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[Chrival]

Hi

I followed the procedure described in Actors Tutorial:

- Put a valid actors.static in ...\Z_ActorsManagement\MW_Statics\Base_Files
- Put a MapSize.txt with the following lines:
                                                             # Size of map y direction in meters
                                                             48000.0
  Since my map is 480km (map_c 12096 x 9600.  9600x50 = 480000 , so I wrote 48000.0 according to the tutorial)
- Extracted with no problem
- Copied all the out*.txt and paste into the Base_Files
- Renamed all out files to in*.txt
- Browsed to the proper folder and ran the .Jar

Here is the result:



0%

The new actors.static is smaller than te original (91o instead of 99) and of course it doesn't work
Beside, when I try to reextract it failed since the buildings has disappeared





Please Help !
I tried hundreds things, read all the related threads on the forum.
No clue what I'm doing wrong ?

[vpmedia]

I've run into this issue years ago, but dont remember the exact solution. What's the format of the inBuildings.txt file you're saving? Does it have a byte order mark? If yes, try without it (UTF-8, no BOM). When I edited maps I modified only the inBuildings.txt for actros.static changes, I never adjusted the map size txt or any other files.

[Chrival]

Thanks for your reply
Format is UTF-8

By the past, a few years ago I had no trouble at all.
Isn't it an issue with that f...  W10 ?

[vpmedia]

in this case you got two options

UTF-8
UTF-8, NO BOM

UTF-8 seem to be not working

I use SublimeText and UltraEdit, both can save a file without that byte order mark

[Chrival]

Both does not work 

[Chrival]

Only my actors.static is not valid.
I extracted from an actors.static coming from an existing map and rebuilt from the extracted files : no problem.

The problem is :
It's a new map I'm building. It's empty for the moment. No bridges, no plates, no buildings, no stationnary.
I just wanted to test with a few object.
So inChiefs, inChiefRoad, inNstationary and inWing are empty

Is there anything mandatory for the actors_management to work ?
a bridge ? a plane ? a truck ?
a can of beer, may be ?
I can give a few pairs of jeans too ...

[Chrival]

I eventually found where the problems where.

1/
inNStationary must not be empty. One line is necessary as a minimum.
The reason of that stays a mystery for me.

2/
A certain amount of objects is required. That means that inBuildings must have at least 4500 lines !!!!!
I've tested:
 100 lines : Actors_management stops at 80%
 200 lines : 90%
 300 lines : 93%
 1000 lines : 98%
 2000 lines : 99%
 5000 lines : BINGO ! 100%
Did the same way back:
 4500 lines : Ok 100%
 4000 lines : 99%

I said stop !
What a pita !
I just put 4500 houses in a corner of the map, in order to be able to do my further tests.
I will delete them later when the time comes.

A question remains : Does Any programmer plan to make a tool for actors.static files handling ? 

[vonOben]

Hi Chrival

The author of AutoPop wrote this in the readme file:
act.jar seems to need at least a 'BRIDGE', a 'Airdrome Points/RUNAWAY' and a 'Runaway/Ground' objects placed to work and make a correct actors.static. That's why I added the act.jar_in_files folder with the in_ files I use to make the actors.static. It will create the related objects along with all the buildings that came in the inBuildings.txt you create with autopop.

Nowekat has made a new static.actors.tool, check here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,61796.0.html

Good luck!

Best regards

vonOben

[Chrival]

The author of AutoPop wrote this in the readme file:
act.jar seems to need at least a 'BRIDGE', a 'Airdrome Points/RUNAWAY' and a 'Runaway/Ground' objects placed to work and make a correct actors.static. That's why I added the act.jar_in_files folder with the in_ files I use to make the actors.static. It will create the related objects along with all the buildings that came in the inBuildings.txt you create with autopop.

Hi vonOben
Thank you. I've forgotten that

Nowekat has made a new static.actors.tool, check here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,61796.0.html

And that too.
I'll ckeck

Regards,
Chrival