Re: [Nel] // better questions on zone_lighter.exe //

[Cyril 'Hulud' Corvazier]

Hi there,

It looks like some cfg files have not been updated with the new
build_process features. Sorry for this.

I have updated the build_gamedata/cfg/properties_*.cfg files. Now it works
fine. The values in it are used in Ryzom, so they are "real life tested".

In the last build process, you should have the cfg/properties_draft.cfg and
cfg/properties_final.cfg files. "properties.cfg" file is not in the CVS
anymore.
properties_draft.cfg and properties_final.cfg are two config files that set
the values to use in DRAFT mode and FINAL mode.
The build mode is set in the "cfg/site.cfg" variable "build_quality".
Once the site.cfg is filled, run build_gamedata/0_setup.bat and it will
generate the cfg/properties.cfg file.
Then, your "cfg/properties.cfg" file should be ok.

After the zone/3_build.bat process, you should get the zone_welded/*.zonew
files but also the zone_depend/*.depend files generated for each .zone file
presents in zone_exported/ .

The depend files are text files that give for a zone the zones that can cast
shadows on it. It is used by the zone_lighter.

The reason the .depend are not generated is the zone_region parameter in the
cfg/config.cfg file is not setuped correctly.

zone_region = 2_aa, 50_dd

The variable gives the two zone names of the bounding box of your world.
Here, the world goes from zone 2_aa to 50_dd.

Once depend files have been generated, the lighter works fine.

If your are in trouble with this, ask for more.

Hld.

> ls: zone_lighted/*.[zZ][oO][nN][eE][lL]: No such file or directory
> -------
>
> //<--
>
> in other words it doesn't process the *.zonew into a *.zonel.
>
> however, if i run the zone_lighter_rd.exe directly i get mroe verbose
> output of course. this time i am told that the zone_lighter.exe can't
> find the values for sun_center, sun_radius, sun_fov etc all of which
> are in your default properties.cfg [referenced from a version called
> zone_lighter_dependencies.cfg that zone_lighter writes into the
> zone_light/ directory. i know it's referencing this file, because when
> i remove it, zone_lighter tells me it's missing. it seems to have no
> problem finding the values up until this point. none of those values
> are in the properties.cfg and at a certain point i don't know what they
> are supposed to look like [quad_grid_cell_size for instance].
>
> obviously it is running SKIP when it doesn't find these values and
> failing.
>
> so what to do? why is it not processing the zonew into zonel? and am i
> supposed to put these strange values into the properties.cfg myself?
>
> thanks for any help, the answer may be *totally* obvious. confusing
> because the old zone_lighter.exe works fine!
>
> -- 
> julian oliver
> http://selectparks.net
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