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''' | == To-Do == | ||
* Work on updating the function list, and update the [[User:Shademe/TestFunctList|test page]] | |||
* <s>Update OBSE category</s> ''Fini'' | |||
* Look into creating a portal page for Data Files | |||
== Concerning shaders == | |||
'''Can all playing shader effects be turned off using the pms function-meaning using something like '''''pms''' currentlyPlayingshaderref'' ?''' | |||
'' | :In response to this I believe I may be of assistance. Instead of ''turning off'' any given effectShader you can simply make it '''appear''' as though they have been turned off. This is achieved by creating a dummy effect shader and then getting that one to play. An example used in a mod for release of my very own is provided below: | ||
[http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Image:Dummy_Shader.jpg Sample Image]<BR> | |||
:Using something similar to the above should (as new shader effects overwrite any existing ones) work fine. Hope this was helpful mate, | |||
:--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 06:01, 30 September 2008 (EDT) | |||
::Hmm... that might just do ! Thanks, but then stopping this won't clear the other active shaders ... any workarounds for this ? -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 09:33, 30 September 2008 (EDT) | |||
:::I'm not quite sure of what you are asking, you mean if you specified a duration for the dummy shader? I'm not fully sure but I would guess that the previous shader effects would resume playing. To get around that you could again make it only '''appear''' as though shaders have been turned off by having almost identical copy of the item in exactly the same position and simply enable/disabe either of the two at your discretion. Hope I have addressed your question and not missed the point. | |||
:::--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 02:44, 1 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
::::I guess you answered that in a way, more or less ... -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 04:55, 1 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
:: | :::::You could always use [[StopMagicShaderVisuals]] if the effect is going on too long, like past the end of a spell. | ||
::--[[User: | :::::--[[User:ShadowDancer|ShadowDancer]] 07:21, 14 October 2008 (EDT) | ||
= | Fully forgot about that function, now I have to go back over and fix all the instances in my mod where I used the solution that I provided. =D, Oh well now its better.<BR> | ||
--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 08:21, 14 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
:What if I didn't know which shader effect was playing ? Just using [[StopMagicShaderVisuals]] ends up with a syntax error -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 08:33, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
::I encountered this problem in my mod too, I had to specify every effectshader save for the one I wanted the object to exhibit. Not fun, very bulky script, plus I imagine it could be quite a bit more taxing on a system than it should be. If you are dealing with specific shaders this would be the way to go, if what you are trying to accomplish is a more generic stoppage then yeh, no easy way out I'm afraid. | |||
::--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 08:38, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
::: oh fie ! Anyways, Antares, how did you get the weapons to display shader effects ? I tried pms'ing a custom on one and didn't work -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 08:43, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
You mean in my mod "Visual Enchantments"? Well pretty much what I did was create some new effect shaders and then altered the appropriate magic effects to use those shaders when a weapon was enchanted. Lets take the Magic Effect:Fire Damage as an example. Opening up the Magic Effects window in the CS and scrolling down to '''FIDG''' (Fire Damage), if we look over at the ''Visual Effects'' section (bottom right corner of the window) you should see a drop-down menu box for '''"Enchant Effect"'''. I altered those entries to use my new (and hopefully vastly improved) effectshaders. Basically that way I told the game that my effectshaders were the default ones, and thus ensured compatibility will any mod added weapon. (Ones that have effects as part of their meshes dont mix well however). Hope that answers your question. | |||
<BR>--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 08:56, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
:You working to become a teacher ?, because you are doing a good job :) WIll try out your method -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 09:39, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
::Haha, I don't know if that was a joke or if I am supposed to laugh. Anyway over the internet I tend to explain things differently because lacking the face-to-face contact it is very easy for misinterpretation and misunderstanding to precipitate. Being a teacher did occur/appeal to me once but nah, not for me. | |||
::On a side note, I fear I am becoming my year 12 maths C (the advanced one) teacher, he too studied a bachelor of engineering degree, and gave incredibly long winded speech's on simple things like how fascinating Pi is. Anyway I digress, this is not the place, let me know how you go. | |||
::--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 09:47, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
::: Hold on ! Let me get my scenario straight ( I didn't really read your answer ). I have a ref. to a weapon which I dropping on the ground ( got that through the [[getEquippedObject]] function ). I use the PMS/PME function after the drop, so that the item's visibility improves. And when I did that it didn't work - so I was asking if your method would work for me ! ( Sorry I wasn't clear earlier... btw, I haven't tried out you solution ) -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 10:03, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
Enchant EffectShaders don't run on weapons that aren't equipped by an Actor, so no I highly doubt that the method I described will work for you. Are you using an OnDrop block? If so is what you are doing is similar to: | |||
<pre>Some other blocktype | |||
Set WeaponRef to GetEquippedObject | |||
Begin OnDrop WeaponRef | |||
pms shader | |||
End</pre> | |||
As far as I can see it should work, otherwise you might have to do something like If GetContainer == 0 -> pms ''shader''. | |||
