🔧︱dev-tools

[fading coral]

Is there a limit on textures per terrain block? I am getting various crashes after I painted the terrain. I know from other game engines that there are limits for that.

[deep bronze]

No, but there's few issues with building terrain and editing prefabs at once and with generating terrain right now.

Look for official patches for fixes.

Just edit small parts for now.

[fading coral]

so the asset browser acting weird was not a coincidence lol

how would you "not" edit prefab and terrain at once? Does "lock" turn off terrain editing or is there something else required to turn it off?

[deep bronze]

Yes. Locking turn off editing.

But tbh i don't have perfect resolve for it.

[fading coral]

It appears locking provokes crashes.

I am repeating the steps to provoke crashes, perhaps this can be helpful as a bug report

[pearl rivet]

yeah i ran into the same issue w/ terrain

[deep bronze]

But terrain will be saved

at least xD

[fading coral]

I narrowed it down to 2 crashes:

First I applied aciek's advice with pasting the files to get the materials to show. The materials and foliage shows correctly in editor.

1. When locking a block (whether is was manually painted or not) it crashes right away.
2. When attempting to build it crashes at 12%.

I think this is caused by something with the materials.

Is the paste files you provided identical to the town example map?

[deep bronze]

No, better one.

[fading coral]

This is without modified material files.

I found one more crash: When creating a new map (same project), then creating a block, unlocking, then locking, crashes

[fading coral]

I am slightly confused with 2 things on how the editor works:

1. If I want to get some assets from the asset browsers, like specific wall pieces, the only way I could find some was to place an atlas piece with a large building, then take pieces from that. Is that supposed to be like this? Because the asset would not show up in the normal browser.

2. I am trying to extract a one-sided double door from the one way doors atlas, however it is all locked, and I see no way to open the prefab to drag it out.

[alpine lynx]

1. Use asset browsers mesh tab. Theres building pieces you need
2. Same

If you see cool mesh in atlas you can just copy its name and spawn one from mesh tab

[fading coral]

1. Thanks for the advice. It appears the first icon ("prefabs") is not all assets, only prefabs, while "meshes" is the conventional list of meshes as from other engines?

2. There is a slight issue, the double doors one way I am looking for is a prefab, and it won't show up in the prefabs. Its name is "industrial_door_bolt_double_a" inside the "doors_atlas_one_way_Doors".

I assume the purpose of an atlas is to copy the prefab from it so I would not have to recreate the door setup manually.

[alpine lynx]

Yeah why not. I think them more as cheat sheet/inspiration.
Imo its way easier to spawn things directly from asset browser

[alpine lynx]

Prefab is like collection of meshes and/or logic. Prefab name is not necessarily same as mesh name it holds inside
You have to expand that prefab and see how that door is made

For example
door.msh=static door
door.prefab=door that moves

Because .prefabs can hold logic inside them

[fading coral]

I will see if I can extract interactive complex items from another atlas.

It now starts to make sense, I am recreating the door manually by looking at how the atlas does it.

[dense marsh]

Lord Bub carry

[alpine lynx]

DL2DT friday

[dense marsh]

real

[fading coral]

my favorite feature in dying light 2 is how great the global illumination looks. Especially at dusk or dawn.

[fading coral]

I am trying to mod out the darkness timer, however in the player setup variables there is no mention of it. None of the prologue presets has anything relating to it.

Is building (or navmesh generation) required for the game to detect climbable surfaces? I can climb on a street lantern I placed earlier (liek on a drain pipe) however a newly placed drainpipe is not climbable

[alpine lynx]

Same thing as earlier: meshes dont hold any logic.
For example you can place ladder mesh but player wont be able to interact with it. So you need to use ladder.prefab which comes with the logic

Ladderdi*.prefab. It comes with pipe preset, you want use that

Navmesh is related to AI

[alpine lynx]

Whats darkness timer

[fading coral]

Thanks.

However I think there is an exception, streetlamps appear to have climbable meshes without visible logic.

[fading coral]

The skull icon thing where you have to stand in UV liight to recharge it

[alpine lynx]

Should be in playervars, immunity

[alpine lynx]

Oh ok I think I misunderstood what climbing you meant

[fading coral]

oh I think I made a wrong assumption, I assumed that all climbing ingame is the same in the way the engine does it. However it appears ladder or drain pipe climbing requires special setup while normal ledge climbing does not. Because I was able to climb on other pieces of geometry

[fading coral]

If certain meshes attached to prefab presets do not appear visible, how to fix that? They do appear in aciek's tutorial video.

It appears with a crossed out eye symbol in the scene browser.

[alpine lynx]

I think its hidden. You need to open prefab and click that eye icon/enable SelfActive from attributes

[fading coral]

I will try to boot the example project and see if it is hidden there too

It appears invisible too on the example map (in a different project). Either I tripped the wrong visibility setting or something else is causing it.

[deep bronze]

What object/prefab is that? Is it interactive?

[deep bronze]

Gameplay_Modifier_Area with Dark Zone on true.

[fading coral]

I have this for switch.prefab and door.prefab, the models associated never show up in the editor (and neither the dummy meshes like arrows showing the interaction point).

It works ingame, and shows up there. However not in editor.

[deep bronze]

Go to Filters

And check if you don't have turn off "Interactive Objects"

set on false.

[fading coral]

Is that in the scene view?

[deep bronze]

Have you found it?

[fading coral]

thanks, found it!

[latent scroll]

to work with terrain and canal do i need to generate heightmaps ?

[alpine lynx]

Hakon island maker identify yourself

[dense marsh]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/489054797761347594/1061810743680438312/MR_VOLATILE.gif

[alpine lynx]

What is that waterfalls name. I had one in my map and deleted it and now I cant find it anymore

Someone told me Hakon island got it

https://thumb.modcdn.io/mods/9dd4/2660205/thumb_1020x2000/untitledsdsds.png

@hushed flint ? hakon island man is that you

[hushed flint]

yeah ?

[alpine lynx]

Remember that waterfalls name?

[hushed flint]

yeah its a effect

6 effect in

[alpine lynx]

Really? Gpufx?

[hushed flint]

yup

[alpine lynx]

So you made it?

[hushed flint]

yeah

[alpine lynx]

Ah damn. I swear I saw mesh/prefab that was ready made

I keep looking

[pearl rivet]

i love the idea of referring other map makers as "name of their map" man

i mean you've got a good deal Bub, you're Heavy Rail Man

that's straightup a megaman boss

[hushed flint]

[fading coral]

I think waterfalls are some type of FX

[fading coral]

bld_ce_a_modern_wall_str_2x1h_a_em this and other similar wall pieces always render as a default dark color. I know how to select the texture in skins, however they never are visually applied. Does not happen for int_ce_a_floor_sqr_2x2a_a

is that wall piece somehow special or is that a bug? Also tried rebooting the editor, problem still persists.

[winter plaza]

reason why you shouldnt leave devtools open when test starting your map:

[fading coral]

dev tools actually run better than the game on my pc, for some reason I can not get the devtool version of the main game to run in dx12

[winter plaza]

oof

well make sure to close devtools when running the game so there is less RAM consumed

and processing power

[torpid horizon]

For me game runs way better

[winter plaza]

whats your pc

[torpid horizon]

Bruh
Its a laptop

[winter plaza]

lol

[torpid horizon]

Predator helios 300 2019

3 fps in editor

40 in game

[winter plaza]

[torpid horizon]

Map looking sick tho

[winter plaza]

frfr

[pearl rivet]

my fps usually hovers around the 60mark in the editor, but performance is a lot worse while im testing the map out

[pearl rivet]

this is probably why!

[deep bronze]

@pearl rivet Could you try one thing?

Disable these 2 and let me know if its better with editor.

[pearl rivet]

sure thing, i'll give it a shot once i'm off work

[pearl rivet]

that did the trick! more than doubled my framerate

thank you 🙏

[torpid horizon]

Worked for me too

[elder ravine]

Map is stuck at uploading data 0%?

Ope, just uploading very very slowly

[pearl rivet]

whatchya make?

[torpid horizon]

always happens

[elder ravine]

kk ty

[pearl rivet]

guess i don't get to know 😔

[elder ravine]

Oh heyo

A visual map

Very pretty :)

Just need to actually get it uploaded now

[pearl rivet]

nice! any particular theme?

