[RWG - Quest Marker Underground]

A point of clarification: while it is rare that a POI suffers from this problem, when a POI is suffering it always suffers. Based on @Melange's testing it happened every time he had a quest to a specific POI.

 

As the creator of that POI, I was unable to recreate the problem. I can confirm the Quest Marker is placed on the surface in the POI's files.

 

Genosis had a video where the same issue happened on the same POI. In Genosis' case, the Quest Marker also appeared behind the POI in a location I suspect was based on rotating the POI twice for placement by RWG.

[RWG - Mountain Stamp - Exception]

Same issue with a hills stamp.

[RWG - Mountain Stamp - Exception]

6 minutes ago, paulj_3 said:

all mountains "appear" to be inverted. Is this just me?

 

I think that's a quirk of shading. Tall things appear deep and the reverse unless you fly down and look at them.

[RWG - Mountain Stamp - Exception]

16 minutes ago, paulj_3 said:

I'm very much completely naive and un-knowledgeable in any stamp-making, ZZ, but in looking at my own "Stamps" folder - all mountains, craters, lakes, etc., - appear as "raw" formatted files...  Maybe a possible reason?

pj

 

Is near as I can tell, TFP used RAW files, but made a comment on the boards that PNGs would work using Greyscale, 16 Bit PC Byte Order. So far, PNGs are working for canyons, craters, and lakes (I've not yet tried rivers) ... all of the things that lower terrain ... but my attempt to use a PNG for a mountain (raising terrain) threw the Null Reference Exception.

[Treasure Quest Map Generates Dig Area in Radiation Zone]

Just FYI, this duplicates an already confirmed bug report...

 

 

[RWG - Mountain Stamp - Exception]

Attached is a test file you can use to recreate the issue. Put this file in a modlet's Stamps folder. Your modlet files would look like this:

 

testmod/

    ModInfo.xml

    Stamps/

        mountains_zztong_01.png

 

I did learn that I was not exporting my PNGs correctly, however the problem persists with correctly exported PNGs too, like the one that is attached.

In case it isn't clear, this exception happens when using RWG to generate a new world.

[RWG - Mountain Stamp - Exception]

The exception happens when "Writing Stamps to Map" if that helps.

 

Make a PNG:

1. Make the image Grayscale in Gimp
2. Make part of the image 255,255,255 (white)
3. Make the rest of the image 32,32,32 (ground level gray)
4. Export as PNG, 16 bit PC byte order.
5. Put file into modlet's "Stamps" folder.

 

Expected result would be whatever you made to be white in step 2 would be a very noticable mountain. Instead, exception.

 

Other possibility is I'm not making a valid image. However, that same approach, but with step 2 being done in Black, makes for a working crater.

[house_modern_23 - Where's the Zombie?]

More pics. The zombie is waaaaay up in the ceiling.

[Wilderness POI without leading road]

I saw in happen in A20.5b2 just a couple of days ago. It seems to be pretty rare and I was thinking maybe that's intended.

[RWG does not place Parts with Mixed-Case Filenames]

This is related to, but not a duplicate of, another bug report named "Prefab Editor - Still Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder."

[Prefab Editor - Still Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

There's a companion bug that I'm going to report. The RWG code cannot find a part with upper case letters in the file name.

 

So, once a person arranges for the Prefab Editor to see parts that you have created, if you named your custom part with using an uppercase letter, the RWG code won't place it regardless of whatever percentage chance you gave it. I suspect the RWG code is ignoring files it cannot find and for some reason cannot find files with upper-case letters.

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

2 minutes ago, Jugginator said:

Oof sorry about that, was a time I was in the middle of a move and what free time I had was pounding on other internal testing and this slipped me. It's in the queue, thanks for the video

 

Leaving this here since another post was made which is in confirmed

 

No worries. I understand. I hope you don't mind me making a duplicate report. On my end it looked like it was a dead issue and I was trying to figure out how to start using custom Parts in a manner that wouldn't lead to a mess on my dev machine.

[Prefab Editor - Still Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

10 hours ago, TSBX said:

Hey zz,

I've got some higher priority stuff to work on right now, but I'll take a look at it as soon as possible, thank you!

 

Awesome, thanks. I can't ask for anything more than that.

 

I just found a work-around. It involves making a symbolic link to my modlet's Parts folder from the Game's Parts folder.

