LVZ FILES GG

[PullTripSquid]

I sucessfully changed the jvroll.bm2 in my zone, but whenever i add the matching ships.bm2, the jav ship only shows up and it doesnt show the ship rolls that are uploaded,instead all i see is the ships.bm2 yet i uploaded the lvz file for the jvroll.bm2 also but it wont show up. Any ideas what is causing this?

[»SOS]

First, what exactly do you mean by "doesn't show up"?

 

I'll assume you mean "the lvz isn't downloaded" for now.

Are you sure both lvz files are in Misc:LevelFiles?

Did you perhaps use some weird/invalid syntax in the setting?

[Yupa]

there are some oddities like this, especially since Priit started fiddling with .lvz

 

I forget the exact cir!@#$%^&*stances that cause exactly what, but it depends on if it's a subarena and if you've got other ship lvz elsewhere and of course if your lvz are sound in the first place - and possibly the use of ships and not ship1, etc

[»Maverick]

==> (Zone) Development

[PullTripSquid]

Alright, here it is, exactly what i did, i really want help so ill tell you exactly what i did mabye you guys can help me because i am still a newb to all of this stuff.

 

MY SETUP

 

Ok, i have 2 lvz files that i added to my zone jvroll.lvz and ships.lvz

 

The ini file for jvroll.lvz is exactly as follows:

____________________________________________________________

____

; OutFile specifies lvz file data is written into and it is overwritten if already present

OutFile=jvroll.lvz

 

File=jvroll.bm2

____________________________________________________________

____

by the way this ini file is named jvrolllvz.ini (dont knwo if that has anything to do with it)

 

within the same folder i have the file jvroll.bm2.

 

The ini file for ships.lvz is exactly as follows:

____________________________________________________________

____

; OutFile specifies lvz file data is written into and it is overwritten if already present

OutFile=ships.lvz

 

File=ships.bm2

____________________________________________________________

____

 

and the ini file is named shiplvz.ini

 

Ok, now, within my server.cfg under Misc:LevelFiles, I have as follows:

 

jvroll.lvz,ships.lvz

 

THE PROBLEM

 

When i have all of this saved and recycle i go in the zone and it takes a while to download, then, i see that the ships.bm2 HAS loaded good, all of the ships are changed to my bm2 file. Then when i load the jav and i turn it doesnt change over to the jvroll.bm2, NONE of the ships roll, all i see is the ships.bm2 and the jvroll doesnt have my new jvroll.bm2 and the other ships dont even have the default rolls, its as iff the ships.bm2 covers up the other images that SHOULD be there. Then when i take out ships.lvz in the server.cfg it SHOWS the jvroll and its fine, but ofcourse i want them both the ships.bm2 and the jvroll.bm2. im a confused newb plz help me thanks for reading all of this (if anyone did) :/ i wish i was leet

[Yupa]

try adding the other rolling images

 

try using ship1, ship2, etc instead of ships

[»SOS]

You can also try putting both of the bm2 files in the same lvz file.

[»Maverick]

Also, make sure your .lvz files do not exceed 4 mb

http://www.shanky.com/server/faq/buildlevel.html#1031412264

[The Maurauder]

Possible solutions:

Use ships.bm2 jvroll.bm2 AND ship2.bm2

Place all 3 files in the same LVZ (Stated before)

Be sure to edit Misc:Levelfiles so that it only uses the lvz that all 3 images are in.

 

Hope this helps.

:maur:

[Kilo]

I've encountered trouble when replacing ship rolls in general. Even when they work for a bit, they like to stop working after I shipchange into another custom ship that doesn't have rolls defined for it (and won't work again until I reconnect). What I'm saying is that you may be doing nothing wrong and that it's just a bug of Continuum.

 

Also: ships.bm2 is old...the individual shipX.bm2 is more versatile.

[Yupa]

they have different uses