Housing Progress:

[duffstone]

yeah, I tried matching both path & file, and just on file names and couldn't come up with a match. Building iff, building pob, apt, lod, & flr were looked at. I looked at the bytes in order, reverse order, mixed up order, couldn't find any CRC string (using the crc generator that's worked on everything else so far) that contained the same bytes in any order.

that why I asked if maybe it was some sort of CRC / parity of the POB file contents. It's not a version key or some other sort of file deliminator as the value is different for each POB file. Or it seems highly unlikely anyway.

Just curious if you knew, and if so would tell.

-Duff

 

[duffstone]

I think I made another discovery, but dangit if I'm not too inexperienced to understand it yet. I'm not near confident enough to say I figured out Uli's method, but right now I'm loading all the TCG structures at will just by modifying the 0008whatever to 0007whatever in the LOD file. Everything else is stock from the TOC & TRE's. I'll definately make a guide out of this once I "Understand" what the hell I did, but it's working.

I'm scared to death that something got cached tho, and as soon as I wipe my DB everything will stop working again. But that's part of testing right???

-Duff

P.s. I was taking a break, I swear. LOL. I was just deleting each folder in my custom .tre one at a time to see what was needed and well...

 

[duffstone]

Ok, I tested on a bunch of structures, and they're all working to some degree. What I'm having issues with now is that the commando bunker and vip bunker are not rendering their internal textures... I get a ghost room, collision works, windows work, but I see no walls, floor, ceiling, or other obstructions... All the other structures I tested are working fantastic with only a slightly annoying "Glow" to the mustafarian bunker... (tested the yt1300, jedi temple, sith temple, commando bunker, vip bunker, musty bunker, and a couple windowed old style houses.)

So anyway I'll try to write most of this up tomorrow during some down time. Very exciting, but there are a few caviots that would prevent most from running this out of hand. I'll try to explain it all as good as I can.

-Duff