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prince

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How do you?
« on: December 07, 2006, 10:01:12 pm »
I was wondering, how do you guys change the game so its halloween or something? Do you release a patch or what?
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Re: How do you?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2006, 10:04:25 pm »
For halloween this year, we just changed the model ids for the races in the server database so it loaded a different model as your character model. The rest was all done ingame by GMs having fun with various commands :]

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Re: How do you?
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2006, 01:09:19 am »
So if you want to have a Christmas theme, with a Christmas tree, Christmas models, and a Christmas theme, what would you do?

Sorry if you see more of this post, but I keep getting a flood control post and my post isn't appearing.
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Re: How do you?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2006, 01:16:00 am »
There isn't going to be anything like that officially - Christmas is after all a real-life holiday and it doesn't exist in Yliakum. So we're not going to have Christmas trees and Santa hats exactly, but who knows what unique things may pop up.

Now if you want to put all that stuff in-game yourself, on your client, you're going to have to create it. It would help if you told us exactly what you want to create, with more details. Can you model, and do you just need instructions on exporting?
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prince

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Re: How do you?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2006, 02:56:46 am »
I have models, and I know how to export to work with planeshift, but lets say, I want to have a Christmas tree in X land during the week of December 25, and after that its back to normal. What would I do?
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2006, 03:10:22 am »
Just so we're understanding each other:

You can't upload your custom content onto the official server, so whatever you do on your end of the client can only be seen by you and those you give your modifications to.

If you want to place an object model into a PlaneShift map on your end, export the model as usual, place it with the other art files, and then edit the world map you want to have it in. Extract the "world" file from the .zip you want (like hydlaa_plaza) and then convert it to XML format using the docconv utility (one of CS tools), like this:

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docconv -outds=tinyxml world
Add the mesh somewhere between the <sector name="mapnamehere"></sector> tags - you can figure out how it works pretty quickly by reading through the XML, and you don't have to convert the map back into binary format at the end.

I hope this is what you meant?
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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2006, 03:51:42 am »
You got part of it answered. Then will the users have to update to see the tree, or will it just show up when they enter the game?

 :offtopic:And yes I know that it will only work on my side. Been checking your game out for quite a while (never got around to play it though)
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2006, 04:10:32 am »
As I said, whatever you modify can be seen by others only if you give them your modifications - this has to be done manually. There is no way to let everyone in the game see what you have changed automatically. Think of the kind of chaos that would create ;)

If you make something lovely you'd like to share with the community, post it on the forums as a download. The others will have to download the modified/new files to see the changes.
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« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2006, 04:24:07 am »
LOL, I mean lets say I make my own game outta PlaneShift source code, and I do what you said, will everyone see it if they update thier clients or when they login it will be there?
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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2006, 04:28:51 am »
If you make your own game out of PS source code and you have your own server and you have your own updater and everyone updates... I don't see why not :P The key here is that the new content has to be reachable by the updater. They're not going to be downloading from you as the source, but rather an online repository that the updater connects to and checks.
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Re: How do you?
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2006, 08:30:59 pm »
I sincerely hope we will not have a christmas theme. This game is played world-wide by many folks who are not christians and to have a christmas theme in some ways would make it seem like the game was advocating christianity. This is not a very good idea and would alienate some non-christian players. Ylaikum has its own religions. The last thing I want to see is RL ones being dragged in there. So I hope we might be able to do something "special" for the holiday season, I just hope it does not involve any overt manifestations of x-mas themed things.

That said, I want to wish you luck with your own mods. You should, by all means, have a tree in the plaza for yourself and anyone else who wants it.
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Re: How do you?
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2006, 09:56:02 pm »
Karyuu, you said christmas is a real life holiday, and it can't be celebrated in yliakum, but so is Halloween, yet we celebrated that  ???
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« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2006, 09:59:46 pm »
We didn't celebrate it IC. We did OOC for a few hours.
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« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2006, 10:35:22 pm »
...and the manner in which there was a "celebration" took on no form particular to the holiday, ie. there were no jack-o-lanterns, or signs that said "happy halloween". People could take the event in any way they wish. I think it was quite well done.
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Re: How do you?
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2006, 06:43:46 am »
* AryHann personally dislikes not Yliakum's festivity celebrations...

BUT

In the background there is stated quite clearly that some races have come from another world....of course they might have come from Earth and from a period in which they actually knew Christmas and such... so ;-)
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