......but this static'ing items just isn't working. *sigh*
I have the floor tiles laid out for one of my towns, and walls on one building. I tried the Static Tool in Axis as follows:
1. Opened the tool, loaded my worldfile and analyzed it to find "dynamic" objects.
2. Highlighted the entire list and pressed "make static", at which time the word "dynamic" changed to "pending static".
3. Here's where it stopped working, apparently. I tried several different ways of 'patching'......I tried "save patch" then "loaded" and "applied" right away. I tried "save patch" then shut down Axis, reopened it and "loaded" and "applied". I tried simply "apply patch" (at which point it asked me if I wanted to "save", so I did one time and didn't another time.
I cleaned my worldfile when prompted and also replaced my staidx and statics files with those created by Axis with the .new extension each time I tried to static the tiles....changing the extension to .mul, of course.
When I go ingame to look at them, they're all STILL dynamic. And, each time I go back into Axis, I've seen them listed as either "dynamic" or still "pending static".
It's obvious I'm doing something wrong. Btw, I do remember using this before, about a year ago. But, I don't remember what I did to get it to work. :/ Memory is the first thing to go, I'm told
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
NEXT---I tried UOSP.....following the directions on RoseThorn's post. After loading the worldfile, 'using' the lines...etc...then analyzing the world, I only got ONE item showing in the window. There was nothing to choose to static. I did try "all", just in case it just wasn't showing anything for some other reason than my own ignorance. I use Sphereserver 99z5 and the .scp files are named differently than what is in the uospfiles file. (i.e. there are no sphereitem*.scp files. They're listed as sphere_item_etc_etc.scp) I changed those in that list to match what's in my sphere scripts folder but, apparently, that doesn't work, either.
-CMS
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P.S. (<---do you use that for a forum post? *thinks then dismisses the question to herself as inconsequential) I haven't tried the UOWC yet, even though my son is pressing me to. I'd rather do one thing at a time and learning how to static this blasted town (so I can proceed to other things) takes priority right now. I do appreciate the reference, though, and will be trying it out soon, I hope.