I have got to be the dumbest person in the world trying to follow a tutorial.
I have only gotten as far as adding my recolored animal to my APE icon.
I have followed Devona's Guide for recoloring my animal, but the only time I succeeded, the animation pictures in APE looked like an outer limits TV show screen, and not at all like my icon. Of course, trying to click on the animal and put it in an exhibit, caused a crash.
I'll worry about the sound and how to do that later, I just want to get my recolored animal...recolored and able to work in the game.
BTW, I have to warn you that even Expert advice from Fern has only gotten through about 10% of my brain cells!!
Well, I seem to have gotten the recolorizing solved, but the animal in ZT doesn't have the color very good. Is that because I used Pink? Should I try a different color, or did I do something wrong again?
Although I have configured and looked over the configuration of a lot of animals made for ZT, I have never made an animal, recolored or otherwise. So I will have to attempt to use Devona's guide. As for just general thoughts on the subject, I never understood why her guide says to put the recolored image in the icon, since APE resizes the images for icons, which could potentially change the colors. But I know the technique worked for her, although I do not know if it always worked for her.
Using devona's guide is very difficult! Mainly because it is a very inefficient way of creating a new pal file. Try making a 255 by 255 image and graduating it the shades that you want in the animal and then use this to make a pal file by inserting it APE anywhere that creates a pal file (I usually use a tree file and make 4 different colour gradients and insert them as SE, SW, NE and NW icons and tree images). The resulting ztd is no use at all excapt that it contains 8 new pal files which I then try out in the animal to see if any of them give what I want... You have to rename the new pal files exactly the same as the animal pal file one at a time and insert them into the animal ztd in the appropriate place instead of the animal pal file.
I did my own experimenting using Devona's guide to make a "black and pink" zebra and here are my thoughts of my experience. I feel there is a portion of luck that is needed: with the animal chosen, with the animation frame chosen, and with what colors are chosen. I also feel patience is a needed quality. Based on the description of the approach used by ztdoctor (Dr Rick), it sounds like some luck and patience is needed in that approach as well. As for difficulty between Devona's approach and ztdoctor's approach, that is probably just a matter of individual style and which graphics program is being used. But ztdoctor's approach has a potential advantage over Devona's. A ZT image can have up to 255 colors (plus a background color). It is the ".pal" file that stores these colors. In ztdoctor's approach, it is possible to guarantee that there are 255 shades of color available for the ".pal" file. In Devona's approach, there are only as many colors as are used in the single frame chosen. It is possible that a different frame or a different animation is using a different color somewhere. This can be especially true for animals where the young or female is very different than the male.
I was able to use Devona's approach to create a pink zebra with black stripes. But it is was not a very good one. I intentionally did not recolor the shades of black or the shades of gray. But I probably should have recolored at least some of the shades of gray. As for zipping and unzipping, I use 7-zip instead of winzip. The frame I chose to recolor was the first frame of the east view of the male's stand animation. You have to pick an image where the top left pixel in the image is part of the background and not part of the animal. When I was done recoloring, although I don't know if I had to, I changed the background from the gray shade chosen by APE to a "hot pink" color that we often use as a background in images and then I cleared that "hot pink" color, in effect, changing it to be transparent. I made sure that the "hot pink" color was not one of the pink shades in my animal. I did have one strange thing happen with APE. After I was done following Devona's guide, APE caused the icon image to look very strange, even though the icon uses a different ".pal" file than the animal images. So something definitely confused APE. I reloaded the image into the icon again and resaved the ztd. That fixed the problem.
Some recolors cannot be done with either Devona's approach or ztdoctor's approach. Because shadows need to stay black, one cannot change black in an animal to some other color. For example, neither approach would work to create a white zebra with pink stripes (instead of black stripes), otherwise the shadows would also be pink. For those types of animals, every frame would have to be edited.
Thank you both so much for your info and Jay for your taking time to experiment with the colorizing. I thought I was all wrong, but actually was on the right track!!
Unfortunately, I can't even begin to understand the sound tutorial. I think my brain cells ran out of storage capacity. I just downloaded a new UCA in a winzip file, and I can't even get it into a ZTD form to check it out in my game.
