an error message about minimums that crashed the mission.
LarryG on 7/7/2016 at 13:55
Is the gamesys from Dedx working? If so leave it alone. Having extra stuff should do you no harm.
ZylonBane on 7/7/2016 at 15:09
Since Larry refused to answer your question, I will: No, you cannot edit the gamesys as a text file. I don't know why you'd even want to do that, since it would make it even easier to screw up.
LarryG on 7/7/2016 at 19:06
I didn't refuse. Refusing would be posting something like: "I don't think you are entitled to the answer, so I'm not going to tell you."
No, what I did was advise her to not worry about it. If she really wants to edit her gamesys she can always start deleting things from the hierarchy. But why? If you are running out of object refs, you can always up them in dark.cfg, such as
Code:
; object counts
obj_min -16384
obj_max 5000
max_refs 32000
redleaf on 9/7/2016 at 08:19
Quote Posted by LarryG
If she really wants to edit her gamesys she can always start deleting things from the hierarchy. But why? If you are running out of object refs, you can always up them in dark.cfg, such as
Code:
; object counts
obj_min -16384
obj_max 5000
max_refs 32000
Hi Larry - thanks for this! I guess I will leave it alone. I am worried that when it's time to wrap up the mission, the DedX stuff will make it unnecessarily huge. Plus I fairly recently read a post that it's far better to start with DARK.gam and add things in as you need them. But when I try to do that with older missions that I'm trying to finish, I get an object count error. So maybe I could use the DARK gamesys and just boost the object count? Then add back the custom items I use? But if it makes no difference to have all that DedX stuff in the final game, then I won't bother.
redleaf on 9/7/2016 at 08:25
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Since Larry refused to answer your question, I will: No, you cannot edit the gamesys as a text file. I don't know why you'd even want to do that, since it would make it even easier to screw up.
Hello ZylonBane. Thank you for the direct reply to my question. As to your comment, my idea was that if I could get the hierarchy out as a text list, then I could just shift-click objects I don't use or need and delete them. One at a time, manually could take days. Of course I would keep a backup if anything went wrong. Like last night, when I was tired and thought I was opening my latest miss file, but was actually saving the blank screen as my latest miss file. DOH! Thank God for all those innumerable backups!
