The next Bridge Plugin module - BP Uniforms - Beta soon!

[MLeo]

Ok, I think I've fixed all the problems I've found, and did a bit of polishing.

All uniforms are sorted now (based on name and parent/addon relation).


The only thing that could be considerd "missing" is a menu for uniforms with addons, instead of having the addon uniforms listed under the parent uniform.

I just haven't made a menu yet that has a selection option.
I will personally ignore and ban from my IM systems for the person who says anything that's a derative of: "This mod sucks, it doesn't have menu's for those addon uniforms!" and I mean it.

In lighter news, I think it's finnished.
Beta will be held as soon as the new beta for Core is released.

Also, Mark finnished (yesterday, or the day before) the logo for this module, check the first post to see it.

[El]

Just a thought, but would it be possible to link a bridge type to a specific uniform and/or race?
e.g
Cardy bridge - Cardie uniforms and faces
Klingon bridge - Klingon uniforms and faces

etc

Maybe have a flag that matches these up  subject to availability of course?

[cpthooker]

I like the logo, is there anything he can't do ;)?

[MLeo]

Just a thought, but would it be possible to link a bridge type to a specific uniform and/or race?
e.g
Cardy bridge - Cardie uniforms and faces
Klingon bridge - Klingon uniforms and faces

etc

Maybe have a flag that matches these up  subject to availability of course?

Already possible.;)

For both of them.
And the Cardi uniform has code in it that links it to the bridge, but only because when the bridge plugin (for the galor bridge) was written, it was forgotten that this was possible. So I've added 3 lines to do this.
Same for the Klingon uniforms.

And about your second comment, it has the ability to specify uniforms for every character (with the possibility of a default uniform if any of the other uniforms aren't found) _or_ 1 for the entire bridge.

I like the logo, is there anything he can't do ;)?

I think Mark can do everything when it comes to graphics.

I myself still can't make BC set coffee.... ;)
Or something more practical, let it change iTunes.



About what I said about the menu's in the uniform menu, what I can do is the following. I can make it change colour when you have selected it.
But it might not be all that clear for the end user. I will have to thinker with it though.

[EDIT] I'll make it configurable.


[EDIT 2] Elminster, you just made the beta list.;)
Thanks to your post I've thought of another implicit uniform, the Default Race Uniform.
It depends on the Race Definition to get a default uniform (the FedShipDef or KlingonShipDef or RomulanShipDef).


[EDIT 3 :roll: ] I forgot this, you might be interrested in how to do the default stuff.
For both (or, in the future, 3) possible ways to add a default uniform, you include a "Default Uniform": "Uniform Name" or a "Default Uniform": {"Tactical": "Uniform Name", ...} in the ShipDef or BridgeDef (or RaceDef).

[MLeo]

Another little update, I've dropped the menu addon for sub menu's.

Uniforms are orderd correctly though.

The reason is, that the menu's didn't act like my test case.
And it introducted a lot of other problems as well.

So, if you ever get those menu's, then it will be in an addon to Uniforms.


I did manage to add the idea Elminster gave me, Race Uniforms.

So if I fix Animated Maps, and maybe add another feature to the Core, then it will be Beta time!

[FekLeyr Targ]

120 days are gone since the last post. How much have you completed the module, yet?

[JimmyB76]

please never ever ever ever ever bump a thread asking for updates - bumping a thread asking for updates (especially quoting the number of days since the last post) will not force one, it will only annoy everyone else - especially the modder...

[BES]

I would like it if someone showed interest in anything I have been working on(as long as it isnt obsesive), dont know about MLeo.

On other fan sites where there is a modding section moderators encourage others to ask about the project to see if its still going on the forum, they would look at this thread and wonder what has become of the project.
It gets peoples hopes up when they see a project being worked on and constantly updated,and bums people out when they dont see any updates at all..
an example would be ATP Dimensions(no offense to the creator),It got my hopes up bigtime,I never saw anymore updates for it and its still sitting at the same status it was before,I know the guy was very busy but it was almost done,then he cancels the whole thing,that would have been the greatest BC mod ever.

