Hmmm, that what I thought, I think where I messed up was alpha, Thanks. I figured it was a natural fit for rendering script triggers entities

No idea what the args are supposed to be. I would guess with 3 vectors, would be an origin and two extens, but no luick

Almost done. Was hoping to have a release by now, but probably won't be until Friday.

One thing was the parenting of the spawned groups while you were moving, they could "get away" from the 3D cursor if you were running while spawning because of the parenting. Tried a few fixes, then it occurred to me to just inject a onuser1 with their original hard coded locations, so I just fireuser1 on the prop after parenting and it's perfect.

So now on the map load, you're prompted for the mode name (holdout/etc), then whether it's a map based mutation. Then it can load any previous file if found and also can save them named properly.

Still a few annoyances, depending on what the entity group is composed of, it's hard to select them after spawning sometimes. Especially if composed of no visible entities. I think I'm going to add a sphere type model to all groups so they can always be selectable, and possiblly, add targets to the scripted brush ents so you can have an idea of boundaries.

I'm very much fighting the urge to rewrite it from scratch as the code is so damned ugly being hacked out of the model version, and the way it was organically created. Very much lava flow. But rather than hold it up, I'll save the refactoring for a possible future update after I've had some feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6FUG0D9RVs

I guess I must have been bleary eyed . I tried a LOT of permutations with and without verbatim quoting. But obviously I was doing something stupid. Though I didn't realize you HAD to quote regexs with classes as verbatim strings if they weren't multiline. I have to stop thinking in terms of perlguts. Speaking of multi-line matching, do you know if Squirrel does multiline matching?

Funny, the ChatTriggers source is one of the few things I haven't looked at yet. Oh well. As the code works, I'll probably leave it. As far as progress, getting there, loading and saving files. I'm thinking of how I want to handle confirmation prompts (like overwrites) and things like that. I looked into using sm_vote but can't get it working from the mode file. I wouldn't mind chat for that so much but I haven't figured out how to force it to display from the console yet.

Very good point. I should have thought of that My mistake was assuming a more perl-ish interpretation of newline handling. Saving it as unix formatted, the "bug.nut" script now works as expected. I'm still surprised so many regexp characters/classes listed in the 2.x documents don't work.

Hmm, definitely something stinks with split, passing the values to Vector (from say origin), same thing. Though casting tofloat() does fix it.

Got most of the file parsing stuff done. Not as robust as I'd like as the implementation is missing many regex character classes (\w, \t) so regex's where out.

Also had to rework the script includes as I need to have the source file name which isn't included in the entity group table.

Oddly enough, this turned out to be a big time waster. It seems that if you try to use a string that was derived from split, it isn't the same string anymore if the original had a newline, seems like a bug to me.

Still some glitches to work out but getting there. Tracing the 3D cursor can be troublesome at times as they are often collections of entities. Even tracing past them, it occasionally ends up tracking against itself which is disorienting. I may just hide the selected prop when placing as much as I like the preview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYA6yNvFERQ

Not really grokking what's going on here.

When I include a stock entity group, the game crashes on mutation load with a precache error, even though I'm not spawning anything at all yet.

Basically, my own groups work fine (not packed in vpk), but if I add any of the stock ones, BOOM.

So for instance, if I include the following

The game crashes with "251/ammo_crate_spawn -w eapon_ammo_spawn: UTIL_SetModel: not precached: models/props_unique/spawn_apartment/coffeeammo.mdl"

I've tried a few other ones with the same result. Now if I manually add the following after the includes


It doesn't crash. But isn't this supposed to happen in scriptmode.nut, and why are my own entities precached correctly without manually calling that? Flummoxed.

Working on adding the placement of entity groups and it occurs to me that having this all as one tool kind of doesn't make a whole lot of sense considering the complication it adds to the UI. People using it for mutations are pretty much just going to want to place entity groups.

So it's going to be split into two similar tools. For group spawning, it will look for a nut file that contains all your entity group includes. You'll have a single menu listing all the EntityGroups in mapscript when the mutation is loaded.

You'll be able to save/load the entities.txt file. One downside is that the file won't be in the right place as you have to save under ems. Perhaps if it proves popular enough will be able to get ScriptMode Init to check for the entities txt file in both locations. That would be a nice work flow. Load your map in groupspawner, save, load your mutation, etc. It's likely you'll see the groupspawner first as I still need to think about how I'm going to handle the menus and the large number of mdls.