<BR>--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 10:20, 15 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
:My code is as follows | |||
<pre>begin gamemode | |||
set weap to player.getEquippedObject 16 | |||
player.unEquipItem weap | |||
player.drop weap 1 | |||
weap.pms <someshader> | |||
end</pre> | |||
:...and it doesn't work -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 02:53, 16 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
What object are you actually running the script on? I assume that the weapon in question is designed to be any weapon and therefore is not directly scripted? My guess would be that reference variables are either cleared of altered upon leaving the player's inventory. Is this a quest script? Because a quest script should work. | |||
<BR>--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 03:21, 16 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
:I'm running this from a token.( I just remembered what I read last night in the modding terminology article :E ) Maybe if I ported it to a quest script, you (are saying) it will work ? And as far as the ref. variable clearing goes, I suppose you are right. The weapon was probably spawned from a LLst. -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 03:29, 16 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
::Ah tokens, I am new to those myself, I attempted my first one yesterday afternoon, took me all last night and most of this afternoon to iron out the kinks, anyway. I am not sure of a tokens capability to affect something (kinda) dynamic outside of the player in that way. A quest script could force the player to drop the aforementioned weapon and retain its reference. Shouldn't have any troubles pms-ing after that. | |||
::You could keep the token and use it to dictate any variables in the quest script. | |||
::--[[User:Antares|Antares]] 03:35, 16 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
: You took the words right out of me mind ! And as far as tokens go, they are pretty much the brain of my mod(s). -- [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 03:40, 16 October 2008 (EDT) | |||
== Creating a New Article, and other Wiki issues == | |||
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== That damn bot == | |||
Hey, when you see that bot, please delete all of the content from the talk page and mark it {{[[:Template:Afd|Afd]]}}, as well as marking the User page with {{[[:Template:Spammer|Spammer]]}} (as you did). At the very least, we want to take down their advertisements. | |||
I'll e-mail Gstaff about this - this bot's been plaguing us for a while...<br /> | |||
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: Oh ... I didn't know that. I shall go forth the do the good Lord's dirty work now ! - [[User:Shademe|shademe]] 21:31, 27 December 2008 (EST) | |||
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Heh, I'm glad you asked; no one else ever has before so it was a secret I had to keep all to myself.<br /> | |||
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== Diablo Wiki == | |||
:Yeah, the [http://www.baronsbazaar.com Baron's Bazaar's] [http://baronsbazaar.invisionzone.com/wiki/Main_Page Diablopedia]. I was pretty much the only one who worked on it and it's pretty dead, but it did give me an opportunity to try out starting a Wiki fresh, which taught me quite a few things. | |||
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== IsKeyPressed Trigger Speed == | |||
Really, it catches presses before Oblivion? What is the significance of that? I mean, usually when I want to trap keys and change what they do, I disable the key in question... I'm curious what your uses are for it that this is significant, and whether or not we should remove the Deprecated tag from the article if that's the case.<br /> | |||
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:So then it should not be deprecated? Hmm. | |||
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== Tool Coder == | |||
Reeeally... Whatcha working on?<br /> | |||
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:Oh, very nice! No, not unbelievable at all - just, as you said, there's not many of those. If you were so inclined, you could back in the history and see that I responded the same way when Qazaaq added Animator to his page, heh. | |||
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== Answered / Questions Section == | |||
::Holy crap. I've been avoiding that for ''years''. Seriously, literally, '''''years'''''. Wow. Uh. Thanks. That's... that's an awful lot of work. Wow. | |||
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== Wiki / Theme Upgrade == | |||
:Well, that beta's just a theme - a nice one, but definitely incompatible with the ESstyle theme we use here. Could we make an ES-version of it? Sure. But it'd be a pain, and not really worth it. It's just a visual overhaul. Though I do like the Search box in the top right... | |||
:As for a Wiki software upgrade, actually, yes, I should talk to them about that. The version of Wikimedia running here is... er. ''Very'' old. Will ask. | |||
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== Temporarily disabling account registration == | |||
:Probably ''could'', but I'm not in favor of doing so. Dealing with spambots is something I can do; I want as ''few'' roadblocks to legitimate account creation as possible. We desperately need more people on the Wikis in general. I really hope that Beth does something about that for Skyrim... | |||
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== Super huge commit == | |||
Manually, no. | |||
I like to play with Excel VBA, so I created a 'compare and merge lists' little code, so, now, I can drop all kinds of function lists from all kinds of sources, merge them together and format the result as to paste it into the "List of Functions" and "raw function list" edit windows. | |||
I am still working on it as I've found other missing functions and I have to remove several duplicates from the first run. | |||
The side effect is that it uncovered many functions that don't even have a WIKI page. Btw, do you know how to operate the Automaton? (I was about to ask DragoonWraith). [[User:QQuix|QQuix]] 13:49, 8 June 2012 (EDT) | |||
:So, I won't bother DW. I will do a quick and dirty VB code to get function text from the OBSE doc and format it using the 'Template:Function' and add each function manually (not many left anyway).[[User:QQuix|QQuix]] 08:07, 9 June 2012 (EDT) | |||