animtools position files in subfolders/-direcotires available in dialogues? (1 Viewer)

[Rudgar]

Ahoy!
Correct me in case of publishing in the wrong forum again - I'm always willing to learn to how I can do it better.

My situation:
I'm a great fan of organizing files in folders and subfolders. It's a bit of a time to sort things into it, but it saves much more time when searching for something certain. Unfortunately it seems impossible to access position files (*.txt) in any subfolders of the "Settings" directory from a dialogue trigger.
I tried to with [ANIMTOOLS_pussy/missionary_floor] and [ANIMTOOLS_pussy\missionary_floor], but both just failed.

Now did I oversee something? Did I do something wrong? OR is actually just not possible? And will there be a way to access positions in subdirectories of "Settings" in future?

Thanks in Advance and kind regards, Me

 

[Rudgar]

Sorry for maybe being pesky, but this such a stupid question? Or a RTFM?

 

[sby]

oh hey, i think i did look into this.

i found that my backslashes were disappearing by the time animtools grabbed them from the dialog being played.
i could have sworn i have seen it before where people organized the positions in folders and had a dialog load them.

perhaps one of the fluent dialog folks has an idea about '\' in a action thing [ ] ?

 

[UrMum12345]

Ahoy!
Correct me in case of publishing in the wrong forum again - I'm always willing to learn to how I can do it better.

My situation:
I'm a great fan of organizing files in folders and subfolders. It's a bit of a time to sort things into it, but it saves much more time when searching for something certain. Unfortunately it seems impossible to access position files (*.txt) in any subfolders of the "Settings" directory from a dialogue trigger.
I tried to with [ANIMTOOLS_pussy/missionary_floor] and [ANIMTOOLS_pussy\missionary_floor], but both just failed.

Now did I oversee something? Did I do something wrong? OR is actually just not possible? And will there be a way to access positions in subdirectories of "Settings" in future?

Thanks in Advance and kind regards, Me

Have you tried doing something like putting double backslashes? If that doesn't work, then try (just for troubleshooting) making a position named "pussyissionary_floor" in the base folder. Sometimes interpreters will take a backslash to indicate a special character (\n,\t, etc,) and drop the backslash and the character after it.

I dont do anything with dialogues or positions, so I have no idea if this would work or not. I would test it myself, but Idk how to setup all this :P

 

[sby]

i did try to escape it with a \\ before, didn't work. i didn't really try much anything past that though

 

[Rudgar]

I tried this one:

initial_settings:{"delimiter1":"/","delimiter2":"//","delimiter3":"\","delimiter4":"\\"}
intro:"*delimiter1*delimiter1*delimiter1*[ANIMTOOLS_pussy*delimiter1*animtools_pussy_missionary_floor]"
intro:"*delimiter2*delimiter2*delimiter2*[ANIMTOOLS_pussy*delimiter2*animtools_pussy_missionary_floor]"
intro:"*delimiter3*delimiter3*delimiter3*[ANIMTOOLS_pussy*delimiter3*animtools_pussy_missionary_floor]"
intro:"*delimiter4*delimiter4*delimiter4*[ANIMTOOLS_pussy*delimiter4*animtools_pussy_missionary_floor]"

Didn't work either.

 

[Pim_gd]

DialogueActions is capable of targeting other character folders and their subfolders with forward slashes just fine. So forward slashes should be parsed correctly by the dialogue system.

 

[sby]

DialogueActions is capable of targeting other character folders and their subfolders with forward slashes just fine. So forward slashes should be parsed correctly by the dialogue system.

the tests i was doing was without dialog actions, as animtools reads the action word from the dialog class (forgot which one)

i could go through dialog actions to do these, but then i am highly doubting i can do regular expression based actions such as ^ANIMTOOLS_
also prefer i don't have outside requirements to use the features. i could do something where it can use dialog actions instead if that is loaded, and has the typical code as fallback.
anyway, i'll have to skim through some stuff next time i boot up my old laptop.

 

[Pim_gd]

the tests i was doing was without dialog actions, as animtools reads the action word from the dialog class (forgot which one)

i could go through dialog actions to do these, but then i am highly doubting i can do regular expression based actions such as ^ANIMTOOLS_
also prefer i don't have outside requirements to use the features. i could do something where it can use dialog actions instead if that is loaded, and has the typical code as fallback.
anyway, i'll have to skim through some stuff next time i boot up my old laptop.

Pim_gd / SDTDialogueActions / source / src / SoundTriggers.as — Bitbucket This code and

Pim_gd / SDTDialogueActions / source / src / FileReferenceHandler.as — Bitbucket

that code is what I use to parse "[PLAY_BGM_$OtherFolder/music.mp3]". ... Basically, I'm not doing anything special, just URLrequests.

 

[Rudgar]

Ummm, may I carefully ask if there is any progress or change on this topic?
Will there be a way to load AnimTools Positions from directories below the "settings/animtools" folder?

Just asking to show that there is still interest on this topic - no rush, no hurry.

Respectfully,
Rudgar

 

[sby]

threw together an ugly but functional solution for next release