Resource Manager Plugin

[Blacksting]

I was assuming that a module cached script would only be loaded once by the resource plugin at module load. After running the plugin for a few days now I am not sure that is the case. It seems if the resource plugin loads the script once it will load it each time even if the module says its a cached script. Does everyone else confirm this behavior?

[Papillon]

The resource manager plugin does not care whether a script is cached or not. Since it will have its own cache, that should not impose any problems.
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[Liberty Valance]

perhaps i missed something (i'm @ the end of lunch and had to skim)... how is RM's cache going to work? will users get to specify what scripts get cached, or will caching be automatic, or will there be some sort of "intelligent" caching?
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[Papillon]

I am planning to create a LRU cache. Users will be able to specify the total cache size, but not what actually gets cached and what not - I do not think this is necessary anyway.
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[Senach]

Okay, this looks very cool, esp for debugging, but...

I cannot get the plugin to find my external resources. I have the default 'scripts' folder and its resources for the demo 'ScriptMod' in several places:

NWN/scripts
NWN/modules/scripts
NWN/modules/temp0/scripts

I also just put the scripts directly into NWN/modules/temp0, hoping the plugin would find them there. No avail.

Any help? Thx.

[Alosynth]

You need to modify your nwnx.ini file to tell it where to point to.

For myself, I have the following section added to the nwnx.ini

[Guest]

Hmm, thought I did that. Let me 2x my setup. I hope it was something basic like this...

[Senach]

[Gryphyn]

Just jumping on the band-wagon...

Using the ExecuteScript hook, would it now be possible to add parameters to scripts?

My thoughts were along the lines of assigning (compiled) code-block references for script constants.

eg
ExecuteScript("AddGold.ncs(50)",OBJECT_SELF);
// name just an example for simplicity.

// AddGold script
const string P1 = ??? // the ??? gets replaced/substituted in code-block
void main()
{
GiveGoldToPlayer(StringToInt(P1));
}

I don't know what state the script gets compiled to, but I would think that the constant for a string would be a pointer/offset that could be determined and a new value given - pointing to the string of bytes tagged on to the original code-block.

Cheers
Gryphyn

"If you've done three impossible things today..."

[Papillon]

I have hooked a function (or two) that deals with resource loading in general, so it is unlikely that the same function can be exploited for scripting specific purposes.

I guess it would be possible to do it with some more assembler and hooking, but as is often the case, time is the limiting factor here.
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[Gryphyn]

NP,
I understand being 'time-poor'.
If the idea gets onto a 'Investigate-pending' state is good enough.
(afterall, you've only been at it a couple of weeks)

Cheers
Gryphyn

[jedi156]

[Blacksting]

In its current compiled state areas can not be loaded dynamically with the resource plugin because they are all loaded at the beginning from module resources. Since the module file itself can not be saved with erroneous (or absent) area files what is in the module is what is loaded without exception.


However.... its possible to rewrite the resource plugin to except file types so, let's say, all area files are loaded from the hard disk when called. I have been thinking about doing this.

[Themicles]

[Themicles]

Pap, did I ever tell you that you are something like a god in this community? Wait, I think I have.

This plugin has vastly improved the development speed of my Renewable Resources system. I have only opened the toolset once in the last week or so.

I've even made a new script to spawn items that were never in the module to begin with. It's not perfect... would work better if I made an item with attached dialog, and all that stuff. But as it is, it's working for what I need (when the server is empty). I foresee all new RRS plants being made without opening the toolset. This makes me quite happy.

Interesting thing of note: If you delete placeables from the directory, or from the Export menu, they still show in the palette, and can actually be spawned from the DM's creator menu. Yes, I made absolute sure that they were being pulled from the external folder.

If you delete items from the directory, or from the Export menu, they still show in the palette, but fail to create from either the DM Creator, or even the DM console command. This is why I made a script in which I just change the resref in CreateObject. Creating external items from script works just fine.

-Themicles
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