[elder ravine]

Any way to submit a file to modio via a zip file?

I keep trying to update the mod file but it stops at around 45% every time and goes super slow

[elder ravine]

Autumnal / more yellowly color palette of DL2

Instead of the green one in the release version

[pearl rivet]

ahhh i dig it! i'm also integrating fall colors in my map, through the architecture

i'm a sucker for some orange

[elder ravine]

It's just so waaaarrrmmmmmmmmm

[torpid horizon]

Set time to morning

It gives you more orange

[pale dragon]

is the reason i cant download the dev tools because i borrowed the game from my brothers acc?

[tall hull]

it's considered a DLC if you are gamesharing on steam i don't know if DLC's are included in gamesharing

[pale dragon]

well that sucks

[tall hull]

try going to the developer tols store page

on steam

[pale dragon]

thats what i do, but it just launches dl2

and then if i click add to library its tells me that i must own the base game

[minor flare]

Do the devtools support custom animations atm and editing functionality? (e.g. replacing/editing the prompt to vault [kick] to a prompt with a different function altogether?)

[pale dragon]

is there any other way i can use custom maps?

@tall hull

[torpid horizon]

Reinstall

[pale dragon]

??

[torpid horizon]

Reinstall dev tools

[pale dragon]

i never downloaded it, cause i cant

[pale dragon]

its says "Before you can add this product to your Steam account, you must own the base product."

and then when i click download on the dlc it just launches dl2

[torpid horizon]

Idk

[elder ravine]

PSA: uploading mod data in dev tools seams to push large files to the temporary folder on the computer. I'm trying to upload my mod right now and have done so a few times and found my temp folder to be filled with around 100 gigs of map files for some reason, fixed by clearing windows temp folder

[fading coral]

Does the game have cheat codes to be used when testing a map? Like flying through walls?

[deep bronze]

Currently, not.

[pale dragon]

soooo, is there any way i can use dev tools?

[pale dragon]

like any way i can get past the part of me having to have actually buying the game and not borrowing it from my brothers acc

[dusk dagger]

obviously not

[pale dragon]

well thats just stupid, technically i own it

[dusk dagger]

if you havent bought the game you dont own it

[pale dragon]

well i got it from my brothers acc and family shared it to mine, cause i aint paying 90$ for it

[dusk dagger]

your fault

[pale dragon]

bruh, y am i able to get the other dlcs but not the dev

[tall hull]

hey aciek, is there a break node in story editor to repeat a section of group?

[deep bronze]

No, Story works only to the right. Exceptions are: "Mission" unless player finish it and "Rollback" Node, but it rollback whole Quest (or Story. I do not remember)

[alpine lynx]

Whats the difference between mission and quest

[deep bronze]

Mission is repeatable and you can fail and back to certain checkpoint of the mission. When you fail quest, it's not repetitive anymore.

[alpine lynx]

Ah ok, and mission can be part of quest

[deep bronze]

yes

[alpine lynx]

I tried mission node once but it gave so many errors and missing dependencies that I got terrified and never tried it again

Quests ftw

[tall hull]

hmm, so for my problem in my forum i made, is there any way to make that possible? to repeat parkour by talking thru dialogue to guy to activate

[alpine lynx]

Based on what I just learned, make it mission which is repeatable

[deep bronze]

StartChallenge and output from Dialog to it.

[tall hull]

oh no i already have that, but i've made a workaround :)

[fading coral]

It is best to try a very simple thing first, get that work, then add more. This way you get confidence and won't be overwhelmed.

[deep bronze]

@alpine lynx I made simple guide with 2 missions where you have to reach point in certain time and don't get spotted. Here will be video with files included:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f89qhpIFaiJx9U7_hAVr6ln-KXVeLToc?usp=sharing

[alpine lynx]

Nice thank

[deep bronze]

Overview is at the very beginning of the video so you can check if you need it anyway. 😄

[midnight prism]

Hello how to I access the dev tools on my PC. I already downloaded the DLC

[tall hull]

@midnight prismyou click play dying light 2 and a menu should appear to play base game or dev tools

[midnight prism]

i doesnt appear it just launches the game

[torpid horizon]

Do you have the dlc?

[hollow kraken]

restart steam

[tall hull]

Trying to upload an update to my map but it doesn't seem to be showing on the website, is there a delay? I'm confused, I uploaded about 30-40 minutes ago twice but there's nothing showing under my panel.

How do I know if the upload failed? The loading screen just stops after it's done

@deep bronze sorry for the notif but is there any logs that I can check? I don't want this to be an ongoing problem

[deep bronze]

idk

i dont know anything about these things

How is your map named?

[tall hull]

in editor? or on the page

[deep bronze]

mod.io

[tall hull]

it's just called Ridgecreek Falls but i added the version number at the end of the name

[fading coral]

Are envprobes used exclusively in interiors in dying light 2?

Aciek when you mention in your tutorials that there is no audio yet, does that mean no music or audio emitters will work? I have found some emitters however their audio list is empty.

[hollow kraken]

Can tool have some trigger prefab or mesh? when i go in this place im teleporting to another? (for example i wanna make "zones" when im falling i teleport to my "checkpoint") without Stories tool, because its inside the challenge example prefab from Aciek.

[torpid horizon]

How to make a dialog at the end of which we need to kill the guy we were talking to?

[pearl rivet]

in my experience i've had issues with audio emitters not working properly: for example, setting a move object to create the sound of elevator doors opening when it moves-- only it doesn't when i playtest the game

[shadow wadi]

Do you know how to make barriers invisible? 🙂

And where the hell do I find tutorials from aciek x-x?

[torpid horizon]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f89qhpIFaiJx9U7_hAVr6ln-KXVeLToc?usp=sharing

[ashen barn]

What is Atlas

[elder ravine]

Can anyone help me with a problem where uploading mod data stops at 40% over and over?

[alpine lynx]

Barrier and collision barrier prefabs are invisible in game

[alpine lynx]

Collection of assets. For example all street meshes put under same prefab

[ashen barn]

no way

can u then take individual meshes from the collection

[hidden cedar]

My gizmo is missing idk if I hit a hotkey but I can't move objects I select. How to fix? 😦

[bleak cipher]

Hi all, am trying to capture some footage - after I load up a map through the editor and hit play, is there a way to access the cheat menu in-game? Specifically looking for free camera. Apologies if this isn't the correct channel.

[deep bronze]

Currently, not.

[bleak cipher]

Ok, thank you!

[fading coral]

Is it a bug if certain envrobes are not detected when attempting to generate them? It happens when selecting current grid

[hollow kraken]

can make any mesh collision off?

[signal yew]

So i was thinking about something

well two things actually. One goes to the OG dying light, for mods in such, and one for the new one.

But I was thinking, is it possible to bring in the buggy from the following, into harran at all?

or even into dying light 2? or impossible

[winter moss]

Hi, can i somehow set weather and time of day that will be active at the beginning of gameplay? I know how to change weather in editor but it doesn't change time in "game" :/

[alpine lynx]

Check this
#🔧︱dev-tools message

[alpine lynx]

Yes open meshes attributes, expand ’mesh’ and disable physics collision

[winter moss]

Thank you 😄

[fading coral]

it is after a full build and a full envmap build.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

[winter plaza]

shouldnt the envprobe be covering the whole room?

[fading coral]

the highlighted box is the shadowcaster. The envprobe is the exact size of the room. (not shown on picture)

[alpine lynx]

I dont understand anything but you can use room_box + envprobe for interiors

Aciek got tutorial for this one too

[fading coral]

What is the difference between room box and envprobe? it appears to be a variant of it, just tried placing one, the behaviour is the same from what it appears.

If I set it up as a lone envprobe or roombox the edges of the room flicker. Only if press blend then that disappears, however then the room appears too bright.

[deep bronze]

Room box contain much more logic that just envprobes, but it's related to audio type as well, in that case doesn't really matter.
Shadowcasters blocking sun only from 1 side, try rotate it.

[winter plaza]

Is there a way to optimise a map with things other than occluder?

[fading coral]

Thanks that explain a few things. I attempted to seal off a room with various different meshes.

