Shifter and HDTP... kinda like Peanut Butter and Chocolate

[Y|yukichigai]

...they go together oh so well.



This is just a quick post to let anybody who cares know that I have in fact found a way to dynamically load in the HDTP textures if they are present, but default to the original textures otherwise. This means that Shifter will support HDTP with minimal effort required on the user's part. (You need to put the HDTP .utx files in your C:\DeusEx\Textures folder for my method to work)

For any of you other modders who would like to know exactly how I did it, here's the code I added to GuntherHermann.uc:

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simulated function PreBeginPlay()
{
	local mesh lMesh;
	local int i;

	Super.PreBeginPlay();

	lMesh = mesh(DynamicLoadObject("HDTPcharacters.HDTPGunther", class'mesh'));

	if(lMesh != None)
	{
		Texture = None;
		for(i = 0; i < 8; i++)
		{
			MultiSkins[i] = None;
		}
		Mesh = lMesh;
	}
	else
	{
		Texture = Default.Texture;
		Mesh = Default.Mesh;
		for(i = 0; i < 8; i++)
		{
			MultiSkins[i] = Default.MultiSkins[i];
		}
	}
}

Obviously this has to be tweaked for each HDTP-improved object and then pasted in, but it's fairly basic.

Anywho, cheers!

[James T]

Hey Yuki, while you're at it, could you make it so that you still get a skill-points bonus if you disable a mech instead of blowing it up? kthxbye!

[metche_steele]

Great work Yuki

I know this will please many in the community!

[DDL]

Nicely done!

In fact, there should only be one .utx in the HDTP install: the rest are all in the .u packages.

And in our next installer the HDTPanim.utx should get placed in the default texture folder, since there's no real need for it to be in HTDP\textures


It's a cunning 'use either case as available' workaround, too: I'll bet that TNM and others could probably benefit from this, since it means you don't have to release two versions.

Nicely done!

[Jetsetlemming]

That's using the new models, too, right? I see mentions of the mesh in the code, so I'm assuming so. ^^

[Y|yukichigai]

That's using the new models, too, right? I see mentions of the mesh in the code, so I'm assuming so. ^^

Erm, yeah, sorry, I meant textures AND models. You get the idea.