TheSurvivalist:Christmas Update 12-24-19
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Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/n2cu4jp44e0pe4l/7%20Zip.zip
If you dont want to use it I will simply reupload the files using normal .zip compression.
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Mods TheSurvivalist:Christmas Update 12-24-19Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/n2cu4jp44e0pe4l/7%20Zip.zip
If you dont want to use it I will simply reupload the files using normal .zip compression.
Optimized files reducing total mod size to 29.56MB.(complete)With Hyper's help in the skybox graphics, and my own additional work, we have managed to make the hourly tick virtually unnoticeable while playing. This is a huge improvement to the new update.(complete)Corn shuck size increased, was a little to small.(complete)A new Chicken Coop model added. Used for breeding chickens/roosters...catch them with your net and drop them near the coop...they will stay put to breed.(complete)Chicken/rooster system was balanced for sizes, eggs,chicks, time till eggs or chicks spawn...sfx toned down from being annoying.(complete)There was still a problem with using other hammers at the forge. Re-scripted and fixed.(complete)Fixed some mushrooms not being able to be picked up. made a new Moss model to replace the original, as it covered over some of the mushrooms so you could not reach them.(complete) Quote
hey Hyperfire thats great! 7Zip worked I got them all. I will test them out a bit and I am sure I will use one set or the other. If they change fast enough I may be able to get rid of even more hiccup because the light outside the skybox wont flash through when they change. So i can take out the duel color changes before n after the boxes switch...speeding up the transition.
ill let ya know here later. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
EDIT:Yo Hyper...great news!
I decided to go with the optimized 512x512 but I scaled them down to 384x384. Most of them were around 100KB in size and they transitioned in game pretty fast. I then ran them through the Gimp "selective gaussian blur" to enhance them from the stretching...they turned out real nice and that reduced their size even more to 40-60K. This has made the hiccup practically unnoticeable while actually playing. Thanks for optimizing the skies folder bro...really helped the "tick" alot!
ill let ya know here later. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
EDIT:Yo Hyper...great news!
I decided to go with the optimized 512x512 but I scaled them down to 384x384. Most of them were around 100KB in size and they transitioned in game pretty fast. I then ran them through the Gimp "selective gaussian blur" to enhance them from the stretching...they turned out real nice and that reduced their size even more to 40-60K. This has made the hiccup practically unnoticeable while actually playing. Thanks for optimizing the skies folder bro...really helped the "tick" alot!
edited 3×, last 04.01.14 11:16:26 am
Also here is a hint in something I learned.
I've tried something with the water.jpg files that required me making them .PNG but when launching the game it tells me that it could not find the water.jpg files. Is there a script where I can change the format or is it integrated into the .exe file?
Also I was thinking in making my own "moddible" house for the game but I don't know if it would be possible to implement. With "moddible" i mean a house that is divided into several "pieces" that you can puzzle together as you see fit to make a custom house. But I think the terrain level and collision will collide with that idea.
Please let me know what you think of the idea, it will be for my own personal use if I could get it to work, or if you think it is a good/possible idea and want to use it and implement it, I will try to model it if you cant.
However, After a few days, I had built a mine shaft and shortly after none of my food will cook anymore, nor will any iron become soft iron in a forge, and my distiller (I con't remember how to spell it, my bad if its wrong.)
Also I lag a lot while next to my fires, or close to them.
Besides that, I love this mod, and i wish i could help more then complaining about stuff.
Along with the fire/forge stopping to work, i have some suggestions.
1. When a tool breaks/dulls, give the nails back too.
2. Increase the carrying capacity when you go into a mine, maybe as your mining level goes up, you can carry more into the mine.
3. Make the distiller make freshwater from salt water faster. It take forever, even before it stopped working all together.
I have a few more ideas, but I don't know if you are going to implement some things , so i'll wait to tell you them.
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I forgot, After i had gone into my mine the second or their time, and the season had just changed from spring to summer, When i came out of them mine it was spring again. and after going around to collect my fruit, the terrain changed back to green.
Edit, again:
It was the last update before the newest one (Still 1.1.14, but not the one you released on 1.3.14.) Idk if that helps.
edited 1×, last 04.01.14 09:05:07 pm
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Hyper,
There are commands that allow you to change a texture through script...but it does not work for water. I have 4 different water texture in the gfx folder I had tried to get them to change with the seasons and weather...but they would not change so I believe it is in the source code.(.exe)
I could only set the single water texture and it can only be called "water.jpg".
As far as buildings, you CAN make sections that the player could put together...any building model added is treated all the same as the rest. Meaning the player would set them, rotate them into position, then click build. They would have to build them in "flat areas" OR you can make 2 different sections to choose from if the player wanted to build on a hillside. Another way would be using the "alter object" command in a script. Where you would have say 3 models, the player builds the first stage....then he could hit the building with his hammer x amount of times and the building would be replaced with a stage 2 model. Then repeat this for as many additions as you wanted the player to have.