Sometimes it is tricky trying to install a user made thing into ZT after downloading it. Sometimes it is a ".zip" and needs to have a ".ztd" extracted from it. Sometimes the ".zip" has other things in it. But sometimes the download is actually a ".ztd" and not a ".zip", but Internet Explorer incorrectly changed its name to a ".zip" or to a ".txt". That is true for a number of older downloads here at ZKL, as well as some other places. To make matters worse, Microsoft Windows does not show if a file ends with ".ztd" or ".zip" by default. So one should change the Microsoft Windows setting to show extensions. And that can be tricky itself because it depends on which version of Microsoft Windows is being used. Here is a general summary at ZTCDD talking about some of these things: http://www.ztcdd.org/DD/index.php?topic=60.0
Dealing with sounds can also be tricky. It depends on whether you are trying to use a sound that comes with ZT or if you are trying to use a new sound. It can also depend on which version of Microsoft Windows you are using. Without details on what is trying to be attempted, I cannot give specifics. As a general guide, the Uca Editing Guide here at ZKL talks about, among many other things, how to change a ".uca" file to use sounds that come with ZT, although it can be confusing: viewtopic.php?t=116
You are brilliant Jay!! I followed the instructions on download zip/ztd's and the winzip animals were indeed ZTD's in disguise. The animal downloads were a zip file, but I changed it to a ZTD ext. and that's all I needed to do.
I will keep working on the sound tutorial, but I just want to use the same sounds as the animal I recolored. I just don't understand why it can't use the same sounds already in my new animal ZTD. I suspect it has to do with changing the path to include my new animal assigned number, but that's where I get confused on the instruction tutorial.
Thanks again for helping me. Here's a laugh for you. I had heard your name when first starting up on zt sites, but I thought you and Fern were a Husband and Wife team from BF.
Well........ not too far off. Neither of us worked for BlueFang. I met Jay by pestering him with technical questions. We became close friends and he has stayed with me a number of times and I have been to the US once and spent 5 weeks there too.
We are still learning things about ZT and each other.
BF definitely could have used us. And I certainly wish fern and I were together, rather than being on opposite sides of the world.
There are many reasons why sounds do not work for an animal. Without looking at your ".uca" file, I cannot give specifics. But, in general, sounds do not work because the APE program was not written correctly. Although it is not necessary to know, I will give the simplest example I can to show what APE is doing wrong. I went into APE, told it to create a new animal based on the Giant Anteater, saved the animal to anteater.ztd without doing anything else, and then exited APE. Let's see what APE did.
Inside ZT's animal2.ztd file, there is an anteater.ai file. That is the configuration for the ZT Giant Anteater. The anteater.ai file can be extracted and then looked at using a text editor. As for text editors, some are better than others. I use an open source program called gvim. But the WordPad program that comes with Windows XP is also fine. (It is in start->All Programs->Accessories.) Although NotePad will also work in this case, NotePad does not properly display some ZT files. For example, it does not properly display the dig.ani file that is in the anteater.ztd that APE created, although WordPad does not have a problem.
Looking in anteater.ai, one can find the following Sounds section:
[Sounds]
sniff = anteater
sniff = 1600
placesound = anteater
placesound = 1600
pickupsound = anteater
pickupsound = 1600
The anteater has only 1 sound file: anteater.wav. The "anteater" in the above stands for "anteater.wav". The "1600" tells ZT how softly to play the sound. The higher the number, the softer the sound is played in ZT; the lower the number, the louder the sound is played in ZT. ZT can never play the sound louder than how the sound plays outside of ZT, though. The "pickupsound" lines tell ZT which sound to play whenever you pick up the anteater inside a ZT zoo. The "placesound" lines tell ZT which sound to play whenever you put the anteater back down inside a ZT zoo. The "sniff" is just a name that BF called the sound for when it is used later in anteater.ai. Here is another section from anteater.ai:
[m\BehaviorSet\bTense1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayWithSound(shake,sniff)
f = fPlayTime(stand,6)
f = fPlay(dig)
f = fPlay(stand)
The "fPlayWithSound" line in the above section shows how the sound is used. It tells ZT to use the animal's "shake" action while playing the "sniff" sound. This section is one of the sections used whenever the anteater becomes tense. In this case, the "m" in "[m\BehaviorSet\bTense1]" means it is for the male. However, since there is no "[f\BehaviorSet\bTense1]" or "[y\BehaviorSet\bTense1]" in anteater.ai, ZT will also use this section for the female and young as well.
