☆ Customize Look

Yea... translating is hard in real-time, (ie. via Skype) and the conversation is temporary. It doesn't stay for those who come after and have the same problems. If you already have a friend here, you could PM them or, I notice people drop messages on Vormavs' profile asking to go 1 to 1 with him on stuff.

I do not know if he ever accepts, but I do know he isn't obliged to and that I would not, if I where him. Most of us find that we cannot afford to provide personal 1 to 1 support for things we develop and give away for free. It's not really fair to ask us to do so either, but if you do, I would certainly try to be *very* polite about it. :wink:

@The initial problem:-
You have both OS available for testing on similar hardware which is not virtual? (the client doesn't often work in a VM) There must be some problem with system APIs... however, no such problem typically presents. System APIs are included in the DLL by the compiler based on your copy of the MS SDK... so changing (perhaps "downgrade") the SDK and recompile.

Certainly, you should not build the DLL from Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 SDK if you expect it to work on XP. Rather, use XP / Server [strike]2008[/strike] (Edit: Typo... I meant 2003 of course :*:) SDK. ^_^

--- EDIT ---
AFAIK the Microsoft SDK Archive now only supports legacy systems as old as Windows Vista, or Server 2008 (non-R2). (which is part of what I was saying a while ago about support for XP ending, though of course the OS it's self has had it's support period extended several times)

If you are struggling to find an older SDK, I believe I have a few versions archived which would fit the bill. The fact is that while Windows 7 fully supports backwards compatibility with XP software, the Win 7 SDK makes no attempt to support older OS. So while your software should theoretically still work if you do not use APIs which are not included in older OS, there is no guarantee. Additionally, calling the current MSVC runtime libraries which have been "linked" against newer SDKs may well use APIs which are not in older OS without you explicitly calling them.

Again, if you only use the GCC toolchain (with any IDE) as Vormav does, they do not use any Microsoft SDK files, and the OS APIs they use are simply Win32 APIs and should be compatible with any NT OS from (I believe the minimum required Win32 OS is) version 4. For the most part, they also support Win9x. (which is also Windows version 4, but uses DOS instead of the NT kernel)

Spoiler:

They do tend to fall down harder in places like threading, process control, mutexes and semaphores though, and of course the OS will bluescreen more often when your code causes exceptions, rather than giving you a nice sensible dump and CTD.

I noticed those messages on my profile few months (in case of some... years) after they where posted so I never answered them =P
I think the best way to ask question is to do it in thread, especially when your inglish is not very good. People like ScreamingFox can assist and help with translation. Most of the time I'm sending people to the forum, but there are times when I'm getting something I can't share. I'm sure everyone here got something like this ;) Nothing "special" but special enough for person that share it to not share it with others ;)

In this case, I still don't understand what is not working. I can't check it myself because I don't have XP atm, IF I got it right and OS is the problem here.
I think you should take rubber duck and explain it what you did step by step. You might find some bad edit that is skipped by 7 but not by XP.

Haha... the "Rubber Duck" is a reference to this OT conversation.

BTW... here's an idea for "dual-boot" I've been playing with. You can easily install XP on a USB memory stick these days. If you have an old license kicking around, you can stick XP on an 8 or 16 Gig stick (they can be purchased for about £6-11 in most supermarkets and stationers here in the UK right now, on-line deals should be even better) and try your compilations out on that.

Set the BIOS configuration to boot from USB before the HDD if it finds a suitably formatted one, or if your firmware supports it, use a "one time boot" hotkey to select USB boot. You may not have much room for development suites, but booting XP from USB does give full read & write access to basic Vista / Windows 7 partitions in any natively supported filesystem. (FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS... or ISO / UDF, not that that matters) So you don't even really have to install PT onto it. :D: Do not use XPs "Encrypt" attribute on files, as support for that was dropped in Vista+ OS!

On USB, rather than a second partition or worse, on the same partition in a different folder, you have no chance of the XP setup overwriting anything, and very little chance of either OS getting confused and overwriting stuff on the other. There is no need to mess with "boot manager" or add a menu selection to every boot. If you want XP, stick your thumb drive in and reboot, when you want back to normal, shutdown, pull the thumb drive and power up again. :D:

Ofc, do watch what you do with ACLs on shared drives... ie. don't change ownership or permissions of files. Make sure PT is in a folder which has "Everyone" allowed "Full control" in the normal (Windows 7 / Vista) boot so that XP will have no need to mess with permissions and cause potential problems. ^_^

Good luck.