Think about the current "forge/water rock" you hit it 50 times with a hammer and it changes to a "hollow rock". ("alter item" script command) Or the "build site" itself...you hit it with required hammer and use items and it changes to the building when done.
last...you can use script to force the player to build at only a certain location...such as you can only build a treehouse at x tree. Or a raft can only be built in water. Or the grill only over a fire pit. I am pretty sure you could use script to check terrain "x,y,z" and if it is a hill your "house section" would turn "red" and the player could not build there. To many things to list here but YES you can make sections of houses to build together.
There are commands that allow you to change a texture through script...but it does not work for water. I have 4 different water texture in the gfx folder I had tried to get them to change with the seasons and weather...but they would not change so I believe it is in the source code.(.exe)
I could only set the single water texture and it can only be called "water.jpg".
As far as buildings, you CAN make sections that the player could put together...any building model added is treated all the same as the rest. Meaning the player would set them, rotate them into position, then click build. They would have to build them in "flat areas" OR you can make 2 different sections to choose from if the player wanted to build on a hillside. Another way would be using the "alter object" command in a script. Where you would have say 3 models, the player builds the first stage....then he could hit the building with his hammer x amount of times and the building would be replaced with a stage 2 model. Then repeat this for as many additions as you wanted the player to have.
Think about the current "forge/water rock" you hit it 50 times with a hammer and it changes to a "hollow rock". ("alter item" script command) Or the "build site" itself...you hit it with required hammer and use items and it changes to the building when done.
last...you can use script to force the player to build at only a certain location...such as you can only build a treehouse at x tree. Or a raft can only be built in water. Or the grill only over a fire pit. I am pretty sure you could use script to check terrain "x,y,z" and if it is a hill your "house section" would turn "red" and the player could not build there. To many things to list here but YES you can make sections of houses to build together.
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Dragon,
Hi nice to meet you...if you did not download the new update you may have some bugs. The early version of 12-25-2013 was pretty bad. Download the new update.
I will have to test some things...i dont understand why you would have those bugs with the forge...or the mine. thank for the report...will look into it. Did you yourself edit any of the files at all? Or enable the editor and map a custom map? no works with custom maps.
Hi nice to meet you...if you did not download the new update you may have some bugs. The early version of 12-25-2013 was pretty bad. Download the new update.
I will have to test some things...i dont understand why you would have those bugs with the forge...or the mine. thank for the report...will look into it. Did you yourself edit any of the files at all? Or enable the editor and map a custom map? no works with custom maps.
edited 1×, last 04.01.14 09:11:06 pm
Also it is nice to meet you too, sorry i didn't introduce myself first, i just wanted to say my complete thought before i lost it.
I did not edit any files, nor did i use any other mods.
The game was working fine in till i went into the mine a few times. Also, i had a few events happen in the mine, if this could have anything to do with it.
Don't know if this is a typo or something, but I cant make fire arrows with wooden arrow and cotton/wool like the diary says.
I have found a few typos in the diary regarding crafting also but cant remember them now lol. Will try to find all of them and post them up here.
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Drag,
oh no another mine bug
that thing causes so many problems I may have to take it out all together even though it's cool. That is an original Massive Mod aspect of the game. But it has been such a pain!
oh no another mine bug
that thing causes so many problems I may have to take it out all together even though it's cool. That is an original Massive Mod aspect of the game. But it has been such a pain! Quote
Hyper,
Fire Arrows (Branch + Feather + Wool) Ill have to edit the wooden arrow...it's supose to be a branch o.0
Can you look into that lag spike some more? See if you can come up with any more details as to when, where, or how it might be happening? Was it only 1 time? or is it repeating every x amount of time...or at the same "time" hour ingame?...anything?
Fire Arrows (Branch + Feather + Wool) Ill have to edit the wooden arrow...it's supose to be a branch o.0
Can you look into that lag spike some more? See if you can come up with any more details as to when, where, or how it might be happening? Was it only 1 time? or is it repeating every x amount of time...or at the same "time" hour ingame?...anything?
thanks for the reports guys!
edited 1×, last 04.01.14 09:37:49 pm
Also (I am going to read again the posts from the past 3 months), how do I build a net for the chickens, and how do I toss it?
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Adoelaws,
1branch + 10chord = net
Right-click your mouse to catch the chicken/rooster like you do a butterfly, or insect. Take it to the Chicken-Coop and simply "drop" it out of your rucksack. If your inside 100ft range of the coop they will stay idle, outside 100ft they will just run off again. I will add details to the diary/guide
I never messed with the ability to set the Map to a button after I put that in. You have to make the map first, goto the OPTIONS/CONTROLS and set it to a key. If you did not make a map though, it will not let you set it to a key.
1branch + 10chord = net
Right-click your mouse to catch the chicken/rooster like you do a butterfly, or insect. Take it to the Chicken-Coop and simply "drop" it out of your rucksack. If your inside 100ft range of the coop they will stay idle, outside 100ft they will just run off again. I will add details to the diary/guide
I never messed with the ability to set the Map to a button after I put that in. You have to make the map first, goto the OPTIONS/CONTROLS and set it to a key. If you did not make a map though, it will not let you set it to a key.
