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Title: MVAM help needed
Post by: lint on December 22, 2007, 05:37:14 PM

hey all,
Anyone care to help me out with MVAM, shoot me off a message :D

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: MLeo on December 22, 2007, 06:39:57 PM

It would be helpfull to state your problem with this. Since all the instructions are in the example plugins (scripts/Custom/Autoload/Mvam/MvamPrometheus.py and scripts/Custom/Autoload/Mvam/MvamGalaxy.py).

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: lint on December 22, 2007, 06:47:23 PM

i dunno how to use the damn thing to set up moveable wings on my brel, i tried a few times and have the 2 different nifs, but in game the MVAM button is un-available, i have tried to figure out the mvam.py and i thought i had but its a no go :(

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: MLeo on December 22, 2007, 06:52:20 PM

The name of the plugin under scripts/Custom/Autoload/Mvam ought to be the same as the ship file (as in under scripts/ships/) of the total ship.

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: Darkthunder on December 22, 2007, 06:52:39 PM

Quote from: lint on December 22, 2007, 06:47:23 PM

i dunno how to use the damn thing to set up moveable wings on my brel, i tried a few times and have the 2 different nifs, but in game the MVAM button is un-available, i have tried to figure out the mvam.py and i thought i had but its a no go :(

Use the fTech stuff for movable wings instead of MVAM would be my suggestion... MVAM is only good for ships that actually separate, whereas fTech (used on the LC Intrepid) is good for movable parts such as wings.

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: lint on December 22, 2007, 06:59:19 PM

yeah, i know the differences, but ftech looks so much more damn complicated,  :lol:

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: MLeo on December 22, 2007, 07:04:52 PM

More complicated than thinking out every aspect of it, where to place the camera, how fast the ships need to go, how long will the cutscene be?

I do admit, it may seem daunting, but FTech usually is just a bunch of key->value pairs.
And then sometimes with additional sub key->value pairs.

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: lint on December 22, 2007, 07:23:04 PM

ill try MVAM first and if im not happy with the result ill look into Ftech, but i have named the .py the same as the ships script, and still no luck

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: MLeo on December 22, 2007, 07:30:23 PM

Did you follow all the instructions?
Especially about the naming?
And remember, Python is case sensitive.

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: lint on December 22, 2007, 07:34:38 PM

it is?, oh god..
haha, maybe thats my problem

Title: Re: MVAM help needed
Post by: FekLeyr Targ on December 26, 2007, 05:11:03 AM

Quote from: MLeo on December 22, 2007, 07:30:23 PM

Did you follow all the instructions?
Especially about the naming?
And remember, Python is case sensitive.

Mleo is. right. Even if a letter is a small letter instead of a capital one (or reversed) in a code, the code won't work.