Now let's look at what APE did. I extracted the ".uca" file from anteater.ztd and looked at the ".uca" with a text editor. APE created the following Sounds section:
[Sounds]
pickupsound = anteater.wav
pickupsound = 1600
Notice that this section is missing the sniff and placesound lines. So that means the only sound that will be played is when the animal is picked up inside a ZT zoo. When APE copied the lines from anteater.ai, it put the lines in order, which is okay. So the lines would have looked like this:
pickupsound = anteater
pickupsound = 1600
placesound = anteater
placesound = 1600
sniff = anteater
sniff = 1600
But then APE did something very stupid. Since placesound and sniff used the same sound as pickupsound, APE kept pickupsound (since that is first in the sorted list) and APE deleted placesound and sniff. But APE did even more stupid things. Let's see what it used for the [m\BehaviorSet\bTense1] section in the ".uca":
[m\BehaviorSet\bTense1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayWithSound(shake,Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(stand,6)
f = fPlay(dig)
f = fPlay(stand)
APE changed "sniff" that was in the ".ai" version to "Undefined". APE did that because it no longer had a "sniff" in the [Sounds] section. So even if you were to add "sniff" back into the [Sounds] section, it still would not be used without fixing all of the "Undefined". But APE's stupidity did not stop there. anteater.ai did not have any [f\BehaviorSet\...] or [y\BehaviorSet\...] sections. But APE added those sections into the ".uca" by attempting to copy them from the [m\BehaviorSet\...] sections. However, APE did not copy them properly. In [f\BehaviorSet\bTense1] and [y\BehaviorSet\bTense1], APE put "f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)", which is even worse than what APE did for the male section, since this is also missing "shake". So even if you fixed the Tense1 section for the male, the sound would not work for the female or young. And even worse, the female and young would not do anything (such as shake or dig) while they are not walking. APE is even more stupid than that. If I were to go in APE and change anything, APE would add even more lines in the [f\BehaviorSet\...] and [y\BehaviorSet\...] sections.
So how would I fix the ".uca" for the anteater? First, I would make the [Sounds] and [...\BehaviorSet\...] sections look like what is in the ".ai". In this case, that means adding the sniff and placesound lines back into the [Sounds] section, deleting all [f\BehaviorSet\...] and [y\BehaviorSet\...] sections, changing "f = fPlayWithSound(box_used,Undefined)" to "f = fPlayWithSound(box_used,placesound)", and changing all other "Undefined" to "sniff". My next step would be to have the anteater use the ingame sounds. To do that, I would have the [Sounds] section look like the following (either sorted or not):
sniff = animals/anteater/anteater.wav
sniff = 1600
placesound = animals/anteater/anteater.wav
placesound = 1600
pickupsound = animals/anteater/anteater.wav
pickupsound = 1600
Then I can remove anteater.wav from the ".ztd", making it smaller. This will also allow ZT to use less memory.
APE does a lot of other inefficient, and sometimes wrong (as in "can cause some games to crash"), things as well. So that is why I follow the Uca Editing Guide whenever I deal with animal configuration.
Now to make this confusing stuff even more confusing. Let's say I followed the Uca Editing Guide and made all of the appropriate changes to the anteater. I put it into ZT, create a suitable exhibit for it, and put it in the exhibit. So it is perfectly happy. Will I hear it make sounds? No, I will not, except when I pick it up and put it back down. That is true for when the ingame Giant Anteater is happy as well. The reason is because that particular animal is configured to only make a sound when it is not happy. For example, the [m\BehaviorSet\bHappy1], [m\BehaviorSet\bHappy2], and [m\BehaviorSet\bHappy3] sections do not contain any line with fPlayWithSound. So it can be confusing trying to test sounds inside ZT. Most animals should usually make a sound when they are picked up or put down, but some animals are configured not even to do that.
I really appreciate your tech skills. After reading your last post on sound, I can understand that the APE program can really be a "stinker".
