Re: Awsome mod feature

[swgbex]

have any of u guys noticed this.. i accidentaly left my game on .. (alt tabbed) and i changed a file.. relized the game was on and.. poof..

 

http://members.cox.net/swgbex/mod.jpg

 

I dont know in what places it can be used .. ..

such as in game.. when u are testing the object.. .would speed up modding sooo much more

[Ghostly_Substance]

Better then opening and closing a game 50 times in a row just to find out that a .tga isn't working properly  (Example: SH3). Well it also beats the computer reloading up the game 50 million times after adding units and such that you modded in and testing how it reacts and such cutting the time by oh, 2 weeks  ;D

[swgbex]

yeah i used to do that with generals.. and if i got a line of code wrong it would go

 

Error ,, Blah blah blah blah..

game wont start.. and it makes a log of it.. that sometimes helps a bit

but map editor pretty much tells u what is wrong.

hopefully well get something like this in EAW

[Necro]

i see it a great way for modders to test they're stuff without restarting eaw all the time!

[DragonShadow]

Wow. Complete proof that the game is designed to be mod-friendly. That'll save a lot of time...

[kingdark]

yep you can just let the game run, even when you are already playing, and then changing stuff and it wil take effect after a reload if your in a battle or inmideatly in galactic mode

[swgbex]

wow.. i was just about to do that. and check.. man that saves me soo much time.. especially for particle effects. .or model sizes..

[Zer_Teron]

Tried it, just got an exception

[kingdark]

you should be carefull any fatal errors wont be fun

[Megajames]

unlikely to get any  but you don't want to mess up your computer be for the games comes out

[swgbex]

why would it crash if u reloaded changed the xml while in a game.... it should detect the changes.. and if it asks ..then there is no reason to crash unless the code is wrong..

 

 

maybe it just doesnt check... i guess to stop cheating..

... so crash :/

 

 

but what i would love to see.. is maybe a map editor where u can test out a new unit u made.. and tweak teh code for it at the same time.

[DragonShadow]

If it crashes (an exception occurred), it's because something in the xml code is wrong.

[RogueJedi]

Unfortunatley it doesn't always detect changes, it seems to miss certain files :-\