Daeley presents... a new (and hopefully useful) pathing tool

[Fred_Ginger]

I'm with M and Sebes on this one but can't wait to see the results from our 'traffic' guys....

Thanks 

[cameron1991]

Wow this looks very usefull!    To bad I wouldnt know where to start! 
Do you know of any modding tutorials to get me started?

[jeronij]

cameron, you can start with Redlotus Tutorial. Ignore what you dont need and go to the paths pages 

A link is found in this message:

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=714.msg19146#msg19146

[gn_leugim]

looks good, but, how it works? 

[dedgren]

Daeley, hey- great tool, and it works perfectly.

Except, as best I can tell, under Windows 64-bit Vista.  I used it all the time with 32-bit Vista, but when I replaced my worn out laptop, I didn't have the option to stay with it.

I've tried everything I can think of.  The latest Java runtime appears to be installed and working.  I get just a flash of the Command Line Screen when I click on either single or multi-path, but then there's nothing.  I'm presuming it's just one more in the long list of incompatible stuff (my Palm T|X, for instance- what the heck?), but hoped you might have some insight.

Thanks.


David

[daeley]

strange, there shouldn't be any platform-specific code in there.

Can you open a command line windows, go to the folder where it's installed and run one of the batch files? If it doesn't work, you should get some sort of (textual) error report.

[dedgren]

Thanks, my friend, for the tip.  It led me to the issue- I had to manually set up the PATH to include the Java runtime executable.  I added "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin" to the end of that environment variable string and PathCreator now works just fine.

Thanks again for developing this great tool.


David

[daeley]

strange, normally that should be done automatically when you install java. Well, I'm glad it's working now

[daeley]

a birdy whispered some feature requests in my ear...

[Tarkus]

Yes, yes, yes!  Copy, mirror and reverse buttons--those will save so much time.  daeley, you are the man!

-Alex (Tarkus)

[Andreas]

I don't do paths, but such buttons would be incredible useful for creating T21 exemplar files configurations... 

[sithlrd98]

As someone who has just begun the joys of trying , (and I say that loosely) , any addition to this tool that would help some of us (who have no idea what they are doing  ) would be appreciated! And if what Andreas says is true , I'm in heaven!!!


Jayson

[Andreas]

And if what Andreas says is true , I'm in heaven!!!

Unfortunately, it's only wishful thinking at the moment. But I'll try to plant that idea into the head of as many programmers as I know. 

[sithlrd98]

Unfortunately, it's only wishful thinking at the moment. But I'll try to plant that idea into the head of as many programmers as I know. 

Bummer...Plant*Anyone who can program , Please , oh pretty please help us out!    Ok I did my part. Seriously , it would be nice!

Jayson

[dedgren]

Looks like an early Christmas to me.  Daeley, my friend- you are the Man of the Hour!  Those improvements would just be fantastic, and I'm only just starting to get a handle on using the tool.  It's another great day for SC4.

A karma point on behalf of all of us.   


David

[daeley]

someone order arrows?

[Jonathan]

Yes please Daeley, that's amazing.
One more suggestion? Could you make it so that when x and y values are clicked (not typed, so you can override) and the value is -/+7.5 and below/above it automatically changes it to -/+8?

Other wise thanks very much for adding to this already great Tool.

[dedgren]

Another K-point just for the arrows.  This is like Christmas morning.


David

[daeley]

Yes please Daeley, that's amazing.
One more suggestion? Could you make it so that when x and y values are clicked (not typed, so you can override) and the value is -/+7.5 and below/above it automatically changes it to -/+8?

Other wise thanks very much for adding to this already great Tool.

From my own (limited, I must admit) experience, it seems the game will treat endpoints of paths that are close to the edge as if they were on the edge. But I can change it if you like, it's only one or two line of code extra.

edit: ok, it was a bit more than 2 lines code, but it wasn't much work and the effect is quite nice. When you click or drag near the edge, the point will "clip" to ±8.

[daeley]

I'updated the the file to version 1.5

available here: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=546

I've packed it into two runnable .jar files, so no more messing around with .bat files Just double-click either of the .jar files and it should open.