But, you must be helping me, because I redid my sound section in the ica and now when I pick up the animal (I'm using an elephant as a test subject), the "pick up animal sound now works. I don't know why that works, and not any of the other sounds, but I'm taking it one step at a time.
Also, I must have to edit a lot more things, because my test elephant will sometimes keep walking up against a fence.
I am enclosing a copy of my uca file if you want to see it. The only thing I have changed was adding the path to the sounds.
Your explanation of the APE and it changing things made me more confident and not feeling as stupid as I thought I was. Also, it was easier following your explanation than the tutorial...at least a little!
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v = 0
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[AmbientAnims]
a = 81
a = 100
a = 61
a = 80
a = 21
a = 60
a = -20
a = 20
a = -60
a = -21
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b = bHappy
b = bFriendly
b = bCalm
b = bNeutral
b = bUneasy
b = bTense
b = bAngry
[defaultLCID]
LCID = 1033
[m\BehaviorSet\bHappy]
f = fPlaySetProb(bIdle1,20,bHappy1,50,bHappy2,30)
[m\BehaviorSet\bFriendly]
f = fPlaySetProb(bHappy3,70,bIdle2,30)
[m\BehaviorSet\bCalm]
f = fPlaySetProb(bCalm1,50,bIdle1,30,bIdle2,20)
[m\BehaviorSet\bNeutral]
f = fPlaySetProb(bIdle1,50,bIdle2,50)
[m\BehaviorSet\bUneasy]
f = fPlaySetProb(bUneasy1,65,bIdle2,35)
[m\BehaviorSet\bTense]
f = fPlaySetProb(bTense1,70,bAngry3,30)
[m\BehaviorSet\bAngry]
f = fPlaySetProb(bAngry1,40,bAngry2,40,bNoise3,20)
[m\BehaviorSet\bEscaped]
f = fPlaySetProb(bEscaped1,70,bNoise3,30)
[m\BehaviorSet\bBabyActions]
f = fPlaySetProb(bBaby2,67,bIdle1,33)
[m\BehaviorSet\bPlayToys]
[m\BehaviorSet\bPlayWithToyHappy]
[m\BehaviorSet\bPlayWithToyFriendly]
[m\BehaviorSet\bSoundtest1]
[m\BehaviorSet\bHappy1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayPingPong(trunk_up_smell)
f = fPlayTime(stand,7)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(trunk_outward,snort)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bHappy2]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(stand,6)
f = fPlayWithSound(shake_head,snort)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bHappy3]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(trunk_outward,snort)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(sweep_ground)
f = fPlayPingPong(trunk_mouth)
f = fPlayTime(stand,4)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bCalm1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(flap_ears)
f = fPlayTime(stand,5)
f = fPlay(dusting)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bUneasy1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(shake_head)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(stand,5)
f = fPlayWithSound(trunk_outward,snort)
f = fPlayReverse(trunk_outward)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bTense1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayPingPong(spread_ears)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(jerk_head)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bAngry1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fMove(0,0,run,66)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bAngry2]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fMove(0,0,run,66)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(shake_head)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bAngry3]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(jerk_head)
f = fPlayWithSound(trunk_outward,snort)
f = fPlayReverse(trunk_outward)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fMove(0,0,run,66)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bNoise1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(stand,5)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bNoise2]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bNoise3]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bIdle1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(flap_ears)
f = fPlayTime(stand,6)
f = fPlay(swing_trunk)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bIdle2]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(stand,4)
f = fPlay(flap_ears)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bIdle3]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(swing_trunk,growl)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayPingPong(spread_ears)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bSleep]
f = fPlay(lie_down)
f = fPlayTime(sleep,25)
f = fPlayReverse(lie_down)
[m\BehaviorSet\bDie]
f = fPlay(lie_down)
f = fPlayTime(sleep,5)
f = fPlayTime(sleep,5)
f = fDie()
[m\BehaviorSet\bEat]
f = fFaceTowardFood()
