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Translations issues

  • An English translation for RS related stuff was requested. Dunno if I really want to translate brainstorming stuff or if I distillate some parts and wreck the other.
  • It has been suggested to put some stuff at Added value sections.
  • Keeping track of quotes:
http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=19468 (http://wiki.oni2.net/User:Paradox-01/quotes_chef_1)
http://forums.bungie.org/oni/archive.pl?read=15104

note about influences:

http://forums.bungie.org/oni/archive.pl?read=4618

search page (somehow defunct):

http://forums.bungie.org/oni/archive.pl?

two more pages (with undocumented sources, cannot find them again):

http://wiki.oni2.net/User:Paradox-01/quotes_clearfy
http://wiki.oni2.net/User:Paradox-01/quotes_old_questions


List of (now) unused sections

While translating I noticed two misplaced sections. "Where went all the details?" was actually part of "Griffin in a Syndicate helicopter?" but off-topic.

Paradox, you do know about this page, right? -- Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Summary_of_2032. It is orphaned, so I just wanted to make sure you didn't forget about it. --Iritscen 20:13, 28 February 2008 (CET)
^_^ Nah, it's not orphaned but part of Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Story_factors as "{{:Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Summary_of_2032}}"
I had split material bigger than 32kb and put it into separate pages.
But thanks for keeping an eye onto redlinks and such.
--Paradox-01 21:19, 28 February 2008 (CET)
Ah, good. Just checking. I never took the time to try to understand the structure of your Restless Souls pages. It's like you have your own little site as part of the wiki :) --Iritscen 21:54, 28 February 2008 (CET)

RS pages structure chart

Restless_Souls
|
+--> various links

Restless_Souls/Reconstruction | | | | | | | | +--> {{:Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Gapfilling}} | +----> {{:Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Global_development}} +------> {{:Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Story_factors}} | +--> {{:Restless_Souls/Reconstruction/Summary_of_2032}}


XML Project

Question: "How should I *not* move pages?" Answer: "By using transclusion." :-P Normally you should use the Move tool, but since the OBD talk pages have had some actual "talk" on them, we probably want to selectively copy and paste the XML content to the new XML: pages. We can discuss this more later, I just wanted to let you know before you made any more "moves" :-) --Iritscen (talk) 02:48, 3 November 2012 (CET)

"Answer: By using transclusion"
By using {{:}}, like I did in XML:AISA ? When I switched off the PC I realized that it wasn't such a good idea (although there was no talk on that page).
XML:AISA doesn't appear in the search because there's no real content on it. So I agree with you to copy-paste the content. -- paradox-01 (talk) 11:15, 3 November 2012 (CET)
Solved. --paradox-01 (talk) 21:16, 6 November 2012 (CET)

Redirects

Iritscen, on YIM you said "there will be a checkbox when you click Move". But I don't see it.

In the process where only those two pages: (1), (2)

Any ideas? --paradox-01 (talk) 13:50, 4 November 2012 (CET)

Solved: missing user right. --paradox-01 (talk) 21:16, 6 November 2012 (CET)

Broken Links

Okay, I moved the pages that we agreed did not have notable history or extant discussion that needed to stay in the OBD namespace (sorry it took so long). Note that there are now red links on pages that referred to the moved pages. You could try going here and searching for "talk". Also, if you search there for "XML"... I assume those are just types that you haven't gotten to document yet? Just curious. --Iritscen (talk) 19:54, 6 November 2012 (CET)

"sorry it took so long" -- I don't mind. Thanks for your assistance. :)
Yes, there are two file types that still need documentation (and others for sake of completeness). Modding the combat behavior was never my favorite and SABD had not much attention so I used my time on different things. The others will be redirects, either because Oni don't use it (AITR) or because the XML for that instance simply exist as file type (AGQR, now part of AKEV).
There are one or two things I would like you to pick up: ONLV and maybe TRBS (see list for reason).
things that need care
XML:AITR replace with better link: redirect to TRGV (I was blindly following analogy to OBD template)
XML:AGQR replace with better link: redirect to ONLV (^)
XML:BINA/SABD todo: documentation
XML:BINA/OBJC/CMBT todo: documentation
XML:HPge todo: documentation (for sake of completeness)
possibly one or two other types that aren't of much use --paradox-01 (talk) 21:16, 6 November 2012 (CET)
Okay, I moved ONLV, but what did you want me to do with TRBS? It looks like you already cut-and-pasted it to XML:. But let me know what else I can do to help. --Iritscen (talk) 23:08, 6 November 2012 (CET)

lol You are right, I guess my cold makes me dizzy. --paradox-01 (talk) 09:33, 7 November 2012 (CET)

