UT2004: New Mod animation path

[legacy-Castaa]

ucc complains because my Animation file (Elmer.ukx) is not in the UT2004/Animations directory. It's in my UT2004/ProjectX/Animations directory.

I added the path to my UT2004.ini and my ProjectX.ini files.
Paths=../ProjectX/Animations/*.ukx


My ucc command line is:
ucc make -MOD=ProjectX

Taken from my MyPawn.uc:

defaultproperties
{
  Mesh=SkeletalMesh'Elmer.Elmer'
}

ucc reports:

ObjectProperty Engine.Actor.Mesh: unresolved reference to 'SkeletalMesh'Elmer.Elmer''

If I put the Elmer.ukx animation file into /UT2004/Animations/ and my script compiles fine. But I don't want my animations files in the base UT2004/Animations directory.

Anyone one else get ucc to check their mod's animation directory when compiling script?

[legacy-Mr Evil]

It works fine for me. Is it only animation packages not working? You don't get erros for e.g. utx files?

[legacy-Castaa]

The mesh uses a texture file but I don't explicitly put in it code. The model loads and looks fine in game. So UT2004.exe is finding the texture file in my ProjectX/textures directory. It's also loading up my test map as well without a problem.

It looks to be just a compile time problem.

[legacy-Mr Evil]

What happens if you explicitly load the file with

#exec OBJ LOAD FILE=Elmer.ukx

[legacy-Castaa]

If I add that to the top of my file it compiles but the model does not show up in the game.

It looks like UT2004.exe is loading Elmer.ukx from the UT2004/Animations directory but the texture from the ProjectX/Texture directory? Very odd.

I think somehow this line is to blame:

Mesh=SkeletalMesh'Elmer.Elmer'

in the my pawn's defaultproperties.

Edit:
I even tried using:

#exec OBJ LOAD FILE="../ProjectX/Animations/Elmer.ukx"

It compiled but still no model in game.

[legacy-Castaa]

Mr Evil,

That's a odd way to start a post. LOL

What is in your mod's ini file so that your script code can find your mod's data files?

Regards,
Jon

[legacy-Castaa]

I found the problem with UT2004 not loading my mod's models/animation files in my mod's animations directory.

Even though...

Paths=../ProjectX/Animations/*.ukx

...was put in UT2004.ini and my mod's ProjectX.ini

This line was missing from my default.ini in my mod's /UT2004/ProjectX/System 'mod' directory.

I put the path in my mod's default.ini and now my mod loads the models/animations from my /UT2004/ProjectX/Animations/ directory.

Not sure why it needs to be here and UT2004 ignores my ProjectX.ini settings and it's own UT2004.ini settings. /shrug