[Portuguese]
Obrigado pelo ajuda Bobsobol e Vormav!!!

Mas não funcionou essas dicas, testei outras coisas também, varios OS, varias bibliotecas diferentes, compiladores...

O erro persiste apenas no winXP...

Mais uma vez obrigado. Não vou voltar a incomodar, voltarei a me dedicar aos meus estudos!

[English]
Thanks for the help and Bobsobol Vormav!!

But these tips did not work, I tried other things as well, various OS, several different libraries, compilers ...

The error persists only in winXP ...

Thank you again. I will not bother you again, I will return to dedicate myself to my studies!

Hello Vormav you could help me find this
MOV ECX, 1E
LEA ESI, DWORD PTR SS: [ESP +100 C4]
REP MOVS DWORD PTR ES: [EDI], DWORD PTR DS: [ESI]
LEA EDI, DWORD PTR DS: [EBX +100 E4]
MOV ECX, 64
LEA ESI, DWORD PTR SS: [ESP +1013 C]
0043C7CE |. 8CF10000 8993 | MOV DWORD PTR DS: [EBX + f18c], EDX
0043C7D4 |. F3: A5 | REP MOVS DWORD PTR ES: [EDI], DWORD PTR DS: [ESI]
0043C7D6 |. E9 D0000000 | JMP game_nox.0043C8AB

BPT in gameGM

Function is very different in your client. I'm not sure if its going to work.

It starts at: 0042F431
code should be somewhere around here: 0042F6C5

You would have to dig a little bit more for yourself or find older client.

Hi Vormav, first of all congratulations, customize look is awesome!
I tried to add this system to my files that uses kpt base and I found one bug, probable by my mistake.
All works great, except the 105 and 102 gloves that are showing with no texture like the image below.
http://puu.sh/4FWeH.png
Can you or anyone help me? =D

Look like gloves without spikes (custom version I made). There is special texture for those (fi02_01c.BMP) be sure you have it in tmABCD folder.
You can also check tmbb00_p.ASE for any missing textures. 102/105 armours should be at the end of *MATERIAL_LIST.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Vormav

Look like gloves without spikes (custom version I made). There is special texture for those (fi02_01c.BMP) be sure you have it in tmABCD folder.
You can also check tmbb00_p.ASE for any missing textures. 102/105 armours should be at the end of *MATERIAL_LIST.

---

*BITMAP "F:\MyPTClient\TKPT\char\tmABCD\fi02_01c.bmp"

The texture also in this folder ... What can it be?

Yes, the tmABCD folder contains the file. I will review all that I did in my files for custom look.
Probably have something wrong because I put all the system in client-side inside a dll that create section and alter the game dynamically.
Thank you for reply me, I'll be back for more news haha

[Español]
hola Vormav podrías ayudarme a agregar items a la dll.
añadi lo siguiente.

Code:

---

case 0x4E:

                                                memset ((DWORD *)model_string, '\0', 400);

                                                memcpy ((DWORD *)model_string, "char\\tmABCD\\Ctmbb16.ASE", 23);
                                                memcpy ((DWORD *)animation_string, "char\\tmABCD\\m1.ase", 18);

                                                *(BYTE *)num_of_meshes_H = 0x01;

                                                memcpy ((DWORD *)name_of_mesh_1_H, "Ctmbb16", 7);

                                                break;

---

al utilizar el ítem me da game.exe error.

[English]

hello Vormav could help me add items to the dll.
I added the following.

Code:

---

case 0x4E:

                                                memset ((DWORD *)model_string, '\0', 400);

                                                memcpy ((DWORD *)model_string, "char\\tmABCD\\Ctmbb16.ASE", 23);
                                                memcpy ((DWORD *)animation_string, "char\\tmABCD\\m1.ase", 18);

                                                *(BYTE *)num_of_meshes_H = 0x01;

                                                memcpy ((DWORD *)name_of_mesh_1_H, "Ctmbb16", 7);

                                                break;

---

to use the item I get the error game.exe.