PlanetX Map Editor

[zwiglm]

On your web-page... could you please note the version/release of the editor to download. Would make it much easier to track the progress on the tool

Thanks and cheers,
Martin

[pizzayoyo]

Ok, version 1.02 is now out. The links are updated. And zwiglm, next time I talk to my web guy I'll have it updated. Also, I'll start posting news announcements for new releases.

[Zaknafein]

Woahaha! First sticky in like, 4 years. Congratulations!

[pizzayoyo]

Thanks for that, Sylvain!

[pizzayoyo]

Website updated with news announcement and version update. I'll be gone on vacation again this week, but when I get back, I'll begin the work on the updates to PXME. I've already started working on a fully-fledged scripting editor.

[MoonWolf]

I must say that I really LOVE this tool to create tearins with. However there are still some serious bugs that make it very difficult to work with. Sometimes I add meshes and textures that are rendered fine and its working but when i save or export the map the save function tells me that some files can't be found and then my project gets corrupt.

There are also some serious crashes that happen in the program. (I have had them about 5 times and i have just used the tool for about 3hours.) This also makes the project impossible to save and the special menu function for example choosing textures to crash.  I can report a more detailed error and how it was achieved next time it happens because I will not stop using this too just because of some child sickness in the program

Congratz to a great world editor.

//MoonWolf

[Lyrical]

I'm relly interesting in this editor and i'm just standing on the edge of purchasing it.

Questions:
Can you create large terrains using multiple heightmaps?
does the export export into TV3D correctly or does it need playing with first
e.g flipping image files and changing rotations for mesh positioning.

I will make my decision by the end of the weekend.

Chears

[MoonWolf]

Ok i was able to reproduce an error 3 times in a row here is how i did


Start a new project
Add a terrain
objects >add mesh
select the Grass.tvm as filename
select generationmode fromfile and hit yes
select alpharef 128 and alphatest true
under C-Textures select Stage0Tex = None
Terain > add vegetation
choose mesh1 and hit yes
choose terain terrain1
Now start draw some Vegetations
Now select to undraw vegetations and undraw some
Now try to select media > add
if it works try click on the terainmap
Now i defenetly crash


here is the information from the  Errorbox that appers (in swedish)
Translated this for you (Obejct reference is not given to an instace of a object.)

Code:

Information om att aktivera JIT-felsökning i stället för den
här dialogrutan finns i slutet av det här meddelandet.


************** Undantagstext **************
System.NullReferenceException: Objektreferensen har inte angetts till en instans av ett objekt.
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   vid t.b()
   vid ad.dx(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   vid System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


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    CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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PlanetX Map Editor
    Sammansättningsversion: 1.0.0.1
    Win32-version: 1.0.0.1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB/Skrivbord/PXMERelease/PXME%20Release/PlanetX%20Map%20Editor.exe
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    Sammansättningsversion: 1.0.2737.32712
    Win32-version:
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB/Skrivbord/PXMERelease/PXME%20Release/MTV3D65.DLL
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PlugInDefinition
    Sammansättningsversion: 1.0.0.0
    Win32-version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB/Skrivbord/PXMERelease/PXME%20Release/PlugInDefinition.DLL
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Manco.Licensing
    Sammansättningsversion: 2.9.0.0
    Win32-version: 2.9.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB/Skrivbord/PXMERelease/PXME%20Release/Manco.Licensing.DLL
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System.Web
    Sammansättningsversion: 2.0.0.0
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************** JIT-felsökning **************
För att aktivera JIT-felsökning (just-in-time ) måste .config-filen för det här
tillämpningsprogrammet eller datorn (machine.config) ha
jitDebugging-värdet angivet i avsnittet system.windows.forms.
Tillämpningsprogrammet måste också vara kompilerat med felsökning
aktiverat.

Till exempel:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

När JIT-felsökning är aktiverad kommer alla undantag som inte hanteras
att skickas till JIT-felsökaren som är registrerad på datorn
snarare än att hanteras av den här dialogrutan.