[fading coral]

I think the game has some automatic occluding built into meshes.

the occluders are an extra thing to force it in specific areas.

[winter plaza]

sure there should be occluders in the interiors but i am having problems with the exterior of the building

there are performance issues if you have like a broader view over the map

im trying to fix it by placing occluders but i was wondering if there was an other way besides that

[torpid horizon]

Does the room box cast shadows?

[winter plaza]

is it possible to use tiny objects and terrain foliage at the same time without bugs in the foliage?

[elder ravine]

Can someone check my level "Scarlett Fields" and see if they can play it on mod.io?

Thanks!

[winter plaza]

ok nvm it seems the foliage just didnt generate inside the devtools

it looks like it is working when im inside the game

[signal yew]

This reminds me, my question wasn't answered last night

I was wondering, if it's possible, to bring the buggy from the following, into the base dying light game

or if you could bring anything from DL1 into DL2

[torpid horizon]

Look in the prefabs

If it's not there but it's the same Type of file you can try to exctract it from dl1

But I don't think it's possible

[signal yew]

Can't you upload custom voices

Into these dying light 2 maps yet?

[torpid horizon]

It's an Aciek type of question

[dusk dagger]

You cant upload sounds

[signal yew]

Not yet anyways. Sucks though

[torpid horizon]

you can't upload anything you made i think

but if you put it in the files
Nobodu gonna know

does anyone know how to set up the interiors?

i know about the shadow caster only

[dusk dagger]

envprobes

[deep bronze]

True is that ~Yoda (#edit besides map, lol)

[torpid horizon]

what about just placing it in folder?

[deep bronze]

Who knows! 😄

[torpid horizon]

Quick question
If I want to set up interiors do I just need to bake the envprobes as in the tutorial or do I need to place some other stuff as well?

[ashen barn]

cant wait to add custom textures and revamp some of the buildings to be unique xD

[deep bronze]

-> BETA <- LODs are related to City Builder. In future there should be available system for lods without it (guessing), so I guess it's just a matter of time. If you making map for contest I don't think you should care about these things at the moment.

[deep bronze]

For lighting in interior just Envprobes.

[torpid horizon]

thx

[ashen barn]

any tips or advice i should be aware off regarding this comp? shits hard to work on when i do 50 hour weeks -.-

[deep bronze]

You can set up Room_Boxes & Room_Logic for future edits if you want have more to setup in future like working audio differently per room.

[torpid horizon]

what about shadow casters?
are they necesarry?

[deep bronze]

As long you have exterior, no.

🙂

It's just IF you have sun in interior.

[torpid horizon]

thanks

[torpid horizon]

What does "Generate build files" do?

[hollow kraken]

how water cylinder works? its yellow

[torpid horizon]

There is a tutorial about why some meshes are yellow

[brave lynx]

Missing lod meshes

Force the mesh to have constant high lod mesh

[tall hull]

Can i make use of multiple maps? / load another map by pressing on a door

[elder ravine]

can these maps play coop

or nah

[pearl rivet]

i don't believe they can yet, but i think that's planned for the future

[elder ravine]

i wont play till its a feature looks fun tho

[pearl rivet]

ah, you're missing out on some great looking single player maps coming out!

i get the inclination towards co-op, though. im hoping to make some lfd2 style maps once it comes out

[hushed flint]

what is called the rope ?

can't find it

[elder ravine]

sweet

[hushed flint]

ooohh I find the tut https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HuOVCSQn1Z56LrPZRFohOHXHbagh9Ih0/view?usp=share_link

[signal yew]

if the mod tools are done the way i think they should be

Dying Light 2 can become a super moddable game like new vegas

and skyrim

[hushed flint]

okay..

[alpine lynx]

Yes mapportal or story node (changemap?)
Theres also localportal.prefab if you want teleport player in level

[tall hull]

thanks!!

is there a way i can cut a smaller hole into the terrain?

[alpine lynx]

I dont think so, unless you increase whole terrains resolution

[tall hull]

hmm, okay, is there anything that is the opposite of a waterbox?

something i can put inside a water box for say, an underwater area

[alpine lynx]

Like some waterbox occluder..? I havent seen such thing

[tall hull]

yeah

hmmm, alright

[deep bronze]

@tall hull Give me an example what you trying to achieve.

[tall hull]

oh, i was making an underground tunnel in the lake, i wanted to be able to get out of the water once i get to the tunnel, but i'll just make it so you can press on the door while underwater to load the new level

[hollow kraken]

yeah, but it not help with water_cylinder_4a and _4b... for _a i can change the skin but in _4a and _4b have only "full" skin and nothing change.. LODs options don't help too...

[torpid horizon]

Aciek type of question

[deep bronze]

Nothing changes. it still means those just don't have support of skins. @hollow kraken

[winter plaza]

how do i make underground? or do i just need to edit terrain?

[deep bronze]

Waterbox.prefab is only supported in DT. Those meshes might just not be.

[deep bronze]

Yes or add place some kind of "fake floor" with backyard_floor_1x1_a.

[fading coral]

I think there is a mismatch in the closing time for the contest:

Official Site:

"Submit the Shape Your City entries before 20 Jan 2023, 11:59 pm CET"

Contest rules PDF:
"Entries
(maps) will be accepted beginning from 16:00 CET, December 13th, 2022 (Starting Date), until
16:00 CET, January 20th, 2023 (Closing Date), with the reservation that Techland may extend
the Closing Date for any reason at Techland’s sole discretion. Any Contest entries (maps)
received after the Closing Date may be disqualified. The winners shall be announced by
February 2nd, 2023."

[random badger]

What Aciek said, you probably need to decide if your underground requires small objects and how many etc. if not many you can carve a hole in the terrain and create objects underneath, or if you want a bumpy underground you can push the terrain down and place a fake floor like Aciek mentioned above it.

[hollow kraken]

sad we cant rotate terrain in any direction and sculpt in any axis

[tall hull]

really silly question (surprised i went this far without doing it) how do i copy a filepath of a prefab/object in my map to quick paste

is it ctrl c?

[hidden cedar]

Anyone working on a forest for their map? I made a cluster of various foliage, rock meshes and just duplicated to create a placeholder forest. Just curious if anyone has a different way of doing it.

[signal lava]

Anyone knows if this is a glitch or accidentaly changed something? When i want to place a building part from prefab browser, it is far away from my cursor as you can see in the screenshot

[hidden cedar]

Is it doing the same thing with other assets?

[signal lava]

nope, only few buildings

[hidden cedar]

Oh hmm I just checked and mine isn't like that

My gizmo is on the mesh, maybe you accidentally changed it

[signal lava]

okay, i will try it, also, is it a common problem that dev dools crash everytime when locking terrain or build?

[hollow kraken]

this my major problem.. then i start do a new map without terrain 👁️ 👃 👁️

[fading coral]

Do you mean it is sticking to your mouse cursor?

[fading coral]

The terrain editing is currently borked, crashes every time for me when locking terrain. Or when trying to build with terrain present.

[trail atlas]

me too

so... so many crashes

[signal lava]

how can i remove this dark outline stuff and adjust the cliff texture?

[deep bronze]

after locking it will be normal

[signal lava]

okay thanks

[fading coral]

The editor is actually a great application. It has very good realtime rendering, and the asset browser and "parent/target" system is very good once you experience it.

I think some areas are currently borked like the terrain editor part crashing, however I think they will fix it.

This editor is a lot easier to use than for example the snowrunner editor. Its editor is nice, however it has not the same high quality real time rendeding and testing a map requirs to pack it first which takes several minutes on my pc.

[hollow kraken]

hope this tool keep growing bigger and bigger and flexible is possible 🛠️ 💪

[pearl rivet]

yeah i’ve been really happy with the editor so far

i feel like the prefab system is gonna open the door for a lot of collaboration in the map making community

[trail atlas]

yes I am making a map rn and it looks and plays good so far its just the annoying bugs like terrain that slows me down to a crawl

[ashen barn]

Love the chrome engine

[signal yew]

I wonder once the dev tools re refined. I wonder if people are going to try and make the E3 verz themselves?

