Do we have a 'porting' tutorial yet?

Eaglebird · Post by **Eaglebird** » 30 Jun 2007, 23:04

Not to necessarily encourage one, but I have an old unit pack, not a whole mod, that I kinda wanted to port from ta to spring. Anyone tried such so far, or had any success?

And yes, I've tried copying it all and 7zipping it into an sd7, it crashes spring right after the start locations are set and the game actually starts.

AF · Post by AF » 01 Jul 2007, 00:10

first of all OTA doesnt use the same texture format as spring, it uses GAF, whereas spring uses plain image files or DDS.

Eaglebird · Post by **Eaglebird** » 01 Jul 2007, 00:31

Well I have the old gaf builder. I can export them all to bmp. Can the dds converter sequence them?

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 01 Jul 2007, 00:52

Better off using gafdump. It's faster and converts all of them at once

Eaglebird · Post by **Eaglebird** » 01 Jul 2007, 01:01

Guessmyname wrote:Better off using gafdump. It's faster and converts all of them at once

I checked it out and don't see its use, yet. I have all the gaf's extracted already from hpiview, I just need to convert them to the dds format for spring.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 01 Jul 2007, 01:10

No you don't. 3do textures need to be in .bmp format in the unittextures/tatex directory

Eaglebird · Post by **Eaglebird** » 01 Jul 2007, 01:15

Guessmyname wrote:No you don't. 3do textures need to be in .bmp format in the unittextures/tatex directory

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, alright. Even the sequenced, 1 2 3 4 5, ones?

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 01 Jul 2007, 01:39

No, unfortunately they don't work, and will take up valuable texture space (all 3do textures have to fit on a 2048x2048 sheet) so you'd be better off deleting the bitmaps for their sequences

Eaglebird · Post by **Eaglebird** » 01 Jul 2007, 01:42

Well everything's been converted and put together. What would cause the game to crash right after the start timer gets to 0 and the commander is about to be placed down?

AF · Post by AF » 01 Jul 2007, 02:26

take the crash stacktrace from infolog.txt and run it through the stacktrace translator which youll find in the dev forum in the dev links sticky. The files mentioend should give you a clue.

Eaglebird · Post by **Eaglebird** » 01 Jul 2007, 02:29

AF wrote:take the crash stacktrace from infolog.txt and run it through the stacktrace translator which youll find in the dev forum in the dev links sticky. The files mentioend should give you a clue.

Alright, thanks. I had peeked at it earlier but couldn't make any sense of the file.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 01 Jul 2007, 02:36

missing files for your commander could cause a 0 point crash

you might want to try adding one unit at a time to an existing mod before doing a full scale unit-pack

AF · Post by AF » 01 Jul 2007, 02:55

Any text in the chat console is mirrored to infolog.txt. You may find error messages such as xyz not found in there that happened in the few seconds before spring crashed but didnt get drawn to the screen.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 01 Jul 2007, 04:42

unit packs such as UTSAP and TAUIP (both of which i have successfully ported) do not have commanders or any of the cavedog ota units included. easiest way i found to port it is dump the .ufo file(s) for the unit pack in you spring/base dir, then merge ccdata.ccx and totala1.hpi into a single .sd7 called whatever you want, add a modinfo file like this

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[MOD]
{
	Name=OTAUIP;
	Description=OTAUIP;
	URL=BLANK;

	ModType=1;

	NumDependencies=7;
	Depend0=springcontent.sdz;
	Depend1=otacontent.sdz;
	Depend2=tatextures.sdz;
	Depend3=tauip-unitdata.ufo;
	Depend4=tauip-airunits.ufo;
	Depend5=tauip-landunits.ufo;
	Depend6=tauip-seaunits.ufo;
}

and you're away laughing...

almost. some of the models, most of the scripts and a lot of the weapons get broken when they are ported into spring, if you want to make a full conversion of something like UTSAP or TAUIP into spring, be prepared to spend hundreds of hours modeling, scripting and re-writing .tdf files

*edit* i feel compelled to mention that i started on converting TAUIP to work properly in spring before i started my current project, i decided to make a whole new mod because it would be easier, and at the end of the day the work would be all mine.

theHive · Post by **theHive** » 01 Jul 2007, 05:16

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=show&a=it&id=1257

This is OTA, I think...

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 01 Jul 2007, 05:54

easiest way i found to port it is dump the .ufo file(s) for the unit pack in you spring/base dir

Won't work online, also units using custom gafs will have texture issues.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 01 Jul 2007, 07:50

rattle wrote:
easiest way i found to port it is dump the .ufo file(s) for the unit pack in you spring/base dir
Won't work online, also units using custom gafs will have texture issues.

tbh, not working online/ texture issues will be the very least of his worries ime.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 01 Jul 2007, 08:51

If you throw anything into spring/base you cannot play online at all.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 01 Jul 2007, 09:02

KDR_11k wrote:If you throw anything into spring/base you cannot play online at all.

hasnt stopped me.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 01 Jul 2007, 09:27

You get sync errors if you play with anyone else, no matter which mod you use.

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Do we have a 'porting' tutorial yet?

Do we have a 'porting' tutorial yet?