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27th Dec 2008, 9:29 PM

Linking diagonal to straight window #1

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I have spent the last 2 days on this and now I give up. I am attempting to link a straight and diagonal window. My base window was the wellwishers window. I removed the window panes in the GMDC, GMND and SHPE. I then meshed window etc. The window is half repository, half included textures - the window glass is in the package, the wood surround and decorative glass are repository.

When I attempt to place the window I get the message "cannot be placed on a diagonal wall". It places fine on a straight wall.

I have checked everything and I just cannot see it anymore - please help. The files are a bit rough, but I was afraid to clean much more in case I broke it even more. I have followed the diagonal windows tutorial by Numenor (this is the first time I have not been successful....)

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Package file	Size	Type	Description
diagonal.package	202,147	Mesh	Well Wisher's Window This heartwarming window will brighten every well wisher's spirits each time they gaze into its quaint design. With a heart-shaped pattern on its panes, no matter what the wish the well wisher is wishing, at least they'll already have everything they could wish for in a window.
straight.package	228,487	Mesh	Well Wisher's Window This heartwarming window will brighten every well wisher's spirits each time they gaze into its quaint design. With a heart-shaped pattern on its panes, no matter what the wish the well wisher is wishing, at least they'll already have everything they could wish for in a window.

                  Size   Packed Ratio  Date   Time     Attr      CRC   Meth Ver
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 diagonal.package
                202147    37712  18% 27-12-08 22:20  .....A.   BCD25A1D m3c 2.9
 straight.package
                228487    50187  21% 27-12-08 22:20  .....A.   EF730BE9 m3c 2.9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    2           430634    87899  20%

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28th Dec 2008, 11:51 PM	#2
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	Hi there DL'er of my broken window! How is it going?
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29th Dec 2008, 12:13 AM	#3
Reyn Site Helper Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 946 Thanks: 13102 in 59 Posts 19 Achievements View My Journal	I'll take a peek at it too. Been a long time since I linked diaganals, but it might just be you overlooked an obvious, like I did with my shelf.
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29th Dec 2008, 12:15 AM	#4
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	Hi Reyn Thanks for offering to take a look - pretty sure I missed something really obvious, but you know how it is sometimes - you just can't see it anymore....Though I do think that maybe removing half the GMDC might be connected in someway? I even added some stuff in the BHAVs - no luck.
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29th Dec 2008, 8:08 AM	#5
-Maylin- Addicted to Capuccino! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 727 Thanks: 128070 in 124 Posts 32 Achievements View My Journal	I have taken a look on your package and I think that the problem is due to a bad relation between the GMDC and the MMAT. In the straight package, the two parts called 'windowquaint_heart' and 'Wood' in GMDC have to be in relation with the Material Override files. In MMAT the two files are 'windowquaint_heart' (okay!) and 'frame' (?). Try to fix this and test in game.
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29th Dec 2008, 9:44 AM	#6
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	Hi Maylin are you saying that the diagonal link is not working because of the MMAT in the straight? I will continue to clean package (MMAT "frame" not used as is repository object) and will report back.
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29th Dec 2008, 10:04 AM	#7
-Maylin- Addicted to Capuccino! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 727 Thanks: 128070 in 124 Posts 32 Achievements View My Journal	I am not sure leesester but the diagonal window is directly linked to the straight one, so I think that if errors appear in this package they automatically affect the diagonal part...
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30th Dec 2008, 2:26 PM	#8
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	hi Maylin, well I tried that but no luck (except for squeaky clean window) - I cannot work out what the problem is - maybe as the first window (the straight) is a repository of a door, then the second (the diagonal) should be a repository of the straight window, rather than the original door textures? (Scratch that, makes no sense) Odd thing is that when placing a diagonal window on a working window then you get a change from two tiles to a 1 tile object, my window does not do that at all but the bhavs look fine. I did add a MMAT to the diagonal window for the glass, but even when I left that out, same problem. Maybe the original window is borked?
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30th Dec 2008, 3:04 PM	#9
-Maylin- Addicted to Capuccino! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 727 Thanks: 128070 in 124 Posts 32 Achievements View My Journal	Have you cloned the same window for the straight and the diagonal parts? In Object Data, I read 'Window - Quaint' for the straight window and 'Window - Mauritania - Diagonal' for the diagonal window.
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30th Dec 2008, 3:10 PM	#10
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	Yes, both are from the same set - I will try a different window as original to clone and report back. All the hard work (mesh etc) is done, so no big deal to do that. odd.
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31st Dec 2008, 11:34 AM	#11
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	Hi Maylin - it looks like the wellwishers window is not a good window to clone; I repeated the whole process using the breezeeasy and SUCCESS!!! So, case closed, and I will never clone that window again.....
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31st Dec 2008, 11:43 AM	#12
-Maylin- Addicted to Capuccino! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 727 Thanks: 128070 in 124 Posts 32 Achievements View My Journal	Glad you got it at last leesester
	Sorry I can't take requests anymore! And I will probably never convert my creations for TS2 to TS3.

31st Dec 2008, 11:57 AM	#13
leesester Original Poster Flaily Fish Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,943 Thanks: 76623 in 114 Posts 36 Achievements View My Journal	Hi Maylin, yes finally snailed to the end - but a question: what do you think of the posibility of a window with different colours inside and out? So on the inside you can have plain white windows and the outside different colours? basically 2 recolourable subsets for the frame in one window? A bit more true to life I thought
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