Are there any 3d models working with the latest gz?

[invictius]

Monsters appear but weapons don't (gz-models.pk3). I haven't used them since gz 1.5.

[dpJudas]

That's because there are some invalid characters in the modeldef files. Somehow some of the spaces there are hex A0 (non-blocking space, aka. &nbsp). You can fix it by doing a search+replace using Visual Studio, or any other tool supporting this, for the A0 character and put a real space instead.

[invictius]

That's because there are some invalid characters in the modeldef files. Somehow some of the spaces there are hex A0 (non-blocking space, aka. &nbsp). You can fix it by doing a search+replace using Visual Studio, or any other tool supporting this, for the A0 character and put a real space instead.

Did you mean A 0 0? I did what you said, now I'm getting this:

Script error, "gz model.pk3:modeldef.doom.weapons.txt" line 13:
SC_GetNumber: Bad numeric constant "}".

Replacint A 0 0 with a space does this:

Script error, "gz try.pk3:modeldef.doom.weapons.txt" line 15:
SC_GetNumber: Bad numeric constant "Model".

[dpJudas]

No, I mean that there are some non-blocking space characters in the modeldef files. GZDoom seems them as actual characters instead of whitespace.

I'm not sure how those characters ended up in the files in the first place, but if they are replaced with real spaces the errors go away.

[Graf Zahl]

It's truly amazing that this broken stuff still floats around. Has nobody ever bothered to fix this?
The only reason it slipped through is that some older version of sc_man just truncated the 0x80 bit for some checks.

[invictius]

No, I mean that there are some non-blocking space characters in the modeldef files. GZDoom seems them as actual characters instead of whitespace.

I'm not sure how those characters ended up in the files in the first place, but if they are replaced with real spaces the errors go away.

In visual basic I'm using alt + 255 (key presses, not just typing "alt + 255") in the find box, and just pressing spacebar in the replace box. I'm still getting the unrecognized string errors but gzdoom loads... but no models. Am I meant to do this for every def, not just the weapons one?

It appears that I had to. Thanks for putting me on the right track.

[Trusty McLegit]

If you do fix it, can you post the working version here?

[Rachael]

If you do fix it, can you post the working version here?

As far as I know, per the mod's copyright, that is not allowed.

However that does not stop someone from developing a tool that can fix the mod for you (for your own private use, only).

[Trusty McLegit]

Can you not make a patch for it? Making a tool to auto fix the mod seems like a lot of unnecisary work (though i do get the legal issue). Alternatively, anyone know who made the original? I doubt he'd mind if we fixed his broken mod

[Rachael]

It was Dark-Assassin, and he posts here sometimes. You can ask him, directly. I am surprised that anyone's really that interested in it, though. XD (Not that it's a bad thing)

[invictius]

If you do fix it, can you post the working version here?

Why not just do the thing yourself? If I'm capable of following the instructions, anybody is.

[Kappes Buur]

If you do fix it, can you post the working version here?

As far as I know, per the mod's copyright, that is not allowed.

Rather than using a hexeditor you can do this with Notepad++. It very easy, just delete all extraneous spaces before and after a line.

For example, from this

Code: Select all

Model AllMap
{ 
   Path "Models\Items\ComputerMap"
   SKIN 0 "ComputerMap.png"
   SKIN 1 "ComputerMap_Screen0.png"
   MODEL 0 "ComputerMap.md2"
   Model 1 "ComputerMap_Screen.md2"

   SKIN 2 "ComputerMap_Glow.png"
   Model 2 "ComputerMap_Glow.md2"
scale 0.5 0.5 0.5


   FrameIndex PMAP A 0 0   FrameIndex PMAP A 1 0   FrameIndex PMAP A 2 0
}

to this

Code: Select all

Model AllMap
{
Path "Models\Items\ComputerMap"
SKIN 0 "ComputerMap.png"
SKIN 1 "ComputerMap_Screen0.png"
MODEL 0 "ComputerMap.md2"
Model 1 "ComputerMap_Screen.md2"
SKIN 2 "ComputerMap_Glow.png"
Model 2 "ComputerMap_Glow.md2"
scale 0.5 0.5 0.5
FrameIndex PMAP A 0 0
FrameIndex PMAP A 1 0
FrameIndex PMAP A 2 0
}

The task is time consuming.
I suggested Notepad++ since it can use macros, which is a big help.

[Rachael]

It doesn't matter what you use. In fact, it's easy enough to make a batch script combined with XVI32.exe to do it.

[UsernameAK]

And there's also a strange bug: dead imps are in a computer map

[Dark-Assassin]

I tried to remove these damn broken model packs I packaged, but they still hang around.
I really just need the drive to redo them completely with less varied resources.