[torpid horizon]

There are some people already

[ashen barn]

depends how much customization they plan to implement

a good example is Black Ops 3's mod tools

community made tools to mod it even more, and bo3 supported it
idk if techland plan to allow 3rd party tools to work with there tools

[signal yew]

I hope they allow Bethesda type of mods

[alpine lynx]

Whats bethesda style mod

[signal yew]

Quest mods. Weapons mod. Fuck some guy got cars working in new Vegas

[alpine lynx]

Oh like main game mods? I dont think it will happen

[torpid horizon]

There are some stuff you can download from 3rd party websites

Like reshades and stuff

[alpine lynx]

Yea DL got active modding community and theres hundreds of different mods and overhauls in Nexus

Modders dont really see Devtools as modding tool. It is not required if you want change things in main game

But playing around w/ editor surely helps to understand whats going on under the hood

[torpid horizon]

does anyone have a quest in which you need to interact with smth like water valve?

[deep bronze]

In my tutorial folder. TL;DR "Use" node and Switch.prefab (Preset Valve)
DL2 DT TUT || QUEST CREATING & PREFABS || Use Switch or Sensor to enable or disable something
DL2 DT TUT || QUEST CREATING || USE & KILL Showing progress on Using Switch and Killing Enemies

[torpid horizon]

thx

[brave lynx]

Hey @deep bronze would you be down to play test my map and take screenshots of all areas and send the screenshots to me? I want to make sure that the whole map and all the details are actually there. The download size has stayed relatively small throughout

[deep bronze]

Monday at the earliest.

[brave lynx]

No problem, thank you! 🙂

[deep bronze]

Send me the position of the camera from which you want pictures. In map editor "View" -> "Copy Camera Params".

[mossy canyon]

While we are at it, I have a problem, some people can't launch my map. I hope it will not impact the jury for the contest... So I hope that at least one of the jury can play on it. (I don't know if you are part of the jury @deep bronze ?)

[brave lynx]

@deep bronze

[37.081135, 72.020149, -439.558105][-0.423264, 0.262174, 0.867244]

[231.358307, 71.287056, -1028.991943][0.815529, 0.271397, -0.511133]

[-175.429062, 50.905281, -955.906921][0.440734, 0.258962, 0.859472]

[-634.382629, 132.467606, -1068.683838][0.614308, 0.711455, -0.341258]

🙂

[deep bronze]

Map Name?

[brave lynx]

Terra Divisa

[winter plaza]

how do i make caves? like carving a hole horizontally not vertically into a mountain?

[brave lynx]

Just make a hole in the side of your terrain and use some rock shelves as to form your cave 🙂

[winter plaza]

ah so basically the same with the underground thingy alright

thx mate

[deep bronze]

@brave lynx

[brave lynx]

Perfect, looks like it works. Thank you!

[deep bronze]

Also accepted map, so you can change visibility whenever you want and it's gonna be live.

[brave lynx]

Perfect, thanks very much. I appreciate your help. I'm pretty sure most people appreciate your help. You've gone above and beyond with unofficial tuts and even helping people away from work hours. Much appreciated

[deep bronze]

No problemo.

[winter plaza]

[fading coral]

How to group entities together without turning them into a prefab? I tried dragging one entity onto another expecting it to create a parent however that did not work.

[brave lynx]

Select both, right click, create prefab and name it

[fading coral]

Thanks!

[tall hull]

Can I make a dialogue start automatically? Like, from standing within a distance of a NPC?

[deep bronze]

instead of trigger just use AutoStart

[tall hull]

what node should i use for telling player to enter a portal to another location in story?

for example: Enter the door as objective

[torpid horizon]

Objective

[hidden cedar]

If you want the player to just go to a location, I use go to point

You need to place an entity on the map and assign that in your node in the story

[torpid horizon]

I have this problem that whenever I want to type something in prefab browser after typing one letter the mouse cursor starts flickering so I need to press the Techland logo and come back to type another one
Does anyone know how to fix it?

[ashen barn]

Had a wicked idea. I wanna make a spider man mod 😂and a map for it

[tall hull]

hmmm, my kill quest doesn't make the NPC aggressive, is there something i'm missing?

[torpid horizon]

go to devtools support

and fight boss fight

aciek explained it

[torpid horizon]

add me to friends on dc so we can message in pv

[ashen barn]

Done

[tall hull]

i don't fully understand it.

[tall hull]

ok, i can attack him but his health doesn't go down

[winter plaza]

lol

[torpid horizon]

what does "build assets for pc" do?

[tall hull]

do you know how to work it? could you help me out?

[winter plaza]

idk bro i dont have that issue. it could be either a bug or youll need to set smth in attributes maybe

[hidden cedar]

I also have an NPC in my story that you talk to on first encounter and later turns into an enemy but I haven't gotten to working on this part yet so I haven't tried testing it

[tall hull]

yeah, i'm not entirely sure on how to make it work, just added a kill objective but he kinda doesn't really attack me back, or take damage

[hidden cedar]

but what I had in mind was using 2 humanai with the first one is a neutral npc and then spawn a hostile version later

[tall hull]

that's what i was thinking too, but i don't know what the hostile node would be, i don't want to spawn with ai_spawner_number

[winter plaza]

most aggressive guy in ohio:

[tall hull]

?? lol

oh right

[hidden cedar]

you're using a hostile preset here?

[tall hull]

yeahhhh

what prefab would that be? sorry for my cluenessness

lol

[hidden cedar]

umm hang on let me test my idea

i need to figgure this out too down the line lol

[tall hull]

tyt, thank you for helping me

[hidden cedar]

can you post your story

the combat part

[tall hull]

Add me

[hidden cedar]

check your humanai that you're using and check AI Preset

is it a hostile preset?

it should be on the name

[tall hull]

yeah

[hidden cedar]

your map has navmesh?

[tall hull]

gimme a sec

[hidden cedar]

once you apply navmesh the ai should attack back

[tall hull]

aye, thank you

i'll test it now

[hidden cedar]

kk it's working for me

the hostile attacks and chases the player

I just have to figure out how to make it into an objective

[tall hull]

it worked!!! thank you

[hidden cedar]

np 🙂

Erm.. how do I hide the navmesh? lol

ah nvm I just unloaded it

[winter plaza]

whats the behavior for cleaning called

also why are weapons being visible through wall

[signal lava]

why there are no mesh skins to use for these 5 trees? I want to use them but only mesh skin to choose is default.

[torpid horizon]

its a bug

[deep bronze]

Probably, yes. Try look for a prefab of this tree, might be exist with a skin, but can't promise.

[worthy shuttle]

Looking for a Ping? Detected Ghostping of @deep bronze by @torpid horizon

[torpid horizon]

some of them have blue textures

but you can probably change the texture in atributes

[hushed flint]

Go in the all mesh and shearsh nat_tree

You should have animation + texture

[winter plaza]

[torpid horizon]

What does this bot message even mean?

[winter plaza]

i reckon it has to do smth with a ping that has been deleted

[torpid horizon]

yeah I deleted one

[torpid horizon]

@deep bronze I followed your tutorial on how to make npc's animation with behavior place but it doesn't work
NPC has it's standing default animation

[deep bronze]

What animation are you using?

[torpid horizon]

drinking multiactivity

I think

I will check in a second because now the map is building

multiactivity_distance_citizen_m_hmf_1h_stand_drinking_ow_01 [activation=n, deactivation=n, combat=n, sex=m, size=?, weight=?, wpn=1h]

[deep bronze]

and preset?

[torpid horizon]

Bckg_Survivor_man

[deep bronze]

Preset might be the case, because it's "1h" which means "1h weapon" if he doesn't have it, it won't be played.
I guess regular "Survivor" would work in that case.

[torpid horizon]

thanks

what does "build assets for pc" do?

[deep bronze]

And where you have it?

It's just a process of building assets you have, shaders, materials, audio etc. It doesn't need to be done in editor because withing DT it has been done by default.

[torpid horizon]

ok

How to make a Quest display as Main?

