Editing S-Foils

[ual002]

That depends entirely on where the departure hyper point is in relation to the ship when it is triggered. I imagine you are using the simple skirmish editor and it varies. You could have more control with custom built missions. It is more a function on waypoints and current position than animation speed. Now if it were triggered by other craft orders beside "fly home" or "hyper to region" we might see them folded in more situations, but until that time I doubt you will see much change.

[Rebelyell]

The mission in question is b5m7. xwings and b-wings along with a frigate hyper to the pirate station and then back when the mission is complete. Both instances utilize the hyperspace nav buoy and it seems that the craft hyper as soon as they come in range.

[ual002]

Its likely that if we were to examine the waypoints, the previous orders waypoint is probably very close to the waypoint for the next "hyper to region" waypoint. The longer the distance the ship is from that departure or hyper to waypoint, the longer you will see the ship traveling with sfoils closed.

[Rebelyell]

I see. thank you for the reply

[JeremyaFr]

Hello,
Before adding new features, I will first release a stable version of the hook with the "close s-foils in hyperspace" feature and the "separate s-foils and landing gears" feature.

[ual002]

Seems, sensible. I mostly tested simple skirmishes with all my bug reporting from my first batch. I'm going to try out some custom missions with some different scenarios to really put it thru the ringer.

[JeremyaFr]

UPDATE
Hello,
I've merged the changes from the WIP version to the stable version.

New features are:

• auto closing s-foils in hyperspace
• separate s-foils (V key) and landing gears (Ctrl+L key)

[Darksaber]

Thanks Jeremy, fab job

[Rookie_One1]

All hail Jeremy, official miracle-maker!

[Driftwood]

Related to this, would it be possible to create a tool that would allow you to import an opt into it, then using sliders, or a text based interface like your hangar editor assigned to whatever rotational axis that the S-foil / landing gear animations use, use it to rotate the meshes to a desired open/closed angle, then allow you to export the mesh rotation data into the relevant ship.ini file? This would really help with not having to go ingame to see if your animated meshes are rotating to the correct position several times.


Edit: I used the hook downloader to update all my hooks and I don't think the S-foils hook is updating since CTRL+L seems to do nothing. Also it seems dated as of 23JAN19.

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[SFoils]
;mesh index, angle, opening speed, closing speed
0, 64, 2, 2
1, 64, 2, 2
2, 64, 2, 2
3, 64, 2, 2

CloseSFoilsInHyperspace = 1
SFoilsAnimationSpeed = 1

[SFoilsLandingGears]
;mesh index, angle, closing speed, opening speed
4, 64, 20, 3
5, 64, 20, 3
6, 50, 4, 3

[JeremyaFr]

Related to this, would it be possible to create a tool that would allow you to import an opt into it, then using sliders, or a text based interface like your hangar editor assigned to whatever rotational axis that the S-foil / landing gear animations use, use it to rotate the meshes to a desired open/closed angle, then allow you to export the mesh rotation data into the relevant ship.ini file? This would really help with not having to go ingame to see if your animated meshes are rotating to the correct position several times.

Nice suggestion.
I am working on it.

Edit: I used the hook downloader to update all my hooks and I don't think the S-foils hook is updating since CTRL+L seems to do nothing. Also it seems dated as of 23JAN19.

The hook upload is fine. You can check the date here: https://github.com/JeremyAnsel/xwa_hook ... sfoils/zip

[JeremyaFr]

xwa_sfoils_editor0.jpg

[Darksaber]

Oh wow, that's really good

[Driftwood]

Neat! Thanks for taking my suggestion into consideration!

EDIT: I had to download the updated hook manually. Not a problem since I knew where to look. Maybe I need to re-download the most recent hook downloader?

[JeremyaFr]

XwaHooksSetup has not been updated since the first release on 27 Oct 2018.

[Darksaber]

1) Run XwaHooksSetup.exe.

2) It will create a directory named "Hooks" and download the hooks from GitHub into this directory. To redownload the hooks, delete the directory "Hooks".

3) It will extract the hooks into a directory named "Setup".

4) Copy the content of the "Setup" directory in your XWA install directory.

[Trevor]

I must say that I too have problems with hooksetup.

I have deleted all folders and allowed access through firewall but it still creates folders and then exits without downloading anything.

Trev

[JeremyaFr]

Hello,
Since this is not related to the s-foils hook, please write in the general Hooks thread.

To see if it shows an error, you can open a command prompt and run "XwaHooksSetup.exe".

[JeremyaFr]

WIP
Hello,
Here is a WIP version of Xwa SFoils Editor.

Xwa SFoils Editor is a tool to edit and view s-foils and landing gears values.

EDIT: link removed

Saving the opt and ini files is not yet implemented. For now, the data are shown in a text box.

You can switch between opened and closed s-foils with the S-Foils checkbox.

[Darksaber]

I got this error when trying to open the Arc170Exterior.opt

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System
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System.Exception: 8.5 is not a valid value for Int32. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.

   at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)

   at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)

   at System.ComponentModel.Int32Converter.FromString(String value, NumberFormatInfo formatInfo)

   at System.ComponentModel.BaseNumberConverter.ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, CultureInfo culture, Object value)

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at System.ComponentModel.BaseNumberConverter.ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, CultureInfo culture, Object value)

   at JeremyAnsel.Xwa.Config.XwaConfig.ToInt32(String text)

   at XwaSFoilsEditor.SFoil.GetSFoilsList(String optFilename)

   at XwaSFoilsEditor.MainWindow.LoadOpt(String filename)

   at XwaSFoilsEditor.MainWindow.openButton_Click(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
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OK   
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It doesn't work with the B-Wing at all

Some cockpit meshes don't show at all, i.e. Shuttle, parts of the Xwing Cockpit, plus other craft I've tested, that either have s-foils of landing gear

The Slave 1 appears upside down when the s-foils are open, but this is probably due to the way it rotates

Brilliant work mate

[JeremyaFr]

WIP
Now, when a craft has a bridge (B-Wing and Slave One), it will be aligned with the bridge.

[Darksaber]

The Slave One is fine now

But nothing happens with the Bwing, I thought it might have been something I did when building it, so I also tested the original TG version, nothing happens with that either



EDIT: Scrub what I said above, it does work for the Bwing, for some reason I renamed my Bwing.ini to Bwing1.ini, the reason it didn't work.

I really apologise if you've been pulling your hair out, it's me I'm off

[Rebelyell]

I got it to work with the bwing, but ill test the og model right now



edit: The og opt and the xwaup opt dont have any angles or opening and closing speeds defined for some reason

[keiranhalcyon7]

Very nice, Jeremy. I was considering requesting something like this myself (although as an enhancement of the opt editor, not as a standalone tool). I have two suggestions:

• I agree with DS's idea of having a slider, or else some means of watching the animation play. This would need an opening/closing mode toggle, though, since the two animations aren't always symmetric.
• A button to display the rotation axis of the currently-selected mesh would be most helpful

Also, the B-Wing appears to have some non-obvious behavior. The main fuselage meshes have no rotation values, but the bridge meshes do?

[JeremyaFr]

Also, the B-Wing appears to have some non-obvious behavior. The main fuselage meshes have no rotation values, but the bridge meshes do?

Yes.
When a craft has a bridge, the rotation of the bridge is applied to the whole model.