Jungle tileset

[Tschokky]

Some pictures

[Matt]

We are currently remaking the C&C Funpark mission. Can we include your cool JUNGLE tileset into OpenRA?

[Tschokky]

Absolutely, that would be great

[Matt]

Okay, I gave it a try https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/5330 There are some problems:

• Are the trees ripped from RA2? We can't ship those then.
  
• I did not find the cool Latin American church.
  
• Some houses/tree death animations (tc04.jun and friends) do not match in sprite length crashing the game.
  

[Allen508]

The tress are not from RA2 http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?topic=2880.15 Reply #21.

 

First post on page 10 has the final versions attached.

 

The TC**.jun (Tree Clusters ) dosn't need more than 2 frames in RA as Tree Clusters are not destoyable. Tree Clusters only need norm (frame 1) and burned (frame 2).

[Matt]

Do you also have a C&C95 version of the latest version?

 

I had a look at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/bleed/mods/ra/sequences/decorations.yaml#L6 and even in RA95 which usually has less frames per sprite there is a dead version for tree clusters although unused in the original as it seems.

[Allen508]

The latest is on page 9 Reply #131. I did the convert ot C&C95. It doesn't have the new church but the rest is up to date.

[Matt]

Thanks. That is the one I used. Looks like the original is more forgiving about missing sequences. I don't have time to fix this myself so I am putting https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/5330 on hold for the moment.

[Nyerguds]

Yeah, C&C simply doesn't check that stuff, and if they're not there when it requests them for drawing them on the screen, well, it'll simply draw nothing. If a file is actually corrupted, likewise, the game will only crash if it actually has to draw frames from the file.

 

So for 100% unused frames, the game won't give a damn

[Tschokky]

• Are the trees ripped from RA2? We can't ship those then.
  
• I did not find the cool Latin American church.
  
• Some houses/tree death animations (tc04.jun and friends) do not match in sprite length crashing the game.
  

 

Trees - nope, but I saw someone say on the GitHub thread that they are shutterstock.com photos, that's correct.

Church - should be in there

Missing frames - corrected t11, t15 (11 frames instead of 10) and added empty frames for tc01-05

 

Please don't forget to credit Adam Valy for the tileset (yep, that's me)

jungle.mix

jungle.zip

[Matt]

This seems to be an RA95 version again. Do you also have a C&C95 version with complete sprite sequences. We are using dead buildings (v**.shp) in the Tiberian Dawn mod for husks.

 

• Sequence v01.husk.idle uses frames [2..2] of SHP `v01`, but only 0..1 actually exist
  

 

After that plus the complete tc**.shp and we should be good to go (tested against funpark01).

[Allen508]

No. I did the convert to C&C95. Tschokky only has what I posted.

 

Off hand I know many of the V##.shp should be 3 frames for C&C95 but I did not do so as RA1 only uses 2 frame V##.shp (V01 to V18) and the 2 frame set up worked fine in C&C95.

 

Anyway... It is after 12:30AM my time. After some sleep I will see what need to be fix.

[Tschokky]

Oh, I think I got it. I'll get to work on the dead buildings a little later and post them when I'm done.

[Allen508]

Alright Matt the attached below should work however I strongly suggest that OpenRA be updated to draw nothing if a fame is not found.

 

Changed:

t11.shp now 11 frames

t15.shp now 11 frames

All TC##.shp (Tree cluster) now 10 frames

All V##.shp now have 3rd frame

Jungle_for_CC95_V3.zip

[Matt]

Nice. Thanks, works like a charm. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/5330#issuecomment-43541664

[Nyerguds]

So, um... why didn't you make it jungle.mix? C&C95 actually SUPPORTS Jungle as theater.

 

Also, ehhh... those buildings are all based on existing C&C1 civilian buildings, which have collapse frames. You could've, you know, used those, instead of just copying the last frame. Really sloppy. You realize C&C1 actually uses those frames, right?

[Tschokky]

Allen, it's really nice that you did the jungle.mix update but I would have appreciated a notice on your part. Now all my work was for nothing. So next time, tell me if you're going to do it, otherwise I wouldn't waste my time.

[Nyerguds]

Allen, it's really nice that you did the jungle.mix update but I would have appreciated a notice on your part. Now all my work was for nothing.

That implies you also didn't do the collapse frames correctly

[Tschokky]

Well, I should be the first to be blamed for that, because I ported the desert buildings to jungle in the first case. The only modification to them is changing the dirt color. If Allen is not working on that right now, I can do it.

[Chimas]

So, um... why didn't you make it jungle.mix? C&C95 actually SUPPORTS Jungle as theater.

 

You mean, if I save the *.MIX file in C&C95 folder as jungle.mix and set a map with the parameter Theater=Jungle, will it run directly?

[Tschokky]

Yes, it will, but it will only work with jungle/jun.

[Chimas]

Yes, it will, but it will only work with jungle/jun.

 

Soory, need more clarification (talking only about C&C95) ...

[Matt]

You can't just rename the temperat.mix here, because the file contents are named *.tem while the game uses hard-coded file endings: if you rename them to .jun and place them into jungle.mix that might work. On Linux/Mac you can use the following shell script to do the rename operation

 

#!/bin/sh
find -L . -type f -name "*.tem" -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' FNAME; do
    mv -- "$FNAME" "${FNAME%.tem}.jun"
done 

 

http://xhp.xwis.net/ XCC Mixer is the defacto-standard to extract and create .mix archives.

[Allen508]

Tschokky:

You can do the 3rd frame for C&C95. All I wanted to do was get a quick version that would work in OpenC&C.

[Matt]

We are not really in a hurry here. Our release cycle has slowed down a lot.