And not side quest

[alpine lynx]

objectives editor

[torpid horizon]

Thanks

[winter plaza]

how do you teleport player between maps?

or is it even possible

[alpine lynx]

mapportal.prefab

or story node

changemap or something like that

[hushed flint]

my grass don't show if you go to speed for the game is it normal or that a method to resolve it

[hollow kraken]

Hi all. How teleport player instantly on map? localportal = fasttravel icon and use like switch. But i need zone(A) when player teleport to point(B) when walk to it or cross it. tnx

[deep bronze]

Please check if issue still occurs. AFAIK should be fixed.

[latent scroll]

I've been working on a map for several days and today i can't open it in the editor I have the image with "initializing file system" then before 10/15 sec it closes. I tried different maps and they work

anyone already had the problem?

are there any solutions? eg: delete temp files that could cause problem?

I don't have a backup of my project 😱

[deep bronze]

How could not... 😦

Well. There's something that causing the crash.

Open Editor once again

and send me Dying Light 2\DevTools\projects\Your_Project\work\out\logs newest file.

On DM.

I think if you validate files should be alright, but before validation copy your project somewhere (not move).

[torpid horizon]

Can I use Ai spawner as an area and as a kill quest?

[brave lynx]

Works for me, works on my map without issues

[torpid horizon]

ok

thanks

[brave lynx]

Np!

In the kill node, required count is the amount of spawners you want killed, no spawned ai

Not*

[deep bronze]

You can use always ClearArea if you want get rid of enemies, but don't want to have indicator on each of them.

ClearArea checking if enemies are in that area.

[fading coral]

Aciek, in your tutorial on envprobes you select a small amount of the map geometry with hierarchy and use that to generate. However I get errors where it won't do that and I haev to compile the whole map. Am I doing something wrong or it is this a bug?

My procedure is to select in the scene list the parent entity of where the envprobe is.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it won't. Is the direct parent necessary or is it the top level one?

It appears to work with the top parent

[winter plaza]

is there a way to undo generated envprobes?

[fading coral]

I think just regenerating will overwrite what was generated.

[signal lava]

How can i change gizmo location? On some classic buildings prefabs gizmo is set far away from the building.

[deep bronze]

Jakub, give me name of the prefab.

[signal lava]

bld_classic_cor90_btm_a

[deep bronze]

I have pivot over here

And you have somewhere else?

[torpid horizon]

How to fix it?
No actor has trigger set, but using OnTrigger event!

[deep bronze]

What kind of dialog do you have?

Radio or interactive?

[torpid horizon]

Interactive 2 Peacekeppers

[winter plaza]

how do i spawn 2 AIs fighting eachother?

[deep bronze]

So you have to set whos one is trigger

[torpid horizon]

how to do it?

nvmd
I got it

[deep bronze]

i dont have opened editor rn

kk

[torpid horizon]

Thanks

[deep bronze]

they needs to have different conflict side, its defined by preset.

So if you use renegade and survivor, they will fight.

[winter plaza]

ok so i just need to spawn them next to eachother basically

[deep bronze]

Ye

If you want to fight where you have 2 bandits atacking themselvs i guess just use "Renegade" any preset and set different WantedID for each spawner, but im not sure if it's still valid.

[signal lava]

yes

Btw i'm having a little trouble placing these buildings. It's hard to adjust these floor to each other becouse snapping doesn't work with them but i will watch the tutorial about snapping. But i want to ask are these building floors prefabs the only option to place buildings? It seems like there is not much variety, or i'm just stupid.

[winter plaza]

ok alright thx man

[deep bronze]

I have no idea what's going on there. I just made video where I'm creating such building in just a minute. Take a look if you do something differently. As long you didn't change pivots of those building should be alright.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z31b-C4_V2gnwOi5m8l2pUxjUCYD3Pu_/view?usp=sharing

[signal lava]

Thank you. This simple video will save me a lot of time. While building my map i never used stuff like aligning to the grid or copying matrix (whatever this is) and i was wasting a lot of time adjusting stuff pixel to pixel XD

[deep bronze]

There's a video about it, grid, snapping, copy matrix, etc. Don't mind, glad to help. 🙂

If you need grid settings

here you go.

Grid steps can be multiply by 2x, 0.02... 0.04... 0.32, etc.

[signal lava]

Thank you very much once again 😀

[winter plaza]

is there a way to see what the behavior looks like without starting the game?

[hushed flint]

No

😦

[coarse matrix]

Press G

How does the Entity Snapping work?

Is it possible to change the Devtool Keybindings? Camera Movement is much better to use with WASD.

[deep bronze]

@coarse matrix

Also check DL2 DT TUT || BASIC || Walls are not fitting! Grid and objects snapping, how hook it together.

In https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16yTlkW7l0wABXm0bNR8TUzEySAg_XryI?usp=sharing

[torpid horizon]

@deep bronze
I have a problem with dialogs. I've placed a couple of them in the map and one of them has good distance in between two speaking characters. The rest is way too much even tho I use the same preset (custom Template 1 npc base)

[deep bronze]

Yes. I can see that. I always answering when I know how to resolve it.

But since I don't know I would need to start editor, but I don't have time for it right now so I decided to answer later (if I check it).

[torpid horizon]

ok

[coarse matrix]

is there a fix when you can't see the meshes in the Prefab Browser? I see the assets only under all?

[signal lava]

@deep bronze Is there any additional file i need to download to have stuff like set day time or set player set here? I wanted to give aiden all abilities.

[torpid horizon]

some of the assets are are strangely groupped so it's hard to find them

[torpid horizon]

they are available in quests

[signal lava]

So i need to create a quest to give aiden skills?

Okay

[coarse matrix]

It looks like that the Atlas selection change what you see under Path.

[signal lava]

Ok it works thanks

[torpid horizon]

some of them are the size of models but are in prefabs

and the other way around

so you either search and hopey you will find it
find it by accident
or type in stuff like bld, btm

[signal lava]

I hope in future updates they will add categories or some filters for meshes browser

[torpid horizon]

there are some but they work only for groups are have only a coupple of stuff inside

[torpid horizon]

@deep bronze Can I use swear words in dialogs?

Since they are in the main game

[pearl rivet]

haha, important question

[deep bronze]

I don't see anything against it. You are the ones who create the map, and I leave it up to you to be creative in this matter. 🙂

[grand stone]

Turn Aiden into a sailor

You have permission from a techland member

[deep bronze]

As long as it doesn't target the player very much, it seems cool. 😄

[pearl rivet]

imagine starting a map and aiden just looks straight-on to the player and starts insulting them

[torpid horizon]

I just don't want it to be cancelled

[pearl rivet]

😬

[torpid horizon]

Nah bro It's about expressing Aiden emotions 💀 💀 💀 Deep stuff

The best way to express emosion is to use Polish K word which means everything you could ever ask for

[winter plaza]

where do i delete temporal data of the editor

im from 60gb storage down to 20

[torpid horizon]

I need to do this too

[alpine lynx]

logs are stored in projectname\work\out\logs

[torpid horizon]

can I just delete them?

or can it cause some issues?

[alpine lynx]

yeah Im pretty sure but make backups

[torpid horizon]

ok

I've spent almost 2 times more time in dev tools than in the actual game💀

[winter plaza]

same

[deep bronze]

Yes, you can delete all files from \Dying Light 2\DevTools\projects\yourproject\work\out\logs

also out\dumps

if you have any

[worthy shuttle]

Looking for a Ping? Detected Ghostping of @torpid horizon by @deep bronze

[torpid horizon]

I literally pinged nothing

[winter plaza]

sus

[hushed flint]

omg this take me time.. I finally lunch my trailer

[hushed flint]

actually an average dying light 2 devtools user

[pearl rivet]

yeah i'm well past 100hrs in the devtools alone at this point

and only 6 days left till the contest deadline 😬 😬 😬

[hushed flint]

be quick ! ( or not because this make place for me to win )

[pearl rivet]

today is gonna be my crunch day

wish i could post pictures of my progress but i don't have the biomarker all filled up yet

soon...

[hushed flint]

I have past 10 day of crunch

[pearl rivet]

you sound just like a game dev!

[hushed flint]

lmao fr

[pearl rivet]

i went to go get a tattoo the other day and the whole 3hr appointment i was just sitting there thinking about my map

[hushed flint]

nice ! what kind of tattoo ?

