Fix in Progress System.log: Missing Textures

[Pieter Boelen]

There are still some fairly consistent problems being logged in system.log .
While I don't think they are generally very harmful, they probably don't help with game stability either.
So if we can do something to fix them, really we should.

Bad rope data still occurs:

Bad rope data for rope: (rope num = 110) (begin group=0, end group=-1)
Begin pointer = 0? end pointer = 323841252
Bad rope data for rope: (rope num = 210) (begin group=-1, end group=0)
Begin pointer = 323841252? end pointer = 0

And missing textures that aren't actually used but are still referred to:

Can't load texture resource\textures\SHIPS\RNDC.TGA.tx

We'd first need to know WHICH ships are affected by this.
The texture errors can probably be fixed relatively easily by HEX-editing the GM models.

The rope data would be more tricky; @Hylie Pistof is the expert on that subject.

One thing we have done in the past is to automatically cycle through all ships in the game to find out what problems lie with which specific ships.
The code to do that is still in console.c:

      if(!Checkattribute(pchar,"cheatship")) Pchar.cheatship = 0;
       int con = sti(Pchar.cheatship);
       if(con<SHIP_TYPES_QUANTITY)
       {
         GiveShip2Character(pchar,ShipsTypes[con].id,"Test Ship",-1,ENGLAND,true,true);
         Pchar.cheatship = con +1;
       }
       TraceAndLog("*************************** Ship : " + ShipsTypes[con].id + " , Index : " + con + " ");

 

[Levis]

I might be able to write a program which scans all gm files for textures and compiles a list of the used ones, so we could remove the unused ones and see which ones are missing....

 

[Pieter Boelen]

So then we'd get a last of existing and non existing references per model file so that we'll know which ones to Hex edit too?
How much work would that be? And how would you read those GM files?

 

[Levis]

would probably take me a few hours to do not so much more.
I just use a program like matlab to read trough the files. the textures aren't encoded so I just read the ascii data and store it.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I just use a program like matlab to read trough the files. the textures aren't encoded so I just read the ascii data and store it.

How do you read texture assignments from GM files with Matlab? They're all binary files.

 

[Levis]

How do you read texture assignments from GM files with Matlab? They're all binary files.

You can read binary files with matlab. Done it before multiple times. I even wrote savegame modifiers in matlab .

in case you want more info check here (http://nl.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fopen.html) and the function fread and fscanf and fseek are very nice .

 

[Pieter Boelen]

in case you want more info check here (http://nl.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fopen.html) and the function fread and fscanf and fseek are very nice .

I've definitely used those functions, but for text files. Can't say I understand binaries very well.
I don't even know what HEX-editing IS; I just see recognizable text and edit it.

 

[Levis]

You can also take a look at this setting in the engine.ini

texture_log = 0

it seems to generate a log of every texture which is called

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Now that the bad rope data have largely been tackled by the combined efforts of @pedrwyth and @Hylie Pistof, the only other system.log issues I know of are:

- Missing textures (also already partly fixed)
- Notes about missing sound files (these are quite inconsistent as far as I could tell)
- Missing fireplaces (corrected now on at least one ship that had it)
^ I know it affects the "boat", but I think that one can basically never catch on fire so it doesn't matter where the fireplace goes, as long as there is one somewhere.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I split this thread into many separate ones as it was becoming quite confusing.
This original thread is left for any Missing Texture references that you might encounter.