.ecm editing

Hey Ragezone,
I have a small problem.
I've been trying to add weapons from JD/FW to my PWI client by taking the folder from those games and putting them to configs then editing the .ecm and pointing to the path of the .smd file. However, each and every weapon that I try to add ends up being invisible. It's like my character doesn't have anything in his hands... no different attack animation or anything. Now I'm probably guessing that this error is caused by the .ecm and the way it works with different games, but can someone tell me how to 'convert' a, well let's say a JD scythe weapon, to a weapon that I could use as a polehammer on PW? I've been trying to fix it for hours, messing around with the .ecm file, even copying one from a default PW weapon, but it still doesn't work. Please, someone explain this to me so I can stop getting pissed off about it lol.

Things I've tried:
- Using sModfix, didn't do anything.
- Changing the moxt version
- Changing the CoGfxNum, although I have no idea what this does or what the right value for each weapon is
- Renaming a default PW weapon .ecm and replacing it with the one I'm trying to add. No results.

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Hey Ragezone,
I have a small problem.
I've been trying to add weapons from JD/FW to my PWI client by taking the folder from those games and putting them to configs then editing the .ecm and pointing to the path of the .smd file. However, each and every weapon that I try to add ends up being invisible. It's like my character doesn't have anything in his hands... no different attack animation or anything. Now I'm probably guessing that this error is caused by the .ecm and the way it works with different games, but can someone tell me how to 'convert' a, well let's say a JD scythe weapon, to a weapon that I could use as a polehammer on PW? I've been trying to fix it for hours, messing around with the .ecm file, even copying one from a default PW weapon, but it still doesn't work. Please, someone explain this to me so I can stop getting pissed off about it lol.

Things I've tried:
- Using sModfix, didn't do anything.
- Changing the moxt version
- Changing the CoGfxNum, although I have no idea what this does or what the right value for each weapon is
- Renaming a default PW weapon .ecm and replacing it with the one I'm trying to add. No results.

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Are you sure you got all the paths for it correct and are point to configs\path\wherever\something\something\something

In the .ecm file? If you don't yes it will be very invisible

I think so... let me post an example.

This is from a cross weapon from FW,
folder = configs\weapons\十字\十字04_01
These weapons have 2 ecm files, google translator says one is for females and the other one is for males.
So I picked the male one since my character is a guy, changed the .ecm like this:

Spoiler:

MOXTVersion: 32
SkinModelPath: configs\weapons\十字\十字04_01\普通_血族男血魔十字04_01.SMD
OrgColor: ffffffff
SrcBlend: 5
DestBlend: 6
OuterNum: 8
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
Float: 1.000000
NewScale: 1
BoneNum: 0

DefSpeed: 1.000000
ChannelCount: 0
ChannelCount: 16
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
ChannelMask: -1
CoGfxNum: 0
ComActCount: 2
CombineActName: 刀光
LoopCount: 1
RankCount: 0
EventChannel: 0
BaseActCount: 0
EventCount: 1
EventType: 100
StartTime: 0
TimeSpan: -1
Once: 0
FxFilePath: 武器轨迹\匕首刀光白.gfx
HookName:
HookOffset: 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000
HookYaw: 0.000000
HookPitch: 0.000000
HookRot: 0.000000
BindParent: 1
FadeOut: 1
UseModelAlpha: 1
GfxScale: 1.000000
GfxAlpha: 1.000000
GfxSpeed: 1.000000
GfxOuterPath: 0
GfxParamCount: 3
ParamEleName: Unnamed3
ParamId: 100
ParamDataType: 1
ParamDataIsCmd: 0
ParamDataHook: HH_tip
ParamEleName: Unnamed3
ParamId: 101
ParamDataType: 1
ParamDataIsCmd: 0
ParamDataHook: HH_base
ParamEleName: Unnamed3
ParamId: 102
ParamDataType: 2
ParamDataIsCmd: 0
ParamDataHook: CC_weapon
CombineActName: 掉落保护
LoopCount: 1
RankCount: 0
EventChannel: 0
BaseActCount: 0
EventCount: 0
ScriptCount: 0
AddiSkinCount: 0
ChildCount: 0

But it's still invisible. xD

configs\weapons\十字\十字04_01\普通_血族男血魔十字04_01.SMD

So normaly u should write in elements.data:

configs\weapons\十字\十字04_01\普通_血族男血魔十字04_01.ecm

But u have to check about the name of the ecm. Sometimes its different then the ecm.

configs\weapons\十字\十字04_01\MAYBE_DIFFERENT.ecm

List of Weapon in elements.data

ID
Large Classification
Small Classification
Name
Ammunition Type

So far useless

Then:

Model in right hand
Model in left hand
Model on ground

So check that.

I usually just copy/paste the path of the ecm so there shouldn't be any errors there, and I'm sure I did it right in elements.data as well since all the other stuff I've added has worked so far. I have a release of a couple of JD weapons and they work fine, so I tried to do it again myself in another folder, using the same .ecm and stuff, and it didn't work :?: seems like the game won't let me add stuff, other people's releases work fine. :lol:

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Originally Posted by Exodus

I usually just copy/paste the path of the ecm so there shouldn't be any errors there, and I'm sure I did it right in elements.data as well since all the other stuff I've added has worked so far. I have a release of a couple of JD weapons and they work fine, so I tried to do it again myself in another folder, using the same .ecm and stuff, and it didn't work :?: seems like the game won't let me add stuff, other people's releases work fine. :lol:

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i think u doing something wrong.
Hm... Weapons doesnt need a special way like armor so...

Adding the folder to for example:

Models.pck/test

So ecm: models/test/blablabla.SMD

so elements.data: models/test/blablabla.ecm

Did exactly as you wrote (except I placed it in configs cause models.pck is big as hell and takes a long time to repack xD) but it's still invisible :( maybe a client problem or something?

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Did exactly as you wrote (except I placed it in configs cause models.pck is big as hell and takes a long time to repack xD) but it's still invisible :( maybe a client problem or something?

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If you change where exactly it is, you have to update all the paths inside the .ecm, I wish the original devs for the client used relative instead of absolute paths like they did...

Actually, I did get it to work after using smodfix on the files again... it works for JD weapons. But I'm still not sure how to add FW weapons since smodfix doesn't fix them... I'm guessing those are not supported by 1.3.6 clients?