Iritscen, when you see this please move another one: http://wiki.oni2.net/OBD_talk:TRGE --paradox-01 (talk) 19:57, 7 November 2012 (CET)


Category

You might want to consider using a category-macro template like Template:OBD instead of manually entering the category name on each XML page. You can then simply drop a little "{{XML}}" at the bottom of each page, and later on the whole category can be "renamed" if we change our minds. --Iritscen (talk) 14:36, 8 November 2012 (CET)

For the records: 'scen, that worked fine.


Overview

  1. Do we have a main XML: page like OBD: has OBD:Oni Binary Data? Would it be "XML_basic_tutorial"?
  2. Is SSG's overview anywhere on the wiki? --Iritscen (talk) 20:42, 7 November 2012 (CET)
  1. Not name-wise. I don't wanted to create a new XML:??? page because that would have been pretty much XML_basic_tutorial as you already guessed. Should it be moved to - lets say - XML:basics ?
  2. Afaik, ssg's overview isn't on this wiki yet. It would be nice to have a port of it. Maybe following style will be sufficient enough. (There are more overviews, just in case you didn't noticed: character files, message files, level 0 files.)
AAAA
 |
 +-- BBBB
 +-- CCCC
 |    |
 |    +-- DDDD
 |
 +-- EEEE


I changed my mind: colored table cells could show embedded instances of files, so ssg's style should be better.
Check this out: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/139715/temp/ssg_overviews_wikified.txt
Now we've to find a good place for it. Any ideas? --paradox-01 (talk) 20:08, 11 November 2012 (CET)
Ooh, I like! The question of where to put it is a good one, as I would love to find a way to merge that hierarchical information with the acronym expansions given on the File types page, and, even better, to also have a small summary of each type ("AKEV (Akira Environment) is ___"). Short of using hover text, which I don't think is ideal, I don't have any ideas yet as to how to fit everything into one display. It just seems wasteful to use a whole page just for showing relationships, with no explanation of each type; also, the File types page is now somewhat wasteful of space too, since investigation of the file types is essentially done and we no longer need a page to track its progress with smileys. At least, that's my opinion; what do you think?
P.S.: One small tip -- I'm generally against the use of images external to the wiki. I would suggest uploading SSG's arrow pics to the wiki and then invoking them as shown below. The blank link field makes them non-clickable:
[[File:Wiki.png|link=]]
--Iritscen (talk) 21:02, 11 November 2012 (CET)


SSG's arrow pics: before we upload them let's be sure we will use them. (If it's going to be a html from an oni2 user account then we wouldn't upload them.)

Proposal of that new page (recycling OBD:file_types). (For Neo's sake, let's keep the ^_^ ? Or another symbol that makes them as done.)

  • With a narrow table the content (types + hierarchy + explanation) should fit on one page.
  • By default the hierarchy tables and explanations are hidden. Clicking a file type from the list at the left makes the corresponding table + explanation visible.

Problem

  • If we can't pull this off we might consider writing a html page although a wiki page would be more appropriated.
  • I don't know if we can show a table and at same time hide the previous table on click event. At least <div> demonstrates that some hiding/showing can be done on the wiki.

