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Inspire
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I have a couple questions which may come across as stupid, but I try and try and I cannot figure it out.

1. What does the castshadow=X property in the .fpe do? For example, the .fpe for the wall_light_lit entity in Model Pack 3. I need a couple entities to not cast shadows in my game, so...

Quote: ";header
desc = Wall Light Lit

;ai
aiinit = appear1.fpi
aimain = default.fpi
aidestroy = disappear1.fpi

;spawn
spawnmax = 0
spawndelay = 0
spawnqty = 0

;orientation

model = wall_light_lit.x
offx = 0
offy = 0
offz = 0
rotx = 0
roty = 0
rotz = 0
scale = 100
fixnewy = 0
defaultstatic = 1
forwardfacing = 1
defaultheight = 50
materialindex = 15
collisionmode = 0
strength = 0
isimmobile = 0
soundset =
soundset1 =

;visualinfo

textured =
texturei = lights_I.dds
effect =
castshadow = 0

;Animationinfo
animmax = 0
anim0 = 0,0
"



2. What does the ripple.fx shader do? Go to the effectbank if you don't know what I'm taking about. When I apply it to an entity, it comes out pure white.

3. How do I make it so when one enemy dies, another one respawns? When I mess with their lives tab, when they die, they get right back up and fight some more. I need them to die, then respawn at their original spawning spot (where I placed them in the editor).

Thanks to all who take the time to look at this...

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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 22:08
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I THINK Castshadow=x determines if the entity of object is effected by the lighting engine.
Ripple.fx makes the texture on objects move from side to side (can't see what use it would do). In answer to your third question, have you tried setting the maximum spawn to your desired number, then setting spawn when dead to yes. That might work.

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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 22:23
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Quote: "I THINK Castshadow=x determines if the entity of object is effected by the lighting engine."


I know that, but I tried changing the value, and nothing happened.

I'll try that. Thanks.

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Posted: 14th Oct 2007 22:46
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Well, from an artistic point of view, it would allow you to make water. You may also be able to modify the shader and have a scrolling texture.
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Just to cut straight to the heart of your questions:

1.)Castshadow= x is a setting for wether a dynamic entity will cast a shadow or not (this doesn't work very well)

2.)The ripple effect takes the Normal map (I think) and moves the texture around on it. Apply it to the Aiko character to see what I mean.

3.)Hmmm... Don't know about that one. Never really tried it.

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Posted: 15th Oct 2007 23:55
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@ TGPEG:

I know what castshadow does, I just don't know how to use it.

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Oh, I see.
Well set the value to 1. Put a dynamic object (eg a crate) into FPSC, put in a light, test the game and watch it crash [at least that's what mine does...!)

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Well, then, wouldn't that be considered a bug? Why not check the Bug Report board and see if it's mentioned.

It would be handy if the manual covered in depth file structures like this... after all, they wanted it to be as flexible and ynamic as possible, and we DO need to know these things in order to make use of that flexibility.


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Posted: 19th Oct 2007 02:34
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@ TGPEG:

So it doesn't work on static objects? I was under the impression that it kept the entity from casting a static shadow.

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Inspire; I don't know. My computer crashes before I get chance to have a look...

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Posted: 19th Oct 2007 22:37
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Haha, that must suck...when I messed around with it, nothing happened at all, so I'm not sure either.

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Quote: "3. How do I make it so when one enemy dies, another one respawns? When I mess with their lives tab, when they die, they get right back up and fight some more. I need them to die, then respawn at their original spawning spot (where I placed them in the editor)."


The field you want to change is the Maximum Spawn field. If you set this to 5, for example, and Number to Spawn, Max at any time, and Lives to 1, the entity will respawn at its original location after it is killed, and it will do this 4 times.

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Posted: 19th Oct 2007 22:57
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Quote: "The field you want to change is the Maximum Spawn field. If you set this to 5, for example, and Number to Spawn, Max at any time, and Lives to 1, the entity will respawn at its original location after it is killed, and it will do this 4 times."


Testing now. If it works, you will be my hero, and I will cyber-hug you.

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