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Negative values?

mattperry78

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Arno (or anyone else that knows!),

I am using mdltweaker 0.21. I am using the variable for distance along z axis. While this does work great, it will only let me put in positive numbers. I am trying to make the object appear from -20m to 0m. I've tried it from 0m to 20m and it works great, but it is in the opposite direction than I am trying to place the condition! When I do put in -20 to the minimums box, it only gives me a run-time 6 error; overflow. Am I missing something?

Matt
 
Hi Matt,

Did you put the radio box to dec instead of hex? With hexadecimal values negative numbers are not allowed.
 
Yes, that is one of the first things I do. There have been too many times that I have forgotten to do that. Does MdlTweaker convert decimal to hex when it is compliling the new file? Maybe the overflow is in there? Taking the 2's complement of 20 decimal (14 hex) produces FFFFFFEC which may be the problem if the 'F's keep running on and on. Then again, I'm not sure how you are handling negative decimal values in your program so I'll stop guessing!

Thanks for the help!
 
Hi Matt,

Yes, I am indeed converting them, before I write it into the MDL file. I will have to check what happens with negative values.
 
Hi Matt,

Could you try this new EXE? The problem was that the negative hex string was 4 byte long, while the variable was only 2 bytes. Should be fixed now :).

EDIT: File found in download section now.
 
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