[pearl rivet]

a venus flytrap! i got it on my forearm

[hushed flint]

wow cool

[pearl rivet]

yeah, i'm really happy with how it turned out

i'll try to remember to send a picture once i get picture posting privileges haha

[torpid horizon]

what was the node for timer?

[hushed flint]

wait node

[torpid horizon]

thanks

[winter plaza]

i somehow cant upload my mod data anymore

it somehow stops packing data at 19% or smth

[hushed flint]

your account is link ?

[winter plaza]

it worked several times before

and yes

[coarse matrix]

I need more Information about the Custom Gizmo usage.

How can I save the Custom Gizmo Position to the Object?

[brave igloo]

I thought this channel was rust nice job 👍

[hushed flint]

bro really knife techland and put a plaster

[hushed flint]

have you add some mods ,

[floral veldt]

I have a copy of the game but it is not from steam I have linked it and the developer tools do not detect me

It's commercial

[hushed flint]

commercial ?

a copy ?

[floral veldt]

copy buy

[hushed flint]

you need to download the game before having the devtools

[floral veldt]

Where from

[hushed flint]

Steam , epic idk man

you post some question that just don't make sense

[floral veldt]

It tells me that I have to buy it

[hushed flint]

yeah sure

do you buy it ?

[floral veldt]

Can't share in portable mode?

[hushed flint]

bruh..

the game you have buy

is on what plateform

epic , steam , ps4 , ps3 , nokia phone

[floral veldt]

I bought it in a physical store

[hushed flint]

on ps4 I presume ?

or xbox

devtools is not available for console now

[floral veldt]

But it's the dying light

[hushed flint]

1 or 2 ?

[floral veldt]

1

[hushed flint]

omg

WRong channel

[floral veldt]

I have already asked about it in the dying light thread and nobody knows

[hushed flint]

re ask or send a mail , BUT this is the wrong channel so please don't post this here / I cAn't help you with devtools dl1 I don't know how this working and I never try it

[deep bronze]

Look for "Edit Pivot" tutorial.

[hollow kraken]

I have prefab(or prefabs) and set SelfActive 0. How to set it SelfActive 1 when open door?

[torpid horizon]

Atributes maybe

[fading coral]

Aciek, if my map has the lighting not working (everything looks "fullbright") ingame, however the lights appear correctly functioning in the editor, what could cause that? Are there logfiles one could check?

[torpid horizon]

Did you build envprobes?

Do you have the same weather and time in game as in editor?

[winter plaza]

what is a varlist for lighting?

[coarse matrix]

Is it a known problem that the Terrain is lost after a restart in the Editor when you use default textures or so?

The Terrain seems to be there under Terrain but it doesn't display at all?

[fading coral]

Thanks for the advice, the envprobes were generated for a different daytime.

[signal lava]

Is there any way to set an outfit for aiden in my map?

I want to use the e3 nightrunner outfit

[latent scroll]

when you close the editor be sure to lock your terrain and maybe save all your prefabs opened

[deep bronze]

SetPlayerPreset. You can find tut in my tutorial folder with script.

[latent scroll]

yes take a look at Aiden preset

i've seen some people how have build compilation problem stuck at 12% (materials) i didn't find any solution is there a way to make it work ? cause i can't build right now it's annoying

[alpine lynx]

Dont generate satellite textures

[latent scroll]

you right i just tested right now it work thank you

[fading coral]

My compile was stuck at 12%, because of the terrain. Does terrain work if you leave out satellite textures?

[alpine lynx]

yup generate sats from terrain window

not from Build

[signal lava]

I have set "setplayerpreset" to GIVE_ALL (watched the tutorial) and customized it for my map.
Here are the items given to aiden in the preset and the outfitset are these. The thing is that i don't know how to set the e3 outfit above these. Above this gear, paste: Item("Outfitsete3outfit", 1, "");? If so, where can i find ID for this outfit?

[deep bronze]

Put ItemSpawner on level and search for "ID".

There's all listed objects that Aiden can use.

[signal lava]

And paste the id of the outfit as i said?

Okay i will try it

[latent scroll]

if you want some preset like full traversal, experience or inhibitors for example you can take a look at Preset("E3_2019") line that's how i did it 😉

[fading coral]

However for me the editor crashed just by locking or unlocking terrain. is that related to the satellite textures having been generated? I would rather not risk trying to make terrain work if it could crash the map

[signal lava]

Yeah, i adjusted these levels already

Coming back to my big awesome problem xD, i can't find id of the nightrunner outfit. In item spawner i finded Bundle outfit set nightrunner, pasted it as an item to give to aiden but it did nothing. There is also nightrunner tolso, legs and more that are divided but i will try to use them all

[latent scroll]

i don't think so. It's weird but sometimes for me it crash and sometimes not i didn't find a really answer about that but if the editor crash you can restart them and the terrain will be locked (if you lock it them before the editor crash)

[alpine lynx]

Crash when locking patches is normal. Dont know how to fix issue crash on unlock

[latent scroll]

yeah same for me when i'm looking for some stuff or name skill but i don't think they be named correctly sadly atm we don't have a full list of items/skill

[signal lava]

Okay, so atm there is no way to use this outfit?

That's what i wanted to know thanks

[latent scroll]

you can use it i think but you need to know it's correct name in this document

[signal lava]

i will try to find it

[latent scroll]

i can't help you anymore for that sry 😢

[signal lava]

Yeah

[latent scroll]

maybe aciek would advise you

[deep bronze]

Not in this case. 🙂

[brave lynx]

I really love the variety of maps out there. Some really good ones!

[latent scroll]

it doesn't matter you already do a lot 😉

[latent scroll]

when new updates will come you will see better and better maps because on this first version of devtools there are some limitations that may be improved

[brave lynx]

Yea, like lods etc

My map doesn't perform very well. Occluder planes help though I must say

Except when I'm above buildings

I think it would be a neat feature if all meshes had Occluder meshes placed within each one

[torpid horizon]

Whats your map name?

[brave lynx]

Terra Divisa

[torpid horizon]

It looks cool

I havent played it yet tho

[brave lynx]

Thank you, I appreciate that! 🙂 yours too btw!

[torpid horizon]

Update coming in around 30 minutes

Im building envprobes rn

[torpid horizon]

@deep bronze I built envprobes for all of the map but in one building that I made on my own nothing changed

Do I need to place something inside first?

[deep bronze]

I don't know. What were your setting during generation?

[torpid horizon]

Default for all time weather

[deep bronze]

Selected or all envprobes?

[torpid horizon]

All default

[deep bronze]

Hmm... restart editor.

And check.

[torpid horizon]

Other buildongs worked

What if I place envprobe prefab inside ?

[deep bronze]

It doesn't really matter, if you generate all envprobes within all time unless you move it, should work. Just restart editor and check if still occurs.

If still doesn't work just generate it manually (this certain building)

Can't help you with that more.

[torpid horizon]

When I select this building it shows that there are 0 screenshots to take

[deep bronze]

Even envprobe is inside of it?

Select parent of this building.

Or manually select envprobe, that should work.

[torpid horizon]

Thats what I did

I dont see any envprobes inside

[deep bronze]

So I don't get it. You want generate envprobes in building that doesn't have any?

[torpid horizon]

Do I have to place one first?

[deep bronze]

Yes.

[torpid horizon]

That explains a lot

Thanks

One will be enough?

[finite spruce]

I’m sorry to interrupt you all but is it okay guys to ask there names of meshes/prefabs?

[deep bronze]

@torpid horizon And how I suppose to know that 🙂 Depends on what quality you want have, rooms, etc. Look for Town.map and how envprobes were made there.

[torpid horizon]

Thx

[finite spruce]

If i’ll provide pics

[torpid horizon]

Now it works
Thanks

[latent scroll]

sorry but what is supposed to do envprobes?

i mean what it purpose

[deep bronze]

Baked lighting in interiors.

[latent scroll]

ahh ok thanks

[torpid horizon]

Basically makes building lighting different from outside

Without them you get interiors that look like exteriors

There are some problem with them tho when I changed from day to night in mission and then back to day the lighting stayed the same as at night

[latent scroll]

oh yes i see in your case that's a problem you right

[torpid horizon]

Now its fixed

It just takes a lot of time and disk space to do

1.5 hour

[latent scroll]

how you did that you added envprobes prefabs or just make somthing like build or so ?

