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Works for me; did you try Refresh/Reload?

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Privateer Ferrius wrote:For some reason or another, the table is just coming up as a red X for me, and I take it that's not what you intend.
Are you using IE? if so IE does not support PNG files. Tthat’s the reason.
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Must be a pretty ancient version of IE if it doesn't support PNG.
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Nope, I'm using the latest build of Firefox.

@Halleck: Even newer versions of IE don't properly support PNGs. They never respected the transparency flag properly and this leads to problems, even if the image doesn't have any pixels indexed to the alpha colour.
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Stupid question: The highlighted stuff is what we are focussing on, correct? Or is it what's already been completed?

A thought: the A_Table thing is kinda redundant
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Privateer Ferrius wrote:Stupid question: The highlighted stuff is what we are focussing on, correct? Or is it what's already been completed?

A thought: the A_Table thing is kinda redundant
This is the section of the DB that’s has been broken into smaller parts..

A for the A_Table, its just a name so i could find what table i was working on easily not and not the final name. the purpose of this is to go though and break everything rearrange all the tables and then apply it to the real DB.
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Database Hooks

A database hook is a file that needs to be stored with the model that tells the database what it (the model) is the parts and the connection points for mounting weapons.

I myself want to keep this is idiot proof as possible. For this reason the only thing I was planning on saving in this config file was something along the lines

* Center point (x,y,z)
* Up vector (x,y,z)
* Forward vector (x,y,z)
Center point is rather obvious.
"Up vector" points in the direction that is to be locally considered "upwards".
"Forward vector" points in the direction that is to be locally considered "forward" - usually, for mounts, the "neutral" direction (for instance, the one in which non-autotracking bolts leave the weapon).

Or

Position/Orientation system:
* Center point.
* Rotation quaternion.
Quaternions need 4 values: x,y,z,w

*Mount Type
*Mount Space
*Texture Types/List

Anthign else places in the file would not be directly related to the DB.

Klauss, can you help fill in the details?
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As if this isn’t confusing enough....

There are a lot of changes to database structure form the last one. Now every unit is an item, and shares a unified category schema. In addition every item can have allocation points, and that mean that every object can be a sub object of a larger object (or that’s were this is headed) right now there are a few missing links, mainly in regards to those sub objects.

Because it’s totally pointless because there are only three people on this entire board that understand what the hell I am saying, I am proud to present. “The, I can’t believe its not better edition. 0.1.16â€
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