AB3D2_LevelED Help required

[Karlos]

Roger. I'll probably update that in a bit.

[Karlos]

I've noticed something odd. If I change a wall texture override on disk while the editor is loaded and has seen the previous version, reloading the level triggers a lot of amber warnings. This is true even if the currently loaded level at the time is not the one that has the affected override.

It's not a big issue, it just means having to quit leveled while making changes to any assets.

[abu_the_monkey]

Originally Posted by Karlos

I've noticed something odd. If I change a wall texture override on disk while the editor is loaded and has seen the previous version, reloading the level triggers a lot of amber warnings. This is true even if the currently loaded level at the time is not the one that has the affected override.

It's not a big issue, it just means having to quit leveled while making changes to any assets.

I have not been able to reproduce this behaviour

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by abu_the_monkey

I have not been able to reproduce this behaviour

It's an odd one. On my 3.9bb2 the following steps reproduce.

1. Load level A of the mod (which has overrides).
2. Load level B (no overrides yet)
3. Use 256WallChunk to convert a suitable 32-colour iff wall and save as ab3:Levels/Level_A/wall_0 (the tool will add .256wad itself)
4. Load level A again...

[abu_the_monkey]

Originally Posted by Karlos

It's an odd one. On my 3.9bb2 the following steps reproduce.

1. Load level A of the mod (which has overrides).
2. Load level B (no overrides yet)
3. Use 256WallChunk to convert a suitable 32-colour iff wall and save as ab3:Levels/Level_A/wall_0 (the tool will add .256wad itself)
4. Load level A again...

this seems to work fine here, no obvious issues and new walls display ok

[abu_the_monkey]

what are the 'amber warnings' ?

is it a file not found or something else?

am I miss understanding, is it the editor giving amber warnings or the game engine?

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by abu_the_monkey

what are the 'amber warnings' ?

is it a file not found or something else?

am I miss understanding, is it the editor giving amber warnings or the game engine?

Recoverable alerts (yellow guru). I'll try to record a video later.

[Karlos]

@abu_the_monkey

I have an issue in v3.9.1 that came to light when re-routing the control points for the simplified Level A. It appears I can no longer delete control points. There's no exception or crash, rather attempting to delete a point (already disconnected physically and visually) doesn't work. I have an upper zone point that I just can't delete.

I may just have forgotten - is it only deletable if there are absolutely no links / zone associations?

[abu_the_monkey]

I disabled the delete function for control points in 3.2 as it would sometimes cause a hard crash.

I will go back and look into it at some point, but I thought it better to have some extra unused control points in a level then to have hours of work lost.

[Karlos]

True that.

[Karlos]

If deletion is problematic, the ability to toggle the control point to lower or upper zone mode might be helpful. The two control points I have left over are both "upper" that I have no current use for.

[abu_the_monkey]

Originally Posted by Karlos

If deletion is problematic, the ability to toggle the control point to lower or upper zone mode might be helpful. The two control points I have left over are both "upper" that I have no current use for.

this is already possible, use the 'move control points' tool grab the point you wish to move 'g' point where you want it and place in lower zone with LMB or upper with RMB

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by abu_the_monkey

this is already possible, use the 'move control points' tool grab the point you wish to move 'g' point where you want it and place in lower zone with LMB or upper with RMB

Damn, why didn't I think of that?

[Karlos]

Teeny tiny request...

In the zone > control point association views, would it be possible to highlight the control point that the selected zone is associated with in a different colour? Something like the bright green that two level zones use, as this is nicely distinct from the black, white blue and magenta that tends to get used everywhere.

[abu_the_monkey]

Originally Posted by Karlos

Teeny tiny request...

In the zone > control point association views, would it be possible to highlight the control point that the selected zone is associated with in a different colour? Something like the bright green that two level zones use, as this is nicely distinct from the black, white blue and magenta that tends to get used everywhere.

yes that is not a problem. I really should look into making the colours customizable

I will post a build with this change in the next day or so.

[abu_the_monkey]

here is v3.9.3

just some extra Catalog stuff and the change you requested for zone > control point association colour

[Karlos]

Epic, thanks!

[abu_the_monkey]

bumping this to v3.9.4

added key bindings for zoom and a bug fix to stop zooming out too far and causing a hard crash.

main keyboard '+' to zoom in
main keyboard '-' to zoom out

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by abu_the_monkey

bumping this to v3.9.4

added key bindings for zoom and a bug fix to stop zooming out too far and causing a hard crash.

main keyboard '+' to zoom in
main keyboard '-' to zoom out

Excellent!

[Karlos]

@abu_the_monkey

I am running into the corrupted wall texture bug on saving again. This time it's level C. I've overridden wall slots 2 and C with some the new replacement textures while I test them and saving is corrupting.

Last time, I think this was caused by some sort of buffer overrun.