My problems with big cities, such as Santiago, Cartagena and an interesting bug in Turks.

[Grey Roger]

I don't have anything planned immediately. The place could do with some more "goto" locators for general use, and possibly a locator in one of the stalls so that an item trader can be placed, but I'm not planning on doing any of that in the near future.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I can add those things as well.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I can add those things as well.

Much appreciated!

 

[STARk7]

I play the game for quite some time now, and I still haven't wisited all of the cities...

 

[Jack Rackham]

I have added a lot of goto and merchant locators to Santiago center and port. So now it's possible (for someone else) to add more walkers and/or merchants.
Tried to turn the goto:s with variation so people will look in through windows, examine things, just enjoying the view, talking to guards etc etc

Next I thought of smoke but in the first half of Santiago center even the chimneys were missing.
So I had to make a few new types and placed them together with smoke. (all are on for testing)

Now to the existing chimneys... Then to the port...

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Nice one!

I think VCO uses a different scale altogether, so technically the locations are simply too large for the PotC characters.
It doesn't look completely mad, but I think you do kind-of notice on a subconscious level.

 

[Grey Roger]

I have added a lot of goto and merchant locators to Santiago center and port. So now it's possible (for someone else) to add more walkers and/or merchants.
Tried to turn the goto:s with variation so people will look in through windows, examine things, just enjoying the view, talking to guards etc etc

Thanks!

I was hoping that random walkers would automatically spawn depending on the number of locators. If not, I've no idea how to change the number that show up. (Apart from changing it to 0 by slapping a 'vcskip' on the area, but that's not the sort of change we want here. )

There may already be code to make walkers and citizens face each other, and face guards, if they happen to meet. Certainly I've seen them do so, whether it's due to automatic encounter behaviour or mutually facing locators.

Can you upload the new files for Santiago before the next update? Then I can see about putting a street merchant somewhere to finish the job, and then the whole lot goes into the update.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I think VCO uses a different scale altogether, so technically the locations are simply too large for the PotC characters.

Yes about double size. That too makes the towns look empty. So it's important to fill them up with what we can.
I have no idea either how this automatic walker thing works but it seems to generate too few. Maybe 8 - 10 even with the added locators.

Can you upload the new files for Santiago before the next update?

Yes I can do that.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Yes about double size.

No not that much, but in Tortuga I had to size down the doors
very much. Here it looks better.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I was hoping that random walkers would automatically spawn depending on the number of locators. If not, I've no idea how to change the number that show up.

I had indeed been hoping for that as well. Quick look through the code didn't yet explain to me how to number of characters is controlled.
It must be handled somehow, but somebody has yet to figure out where and how...

There may already be code to make walkers and citizens face each other, and face guards, if they happen to meet. Certainly I've seen them do so, whether it's due to automatic encounter behaviour or mutually facing locators.

I think that has something to do with the AI code.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I have lost the typeface Dolfin something for Loading screens when my old computer was hit by lightening.
Anyone got it?

 

[Grey Roger]

A "DuckDuckGo" search for "Dolphin font" turned up several sites with free downloads. This one allows you to type in some text to preview the font:
Dolphin Free Font - FontStock

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I have lost the typeface Dolfin something for Loading screens when my old computer was hit by lightening.
Anyone got it?

Is it in this archive, by any chance?
http://piratesahoy.bowengames.com/potc/OFFICIAL/Template_Loading_Screens.zip

 

[Jack Rackham]

Thanks a lot that worked fine.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Some of the stuff I added once to the Cartagena cloister was only visible in WoodesRogers quest. That's fixed now.
Monks were also only existing in WR. New neutral NPC monks are now added to all other storylines than WR.
(In WR they are removed.)

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That's really nice, @Jack Rackham!

 

[The Nameless Pirate]

Nice one!

I think VCO uses a different scale altogether, so technically the locations are simply too large for the PotC characters.
It doesn't look completely mad, but I think you do kind-of notice on a subconscious level.

Really?
I thought that it was supposed to be so large.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I thought that it was supposed to be so large.

No. In the imported Tortuga for ex I had yo add separate doors about half the size to make it work.
(Windows are harder to tell if they're too large.)

The strange thing is that in some VCO towns the doors are in an ok size for POTC.

Pictures from a VCO town ready for import - maybe for the future.

 

[The Nameless Pirate]

Interesting, I hadn't noticed it until now.

The strange thing is that in some VCO towns the doors are in an ok size for POTC.

So they probably are too small for VCO, that is strange indeed.

Pictures from a VCO town ready for import - maybe for the future.

Nice, you got me curious @Jack Rackham.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I'll try NOT to add any more new locations to WR2. But I'm always searching for resources like sounds,
music, pictures and 3D-models. You never know when you need them.