PS: http://wiki.oni2.net/User:Iritscen/vector.js - That's some customization but how do you store/call actual java script functions? --paradox-01 (talk) 15:56, 12 November 2012 (CET)

file types
  • <a href="#AISA" id="table_1">AISA</a>
  • <a href="#TXMP" id="table_2">TXMP</a>
  • <a href="#ONCC" id="table_3">ONCC</a>
TxtC
60x20c.gif IGPA
60x20c.gif IGPG
60x20b.gif TSFF
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TSFL
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TSFT
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TSGA
60x20b.gif PSpc
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TXMP
60x20c.gif IGSA
60x20c.gif IGSt
explanation of clicked file type
  • .......
Cool, I like the diagonal striping; I didn't even know that was possible. I also really like how you fit everything onto the page in three columns. I don't have the time this minute to do much work on this myself, but I can at least answer a couple of your questions.
"For Neo's sake, let's keep the ^_^ ?" -- If he still uses them, we should definitely keep them. I guess I was under the impression that Neo isn't really using those anymore. We should ask him.
"I don't know if we can show a table and at same time hide the previous table on click event [...] That's some customization but how do you store/call actual java script functions" -- I would direct your attention to MediaWiki:Common.js (also, note that all the JS pages are linked to on my user page). Towards the top of Common.js is code that imports additional scripts, such as MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js, based on the type or name of the page. E.g., anyone performing an edit will have edit.js loaded for them, which does things like adding buttons to the toolbar (at least, it will when I fix it!). Does that help? --Iritscen (talk) 19:39, 12 November 2012 (CET)
Just a quick note, the repeating-linear-gradient property does not work for WebKit browsers. Chrome/Safari apparently need "-webkit-repeating-linear-gradient" instead. --Iritscen (talk) 03:31, 13 November 2012 (CET)
Another quick note, we would probably want to mimic the JS that enables the divhide template, as you already suggested and in line with this forum post, which means that we probably want to create a new table class (e.g. "click-table") that responds to 'onclick' events by modifying the text in a column in the table (e.g. "click-table-descrip"). But I can't figure out where the file type description text would come from. We don't really want all the description texts lodged inside the Javascript, but rather somewhere we can edit them freely. One possibility is to figure out how to copy/transclude text from a subpage, similar to the way Quotes/Consoles works, where each console quote is on a separate, editable page. --Iritscen (talk) 14:38, 13 November 2012 (CET)

I tried get myself more familiar with the different codes and their mixing, but I would just ending to make hundreds of edits just to learn how to do this or that. So I can't be a great help here. :/ paradox-01 (talk) 22:09, 13 November 2012 (CET)

That's okay, I have played around with JS before. I'll spend some time on this soon. --Iritscen (talk) 00:42, 14 November 2012 (CET)

Okay, I wrote some quick and dirty code and put it in Common.js. Go to my test space's file type table and you should get descriptions when you hover over each type. This could easily be adjusted to require a click instead of a hover but I liked the idea of a no-click interface. I'm going to step aside now and give you the chance to work with this table type as you see fit. I had to simplify the markup for testing purposes, and you might have some better ideas as to how to arrange the table.

As you'll see, the basic idea is that you attach the class "hovertable" to a wikitable, then you place multiple spans in one large cell of class "hovertable_descrip". Each span is "display:none" and contains the description for one type, which is given as that span's id. Then you declare other cells in the hovertable as class "hovercell" with ids that match the ones in the descrip cell. The JS I wrote attaches event handlers to all hovercells which display their corresponding span in the hovertable_descrip cell when the hovercell receives 'mouseover', and hide the span upon 'mouseout'. --Iritscen (talk) 20:22, 16 November 2012 (CET)

I checked your test space. It looks awesome, I didn't expected to see so fast results on this. However, there are 2 things I would like you to think about.
1) SSG's "Level files" table (ONLV) is too big for an absolute location of the explanation: if the user hovers the CRSA table cell he would see nothing because the explanation is out of view.
The solution to this problem might be to fix the explanation area to the screen. Here's an example made of CSS. (basically style="position: fixed; top: 50%; left: 50%;")
2) We talked about merging those hierarchies and the general file type overview. In my last draft the types were vertical listed but I think it will look less odd if they are horizontal (because the tables differ in their number of rows).
At the moment the chasing explanation makes a strange impression but that's due to the other content here. With nothing else then the content under the gray line should look ... not "super" ... but good enough. Or we make a step back and use H template?
2a) If we agree on the merging then the file types should be click-able: if user clicks TxtC type then of course the TxtC table should appear.
I think you can reuse the mechanism here you just created. Not sure about IGPG: it appears in TxtC but also in others (DPge, WPge, Opge, ...)
2b) Facing this problem we might choose an easier path than hiding all tables by default.
If we put all table under each other we could create "AAAA-using types" sections at the end of all tables: If the user clicked IGPG then the browser jumps to that section and there the user reads IGPG being used by this, this and that type. From there he can jump again (by clicking [[#ABCD|ABCD]]) and reaches his final choice (TxtC/DPge/WPge/... table).