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ssev,
You got the last 01-01-2014? with the bonus fixes? I will check it out...grrr@bugs
You got the last 01-01-2014? with the bonus fixes? I will check it out...grrr@bugs
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Hyper,
btw...im not losing quality when I downsize the skybox images. It is the fact that I made them smaller in size AND the fact that that the engine has to "stretch" such a small image over the big sky. When an image is stretched it loses quality. Same as if you take a small image and scale it large it looks blurry -vs- scaling a big image smaller it loses no quality, and stays clear.
I actually do not like what i did to the sky images, and will revert back to your 512x512 optimized set, next upload.
btw...im not losing quality when I downsize the skybox images. It is the fact that I made them smaller in size AND the fact that that the engine has to "stretch" such a small image over the big sky. When an image is stretched it loses quality. Same as if you take a small image and scale it large it looks blurry -vs- scaling a big image smaller it loses no quality, and stays clear.
I actually do not like what i did to the sky images, and will revert back to your 512x512 optimized set, next upload.
ty ty 4 feedback!
edited 2×, last 05.01.14 06:07:40 am
EDIT: When standing on a house's roof or the watchtower thingy, when an event happens I take falling damage, sometimes even break a leg xD.
I've tried putting my grass detail to max and then the opposite happens(Instead of going from medium to max and back to medium, it goes from max to medium back to max) don't know what causes it.
Also, I dont know if its meant to be like this but everytime one of my tools breaks(not blunting) the tool(ex. Hammer Head) disapears, I only sometimes get a handle back.
Also can you make the chicken's models different? Like maybe make the rooster brown and the hen white? Its hard to see their difference as they look the same ATM, only when I catch them they show different in the in sizes and icon.
Possible mine fix:
thus this leads to the mine bug, which is just an oversight on my part, because I did not add the save function to the mine script, to save the current season and seasonday count, when you enter and exit the mine.
If i took out the changing skybox there would be no lag spikes or any problems with fall damage when your feet are off the ground when the boxes change. It is being picked up by the "detect fall" script at times.
im going to go ever it all again and see if I can make it better...or I may have to go back to the way it used to be...the same sky all the time...or only change the box when the player sleeps. Like random selection of sky which I could make relating to the seasons. But the sun moving across the sky is what would be gone, and is the whole purpose of this issue anyways. It may not be worth any more effort just to have this feature at such a big sacrifice in performance. (lag spikes)
yes i could make the rooster more different then the chicken...currently it is little bigger and has more red on it's head and under its beak, then the chicken.
Ill look at the hammers again..thought they were all fixed.
Also, when i'm around my fire it lags me a huge amount.
Again, i wish i could contribute more to this then telling you about lag problems.
Oh and btw, I have a nice water texture if you are interested. Here is a ingame screenshot of it.
edited 1×, last 05.01.14 06:52:31 pm
2, Just night then day then night then day.
3, Have morning, after noon, night, then morning again.
4, Morning, noon, night, after midnight, then morning.
and so on.
That way, players who are able to deal with lag but want that time changing feeling can have it, and others can not have that lag and can just have night and day.
I may be completly off what you guys are even talking about, if i am then ignore this all o.o.
my computer blocks me from downloadingg from mediafire. Can you post this file on the unreal software file archive?
This is the last update until sometime in February 2014
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Okay everyone I figured some things out and have posted a new update that runs alot smoother and takes care of the lag spiking.
I had a few things I changed in the scripting that makes it all better:
The hourly tick has 3-4 things executing at the same time, causing the lag spike. I have made them execute in order and with specific milliseconds in-between the executions, so they all do not execute at the exact same moment. Seems a lot smoother transition with just a quick "tick".
Also, There was a lag spike coming from the terrain being generated to grass, dirt, or snow...but it was being generated at a random time of the day EVERY day. So this was a big lag spike NOT on the hour tick. So, I have made the seasons/terrain changes generate only upon sleeping, or at midnight, along with the change day updates. It will now only generate the terrain ONCE EVERY 30 DAYS, when the season changes...instead of every day at some random hour.
The Mine has been closed:
Due to the Mine having so many issues and corrupting saved games...it has been closed. Your saved game will still work but you will not be able to enter your Mine if you have built one. Upon a new game, the Mine is no longer available to build. It is not very realistic anyways. If stranded on an island who would dig a tunnel underground with a shovel and find molten lava, then build a molten lava forge complete with a button to push?
After posting this next update I will be taking a break from posting any updates for the rest of this month. I will just be playing the game for a while while I tweak it. I will check in here for feedback during this time.
As always...I have read all of the above and consider everything posted...thank you all for your feedback and bug reports. I have also added many of you to the edited "credits" ingame for various reasons. Thank You
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This is the last update until sometime in Feburary 2014
edited 3×, last 06.01.14 05:29:26 am
thank you
wolfboy
I took the Mine out of the new update.
you can try to hit the grill and dismantle it, you will get the branches back to rebuild it. If that does not work then you should try to do the same with the fire pit. Rebuild them.
if that does not work then the Mine has corrupted your game data and i am very sorry for your lost game days.