HERE IS debugfile.txt

Code:

07-20-2007 15:37:10 | --------------------------------------------
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | Truevision3D Debug/Log File
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | --------------------------------------------
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | Engine Version : 6.5
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INIT : Calling process : C:\Documents and Settings\MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB\Skrivbord\PXMERelease\PXME Release\PlanetX Map Editor.exe   Size : 5668864
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | ENGINE INFO : DLL Compilation time Jun 30 2007 19:08:33
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INIT : Initialize Depth
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INIT : Initializing the device in windowed mode, with a render surface size of 1094x762, format 22, depthbuffer 75
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | VIEWPORT MANAGER : Main viewport initialization
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | VIEWPORT MANAGER : Main viewport initialized (1094x762)
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INIT : Initialization successful !
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INFO :  3D Card : NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS  | Card ID : 479 | Driver ID : 663625
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INFO : Available texture memory : 471 MB
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INFO : Vertex Shaders 3.0 supported in hardware.
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | Debug info : vs fffe0300  ps ffff0300
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INFO : Pixel Shaders 3.0 supported in hardware.
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INFO : Driver used is a DirectX9-level driver 'nv4_disp.dll'. Excellent
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INFO : Card Type Geforce6xxx/7xxx/8xxx/ATIRadeonX1xxx  Level card, third generation of programmable card
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INIT : Using Antialiasing with 2x1392664 samples
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | TEXTURE MANAGER : Loading of 'C:\Documents and Settings\MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB\Skrivbord\PXMERelease\PXME Release\media\Texture.bmp' successful 'GridTex5353434' on index 2
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | DEVICE INIT : Using Antialiasing with 4x1392664 samples
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | MESH TVM LOADER : Mesh 'Entity25' successfully loaded in 0 ms. 60 faces, 123 vertices, 3 groups
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | MESH TVM LOADER : Mesh 'Entity26' successfully loaded in 0 ms. 72 faces, 147 vertices, 4 groups
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | MESH TVM LOADER : Mesh 'Entity27' successfully loaded in 0 ms. 432 faces, 456 vertices, 3 groups
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | TEXTURE MANAGER : Successfully created a render surface 1094x762 on slot 3
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | TEXTURE MANAGER : Successfully created a render surface 1094x762 on slot 4
07-20-2007 15:37:10 | TEXTURE MANAGER : Successfully created a render surface 64x64 on slot 5
07-20-2007 15:37:12 | LANDSCAPE : Landscape object #0 has been initialized
07-20-2007 15:37:12 | LANDSCAPE : heightmap filename is a NULL ! Creating a empty terrain #0
07-20-2007 15:37:12 | LANDSCAPE : 1x1 Landscape successfully generated with 4225 vertices and 25350 indices in 0 milliseconds.
07-20-2007 15:37:12 | LANDSCAPE : Quadtree created for the landscape in 0 milliseconds.
07-20-2007 15:37:18 | VERTEX ELEM : 0 0 0 2 POSITION 0
07-20-2007 15:37:18 | VERTEX ELEM : 0 12 0 2 NORMAL 0
07-20-2007 15:37:18 | VERTEX ELEM : 0 24 0 2 BINORMAL 0
07-20-2007 15:37:18 | VERTEX ELEM : 0 36 0 2 TANGENT 0
07-20-2007 15:37:18 | VERTEX ELEM : 0 48 0 1 TEXCOORD 0
07-20-2007 15:38:16 | TEXTURE MANAGER : Loading of 'Grass.png' successful 'Grass.png' on index 6
07-20-2007 15:38:16 | MESH TVM LOADER : Mesh 'Mesh1' successfully loaded in 0 ms. 8 faces, 16 vertices, 1 groups
07-20-2007 15:38:16 | TEXTURE MANAGER : Couldn't save the texture to the file  'C:\Documents and Settings\MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB\Skrivbord\PXMERelease\PXME Release\temp\Grass.bmp'. Error Directx : -2005529767
07-20-2007 15:40:39 | MINI MESH MANAGER : Minimesh created with 50 items
07-20-2007 15:40:39 | MINI MESH MANAGER : Minimesh created with 50 items
07-20-2007 15:44:07 | START UNLOAD
07-20-2007 15:44:07 | RESSOURCE MANAGER : Engine successfully unloaded

HERE IS pxmdebug.txt

Code:

