Author Topic: Senticon Costume Converter  (Read 19227 times)

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2014, 06:23:54 AM »
The rest of that post explains exactly how to do that.

It does, but for the less computer savvy, more specifically the command you need to type to navigate is "cd FolderNameHere", which only works if the folder directory you're currently in contains that folder. So in that example "c:\users\YourNameHere>" is essentially the same directory system that your normal Windows based "explorer" uses, except without a graphical interface for the folders and files.

So say your username on your computer is Kevin(using my own name for this example...), it would be "c:\users>" so you'd type "cd Kevin" to get to the "Kevin" folder("c:\users\Kevin>"), and to go to the desktop you'd type "cd Desktop" and it would change your directory to "c:\users\Kevin\Desktop>", and so on for each other folder. To go backwards to the previous folder it'd be "cd.." I believe(Just in case you go into the wrong folder or something...).

If you're still iffy on what you're doing, google search for "DOS commands" or something like that, since the Command Prompt is basically Microsoft DOS, and uses the exact same commands.

Jeeze... It must have been over 20 years now since my first computer, and I still remember how to use DOS... You young whipper snappers have it easy with your fancy Windows 8 and your giant flashy icons to click on... In my day, we had to navigate to every file/folder/game with commands like the ones above, and we LIKED it...

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2014, 04:49:44 PM »
And Tony, is this by any chance one of those mysterious "things" the SCORE folks have been focusing on that would be very useful in a world of many small private servers?

Nope!  This was purely a Guy Perfect one-off.

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2014, 07:20:27 PM »
COOL!!!!  Thanks, Guy!!

Um....now can someone remind me where I put all my Sentinel+ files...??   :-[

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2014, 07:52:25 PM »
Whew, found them!

Regarding the failures, is there any way to make them show up like the non-compliant costumes that I did save to file before the game shut down?  You know, where the file loads for preview but says it won't let it go live because of the listed parts that fail?  At least then we would know what needs to be fixed.

EDIT: Huh, apparently that's not what the failures are, cuz I have plenty of costumes that converted fine from Sentinel+ that come up with the old "Failed to load because of these parts" error.  Now I'm confused.
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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2014, 08:24:02 PM »
Jeeze... It must have been over 20 years now since my first computer, and I still remember how to use DOS... You young whipper snappers have it easy with your fancy Windows 8 and your giant flashy icons to click on... In my day, we had to navigate to every file/folder/game with commands like the ones above, and we LIKED it...
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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2014, 10:30:59 AM »
This is awesome to have, thank you

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2014, 01:42:47 AM »
It does, but for the less computer savvy, more specifically the command you need to type to navigate is "cd FolderNameHere", which only works if the folder directory you're currently in contains that folder. So in that example "c:\users\YourNameHere>" is essentially the same directory system that your normal Windows based "explorer" uses, except without a graphical interface for the folders and files.

So say your username on your computer is Kevin(using my own name for this example...), it would be "c:\users>" so you'd type "cd Kevin" to get to the "Kevin" folder("c:\users\Kevin>"), and to go to the desktop you'd type "cd Desktop" and it would change your directory to "c:\users\Kevin\Desktop>", and so on for each other folder. To go backwards to the previous folder it'd be "cd.." I believe(Just in case you go into the wrong folder or something...).

If you're still iffy on what you're doing, google search for "DOS commands" or something like that, since the Command Prompt is basically Microsoft DOS, and uses the exact same commands.

Jeeze... It must have been over 20 years now since my first computer, and I still remember how to use DOS... You young whipper snappers have it easy with your fancy Windows 8 and your giant flashy icons to click on... In my day, we had to navigate to every file/folder/game with commands like the ones above, and we LIKED it...
Ok...just so I know.   I open up the "command" from the "run" function on Windows?   That gets me the window called "C:\WINDOWS\system32\command.com"

I then see the line "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1>" with a flashing cursor.   I tried to type "cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\CoH stuff" and it said "too many parameters - and"

I did just manage to get to the "desktop"...so it now says "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI\DESKTOP>"

Tried to add "documents and settings" but can't navigate there.   I know zero about DOS so this isn't intuitive for me.

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2014, 02:52:18 AM »
Put the path you're navigating to in quotes.

