Track Folder Cleanup Utility

[Garasaki]

I think it'd be nice to have a little application that you ran, just before you saffed a track, that would compare the files used by your tracks (thinking mostly image files, maybe models too, whatever) to the files that are in your folder, and deleted excess files and also alerted you to any files that are referenced, but do not exist in your folder.

It would be very helpful for me, I usually stash all kinds of junk in my folders (just in case I wanna use it!!) then can never remember what all I actually used.

[Servatis]

I might be able to work something out.
right now working on a little project with ddmx, also has to do something with track creation (cant tell you much since a: i dont know much about creating tracks and b: don't know how far ddmx want's to go ).
anyway I would think this would make a good addition to that.

if I do end up creating something though it won't be anywhere in the next few weeks.

so if someone else has a better idea, go ahead

[ddmx]

as servatis said, right now we're working on a project that takes your object's jm name, png name, and shp name, and randomly places it across a specified area at an interval with an object count. It can also place more than one object at that coordinate, making it nice for the trees i've sent you saki. I'd like to expand it to random billboard placement as well, and it would be nice for me to learn enough so that i can work further on it. i'd like for it eventually to be an easy way to edit all the track files.

[DJ99X]

Heck, I'd like to see the billboard placement first.

[FactoryBR21]

Heck, I'd like to see the billboard placement first.

[yzmxer608]

So it would randomly place objects on your track? That would be good for trees, I think mcm2 had an option for a map that allowed you to "paint" the probability of where a tree would be on your track (black and white).

[DJ99X]

Yeah, itd be sick if you could draw a black and white image, with black representing no objects, and white representing a preset density of objects. Then a standalone program, or even the game, converted the image to placing objects randomly with a density defined by the map.

[yzmxer608]

Found the process that was used to do it in MCM2: http://www.twisteddirt.com/TutorialStuff/placement.html

[ddmx]

importing a black and white image to represent where the trees should be placed is an amazing idea. never thought of that. even an entire grayscale image to represent density as well. you could pick the min spacing at white, and black would be max spacing, then tapered in between. i'll talk to servatis and see what his knowledge can do with it.

[yzmxer608]

Sounds good, I forgot about the placement maps in MCM2 until I saw this.

[Servatis]

importing a black and white image to represent where the trees should be placed is an amazing idea. never thought of that. even an entire grayscale image to represent density as well. you could pick the min spacing at white, and black would be max spacing, then tapered in between. i'll talk to servatis and see what his knowledge can do with it.

well it's definitely beyond anything I have done before. I really wouldn't know where to start to be honest .

I'm sure after some research i could figure something out but it would take me quite a bit of time to get it right i think.

to finish the entire application ddmx an I talked about it wouldn't be done for a couple of months at the least, since i got a lot of stuff to do for school also.
we could release the app in parts, so once one component is done we could release it and then over time add components to the app.

but before that, i just remembered. I thought i heard jlv talking about a standalone track editor a while ago, you guys know more about that? would be a bit of a waste to start working on something that will be done by jlv too, somewhere in the future.

[Garasaki]

Just bumpin this idea up again. Could come in handy in the near future.

[jlv]

For the supercross tracks I used a shell script to do that. Only useful for Linux geeks though.