ABNA AGQC AGQG AGQR AISA AKAA AKBA AKBP AKEV AKOT AKVA BINA CBPI CBPM CONS CRSA DOOR DPge ENVP FILM HPge IDXA IGHH
IGPA IGPG IGSA IGSt Impt IPge KeyI M3GA M3GM Mtrl OBAN OBOA OFGA ONCC ONCP ONCV ONGS ONIA ONLD ONLV ONOA ONSK ONVL
ONWC OPge OSBD OTIT OTLF PLEA PNTA PSpc PSpL PSUI QTNA SNDD SUBT TRAC TRAM TRAS TRBS TRCM TRGA TRGE TRIA TRIG TRMA
TRSC TRTA TSFF TSFL TSFT TSGA TURR TXAN TXCA TXMA TXMB TXMP TxtC VCRA WMCL WMDD WMM WMMB WPge

Based on OBD:file_types. Maybe we should list BINA subtypes too (object collections like CHAR, CONS, DOOR, ...) ?


TxtC

TxtC
60x20c.gif IGPA
60x20c.gif IGPG
60x20b.gif TSFF
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TSFL
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TSFT
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TSGA
60x20b.gif PSpc
60x20a.gif 60x20c.gif TXMP
60x20c.gif IGSA
60x20c.gif IGSt


[ other tables ]



IGPG-using types



Ah, the fixed-position box is interesting, that could be the answer. I think we will need to have a chat before I can fully understand what we are trying to document, though, in terms of what/how hierarchies are to be shown. I'll look for you online this weekend. --Iritscen (talk) 03:41, 17 November 2012 (CET)

Just a note on where I left off -- I fixed the classes so that the cells are being styled correctly. However, I seem to have accidentally changed the stripe style; I didn't mean to create a stripe with a gradient in it; I just want to make the blue and background colors evenly spaced at 10px or 15px. Also, the "position:fixed" on the descrip cell was somehow shifting the location of the next cell (TxtC), so for now I have removed that property. --Iritscen (talk) 23:56, 17 November 2012 (CET)

If you look closely there are 3 px value in the gradient code: for clean stripes let the last value be the sum of the others.
background-image: -webkit-repeating-linear-gradient(-45deg, transparent, transparent 10px, rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.2) 10px, rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.2) 20px); --paradox-01 (talk) 11:29, 18 November 2012 (CET)
The table in your test space will look okay if you enable the position fixed in Common.css again. That code piece rips the cell out of the table. I added some columns to fix it. --13:12, 18 November 2012 (CET)

Sorry, 'dox, I didn't think it would take very long, but after I had written some of the JavaScript, I could see how complicated it would be. Then I got sidetracked by real life for a while. Normally I would just keep at it until it's done, but seeing as I am trying to get back to my main Oni project ASAP, I'm afraid I have to cut short my work on this. Maybe it's more complicated than it needs to be. If you want to "retreat" back to a simpler solution, then let me know how I can help with that. Otherwise I might have time to finish this at a later date. I just don't want to spend hours on it when it's keeping me from my other work. --Iritscen (talk) 20:57, 17 December 2012 (CET)

New overview

Just wanted to say, I still feel this is an important thing to add to the wiki. But I made it too complex the first time around. Rather than a dynamically generated table, we should probably stick to something that is set up manually. Although my more complex code was never finished, we do still have the hovertable class available, as used above (and I can easily change it to display info on a click instead of a mouse-hover if that's better). Let me know if you have any new ideas on how to present the info, or if you want to stick with the format we had before.

