Xan is missing textures

[kaneder]

Recently had to reinstall UT99, bonus packs 1-4 with Patch v469b. Edited my ini to unlock Xan, noticed his non-team (and only that one) colour is missing textures on his arms (blue in menu, turns green within the game). This bit of code caught my eye, any chance that it makes sense to anyone here? Not sure where my install went wrong but I don't know where to start to fix that.

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ScriptLog: Login: kaneder
Warning: Failed to load "Texture BossSkins.1T_0": Object not found: Texture BossSkins.1T_0.
ScriptLog: Failed to load BossSkins.1T_0 so load BossSkins.Boss1T_0
Warning: Failed to load "Texture BossSkins.1": Object not found: Texture BossSkins.1.
ScriptLog: Failed to load BossSkins.1 so load BossSkins.Boss1
Log: Possessed PlayerPawn: TBoss DM-20AC-CrypticDungeonV2.TBoss0
ScriptLog: MekS Firewall tskmskins. tskmskins.
Init: Initialized moving brush tracker for Level DM-20AC-CrypticDungeonV2.MyLevel
DevAudio: Cluster SetViewport: WindowsViewport0
Warning: Failed to load "Texture BossSkins.1T_0": Object not found: Texture BossSkins.1T_0.
ScriptLog: Failed to load BossSkins.1T_0 so load BossSkins.Boss1T_0
Warning: Failed to load "Texture BossSkins.1": Object not found: Texture BossSkins.1.
ScriptLog: Failed to load BossSkins.1 so load BossSkins.Boss1
ScriptLog: Mesh client closed!
Log: appRequestExit(0)
Exit: Preparing to exit.

[sektor2111]

I recalls these sorts of error lines and I think in that time I changed textures assigned for that XAN Bot as long as indeed they don't seems to be defined correctly.
I did a backup of User.INI and then I open editor with textures and defining classes as Editor was showing them out of that T_0 T_1 whatever "T"eam number which is added when pawn goes to certain team and texture should load team based. I don't think is the only problem as far as I recall. Then, for player I think it should be edited INT file.

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BotFaces[1]=BossSkins.boss5Xan
...
BotNames[1]=Xan_A
...
BotTeams[1]=2
...
BotSkins[1]=BossSkins.boss

Player is this:

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Class=BotPack.TBoss
team=1
skin=BossSkins.Boss
Face=BossSkins.Xan
Voice=BotPack.VoiceBoss

Having these I don't see those "fails". No extensions, no UT updates.
My INT file called BossSkins.int has this content:

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[public]
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1,Class=Texture,Description=Boss)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4Xan,Class=Texture,Description=Xan)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss5Xan,Class=Texture)

Perhaps right now I will want to know what any trash bytes has added 469b. I compared INT files CommandoSkins.int from 436/440 with that one from 469b. Can you see difference from top ? Wtf is that anyway ?

Yeah, sure, all 469 issues should go to GitHub or BugHit or whatever. The question is if I do really need these.... I should ask: What any other bytes are added in those Natives and messing up around ? - But I won't ask anything.

[EvilGrins]

Why did you have to re-install?
Why had you uninstalled?

[kaneder]

I recalls these sorts of error lines and I think in that time I changed textures assigned for that XAN Bot as long as indeed they don't seems to be defined correctly.
I did a backup of User.INI and then I open editor with textures and defining classes as Editor was showing them out of that T_0 T_1 whatever "T"eam number which is added when pawn goes to certain team and texture should load team based. I don't think is the only problem as far as I recall. Then, for player I think it should be edited INT file.

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BotFaces[1]=BossSkins.boss5Xan
...
BotNames[1]=Xan_A
...
BotTeams[1]=2
...
BotSkins[1]=BossSkins.boss

Player is this:

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Class=BotPack.TBoss
team=1
skin=BossSkins.Boss
Face=BossSkins.Xan
Voice=BotPack.VoiceBoss

Having these I don't see those "fails". No extensions, no UT updates.
My INT file called BossSkins.int has this content:

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[public]
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1,Class=Texture,Description=Boss)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss1t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss2t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss3t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_0,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_1,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_2,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4t_3,Class=Texture)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss4Xan,Class=Texture,Description=Xan)
Object=(Name=BossSkins.Boss5Xan,Class=Texture)

Perhaps right now I will want to know what any trash bytes has added 469b. I compared INT files CommandoSkins.int from 436/440 with that one from 469b. Can you see difference from top ? Wtf is that anyway ?

LousyBytes.PNG

Yeah, sure all 469 issues should go to GitHub or BugHit or whatever. The question is if I do really need these.... I should ask: What any other bytes are added in those Natives and messing up around ? - But I won't ask anything.

I edited my user.ini and also added BossSkins.int with that bit of code you posted (I was missing this file completely, actually) and everything looks great. Thanks for your help!

[sektor2111]

My pleasure !

[OjitroC]

Perhaps right now I will want to know what any trash bytes has added 469b. I compared INT files CommandoSkins.int from 436/440 with that one from 469b. Can you see difference from top ? Wtf is that anyway ?

LousyBytes.PNG

Yeah, sure, all 469 issues should go to GitHub or BugHit or whatever. The question is if I do really need these.... I should ask: What any other bytes are added in those Natives and messing up around ? - But I won't ask anything.

You don't need to ask anything - a visual comparison indicates that, in the .ini for 469b, the names of the skin and of each Commando are in inverted commas ("Commando", "Blake", etc) unlike the 436 version where they are not - hence the 33 byte difference in size.

[sektor2111]

I'll give you my glasses if you cannot see what I marked in red - right in front of word "[public]". Some nice dude at a moment could not compile a class because of some invisible trash loaded before ScriptText "class .... expands ....". Code did not compile even if it was looking normal. Why these invisible bytes ? I must ask.
Solution was copying visible script and creating a new file without those lousy bytes. I'm wondering how do they compile C++ with extra useless junks . Do they compile or just return errors ? Or the result is a borked compilation with extra-instructions doing damage ?

[Barbie]

Why these invisible bytes ?

It is the BOM 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF for UTF-8. Welcome in the 21. century.

[sektor2111]

Then excuse me if I don't have these useless UTF-8 things in my INT files... I apology in advance because I'm not having plans to add them... neither in next century... Fascinating is that 469b works normally out of any UTF-8 format of INT files. And I will show you why I'm not curious about any of these "21" century things. Look at this "beauty":

UT_8_BOM_BOOM_UMake.PNG (10.27 KiB) Viewed 1146 times

And this is script image in Notepad++...

Nothing is more healthy than plain ANSI text in these assets... Line 1 doesn't show anything, it's just bugging this XX century game...

The topic subject: XAN was not missing textures - he was shooting every single wall painting decals on every single texture found .

[Barbie]

Nothing is more healthy than plain ANSI text in these assets...

What if some message strings in chinese or japan language? ANSI is American/English only... I run into this several times when I exported a map to T3D and suddenly unicode was used for it instead of ASCII.

Line 1 doesn't show anything, it's just bugging this XX century game...

It is a file header, a meta information and therefore not displayed within the text. In NP++ it is displayed at the status bar and in the Encoding menu (see pic).
And maybe UMAKE cannot handle unicode or BOMs

[sektor2111]

Yeah, like newer BMP files, all have now all sort of formats to mess around, it's not like a normal format cannot be used.
I have a wheel so I do not reinvent another wheel, there are things more important to do on this planet than making things more harder.

[papercoffee]

UTF-8-BOM the bane of every .htaccess