[torpid horizon]

For your own buildings you need to add one

For prefab one you just need to build

Wjlhen you add your own one you also need to build

There is a tutorial I think

[latent scroll]

ah ok so that's why i never got a pb because i'm using pa_cube with custom building around who you can't enter into it

i have made a custom helper for jump & parkour so if someone just want it i can share it

[signal lava]

That's great, thanks

[latent scroll]

it is taken from already existing prefabs but it is functional right now and can help

[spice karma]

man someone know about the map of elysium???

[latent scroll]

what do you mean? the name of prefabs or the mod you can play on

[spice karma]

the mod by nocture

[signal lava]

I think the author shared it but it's of course WIP

You can download it

[spice karma]

ok

can you share me ther link or where i find the mod?

[latent scroll]

you can find it on mod io

[spice karma]

thanks

[latent scroll]

you welcome

[winter plaza]

what does this do?

[torpid horizon]

Probably delets the unneded data when finished

Not sure tho

Maybe Aciek knows

[winter plaza]

@deep bronze

[deep bronze]

As it says. Just dump debug info after generating.

[pliant wave]

how do ilaunch maps?

open in editor or open in explorer

[deep bronze]

Editor.

https://mod.io/g/dying-light-2/r/how-to-play-custom-levels

[latent scroll]

i placed a tiny object with grass and now the grass is no longer visible i just checked if it was not hidden but it is there. I tried restarting the editor but same problem someone already had the problem ?

i checked in attributes also and everything seems good 🙄

[torpid horizon]

was it there before?

[latent scroll]

of course

[torpid horizon]

Common stuff

Happened to me as well

[latent scroll]

hmmm k i know

this is in my foliage file

there was like overwritten

i will put everything in there and try to set to read only i dont know if it good but i will try it

[winter plaza]

i think i solved the problem of my upload mod data

im such a genius

[torpid horizon]

Check out the new map update guys

[hollow kraken]

interesting

[deep bronze]

Do you have foliage in game?

[latent scroll]

no everything was like invisible but i just modified my foliage file and everything back to normal. Like i said my foliage file was like "overwritten" as default weird

[deep bronze]

kk

[hollow kraken]

HLP! i saw but not remember where.. area with options like block jumps and etc...

[torpid horizon]

Custom move?

[deep bronze]

Restriction area?

It's in my tut folder (prefab and video)

[hollow kraken]

no options inside

[deep bronze]

????

[torpid horizon]

No Options???

[hollow kraken]

gameplay_modifire have options but resricted not have

[deep bronze]

You have copy.

Check what's inside.

🙂

[hollow kraken]

facepalm

its like folder....

[hollow kraken]

tnx OMG

[deep bronze]

Well, kinda yes. If you need more information, in my tutorial folder you'll find about prefabs.

🙂

[hollow kraken]

i watching almost all but sometimes i take some out of context.. but its my problem to solve this puzzles
tnx for any info Aciek!

[coarse matrix]

How can I add the Player Spawnpoint?

[hollow kraken]

@deep bronze if u not go to far. Can u help with this? (in example: i have door and when animation open some prefabs enabled)

[deep bronze]

I believe there's a Node "WaitForInteraction" or something like this.

You can probably use it.

Then just use Node "Show" entities

[hollow kraken]

if switch can be a door xD

[deep bronze]

Yes, well. You can just put Switch.prefab with Null skin and "Use" Node on it and then "SetDoorBehavior" on doors.

It's up to you.

[torpid horizon]

Enchanting table language

[hollow kraken]

TNX! i will try it

[hushed flint]

swicht is interactable things , null skin is for invisible , setdoorbehavior for the sound

[finite spruce]

@deep bronze

[hollow kraken]

what u mean? u need something special?

[finite spruce]

I mean I saw some asset on one of the videos and I can’t figure out it’s name in prefab browser

[deep bronze]

Feel free to ask about prefab you looking for. Someone answer you once they know, but I'm not searching specially for them. There's a lot atleses, maps right now where you can find them. Difference is within logic ones.

[torpid horizon]

@deep bronze is there a plane that u can create universal shapes with?

[finite spruce]

Just noticed that I can’t pin screenshots there. Sadge.

[deep bronze]

I don't know what requirements are needed for screenshots tho.

[finite spruce]

Can I write in your DM?

[deep bronze]

Fine, but just once.

Like I said, you can just put into words what you looking for, here.

I steer clear of replying to private messages, but only because we have excellent people here who also know the right answer and can get it to you faster than me.

[deep bronze]

Example, I don't get it.

[torpid horizon]

you can change the look of tiny object helpers by dragging indywidual edges or creating new ones

is there a plane that you can change that way too

[deep bronze]

@finite spruce looking for this mesh, if anyone know the name, please send name to him. Truck from E3 probably~

[finite spruce]

Thank you!

[torpid horizon]

some truck add on

look like

[finite spruce]

Yeah, tried searching “truck” and “van”

Unfortunately, no results

[deep bronze]

@torpid horizon DM.

[hollow kraken]

my electricity if off and then i try open my map all in my sanbox is gone... i try open level and is gone all too... can i open backups or something? @deep bronze

[deep bronze]

As long you didn't made it manually I don't think you'll get any of backup.

[hollow kraken]

...

[deep bronze]

I warned few times about making backups! 😄

[hollow kraken]

F

autosave not worked?

[deep bronze]

Well, it's difference when you lost power and editor crashes.

[hollow kraken]

im from Ukraine man... have trouble with it...

[deep bronze]

Just sayin.

[hollow kraken]

any chance to save it?

[deep bronze]

When you open prefab, it creates something called _workcopy

And untill you save this prefab, it will be always _workcopy

When editor will crash or something happen

It will save certain progress you made in that workcopy

After crash opening this prefab editor will ask you if you want back your workcopy

So idea is

1. Set shortcut for "save as and reload all prefabs"
2. Keep everything in prefabs even sandbox.

And just save your progress often with shortcut. Can't help you here more.

[alpine lynx]

looks like truck_from_e3_probably.msh

[deep bronze]

Also go to Tools -> Options

And look if there's any "save" option

cus I don't remember

[hollow kraken]

all time i do ctrl+S and when i shut down map hes ask save all i say yes.. then after i open map all prefabs is closed = mean is saved?

[winter plaza]

i guess ima make a backup now lol

[deep bronze]

If you open closed prefab, it will ask you to open workcopy like I write before.

It will be certain progress of what you done.

[hollow kraken]

sometimes i have elecricity is off and its repaired when i try open level etc and hes ask for workcopy and all fine

but now all sandbox is gone

[deep bronze]

That cannot be helped.

[hollow kraken]

and what autosave map do?

files i mean

[deep bronze]

It just will save map, not prefabs, probably (workcopy)

And some data.

[hollow kraken]

when i load map i see all my prefabs but without sandbox

can i keep it?

[deep bronze]

Add anything on the level to sandbox

[hollow kraken]

or its just illusion

[deep bronze]

and show me screen of scene window

[hollow kraken]

can i call you?

[deep bronze]

Send me just a screen for now.

[hollow kraken]

i do

[latent scroll]

i can't change the name of my whole level so the path in stories are broken how do i ?

[deep bronze]

You don't need to change name of whole level.

[latent scroll]

so why my path is broken

this is a basic ai_spawner_wave

[deep bronze]

Do you have assigned campagain?

[latent scroll]

sure

[deep bronze]

Restart editor. It's bigger issue that I never found the case and I don't really know how to fix it. Usually restart helps here.

[latent scroll]

let me double check

[latent scroll]

ok i will try it

i have restarted the editor and it work fine now 👍 thank you

[signal lava]

Can i change time and weather in game like preview? I want to make a cinematic shot of my map.

[latent scroll]

maybe you would use set day phase ?

or set day time

[signal lava]

I used it and it changes the time only for gameplay

Game like preview seems to be unchangable even when setting different time in editor enviroment

[latent scroll]

sry i can't help you with that

[deep bronze]

@signal lava In viewport -> "Environmental"

[signal lava]

Here?

