Stuck creating a RasterPropMonitor

[Albert VDS]

How do you create/setup a RasterPropMonitor? I followed the manual, but when I got it in game it gave me a "INITIALZATION ERROR, CHECK CONFIGURATION" message.

So I'm doing something(s) wrong, but I have no clue on what it is.

Here's how I created the monitor:

- Created the following meshes

-MapMonitor

-MapMonitorScreen a plane where the screen will be displayed on, uses the whole UV map space

-button_LEFT

-button_LEFT.001

-button_RIGHT

-button_RIGHT.001

-Imported the model in Unity

-Set all the meshes to the IVA layer

-Gave the button_LEFT.001 en button_RIGHT.001 a mesh collider

-Exported as mu and mbm

- Then I copied the following code into the MapMonitor.cfg, from hyomoto's mod, to test if it worked:

PROP
{
	name = MapMonitor

MODULE
{
	name = RasterPropMonitor
	screenTransform = MapMonitorScreen
	fontTransform = Hyomoto/MFD/images/MFDFont
	textureLayerID = _Emissive            // Name of texture layer to work with on the screen surface.
	screenWidth = 40                      // Screen width in letters.
	screenHeight = 20                     // Screen height in lines.
	screenPixelWidth = 640                // Width of the generated screen texture in pixels.
	screenPixelHeight = 640               // Height of the generated screen texture in pixels.
	fontLetterWidth = 16                  // Width of a font character.
	fontLetterHeight = 32                 // Height of a font character.
	cameraAspect = 1.0
	fontDefinition = JSI/RasterPropMonitor/Example/ExampleMFD/fontDefinition.txt
	needsElectricCharge = true               // Blanks out with power

	extraFont = JSI/RasterPropMonitor/Example/ExampleMFD/extraFont1

	refreshDrawRate = 2
	refreshTextRate = 10
	refreshDataRate = 20

	buttonClickSound = Hyomoto/MFD/beep
	buttonClickVolume = 0.6
	globalButtons = button_LEFT,button_RIGHT
}

	PAGE
	{
		name = pluginScanSAT
		text = Hyomoto/MFD/pages/overlaySat.txt
		textureOverlayURL = Hyomoto/MFD/images/genericOverlay
		BACKGROUNDHANDLER
		{
			name = JSISCANsatRPM
			method = MapRenderer
			buttonClickMethod = ButtonProcessor
			pageActiveMethod = PageActive
			buttonUp = 0
			buttonDown = 1
			buttonEnter = 2
			buttonEsc = 7
			buttonHome = 6
			zoomModifier = 2.0
			iconPixelSize = 16
			iconShadowShift = 2
			scaleBarPosition = 16,144
			scaleBar = JSI/RasterPropMonitor/Example/ExampleMFD/GPS/scalebar
			scaleLabels = JSI/RasterPropMonitor/Example/ExampleMFD/GPS/scaleLabels
		}
		textureURL = Hyomoto/MFD/images/nosignal
		textureOverlayURL = Hyomoto/MFD/images/basicOverlay

	}


}

[MOARdV]

How do you create/setup a RasterPropMonitor? I followed the manual, but when I got it in game it gave me a "INITIALZATION ERROR, CHECK CONFIGURATION" message.

So I'm doing something(s) wrong, but I have no clue on what it is.

Sorry I missed this. Mihara's been quiet lately, and I'm trying to cover support when I can. I replied on the RPM thread, but I think the gist of it is that the targeted transform (MapMonitorScreen, per your config) needs to have a renderer and material defined for it (I don't know how those translate into the model - that's the terminology on the plugin side). It is also looking for the _Emissive layer in that material - it replaces the texture defined there with the render texture that RPM uses.

If that's not enough info, you may also try pinging alexustas, since he's made RPM props. About the only further thing I can do is to doctor up the RPM code with debug statements, and look at what's happening when the prop loads (provided you're willing to let me use a copy of the prop/cfg for testing purposes). Or, if you want to build RPM locally yourself, I can point you at the section of the initialization code where I am guessing the problem originates.