How do you use Sentinel+ costume info in Icon ??

HEATSTROKE · February 17, 2014, 04:27:09 AM

Im not a super tech kinds of guy when it comes to computers.. some things I grasp and some things I dont.. Unfortunately I didnt think to save all my costumes files when CoH went down. I did make Sentinel+ copies of everything.

I really want to rebuild my characters as they were but I dont understand the Sentinel section on costumes. Was there ever a program written to make that info into a costume file? I remember Tony V saying he thought this could be done but i dont see where anything became of it.

Unfortunately I cannot remember the exact costumes. scales or colors of my toons.. I reallu would love to rebuild them as they were..

any help would be appreciated..

Thanks

TonyV · February 17, 2014, 05:10:51 AM

We actually talked about this on Save CoH Radio last week. I think Guy might be joining us this week too, since we had some technical issues last time, so tune in this Friday and grill him about it. :)

Pogoman always posts an announcement for the show over in the Save Paragon City forum.

saipaman · February 17, 2014, 05:28:19 AM

Maybe this would make a good bounty project?

FatherXmas · February 17, 2014, 11:48:09 PM

I had thought of doing something like this, but at the time for inserting characters into videos and not as a character costume file.

saipaman · February 18, 2014, 02:55:40 AM

This website, http://demolition.mcuznz.ca/, will accept your sentinel+ file and create a demo file from it. From that demo file, you could harvest the costume description for use in other demo files. It isn't quite what I'm looking for.

HEATSTROKE · February 18, 2014, 03:03:32 AM

I would really love to be able to do this.. I probably wont be able to make the radio show.. Im usually not home around the time it airs..

FatherXmas · February 18, 2014, 03:45:51 AM

Quote from: saipaman on February 18, 2014, 02:55:40 AM
This website, http://demolition.mcuznz.ca/, will accept your sentinel+ file and create a demo file from it. From that demo file, you could harvest the costume description for use in other demo files. It isn't quite what I'm looking for.

Which is why I shelved the project.

saipaman · February 18, 2014, 03:49:28 AM

Like I said, I'd contribute to a bounty to close the loop on this.

Triplash · February 18, 2014, 10:53:42 AM

Quote from: HEATSTROKE on February 18, 2014, 03:03:32 AM

I would really love to be able to do this.. I probably wont be able to make the radio show.. Im usually not home around the time it airs..

If you go to the link for a particular night's show after it's aired, you can listen to it as a recording. It's great for catching it later when you've got the time. :)

HEATSTROKE · February 19, 2014, 01:34:08 AM

I wont be able to get on to ask this question.. I hope someone here can ask it for me.. It would be great if this could happen.. somehow importing Sentinel+ into Icon to load my old costumes exactly would be awesome..

MWRuger · February 19, 2014, 09:29:07 PM

This is a good idea. I was fortunate that I routinely saved my costumes so I have almost all of them including variants but there were a few i missed.

That said, I suspect it would only have the last costume worn, none any alternates. So like my toon, Monster Squad, who had 5 monster forms and one human form, it would only be the last one he was wearing.

Codewalker · February 19, 2014, 10:04:05 PM

Sentinel+ xml files contain all of the costumes that character had when the program was run, whether the slot was active or not.

MWRuger · February 20, 2014, 06:59:34 AM

Sweet!

HEATSTROKE · February 20, 2014, 10:54:49 PM

need to find a way to get that info to load into ICON !!!!!!

GuyPerfect · February 21, 2014, 10:22:12 PM

Lah dee dah

saipaman · February 22, 2014, 02:19:39 AM

Quote from: GuyPerfect on February 21, 2014, 10:22:12 PM
Lah dee dah

Infinite loop?

HEATSTROKE · February 22, 2014, 05:17:47 AM

I heard the show tonight after I got home.. AWESOME !!!!!

now how do we do it.. Im looking forward to this !!!

Phaetan · February 22, 2014, 03:11:10 PM

File and instructions are here.

rsreston · September 23, 2015, 01:14:39 PM

I'm really grateful for Senticon, as I got 8 out 13 costumes from 4 characters.

I am wondering if there is an option in Senticon to let it show which costume pieces caused an error that prevented Senticon from extracting that costume. In the hopes that I could manually delete them in the XML files and correct the .costumes in Icon.

HEATSTROKE · September 23, 2015, 10:59:37 PM

Quote from: rsreston on September 23, 2015, 01:14:39 PM
I'm really grateful for Senticon, as I got 8 out 13 costumes from 4 characters.

I am wondering if there is an option in Senticon to let it show which costume pieces caused an error that prevented Senticon from extracting that costume. In the hopes that I could manually delete them in the XML files and correct the .costumes in Icon.

Or is there way to figure out from looking at the file which costume piece it was originally and manually put it in?