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cloth object problem
I have started making a tutorial about Cloth objects, the last tutorial that i have to do in my tutorial zone in Yellow.
I saw 1 problem in Yellow on position 1895N 1413W. I started creating a default cloth, i mean with that : only changing the object type into cloth object without selecting any options. The default cloth object appears in the 3d scene.
But when i click upon another object , in order to go to the building mode, i noticed that the cloth object disappears after having clicked on another object, in this case, especially when you click upon the sign objects.
When i teleport to another world and i come back to the same spot, then the cloth object appears again. But when i start right-clicking again upon a neighbouring object , the cloth objects disappear again.
So this is not the same thing like you have with the mover object, where he mover disappears after having selected a mover option that the mover disappears. In this case, the cloth disappears, just when clicking upon another object.
So something here is wrong, and needs to be fixed.
I noticed it already a few weeks ago, but didn't think about posting it. But i will continue with the tutorial when this problem is fixed.
here must have been something else applied to that object already, before you changed the type to cloth. Perhaps a name, a link, gravity or zone, or something like that?
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panne
I have started making a tutorial about Cloth objects, the last tutorial that i have to do in my tutorial zone in Yellow.
I saw 1 problem in Yellow on position 1895N 1413W. I started creating a default cloth, i mean with that : only changing the object type into cloth object without selecting any options. The default cloth object appears in the 3d scene.
But when i click upon another object , in order to go to the building mode, i noticed that the cloth object disappears after having clicked on another object, in this case, especially when you click upon the sign objects.
When i teleport to another world and i come back to the same spot, then the cloth object appears again. But when i start right-clicking again upon a neighbouring object , the cloth objects disappear again.
So this is not the same thing like you have with the mover object, where he mover disappears after having selected a mover option that the mover disappears. In this case, the cloth disappears, just when clicking upon another object.
So something here is wrong, and needs to be fixed.
I noticed it already a few weeks ago, but didn't think about posting it. But i will continue with the tutorial when this problem is fixed.
No, there was no command script on the original object.
I have checked it out by creating an extra cloth object . I changed walk012h.rwx into object type cloth, and that's all. No cloth options added of modified.
Then you get a default cloth object , an 8x8 fabric. And the extra cloth object disappears as well in that case.
I have made further tests: if i right-click on the terrain objects that i made walk012h.rwx and walk001h.rwx, then in most cases, the cloth objects remain. But i also have build sign objects ( sign5.rwx) with an action command, and in most cases, when i right-click upon them, the cloth objects disappear immediately. But they still exist in building mode. Then i teleport to another world and i teleport back , and the cloth objects appear again.
I told "in most case" - > Sometimes the cloth objects disappear immediately when i right-click on the sign-objects , but sometimes the disappear only after right-clicking 15-20 times on the neigbouring objects. But they always disappear, and that should never happen. You can check it out in Yellow world on position 1895N 1414W 180
from Gremot
i just went to your Yellow 1895N 1414W 180 coords
and open/closed obj editor over 75 times by right-clicking sign objects that are there.
not once did the 4 cloth objects disappear , or fail to display correctly,
so at least i can't reproduce what you describe
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Hoi Panne,
I checked out the cloths you have built. I am not able to see the problem as you describe: where the cloths fully disappear after right-clicking another object (signs or walks). Actually, the cloth does disappear in much the same way a PE disappears in build mode, but I don't think this is the type of disappearing you are talking about. I'm assuming that once you go out of build mode the cloths still are disappeared?
There is one instance where the cloths do disappear fully. That is when I fly with my avatar to the 1900N coordinate at your tutorial location. At this point AW starts to lag a bit and the cloths all disappear. They do not reappear until after flying back out of the 1900N coordinate and right clicking an object. I had seen this problem a few years ago also, actually. When at a world coordinate in which at least one of the two ends in two 0's the problem occurs. I wonder if this is what is causing your glitch as well?
-James.
James,
From Panne:
For the answer to your first question : yes, when i go out of the build mode, then the cloths don't re-appear , that is the problem i have.
For the answer to your second question : i see that i have that problem as well : when i fly away from the cloths , passing away for the 1900 coordinates, the cloths disappear automatically too, but when i fly black, the cloths don't re-appear .
Also not after right-clicking an object ( and this last thing is obvious for me because right-clicking makes my cloth objects disappear too).
But : in your second case, if i fly to the south to position 1890N (6-7 cells to the south, still in visibility range), then the cloth objects re-appear automatically , without clicking.
I did then the same thing with my original problem : i right-click on an sign object, the cloth objects disappear, then i fly again to the south 1890N and the cloth objects reappear automatically as well.
And i did more tests : when i fly to the east , then the cloth objects re-appear as well , as from a distance of 7 positions , but sometimes 10 positions , and in the furthers case until position 1394W (still in visibility range) (=20 cells)
But when i fly to the west , then then this rarely works , the cloth remains (in most cases) invisible.
So, we are a bit further in defining the problem .....
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