------------------------------------------------
PlanetX Map Editor Debug/Log File
------------------------------------------------
CORE : PlanetX Map Editor Version 1.0 Started.
SPLASH SCREEN : Splash screen shown.
LICENSE MANAGER : License data loaded. The editor evaulation has been expired.
SETTINGS : Attempting to load App.dat
SETTINGS : App.dat successfully loaded.
SETTINGS : Loading settings from App.dat.
SETTINGS : App.dat successfully closed.
SETTINGS : Attempting to load beta settings from file.
SETTINGS : Beta settings successfully loaded!
CORE : Closing Beta Info form, opening Project Manager form.
MENU : Refreshing projects list.
MENU : New project created. Closing menu, opening main form.
CORE : Begining core initialization.
CORE : Temporary folder cleared.
CORE : TrueVision3D 6.5 Initialization completed.
CORE : Default textures, materials, and settings associated with a new project set.
CORE : Rendering settings loaded.
CORE : Cameras initialized.
CORE : Terrain brushes initialized.
CORE : Manipulation meshes initialized.
CORE : Water surfaces initialized.
CORE : Grid recorded.
CORE : Initialization completed.
-----------------------------------------------------
CORE : Terrain added.
CORE : Mesh added.
PROP GRID : Mesh property Filename changed from  to C:\Documents and Settings\MoonWolf.SMARTWEBB\Skrivbord\tv3d\PXMERelease\PXME Release\Backups\DemoScene_Medieval\Textures\Grass.tvm(Mesh1)
PROP GRID : Mesh property (GenerationMode) changed from Primitive to 1(Mesh1)
CORE : Mesh/Actor generated from file.
PROP GRID : Mesh property AlphaTest changed from False to True(Mesh1)
PROP GRID : Mesh property AlphaRef changed from 0 to 128(Mesh1)
CORE : Terrain Terrain1 selected.
CORE : Mesh Mesh1 selected.
PROP GRID : Mesh property Stage0Tex changed from Grid to (Mesh1)
CORE : Vegetation added.
PROP GRID : Vegetation property Mesh changed from  to Mesh1(Vegetation1)
PROP GRID : Vegetation property Terrain changed from  to Terrain1(Vegetation1)
CORE : Texture added.

I hope you can resolve things like this errors.

I alos noticed that when you add vegetations and changes the height of the terrain the vegetaitions height aint recalculated with it. so the dissapear if you choose to raise the terrain.

Regards,
MoonWolf

[Lyrical]

Sorry for jumping into this thread

I just purchased the Planet X Editor. Yippeeee just waiting for license.

Chears

[Brac]

Nice work pizzayoyo!
Glad to see you finished this tool.

However, i just need to say this:
Please create thumbnails from your screenshots.  :lol:
The "little" images on your website are ~400kb each (just scaled down in html).

Apart from that, good work

[pizzayoyo]

Back from vacation!

MoonWolf: I'll get right on to fixing the errors you have been encountering. When you change the terrain, and want the vegetation to adapt, simply press the Refresh Object toolbar button while you have the vegetation selected.

And also, saving should never completely fail to save or load. Individual media items maybe, but not the whole thing. Are you sure that you are using the latest release version?

Lyrical: You can use multiple heightmaps, and it imports perfectly into TV using the loader. Thanks for the purchase!

Brac: Thanks! And yea, I noticed that too. I'll see what I can do.

Thanks for the comments guys, expect some cool stuff to come soon!

[XXL]

hey i also bought it.. 1 min ago

you got my money

hope you dont sleep

waiting now ...

[XXL]

looks like he is sleeping LOL

[XXL]

can anybody give an example how to use it in c#?

thx...

[XXL]

sorry guys, again me..

when i try to play with the vb example i get this message:

the correct password was not set for this map or the file is corrupt?

i downloaded it twice... so the file should not be incorrupt..

what password does he use?
i edited the code and enter my beta key.. this is working. but what password does the map use?

[pizzayoyo]

XXL, I was sleeping Anyaway, I'll send you guys your licenses now.

About the C# loader sample, it should be pretty easy to convert from vb.net, but if not I"ll see what I can do.

And the reason that message is coming up is because you did not copy the DemoScene_Medieval.pxm from the PXM Loader folder to the DotNet\Sample Project\bin\x86\debug folder. Or the bin for the VB6 one if you are using that.

Thanks for the purchase!

[XXL]

you did sleep.. bad boy .)

also i replied to your email ... and wait now again.. dont fall asleep LOL

[XXL]

everything is working now..

i copied the file to the wrong path.. but now it is working.

i will convert the example to c#. it should not be the problem...

cool stuff.. your editor..

[pizzayoyo]

Sounds good. If you finish the C# conversion of the sample, can you send it to me so I can include it with the downoad?

Also, I just released version 1.03 of PXME, fixing the problem that MoonWolf reported about vegetation.

[XXL]

good news...

i send the code when i am finished.. i also plan to make a german webpage about tv and c#.

just beginner tuts. i am a tv beginner.. i can program in c# but i have no 3d experiences....

....on your page stand 1.02