The fact is, looking at this with a fresh perspective, I'm not 100% convinced that the arrow-based table is the best use of space or the easiest thing to read, or that we need fancy JS either. What about the simple text-based approach I suggested here, combined with your anchor-based TOC serving as an alphabetical index at the beginning? --Iritscen (talk) 00:03, 18 April 2013 (CEST)

About that thing at Current_events. Sounds like you want a simple page with sections and links. So if you don't want to hierarchal information then you could take XML:File_types and extend it. In that case I wouldn't use === but {{Anchor|some_anchor_name}}. This prevents the page to be ripped in sections. By that the user can follow links and the page will still look nice. --paradox-01 (talk) 12:56, 18 April 2013 (CEST)
Basically, yes. I like that "File types" page, I just would like the descriptions to be a bit longer and to list what types they have under them, or what types can contain them, and maybe group them by type. I think I'll make a separate WIP table in my userspace so I don't mess up yours, because I'm not 100% clear on what I want it to look like. --Iritscen (talk) 13:59, 18 April 2013 (CEST)
Okay, it can use some nicer formatting, but if you look at my TestSpace, you'll see what I had in mind. It's similar to your XML File types page, just organized by category, and with "parent" and "child" anchor links to the related types on the same page. Probably it can also contain your colored documentation dots and the types can link to their XML: pages instead of OBD:, at least if this replaces your File types page. Any suggestions? --Iritscen (talk) 22:07, 19 April 2013 (CEST)

Caution, the header template on pages like XML:BINA/OBJC/CHAR link to "other BINA" and "other OBJC" (XML:File_types) in analogy to OBD:BINA/OBJC and OBD:BINA.

I like how you structure the descriptions, I'm just a bit unhappy with the index thing because of the mentioned template header. As a compromise perhaps make 3 type indices so that the template can still link to those.

Type index: BINA
  • [...]
Type index: CJBO
  • [...]
Type index: other files
  • [...]
Add color dots and links and I totally agree with replacing current file types page with this second version. :) --paradox-01 (talk) 22:43, 19 April 2013 (CEST)
Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making. I'm not 100% fluent in where all Oni's data is stored (particularly what is in .sep vs. .raw), but my idea was that this wasn't an important distinction to make for the beginner who just wants to know what these kinds of data do. After all, we no longer have to know which file to look in with a hex editor to mod something, we just ask OniSplit to export the data :-) But please let me know what you meant if there's a reason the reader has to think in terms of BINA vs. CBJO vs. everything else. --Iritscen (talk) 23:17, 19 April 2013 (CEST)

I just want the user to be aware of what types belong to object collections (for instance so he does chose the door collection and not the door class) and that searches can be easily be done by BINA*/BINAOBJC*. --paradox-01 (talk) 14:19, 20 April 2013 (CEST)

Your Red Links

Hello, I just looked over the wiki's red links and thought you might like to know that these belong to you:

  • Camp‏‎ (2 links)
  • Silver Dawn‏‎ (2 links)
  • Green Village‏‎ (2 links)
  • Mind Seal‏‎ (2 links)
  • Restless Souls/timeline 2032‏‎ (2 links)
  • „Regierung“‏‎ (1 link)
  • Talk:Restless Souls/Reconstruction‏‎ (1 link)
  • Talk:Restless Souls/Summary‏‎ (1 link)
  • Talk:Restless Souls/Tree Of Theories‏‎ (1 link)
  • Elfenbeintürmen‏‎ (1 link)
  • Talk:Restless Souls/Fragments‏‎ (1 link)
  • Talk:Restless Souls/Ikimas‏‎ (1 link)
  • Oni2:Shinobi‏‎ (1 link)
  • Sub-dermal transponder‏‎ (2 links)
  • 2.3.1 WKR‏‎ (1 link)
  • 2.3.3 Syndikat‏‎ (1 link)
  • D-Spray‏‎ (1 link)
  • BLACKSTARS‏‎ (2 links)
  • Mukade's reanimation‏‎ (2 links)

Just an informational service ^_^ --Iritscen (talk) 20:13, 10 April 2013 (CEST)

Just a little related question, are you planning to move these to XML:?
  • OBD talk:KeyI
  • OBD talk:WMCL
  • OBD talk:DOOR
I ask because they are the only pages left that use the old XMLModdingHints template and seem like the only OBD talk pages left with XML info on them. --Iritscen (talk) 19:18, 12 April 2013 (CEST)

Oh yea I totally forgot about them. But something was going on the the rights. Normal user can't do that unless they want to leave a redirect or something. D: --paradox-01 (talk) 19:43, 12 April 2013 (CEST)

