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When building a cache file for a mainmenu scenario, tool deletes the elements for the falling damage and material definitions blocks in the game globals. It also removes the unit reference in the player information block. So the test case can't be done with a vehicle right now, it would have to be done with something that doesn't require information from the falling damage block (so anything not a vehicle, and probably anything not a biped). A device shouldn't cause it to exception.
Okay, so I put together another UI that has a device machine of the hazard light from the PoA. And the H2 teleporter that spins and is scenery. The scenery animates but the device machine does not.
Yeah, the device machine would only animate between position/power changes. If the scenery animates, what's everyone's problem with animations in the mainmenu?
I dont think it does animate.. a long time ago i tried making a UI with banshees and what not flying around with scenery objects but the scenery wouldent animate. You sure it's not the shader you're thinking about bob?
Nope you're totally right. It wasn't animating. I just figured cause it looked like it was spinning. I put something else in there that does spin and it won't move.
Well can you upload the map so I can test this patch?
Here:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7F...TU4cjR3VkNIdFE
The white thing in the middle should spin. Also my music is jacked, but whatever.
So I got those two objects to start spinning.
Basically, I just removed the checks in the game's objects update function where it determines if an object is within a player's PVS, which allows the object to become active.
There are other things which use the player PVS (actors, effects, etc). However, I I'll just stick to letting objects become active and update instead of all the other junk for now.
Hopefully I can include a new project_yellow flag for this in 3.1. Basically a "game updates ignore player pvs hack (mainmenu only)" flag. So it'd have to be set for this to work, and it would have to be a mainmenu scenario.
I would be very happy if this is included with the final build of OS 3.1.
Very sweet!