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I can't say this enough, TheLacus. You're doing a singularly amazing job putting all of this together.

Thank you. I'm happy to give my contribution to this project

Interkarma wrote:I can't say this enough, TheLacus. You're doing a singularly amazing job putting all of this together.

Seconded. This is fantastic work and is going to have the biggest impact on turning Daggerfall into a modern game

tyhender wrote: Simply amazing.
Now I see why DaggerXL died. DaggerXL is closed-source, and there's no theLacus to do all that amazing stuff for DaggerXL.

Arl wrote: This is taking things to even more exiting stages, thank you TheLacus.

i've had a tiny bit of success and some crashes.
1- To get anything in game it requires running Unity as administrator (Win10).
2- Replacing any of the other billboards or static tree placement with my tree results in a crash to desktop.

In Dragontail mnts i found 1 of my trees in town.
However the image is squished so evidently i have to maintain the height and width proportions?
But this would make it difficult to keep to the usual 128/256/512/1024 dimensions.


Edit: can't reproduce results consitently.
One time the tree is in the game, next time it isn't.
Could this be a result of a 'dirty save'?

Fired up vanilla DF and visited the same town to confirm the vanilla trees really are the same ones i'm replacing.

jman0war wrote:i've had a tiny bit of success and some crashes.
1- To get anything in game it requires running Unity as administrator (Win10).
2- Replacing any of the other billboards or static tree placement with my tree results in a crash to desktop.

Does it happens with both your build and the new version released by Intekarma? Can you check if you have something strange in the last part of DaggerfallUnity_Data\output_log.txt?
Also please tell me the name of the locations where you are testing.

jman0war wrote: In Dragontail mnts i found 1 of my trees in town.
However the image is squished so evidently i have to maintain the height and width proportions?
But this would make it difficult to keep to the usual 128/256/512/1024 dimensions.

Billboards have the same size as in the vanilla game, so yes, they need to have the same proportions.
Alternatively, you can change the size of the mesh like i wrote in the first post.

It is currently possible to replace billboards (sprites) textures only in interiors, dungeons and fixed locations (towns). Texture replacement for billboards support animations (you can have as many frames as you want, even more or less than vanilla) and emission maps.

For a simple texture swap, only texture files are needed. They will have the same size as vanilla, regardless of resolution.
If you want to customize the size, for example because your sprite has different proportions, you can do so with an xml file. All frames share the same file.

Archive_Record-0.xml

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<info>
<scaleX>1</scaleX>
<scaleY>1</scaleY>
</info>

(1:1) means the same size as vanilla, (1:2) has a double height, (0.5:1) is half as wide.

Town is called Pythilaza in DragonTail Mnts.
In the very NE corner are about 5 or 6 of these 510_12 trees with a couple of cattle next to them.
I verified this by visiting the town in my vanilla DF game in dosbox.

What i find really bizarre now is the only way my tree shows up in Pythilaza, is if i name my tree: "504_12-0.png"

Why 504_12?
Well, i had thought of a place where i know there are some staticly placed trees : Wayrest along the walkway to the castle.
Those trees are 504_12.

So i copied my 510_12 tree into the StreamingAssets\Textures directory and named it "504_12-0.png"; i also have 510_12-0.png in the same dir though, but that really shouldn't be a problem.

I have no idea why the static trees in Pythilaza now only appear when i have them called "504_12-0.png" <-it's the wrong name of the trees.

When i take "504_12-0.png" out of the dir, only vanilla trees show up, despite that the correctly named tree is there: "510_12-0.png"
That probably sounds really confusing..

edit: should be NE corner of the town, not NW.

Thank you for reporting this strangeness, i'll look into this and report back.

some success!
This is a WIP tree btw, but this is exactly why i need to see them in game.


Basically it's the 510_25 tree.
But there are duplicate trees and the possibilities are:
504_25-0
506_25-0
510_25-0

I put 2 copies of this tree into the StreamingAssets folder:
510_25-0, nothing
504_25-0, bingo!

In this case the devs must have used the 504_25-0.png in this particular town block.
Unfortunately when i try the same process with the earlier tree, (also tried some stones), and could not duplicate this result.
But it is promising.

Here's a question, and maybe Interkarma knows.

In Daggerfall Modeling, one can see city blocks, and among those blocks are the flats.
But the flats are not select-able.
Would there be a way to determine what flats are being used in a given block?