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cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\CoH stuff"
Since your prompt looks like it's using short paths, it's not likely to do that for you automatically, and it isn't going to like spaces outside of the quotes.
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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2014, 04:52:43 AM »
Ok...just so I know.   I open up the "command" from the "run" function on Windows?   That gets me the window called "C:\WINDOWS\system32\command.com"

If you're using Run, type "cmd", not command. Command Prompt in the start menu also links to cmd.

command.com is the old 16-bit DOS compatibility shell, you don't want that. cmd.exe is the 64 or 32 bit native windows command interpreter. While some of the commands are inspired by DOS, it's not the same by any stretch of the imagination.

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2014, 04:53:30 AM »
Ok...just so I know.   I open up the "command" from the "run" function on Windows?   That gets me the window called "C:\WINDOWS\system32\command.com"

Use "cmd" rather than "command". The COMMAND.COM file is an old compatibility shell from the early Windows days and was superseded by cmd.exe with the NT overhaul. cmd supports long filenames.

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I had the idea first. Codewalker was just a preemptive copycat.

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2014, 03:06:47 AM »
Thanks guys.   That got me on the right track.    Got to the right folder and put in:  java -jar senticon.jar all

It said "loading costume database..." so that's progress!

It took a few seconds then came up with: 

Exception in thread "main" java.lan.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

It then had a long list of things beginning with "at".

Nothing appeared in that folder though.   I'm assuming the "out of memory" thing was the problem.

Is that demorecord thing someone mentioned in another thread a better option?  I used it to get a file of one of my costumes but no idea what I would actually do with that.   :P

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2014, 03:31:05 AM »
any feedback on why some costumes fail and some dont.. weird a lot of my earliest simple costumes just didn't work for some reason... i wished they would load anyway and allow me to fix it manually..

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2014, 05:35:23 AM »
any feedback on why some costumes fail and some dont.. weird a lot of my earliest simple costumes just didn't work for some reason... i wished they would load anyway and allow me to fix it manually..
Most likely pieces moved around in their dropdown location, or got rid of entirely (e.g. when they implemented ears as a detail option, a few ear-specific head types [like elf ears] were removed).
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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #33 on: March 19, 2014, 11:39:32 PM »
Thanks guys.   That got me on the right track.    Got to the right folder and put in:  java -jar senticon.jar all

It said "loading costume database..." so that's progress!

It took a few seconds then came up with: 

Exception in thread "main" java.lan.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

It then had a long list of things beginning with "at".

Nothing appeared in that folder though.   I'm assuming the "out of memory" thing was the problem.

Is that demorecord thing someone mentioned in another thread a better option?  I used it to get a file of one of my costumes but no idea what I would actually do with that.   :P

Try reinstalling java, and checking windows is up to date with service packs etc.

If that fails again, PM me, and I'll give you my mail to send the sentential files too & I'll send back the costumes file for you.

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2014, 03:54:05 AM »
Try reinstalling java, and checking windows is up to date with service packs etc.

If that fails again, PM me, and I'll give you my mail to send the sentential files too & I'll send back the costumes file for you.
Thanks Ice...I'll try that and see what happens.

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #35 on: March 21, 2014, 01:03:33 PM »
This is fantastic! I've got just about every costume I ever created in CoH. Costume folder currently has 792 costume files! I really enjoyed toying with concepts and ideas. Thank you!!

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2014, 07:07:06 AM »
Thanks Ice...I'll try that and see what happens.
Did you find success?

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #37 on: April 01, 2014, 02:58:23 PM »
Did you find success?
I have to admit my eyes crossed and I gave up.    :(

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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #38 on: April 02, 2014, 08:21:37 AM »
I have to admit my eyes crossed and I gave up.    :(

Okay, I will send you my email via PM (and anyone else that cant get it working).
If you can zip the costume files, that would save some time but it's really only going to take a few minutes to convert them for you.


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Re: Senticon Costume Converter
« Reply #39 on: April 17, 2014, 04:40:20 AM »
Okay, I will send you my email via PM (and anyone else that cant get it working).
If you can zip the costume files, that would save some time but it's really only going to take a few minutes to convert them for you.
I just opened up Icon yesterday and noticed 5 costumes when I opened up the "load" button.   They must have come from my attempts to run the costume converter.   Not bad.

Only two of them are valid though...the others are missing costume pieces.