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(eat)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlay(eat)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bSick]
f = fPlay(lie_down)
f = fPlayTime(lying_idle,20)
f = fPlayReverse(lie_down)
[m\BehaviorSet\bFindKeeperFood]
f = fWalk(keeperfood,0)
f = fPlaySet(bEat)
[m\BehaviorSet\bFindOtherFood]
f = fWalk(otherfood,0)
f = fPlaySet(bEat)
[m\BehaviorSet\bEscaped1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fMove(0,0,run,66)
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bChasePrey]
f = fMove(prey,0,"run",66)
[m\BehaviorSet\bRunFromPredator]
f = fRun(0,0)
[m\BehaviorSet\bCaughtGuest]
f = fPlayTime(stand,4)
[m\BehaviorSet\bCaughtPrey]
f = fDustBall()
f = fPlaySet(bAfterCaught)
[m\BehaviorSet\bAfterCaught]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fPlayWithSound(noise,Undefined)
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bCaught]
f = fFollow(keeper)
[m\BehaviorSet\bBaby1]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fWalk(mother,0)
[m\BehaviorSet\bBaby2]
f = fPlay(stand)
f = fWalk(mother,0)
[m\BehaviorSet\bBored1]
f = fPlayTime(stand,10)
[m\BehaviorSet\bBored2]
f = fPlayTime(stand,10)
[m\BehaviorSet\bAngryKeeper]
f = fPlay(stand)
[m\BehaviorSet\bTest]
f = fWalk(0,0)
[m\BehaviorSet\bWalk]
f = fWalk(0,0)
[m\BehaviorSet\bRun]
f = fMove(0,0,run,66)
[m\BehaviorSet\bRattle]
f = fPlayWithSound(box_used,placesound)
[f\BehaviorSet\bHappy]
f = fPlaySetProb(bIdle1,20,bHappy1,50,bHappy2,30)
[f\BehaviorSet\bFriendly]
f = fPlaySetProb(bHappy3,70,bIdle2,30)
[f\BehaviorSet\bCalm]
f = fPlaySetProb(bCalm1,50,bIdle1,30,bIdle2,20)
[f\BehaviorSet\bNeutral]
f = fPlaySetProb(bIdle1,50,bIdle2,50)
[f\BehaviorSet\bUneasy]
f = fPlaySetProb(bUneasy1,65,bIdle2,35)
[f\BehaviorSet\bTense]
f = fPlaySetProb(bTense1,70,bAngry3,30)
[f\BehaviorSet\bAngry]
f = fPlaySetProb(bAngry1,40,bAngry2,40,bNoise3,20)
[f\BehaviorSet\bEscaped]
f = fPlaySetProb(bEscaped1,70,bNoise3,30)
[f\BehaviorSet\bBabyActions]
f = fPlaySetProb(bBaby2,67,bIdle1,33)
[f\BehaviorSet\bPlayToys]
[f\BehaviorSet\bPlayWithToyHappy]
[f\BehaviorSet\bPlayWithToyFriendly]
[f\BehaviorSet\bSoundtest1]
[f\BehaviorSet\bHappy1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,7)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bHappy2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,6)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bHappy3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,4)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bCalm1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bUneasy1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bTense1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bAngry1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bAngry2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bAngry3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bNoise1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bNoise2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bNoise3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bIdle1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,6)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bIdle2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,4)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bIdle3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,growl)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bSleep]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,25)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bDie]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fDie()
[f\BehaviorSet\bEat]
f = fFaceTowardFood()
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bSick]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,20)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bFindKeeperFood]
f = fWalk(keeperfood,0)
f = fPlaySet(bEat)
[f\BehaviorSet\bFindOtherFood]
f = fWalk(otherfood,0)
f = fPlaySet(bEat)
[f\BehaviorSet\bEscaped1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bChasePrey]
f = fMove(prey,0,Undefined,66)
[f\BehaviorSet\bRunFromPredator]
f = fRun(0,0)
[f\BehaviorSet\bCaughtGuest]
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,4)
[f\BehaviorSet\bCaughtPrey]
f = fDustBall()
f = fPlaySet(bAfterCaught)
[f\BehaviorSet\bAfterCaught]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bCaught]
f = fFollow(keeper)
[f\BehaviorSet\bBaby1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(mother,0)
[f\BehaviorSet\bBaby2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(mother,0)
[f\BehaviorSet\bBored1]
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,10)
[f\BehaviorSet\bBored2]
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,10)
[f\BehaviorSet\bAngryKeeper]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[f\BehaviorSet\bTest]
f = fWalk(0,0)
[f\BehaviorSet\bWalk]