Ah, I guess we never fixed that. I'll move them over. In the future, since you probably won't have many pages to move (will you?), you can just move them and leave the redirect. I'll see it in the logs after and just delete the redirect. --Iritscen (talk) 23:46, 12 April 2013 (CEST)
Now that those pages are moved over to XML:, do you have any plans to use Template:XMLModdingHints anymore, or can I delete it? --Iritscen (talk) 17:38, 17 April 2013 (CEST)
Smash it. :D --paradox-01 (talk) 19:56, 17 April 2013 (CEST)
Heh, okay. --Iritscen (talk) 20:28, 17 April 2013 (CEST)

Music issues

When you have time, can you please test this package: http://edt.oni2.net/temp/60000Soundtrackrenewal.zip I converted this file to oni file: https://soundcloud.com/mengermeester/oni-ae-fight-wip Hopefully, I made the windows version correctly.

I replaced the original files with the updated version. However, it doesn't seems to playback correctly, the transition isn't smooth. The original files were about 11 seconds and less, the updated are 20 seconds and less.

You can hear this music at Manplant save point 1

Thanks EdT (talk)

You imported them correctly. The song plays at that SP. It's as you say the transition doesn't fit. But that's no wonder since it's still a one-piece song and not designed to play pieces in a random order, isn't it?
"Once we have a nice pool of sounds we will go over every trigger and see what fits where. Then we will cut the loops to be modular." I guess we have to wait for the final version? --paradox-01 (talk) 11:17, 16 April 2013 (CEST)
I didn't realize that Oni's music was designed to be played randomly. Learn something everyday. As a temporary workaround, I can modify the OSBD to include only the one song in its entirety, just to be able to hear it in-game. Thanks EdT (talk)

Modding file paths

Just tried to update the XML pages for the new AE's hierarchy, hopefully I didn't mess things up. Just one question, do you want the level-specific file types to give the path as "GameDataFolder/levelX_Final.dat", or should they use AE paths like the other XML pages, i.e. "AE/AEInstaller/vanilla/level0_Final.dat"? Perhaps you want all paths to be consistently using the AE .dats. I thought I was making those paths "universal" by deleting "Edition/", but I didn't think about the fact that "GameDataFolder/levelX_Final.dat" only works for vanilla Oni, as in the AE it would be "AEInstaller/vanilla/levelX_Final.dat". So I'll fix those if you agree, since I'm the one that messed them up :-) --Iritscen (talk) 15:43, 18 April 2013 (CEST)

Consistency is good. I just hope we can tell newbes somewhere that vanilla are original files only and GameDataFolder contain vanilla + mods. --paradox-01 (talk) 15:55, 18 April 2013 (CEST)
Well, the vanilla/ folder is documented in AE/Framework, but it probably should be repeated in other places to make sure the modder understands that. I do agree that we should be consistent, so I'll fix those pages. --Iritscen (talk) 16:07, 18 April 2013 (CEST)

Gears sound

Hey, not that I want you to spend much time on this, but I'm not very familiar with how ambient sounds work, and I was wondering if you ever looked into this issue. I can see the reference to SNDDgears in the level's CBJOSound file, but adding the sound EdT supplied to level 14 (I also tried level 0) doesn't seem to add any noise to the gears at the end of the level. I teleported to the coordinates the Sound file has set for "gears", 676.3 64.7 -1898.3, and it places you on top of the gears, so I don't know why the sound isn't there. Maybe just something to spend a minute on if you feel like it. --Iritscen (talk) 15:42, 23 April 2013 (CEST)

It turned out that SNDD is stereo while the grp file asks for a mono channel file. New grp file.