In my book no one should get anyones hopes up unless you plan on completing the project,even if someone elses help is needed to finish it..hence my constant baggering in the scripting forum since Im still stuck on some things, but I have dropped it and will ask elsewhere so I can get my mod completed..

Soo im wondering why its such a Hot issue with you moderators and others being asked on this forum and on BCU about asking what has become of a mod?...if you dont want to answer in public...send me a PM please..

[MLeo]

Right, how is it going.

It could be released tomorrow.
Mostlikely not.

Atleast not after I finish that last report for school and secure something so that I can do something after school.

The last 120 days have been filled with school.
School.
Intern.
School.
More school.
Some more school.
And now this last assignment for which I know everything about the subject, except for how to write it down so that it looks nice and not like a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters appearently making a nice attempt at Shakespear in some random language.


The other thing, we have this nice Major/Minor model (thank you Americans, luckily for me, I can still use the not mad and weird sounding "Bachelor" title). When I was required to choose one, it was advised to do it in 2 terms (I think that's the right thing). And I just heard they aren't going to offer that. Since my "school" (it's an aggregate of many schools, I'm talking about freaking management here) decided to "advise" (practicly requiring it for all minors) to do them in "ribbon" (once a week for 40 weeks, instead for 4 or 5 days a week for 20, my prefered choice, and the advise when I chose one). So, nice.
It may mean I can/have to start my final intern (which will complete my Bachelor) half a year early, after 25 weeks (instead of 20, so 5 shamefull weeks being the only guy who had to do 5 more, the only others who had more weeks were so bad they had to do extra to still fail, but they worked to pay for all the damage they had caused at their respective companies) I will have to sit there, doing nothing except for 1 day in the week, for the next 15 weeks. Bliss.


So, excuse me if I haven't had the time to complete it.
For your information, last time I still had to fix my Sub menu part for the uniforms.
And by my standards, programming should be done as an art (and I aspire to do so).


This is exactly the kind of thing (well, half of it, the other half is spend flaming and insulting to towards the person asking) why we impose a rule not to ask when it's done.



Since there is only 1 answer:
 

With the exception that the smilie isn't smiling.

[tiqhud]

Well , Mleo, SCHOOL COMES FIRST.
nuff said

[BES]

There was no reason to get hostile about my post,I was just saying that you shouldnt just leave people hanging you gotta tell people what your progress is, or why you have halted your project, you didnt say anything untile now AFTER someone asks,then you get hostile...what do ya expect?

I respect that you put school first I dont have a problem at all with that, take as long as you want with your mod,school is a way bigger priority.

If im taking ages on a project I will post SOMETHING even if i have nothing to show yet,at least telling about what im working on currently,just so the thread doesnt leave the first page and to keep peoples hopes up,if you let it go for 120+days people will lose interest/hope in it and think you have scrapped the project.

So I dont see asking as a problem when it comes to anything I work on,but as I said I havent worked on anything that really got anyone excited ...yet for BC,so I assume it might be a problem if your a badarse modeler or scripter and people are REALLY interested in what your making..

I dont have a problem with ya MLeo...sorry if I have given ya hell in the past but I didnt know your situation...untile now, thats why you people making mods should express yourselves better before people like me dig themselves into a hole because they didnt know your situation..

[Mark]

If im taking ages on a project I will post SOMETHING even if i have nothing to show yet,at least telling about what im working on currently,just so the thread doesnt leave the first page and to keep peoples hopes up.

BES you dont just make posts about having nothing to show, you make entire threads about it. Thats just your style, and it reflects your motives.. but MLeo may not be doing this to get other people interested, alot of us make stuff because it challenges us personally and thats enough.

So really Mleo owes us nothing, and if he doesn't feel the need to keep people informed about the mod then that his decision to make.

This argument ends now, or I will lock the thread.