f = fWalk(0,0)
[f\BehaviorSet\bRun]
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
[f\BehaviorSet\bRattle]
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,placesound)
[y\BehaviorSet\bHappy]
f = fPlaySetProb(bIdle1,20,bHappy1,50,bHappy2,30)
[y\BehaviorSet\bFriendly]
f = fPlaySetProb(bHappy3,70,bIdle2,30)
[y\BehaviorSet\bCalm]
f = fPlaySetProb(bCalm1,50,bIdle1,30,bIdle2,20)
[y\BehaviorSet\bNeutral]
f = fPlaySetProb(bIdle1,50,bIdle2,50)
[y\BehaviorSet\bUneasy]
f = fPlaySetProb(bUneasy1,65,bIdle2,35)
[y\BehaviorSet\bTense]
f = fPlaySetProb(bTense1,70,bAngry3,30)
[y\BehaviorSet\bAngry]
f = fPlaySetProb(bAngry1,40,bAngry2,40,bNoise3,20)
[y\BehaviorSet\bEscaped]
f = fPlaySetProb(bEscaped1,70,bNoise3,30)
[y\BehaviorSet\bBabyActions]
f = fPlaySetProb(bBaby2,67,bIdle1,33)
[y\BehaviorSet\bPlayToys]
[y\BehaviorSet\bPlayWithToyHappy]
[y\BehaviorSet\bPlayWithToyFriendly]
[y\BehaviorSet\bSoundtest1]
[y\BehaviorSet\bHappy1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,7)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bHappy2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,6)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bHappy3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,4)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bCalm1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bUneasy1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bTense1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bAngry1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bAngry2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bAngry3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,snort)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bNoise1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bNoise2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bNoise3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bIdle1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,6)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bIdle2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,4)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(0,0)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bIdle3]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,growl)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayPingPong(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bSleep]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,25)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bDie]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,5)
f = fDie()
[y\BehaviorSet\bEat]
f = fFaceTowardFood()
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bSick]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,20)
f = fPlayReverse(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bFindKeeperFood]
f = fWalk(keeperfood,0)
f = fPlaySet(bEat)
[y\BehaviorSet\bFindOtherFood]
f = fWalk(otherfood,0)
f = fPlaySet(bEat)
[y\BehaviorSet\bEscaped1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bChasePrey]
f = fMove(prey,0,Undefined,66)
[y\BehaviorSet\bRunFromPredator]
f = fRun(0,0)
[y\BehaviorSet\bCaughtGuest]
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,4)
[y\BehaviorSet\bCaughtPrey]
f = fDustBall()
f = fPlaySet(bAfterCaught)
[y\BehaviorSet\bAfterCaught]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,Undefined)
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bCaught]
f = fFollow(keeper)
[y\BehaviorSet\bBaby1]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(mother,0)
[y\BehaviorSet\bBaby2]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
f = fWalk(mother,0)
[y\BehaviorSet\bBored1]
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,10)
[y\BehaviorSet\bBored2]
f = fPlayTime(Undefined,10)
[y\BehaviorSet\bAngryKeeper]
f = fPlay(Undefined)
[y\BehaviorSet\bTest]
f = fWalk(0,0)
[y\BehaviorSet\bWalk]
f = fWalk(0,0)
[y\BehaviorSet\bRun]
f = fMove(0,0,Undefined,66)
[y\BehaviorSet\bRattle]
f = fPlayWithSound(Undefined,placesound)
[1033]
cGeneralInfoFileName = animals/E34183E3/texts/1033.txt
cLongHelp = Adopt an African elephant. African elephants live in herds and only elephant shelters are large enough for elephants. African elephants need fresh water to drink from.
cName = African Elephant
cTheString = African Elephant
Jay tends to be very technical in his writing so if you don't understand his wording, say so and he will reword it until you do. That is how he taught both Jane and I how to do buildings and me a lot more things than that.
There are 2 things you did in that uca; all of the other problems were caused by APE. In the [Sounds] section, you have "animal/E34183E3/ele3.wav" instead of "animals/E34183E3/ele3.wav". In the [1033] section, cTheString should always have "the", so it should be "cTheString = the African Elephant".