 

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\Data\Prefabs\Parts>
mklink ZZParts /d "C:\Users\zzton\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Mods\ZZTong Prefabs\Prefabs\Parts"

 

THIS WORKED. The POI Marker Editor can now see the Parts in my modlet.

 

While this enables my development, I'd still call it a work-around.

 

I'm so happy Windows now does symbolic links. Yay! Yay! Yay! /happydance.

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

To quote Pink Floyd, "Is there anybody out there?"

 

Alpha 20.4 is now experimental. The Mod folder is moving to %APPDATA% and this issue is still present. This report is still listed as an "incomplete report", yet here's a video showing it...

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PU0YjKjenE2J50MCoW7KpkxJBihLXj4/view

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

@Jugginator I see this is still listed as an Incomplete Report. What more can I provide?

[RWG - DivideByZero - Wilderness POIs]

@unholyjoe @Arch-Sage Yes, I was free of the problem the day I discovered it because I added the missing XML to my POIs, so I didn't notice that it was otherwise resolved. Awesome. Thanks for the fix and for the response.

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

@Jugginator Is there anything more I can provide on this report? What would be useful?

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

@Jugginator I'm back in action. I've made a video to show the problem. You can find it here:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PU0YjKjenE2J50MCoW7KpkxJBihLXj4/view?usp=sharing

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

On 12/30/2021 at 6:01 PM, Jugginator said:

Hi can you post an example of a POI modlet/with custom Parts to see what you're doing?

 

Err, yeh...

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--ZnwV0hbYc6DI4ATpT5R0tC4j7XTVz-?usp=sharing

 

... I'd make you a ZIP with a ready to go example, but my Dev machine is dead. The replacement won't be up until probably around Jan 14th.

 

That link is to a copy of an unreleased version of my modlet. Inside the Prefabs are subdirectories that match the game's Prefab folder. You'll find a Parts folder in my modlet. While I can edit those parts, the Prefab Editor won't let me place them. I can only place Parts from the vanilla game.

 

I think I tried copying my parts to the vanilla game Parts folder and that didn't work either. Maybe I'm missing a tag, or some other flag?

[RWG - Custom Gateway Dominates Selections - Excludes Other Tiles]

On 1/6/2022 at 2:41 PM, WretchedDollie said:

I checked with the level design team regarding these gateway caps. Custom gateway caps are not supported yet and will hopefully be worked on in A21.

 

Ah, thanks for the follow-up.

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

Erg, actually, I'm not having any luck with custom Parts at all. No matter when I store them, they're not showing up in game. I have them tagged as "part" and I'm not sure what else to do.

[Prefab Editor - Cannot Access Parts in Modlet's Parts Folder]

Update: RWG also cannot locate Parts in a modlet's Prefabs/Parts folder. It appears to only search the game;s Prefabs/Parts folder.

I should add, this basically means that if we make a custom POI we either have to choose between not using custom Parts, or having our customers install our custom Parts into the game's Parts folder.

[RWG - DivideByZero - Wilderness POIs]

2 hours ago, Hated said:

I'd like the outputlog for this.

 

Here's two...

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1St0zhFlBMMK8WJZq3SVH6__9xaaXZxWj?usp=sharing

 

I could probably reproduce this, if needed. I just need to keep a copy of my custom POIs from the previous build where that XML element isn't included. Then put that folder in Prefabs and generate a 8192 world with the seed "Wilderness" with many Towns and many Wilderness POIs, rest default. It was throwing the error every time until I edited the POIs with the new version and saving updated the XML.

In the same google drive shared folder you'll find a folder with custom POIs in it. Put that folder in your prefabs folder, then generate a world using B231.

 

Seed: Wilderness

Size: 8192

Towns: Many

Wilderness POIs: Many

 

... and you should see the same exception.

[RWG - DivideByZero - Wilderness POIs]

Crap. forgot the stack trace...

 

DivideByZeroException: Attempted to divide by zero. at WorldGenerationEngineFinal.WorldBuilder.spawnWildernessPrefab (PrefabData _prefab, Vector2i _prefabPos, System.Boolean _isTrader, System.Boolean _checkTownshipSafeBounds) [0x002df] in <a70e13923c11440db6ee31eb8c04b409>:0 at WorldGenerationEngineFinal.WorldBuilder+<generateWilderness>d__77.MoveNext () [0x00386] in <a70e13923c11440db6ee31eb8c04b409>:0 at UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator enumerator, System.IntPtr returnValueAddress) [0x00026] in <544fca0986d54eca88fc7c56e2a8b4b4>:0