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Geek2Nurse

Geek2Nurse
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  4/29/2012

I keep running into agents I can't decompile with Revelation. It will spit out a list of filenames/directories, and then say "unable to read agent file." I'm convinced there's probably a simple solution to this, but so far I haven't discovered it.

One of the ones I've had problems with is DAE pots.agents...I just wanted to tweak the perm settings a little so I can put the pots on walkways, and maybe learn some more CAOS stuff while I'm there. :)

Any hints on how to get it to work?


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Malkin

Malkin

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  4/29/2012

For the Justanut Bush, I think the problem might be that several objects are compiled in the one .agent file - I use Jagent, because it's just a case of dragging and dropping, and it was updated for the CCSF 2009 to handle multiple agents.

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Moe

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  4/29/2012

I've found that agents compiled by the PRAY Builder are fine, but agents compiled by the engine's built-in compiler (used especially for C3 agents back in the day) don't decompile nicely.

I don't know if the number of agents compiled into a single agent affects the decompile, as I've been able to decompile whole metarooms before. It might depend on what was used to compile it. Whether that be C3's built-in compiler, Jagent, or easyPray/Praybuilder. And that, in combination with the number of agents compiled into one file, might affect the file structure and it's chances of being decompile-able. Or maybe even the number of dependencies (images, sounds, etc)?

Might be worth some experimenting for those with the time.

 
Geek2Nurse

Geek2Nurse


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  4/29/2012

Sweet! Jagent is SO much nicer than dealing with DOS and batch files. Thanks! :)

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Pessimist: the glass is half empty.
Engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 


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