APE caused problems in the [Sounds] section and [...\BehaviorSet\...] sections as I described in my previous post. Also, I recommend using the ingame sounds directly. So here are the needed changes. For the [Sounds] section, I looked at elephant.ai in ZT's animal2.ztd to see what it should contain, and then added "animals/elephant/" and ".wav". So this is what I would use for the [Sounds] section:
[Sounds]
trumpet1 = animals/elephant/ele1.wav
trumpet1 = 500
snort = animals/elephant/ele3.wav
snort = 2000
growl = animals/elephant/ele4.wav
growl = 800
trumpet2 = animals/elephant/ele8.wav
trumpet2 = 500
dustball = animals/elephant/ele8.wav
dustball = 500
waterball = animals/sealion/splash1.wav
waterball = 1000
placesound = animals/elephant/ele1.wav
placesound = 500
pickupsound = animals/elephant/ele4.wav
pickupsound = 800
All [f\BehaviorSet\...] sections and all [y\BehaviorSet\...] sections should be deleted. I would also delete the [f/Animations], [y/Animations], [f/iCharacteristics/Integers], and [y/iCharacteristics/Integers] sections. Notice for the last 2 that they are "/iCharacteristics" and not "/Characteristics". All of these changes will cause the female and young to use the male configuration, while the young will still use the young graphics.
In the [m\BehaviorSet\bAngry1] and [m\BehaviorSet\bNoise3] sections, change all Undefined to trumpet2. In the [m\BehaviorSet\bAngry2], [m\BehaviorSet\bAngry3], [m\BehaviorSet\bNoise1], [m\BehaviorSet\bNoise2], [m\BehaviorSet\bEscaped1], and [m\BehaviorSet\bAfterCaught] sections, change all Undefined to trumpet1. I got these from ZT's elephant.ai.
That should fix all of the sounds. But there are other inefficiencies caused by APE or BF. In [m/Characteristics/Integers], there are 2 cDeathChance and 2 cTimeDeath. These were in the BF elephant as well, but there should be only 1 line for each. So delete the "cDeathChance = 90" and "cTimeDeath = 12960" lines. Also, if a user made animal catches a male guest, it will turn into a lion temporarily. That is because the catch graphics are in the guest's files. So I would delete the "cPrey = 9503" line. A user made animal cannot use an ingame toy. So I would also delete the "cNeedToys = 1" line.
In order to get around a ZT problem concerning showing the tooltip for the preferred foliage, I would also make the following changes. I see that the [m/Characteristics/Integers] section contains a "cPrefIconID = 7057" line. So I would also add that line to the [y/Characteristics/Integers] section and I would also create the following section:
[f/Characteristics/Integers]
cPrefIconID = 7057
The [cSuitableObjects] and [cCompatibleTerrain] sections contain pairs of lines. Whenever the second line of the pair is "v = 0", I remove the pair, for efficiency. So, in the [cSuitableObjects] section, I would remove everything from the line pair:
v = 9401
v = 0
through the line pair:
v = 7098
v = 0
In the [cCompatibleTerrain] section, I would remove the following line pairs:
v = 0
v = 0
v = 4
v = 0
v = 7
v = 0
v = 10
v = 0
v = 12
v = 0
v = 14
v = 0
v = 15
v = 0
Finally, a user made elephant cannot use the ingame elephant shelters, because of how the shelters are configured, unless someone is using a shelter hack. So, I would add the following lines to the [cSuitableObjects] section so that the elephant also likes the concrete shelters, but only a little:
v = 8107
v = 1
v = 8108
v = 1
v = 8109
v = 1
And that should be it for the ".uca". There would be things for the ".ztd", such as deleting the ".wav" files, since this would be using the ingame sounds directly. And if the ic..., ls..., and pl... folders contain N.pal files, you can remove the other ".pal" files from those folders.
I did all your changes and as far as I can tell, the new animal is working just like the original one. So, that's all that I have to do to make a uca?
LOL.
I've got a lot to learn. But I have a better understanding of the technical details I need to master. I only have about 999 more quesitons for you, but for now I'll just enjoy the day at rest.
