CMP to SUR Conversion Tests

StarTrader peeks round the door again…

Scratches scruffy white beard in puzzlement…

That is phenomenal news, LS! I think many of us are on the edge of our seats watching your sculpt your masterpiece

The anticipation…. uuuhhhhh.

LancerSolurus wrote:
I am in the process of designing a group separator for the CMP files. This means that you can simply export all of your groups in 1 group and this will rebuild the CMP file with as many groups as you originally intended […].

That means that it will make all groups from milkshape separate? What about parts consisting of 2 or more meshes (maybe because of texture)? That would also generate multiple surs for example one wing…that means i can’t just use it as [CollisionGroup] because each part of the wing would be a separate destructible component…

edit: by the way - has anyone of you taken a look on co_base_rock_large01.cmp and its sur? It has a multiple part sur for the root!!!

Dribbling in all directions… slipping on banana skins (because of the dribble), trying to locate mop, but keep slipping around on the way to the kitchen (because of copious amounts of dribble). Can’t be too much longer now…

ST thinks this is well worth waiting for and buys boxes of dried crackers, pull-to-open cans of bully beef and bottled water…

… added some chocolates and Nutella today…

ST… washed and dried his sleeping bag today, it was getting a bit smelly from the dampness in this unused room…!!

Startrader the personal LS cheerleader

/me going out –> [__] XD

(grabs a pom pom… stands next to ST)

Lancer Lancer… he’s our man… he cant do it… noone can…

L.A.N.C.E.R. (shakes pom poms)… dam not enough for a human pyramid yet… oh well back to the start…

… it’s awfully dark in here…

Here’s all the Cons nodes (from the XML Project - when I said it decoded everything I really meant it).

struct Vector
{
  float x, y, z;
};

struct Matrix
{
  Vector i, j, k;
};

// \Cmpnd\Cons\{Fix,Trans,Loose}    // Trans isn't in any of the vanilla files
struct FIX
{
  char   parent[64];
  char   child[64];
  Vector position;
  Matrix orientation;
};

// \Cmpnd\Cons\{Pris,Rev}
struct REV
{
  char   parent[64];
  char   child[64];
  Vector position;
  Vector offset;
  Matrix orientation;
  Vector axis;
  float  minmax[2];             // don't seem to be used
};

// \Cmpnd\Cons\Cyl
struct CYL                      // not in any of the vanilla files
{
  char   parent[64];
  char   child[64];
  Vector position;
  Vector offset;
  Matrix orientation;
  Vector axis;
  float  minmax[4];             // don't seem to be used
};

// \Cmpnd\Cons\Sphere
struct SPHERE
{
  char   parent[64];
  char   child[64];
  Vector position;
  Vector offset;
  Matrix orientation;
  float  minmax[6];             // don't seem to be used
};

```I've called it **position** here, but after looking at the UTF Editor, I probably should have stuck with **origin**. I only think it's minimum and maximum angles, but a quick play with the debugger showed they were never read; the problem is some of the bases uses really large values, which seems to belie their use as angles. I've used Matrix as three Vectors, because that's how Paul Isaac defined it in **View UTF**, a mod utility for Conquest: Frontier Wars. (It's a bit temperamental, which is why I've never mentioned it before now. There's also an unpack utility, which should create/extract UTF files, but it didn't work at all.)

Drat!

Shaved my long grey beard off, thinking I would have LS’s utility by now and have to do some fast serious work needing sleek streamlined facial lines…

It’s so cold without it!

And I notice some stray mice have moved in here too…