[deep bronze]

nah

Show me screen of editor cus i dont have it, it's right to the "View Preset"

[signal lava]

Talking about this? Yeah when i change it, game like preview still seems to have different time of day

[deep bronze]

That's interesting.

Sadly, I don't have idea for that.

[signal lava]

Okay

[hollow kraken]

Gary Jules - Mad World

[latent scroll]

can you delete a weapon from your inventory when quest is complete for example ?
edit : found with removeitem node

[signal lava]

Is this a bug or i'm doing something wrong? Alpha on this burning car fx is 1.000 on default witch is too bright. I changed it to 0.3000 and it works until i quick save level. When i quick save level, alpha is stays at 0.3000 but the fx is bright like on default again.

[pearl rivet]

how does it look like in game?

[pearl rivet]

also has anyone else noticed pretty noticeable frame drops after saving a new prefab? restarting it fixes it but if i don't restart my frames are permanently lowered for the rest of the time i have the editor open

[deep bronze]

Personally I never had it, but I saw on other channel someone who had this case. No fix for it, you can send to support what kind of prefab or video how/what prefabs it's appearing, that would help in debugging.
https://dyinglight2.support.techland.pl/en/support/tickets/new

[pearl rivet]

hmm 🤔 maybe it's a memory thing

i'll try to send a support ticket next time it happens!

[fading coral]

Is it safe to delete a map from a project? I have a second map I use for testing things which I won't need in the final mod.

[winter plaza]

If you don’t use prefabs you created on the testing map for the actual map then yes

[alpine lynx]

What the hell did you add into your map @elder ravine

Its 7gb while all other maps are around 400mb

[elder ravine]

I literally have no clue other than using a ton of effects like dust and trash and maybe my env probes being so huge

I mean does it at least boot up?

[mossy canyon]

For my part, I had an error as it was missing a file to launch your map. (If I remember)

[alpine lynx]

I didnt test yet, but I will when this contest grind is over.
My friend just pointed out the size and it made me wonder whats going on

For example my project started from 400mb and now after ~months work its 600mb

[mossy canyon]

"Mod cannot be opened in the editor. Configuration file missing: 'fs.ini''

[elder ravine]

Huh, odd

It got to the point that it was corrupted on my computer, shoulda taken some screenshots when I could I guess

Welp that pretty ass map will never see the light of day ☺️

There's always next time though, and hopefully in a few months or a year there'll have been plenty of dev tool updates and making another project will feel good again

[winter plaza]

xD when I tried uploading my map on Saturday in the evening I checked my mod file in temp folder because I had problems with uploading and for no reason the file was 5gb big

It seems the cause was that the envprobes and reflections took like around 4.5gb of the file so I had to delete them

[coarse matrix]

Always make Multiple Complete Backups from your Project

There should be a Mod.io Backup function too.

How do I get Permissions here to Post Screenshots?

[deep bronze]

I believe it's just begin for short period of time here.

But just guessing.

[random badger]

#⚠️︱rules_and_info it's under the Roles sub-heading. From what I can tell you have to be involved in chat in order to get access.

[latent scroll]

what's the minimum of zombie can be spawn with ai_spawner_number ?

because when i set to 1 there are every time 3 zombie how spawn 😮

i have try many different things to make only one zombie spawning but i can't figure out

[coarse matrix]

24% Biomaker ^^ This will take forever

[deep bronze]

1-64

[latent scroll]

so int his case the ai_spawner_number should work

but no

[fading coral]

Is there a way to isolate an axis to scale something in scale by extent? Because it apppears depending on the angle the camera is relative to the object, it scales on other axis.

[cloud bolt]

The maps are being made

Some of them are released from what i know but just a small part of the map as it takes a lot to recreate the e3 one

[torpid horizon]

@coarse matrix wantef to post this train

[latent scroll]

is there a player killed node or something to check if the player is alive ?

[pearl rivet]

yep! i’m around 70% myself. i just wanna post map pics 😫

[winter plaza]

wait you should be able to send pics in #1051799788338815016

[coarse matrix]

@winter plaza I can't Upload there Pictures in Share your map

[winter plaza]

sus

[pearl rivet]

yea i think i just gotta wait

[winter plaza]

then ill guess you will have to chat a bit so you will get a role eventually which gives you the permission to send pics

[pearl rivet]

i think its around 70 messages or something?

[winter plaza]

idk

[pearl rivet]

lemme check

[winter plaza]

i was chatting in devtools and then i got the role lol

[coarse matrix]

30% now

[pearl rivet]

yeah im at 74% full for my biomarker and i've sent 57 messages, so that sounds like

77 messages to get a full bio

[frail scarab]

Do you guys know any good destroyed ceilings/floor meshes?

[pearl rivet]

what are you looking for? there's this office-y looking one that's a personal favorite of mine

lemme find it

good ol' int_ce_ceiling_coffer_b_sqr_4x4_a.msh

[frail scarab]

Damn, it's really good, but doesn't fit in

[winter plaza]

sadge

[frail scarab]

I want a ceiling/floor with a big hole in it that a player could climb through

[pearl rivet]

hmmm.. i know if you search "wall" there's a bunch of good chunky pieces of wall debris that can be textured to look like a floor or ceiling

they can definitely be arranged in the shape of a hole

[frail scarab]

or if there are any destroyed small pieces that I can put together that hole

[pearl rivet]

if you do that with a concrete texture + add some pieces of rebar sticking out i'd say you got yourself a pretty good looking hole

i mean.. uh

that don't sound right

[frail scarab]

I used the balcony broken mesh and tried to make the texture look similar to the floor

[hushed flint]

I’m gonna make a side quest that you gonna found material for is bomb and when you gonna give it is gonna craft the bomb and this will explode

[coarse matrix]

What was the name of the Object Number 1...9?

[alpine lynx]

Wait what is that locomotive made of dummies? Thats neat @coarse matrix

[coarse matrix]

yes

[alpine lynx]

damn what a job for first thought it was real mesh

[coarse matrix]

I come from the Far Cry 5 Editor^^ We you search on Youtube Far Cry 5 Model Railway you can find what I have build there

But without the Scale function there ^^

[alpine lynx]

I will check that out

[winter plaza]

rock podium more like rock copium

[fading coral]

1. Is it safe to delete atlas prefabs that reside in the sandbox part of the map for the final upload?
2. Would that reduce filesize?

[coarse matrix]

I would always make a complete copy of the Editor Folder before ^^

[winter plaza]

make a backup in general before you try anything out that could ruin anything

[fading coral]

And does the game pack files on upload? My mod folder is 1 GB in size.

[hushed flint]

[alpine lynx]

I think yea. And it doesnt upload logs which is probably 30% of project size

[fading coral]

lol I thought you made a joke, my logs folder is almost 600 mb

I can delete that?

[alpine lynx]

Yes but only this folder contents
#🔧︱dev-tools message

[fading coral]

ok thanks

Is there anything necessary except for "build" and "generate envmaps" before uploading?

Also am I reading this correctly:

https://mod.io/g/dying-light-2/r/how-to-play-custom-levels

Players currently play the maps by opening the map editor and pressing play? Is this the correct way to see if a map works?

[deep bronze]

Yes. For now.

[hollow kraken]

@deep bronze i have weird things here xD. I put restricted area for not jumping most for challenge(on bike) because dont wanna get out from bike when challenge... but when i press jump its anyway kick off from bike and this restricted area not flexible(only scale in local too)

[pearl rivet]

hey hey! another far cry 5 editor immigrant

i was gonna say the scale function in the dying light editor has been so nice

i don't know how i ever functioned without it in fc5

(let alone any of the quest systems so i can actually add dialogue and shops and everything)

[deep bronze]

Seems trigger is different between using bike and jumping, it's not the same from code perspective.

All areas can be scale extents only in local

or via Universal Shape

[hollow kraken]

ok, can somehow make challenge when it started - sit on bike and cant out from bike?

[hollow kraken]

universal is work

[deep bronze]

Idk.

[latent scroll]

in what invokes are used for?

[torpid horizon]

I have a problem with dialogs. For some of them choices dontwork you can only see 1 option but I figured out that the one that work are the one that use template for 1npc dialog so I tried regenerating all of the others but it does nothing

Can someone help?

When I copied the stuff inside dialog and placed it in to new one it showed no options at all