Cool, thanks! Now if I can find a good royalty-free sound to use, I can fix this in AE core. At the least, it prevents us from getting bombarded with errors when we get near there in Dev Mode! --Iritscen (talk) 21:16, 23 April 2013 (CEST)

Hmm, sorry to bother you about this again, but can you watch these two 5MB movies? http://iritscen.oni2.net/temp/GearsTestMac.mp4 and http://iritscen.oni2.net/temp/GearsTestWindows.mp4. The gears sound completely different! The original sound is here and the package is here (note that it has a core number so it will show up in core packages in the AEI, not the main window). Incidentally, the movies are of me testing sound occlusion, but that's a whole different subject. I looked around the wiki but I don't see anything about sounds turning out completely different from platform to platform. --Iritscen (talk) 14:05, 24 April 2013 (CEST)

The new mac file doesn't work for me.
Over here the old mac file sounds like your pc version. --paradox-01 (talk) 16:09, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
Mac sound is fine here. Perhaps it will be easier if Paradox can convert the original gear sound to Win version and test. EdT (talk)
I wasn't really asking you to test the Mac side, just to listen to the sounds in the movies :-) What do you mean it doesn't work for you? The WAV version was saved directly from the AIFF file (chose "uncompressed 44KHz" for the WAV, but I'm not sure it's PCM), so it's the same sound, but in-game it sounds really muddy, and lower-pitched. I thought this might have been covered already on the wiki, I just don't know where to look. --Iritscen (talk) 16:43, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
As you saw after that sndd page edit: 44.1 mono needs also number of channel: 2. Next time simply include the grp file in the package.  :) --paradox-01 (talk) 18:13, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
I had tried using my own .grp and I think it disabled the sound on Mac or Windows, so I went back to using the existing one. I guess now I understand that it should use "2" for NumberOfChannels in Windows and "1" on Mac, so I will try that later today. Thanks! --Iritscen (talk) 18:53, 24 April 2013 (CEST)

While testing sound files I had problems with level0 plugins, I'm not sure if new grp/amb are accepted from those. In the end I used import via AE package. Maybe it's the same problem for you? --paradox-01 (talk) 20:23, 24 April 2013 (CEST)

Well, I only use packages when modding :) But perhaps it didn't like just getting the .grp without the .amb or vice-versa. At one point I was trying to adjust the volume, and another time I wanted to widen the sound sphere, but I think both changes failed to work for me. It was one of those awful modding sessions where I stayed up late and got nothing done; and here I thought this would be a simple matter to put to rest! --Iritscen (talk) 21:07, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
In case you changed amb's sphere, I believe that it gets overwritten by BINACJBOSound.xml's own. --paradox-01 (talk) 21:25, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
Oh brother. Okay, good to know. --Iritscen (talk) 21:35, 24 April 2013 (CEST)

Old prone mode

Do you think AE:Sniper_scope_and_prone_mode needs to be kept? I glanced at it, and it seems to be a more primitive version of your Prone Mode 1.0.3. Since I am cleaning up stuff that was formerly a part (or planned part) of the AE, I'd like to be able to get rid of that page. --Iritscen (talk) 22:01, 23 April 2013 (CEST)

I actually like how geyser explained the difficulties with the scope in words of wisdom (including ninja left handedness). Maybe you could move those details elsewhere? --paradox-01 (talk) 18:19, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
Okay, I've actually changed my mind since I posted that and no longer desire to delete most of those old AE pages. I'll just make a note explaining how it is obsolete. --Iritscen (talk) 18:57, 24 April 2013 (CEST)

Dead link

Hi Paradox-01 the following link for demo files is down, can you upload it again? Maybe to depot so it don't get deleted?

   page: http://wiki.oni2.net/XML:ONLV#Level_import_with_OniSplit_v0.9.82.0.2B
   link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1869/lab.zip
   "Level import with OniSplit v0.9.82.0+
   
   Demo files
   Demo files can be downloaded here."

Script 10k (talk) 18:56, 4 January 2014 (CET)


Were not mine, but I will see if can throw something new together. :)
--paradox-01 (talk) 20:16, 4 January 2014 (CET)
Sorry my fault, I don't know how I deleted that file. It has been replaced with a newer version, more stuff inside :) EdT (talk)
Ok thank both you. Link updated. Script 10k (talk) 22:14, 4 January 2014 (CET)

Image redlink

Hi 'dox, back when you made this edit, you referenced an image that doesn't exist. Is that something you meant to upload afterward? --Iritscen (talk) 21:16, 20 March 2014 (CET)

Hm yeah, I wasn't sure what TV to snapshot and then forgot. :) paradox-01 (talk) 22:00, 20 March 2014 (CET)