Korriban's locked door?

[Darth Balor]

How can I make it so that the locked door in dreshdae is openable and is an area transition?

[Marius Fett]

Would this be the one opposite the Czerka store?

[Darth Balor]

yes.

[Silveredge9]

Behind that door is just a black wall. So if it were to be opened and used as a transition it wouldn't look very realistic.

[Marius Fett]

Spawn a computer console next to it with a warp option?

[Darth Payne]

Didn't Redhawke use DarthDingDong's idea in the Ord Mandell mod?

 

If so, it is very possible.

 

Actually it would be the other way around... DDD was stating what I had already done in ORD Mandell. -RH

[Darth Balor]

The texture there can be fixed, I really don't want to use the console thing. But can you tell me how to open the door please?

[Stream]

There's two ways, first is using a script;

 

void main() {

object oDoor=GetObjectByTag("[b]DOOR_TAG[/b]"); 
SetLocked(oDoor,FALSE);
ActionOpenDoor(oDoor);

}

 

Second is to edit the .utd file itself, which depending on what you want to do is probably the best way.

 

--Stream

[Silveredge9]

The texture there can be fixed, I really don't want to use the console thing. But can you tell me how to open the door please?

Nope. There is no texture there to fix, so it won't work if you reskin the module. I use that particular door in BoS:SR, and in that I used a solution similar to what DarthDingDong mentioned.

[Darth Balor]

I'll find a way to fix it, I really need the door to open for the restoration on the czerka level.

[Stream]

Thinking about it there is another way you could do it, following this tutorial as a guideline you could rename the original on enter script and then use this script as the new on enter.

 

Also if you make a new .utd file of a Korriban door and then do a whereami at the end of the area you're talking about, insert the new door tag and the x,y,z in this part and it will spawn a new door covering the black part.

 

void main() {

CreateObject(OBJECT_TYPE_DOOR, "[b]My_Door[/b]", Location(Vector(-75.87156, -26.69725, 0.00000), 0.0));

object oDoor=GetObjectByTag("[b]DOOR_TAG[/b]"); 
SetLocked(oDoor,FALSE);

ExecuteScript("[b]Renamed_OnEnter[/b]", OBJECT_SELF);
}

--Stream

[Darth Balor]

So will this script work? It compiles properly, I just want to know if it will work the way the comments say.

 

void main() 
{
               object oEntering = GetEnteringObject();
object oCzerkadoor = GetObjectByTag("kor_czerka_door");
   	if (GetIsPC(oEntering))
 {

//  Check if the door exists - if he does not then create it
         	if (GetIsObjectValid(oCzerkadoor) == FALSE)
               {
CreateObject(OBJECT_TYPE_DOOR, "kor33a_czerka", Location(Vector(-75.87156, -26.69725, 0.00000), 0.0));
               }
object oDoor=GetObjectByTag("kor_czerka_door"); 
SetLocked(oDoor,FALSE);

ExecuteScript("old_k_pkor_33arenter", OBJECT_SELF);
  }

}

[Stream]

Yeah that should work fine, don't forget to change the coordinates though.

 

--Stream

[Darth InSidious]

I'll find a way to fix it, I really need the door to open for the restoration on the czerka level.

The only thing you could do would be to add a new placeable, but you still run into issues since the walkmesh cuts off exactly at the door.

[Darkkender]

Behind that door is just a black wall. So if it were to be opened and used as a transition it wouldn't look very realistic.

 

The black area is becasue the game does not have a "VIS" file entry to describe what your character see's when they open that door, this is why it is black. If your editing the module you could create a transistion "VIS" entry similiar to the air locks used on Taris when entering the apartments. Then you wouldn't get the black wall.

[Seamhainn]

Why don't you make the door transitioning you into the deleted area? That would not solve the problem with the black wall though. But as the deleted area has the same void I assume that should have been the connection.

 

Just my 2 creds though...

[Darth InSidious]

The black area is becasue the game does not have a "VIS" file entry to describe what your character see's when they open that door, this is why it is black. If your editing the module you could create a transistion "VIS" entry similiar to the air locks used on Taris when entering the apartments. Then you wouldn't get the black wall.

In this case, I think it's actually because through the door is nothing, but the background DynAmbientColor/Fog colour setting.

[Darth Xander]

In this case, I think it's actually because through the door is nothing, but the background DynAmbientColor/Fog colour setting.

Then in that case why doesn't someone model a very small section and "attach" it to the area model that the door in question is in?

 

Enough of a area to create an area transition?

Or even better, spawn an turbolift behind the door?

[Darkkender]

When working with area models your area is made up of multiple sub models. The VIS file for these submodels tell you what model your viewing at when you are in that subsection. For example I'm in the Ebon Hawk cockpit from the cockpit model section the "VIS" file says I can see the hall way and I can see the outside of the cockpit model.

 

So in the case of the Korriban area model you would need to locate the subsection that this door is a part of and create a "VIS" entry to another model such as maybe the airlock door model before you exit to the exterior surface of Korriban going to the academy. Voila no more black space.

[Darth Balor]

I think I figured how to work the transition. If it works I'll be happy!

[Darth InSidious]

When working with area models your area is made up of multiple sub models. The VIS file for these submodels tell you what model your viewing at when you are in that subsection. For example I'm in the Ebon Hawk cockpit from the cockpit model section the "VIS" file says I can see the hall way and I can see the outside of the cockpit model.

 

So in the case of the Korriban area model you would need to locate the subsection that this door is a part of and create a "VIS" entry to another model such as maybe the airlock door model before you exit to the exterior surface of Korriban going to the academy. Voila no more black space.

Are you sure that would work, DK? I don't think you can manipulate where the .vis entry is seen, can you?

[Darkkender]

The .vis files are text file like the .txi files. I've played around with them on the side when I was working on THOR to create airlock type of effects like I was describing above. The results looked really bazaar when working with a mix in match of area models renamed for an area. The only thing I have run into is the transparent walls and transistions between models for some modules. Other modules never give me that transparent effect which is just strange.

 

There is a Tut in General tools & Tuts above by Dashus that better lays out what I'm explaining.

 

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=176546

[Darth Balor]

Ok, I've spawned a door in the cut module, but it isn't lined up correctly.

 

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c76/AgeofKnights/kotor/door.png

 

As you can see it is catywankus, I want it lined up where I have drawn the red line. How would I do so?

 

EDIT: I figured out the bearing but now I want to know, which position changes left/right in the git? is it x or y?

[DarthStoney]

Bearing controls that,http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=185200 see thread very helpful.

[Darth Balor]

I got the bearing! I need to move the door over to the right.