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☖ Forums → Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith Editing Forum → Warning: Possible Circular Hierarchy $$DUMMY
Warning: Possible Circular Hierarchy $$DUMMY
2005-09-29, 10:27 AM #1
Warning: Possible Circular Hierarchy! Node $$DUMMY
That's not true! That's impossible!!


The above message appears when I import a 3do I want to edit in JED. It has lots of layered sections each just below 400 vertices. It runs with 0 collision in Jedi Knight and it appears to be ok in the game. Just wondering what the error message means. There is no $$DUMMY layer in the 3do either.
2005-09-29, 11:36 AM #2
I get that message when I set the parent node of a mesh to iteself
e.g. the parent of k_rshouldr is set to k_rshouldr

Never seen it happen on import :confused:
Which Jed version are you using btw? 95 and below have trouble handling higher numbers of HNodes (was it like above 20 or something? I forget)

As of version 951, the max is 256 nodes
May the mass times acceleration be with you.
2005-09-29, 4:20 PM #3
It may also be possible that you NEED a $$DUMMY node (one of the other nodes may reference it.) Try adding it to see if that resolves the problem, or check to see if any other nodes reference it.
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2005-09-29, 11:50 PM #4
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what that means. Add a $$Dummy node? I am confused what the difference is between meshes and nodes. There are about 60 nodes but just 43 meshes. I opened the file and the first node is the parent of all the others and is called $$DUMMY.

This message displays about 20 times in the message box, by the way.


....I just checked I am using Jed .95
2005-09-30, 8:32 AM #5
Yeah, that's prolly enough nodes to bork Jed, though now that I look at it again, I may have misinterpreted this:
Quote:
From Jed's History File:
Version 0.951
- Fixed an error with the 3DO hierarchy display , giving errors at around 20 nodes
Should now support 256 nodes max
For all I know now, Jed 95 may handle >20 nodes fine, but just display them wrong.
May the mass times acceleration be with you.
2005-09-30, 9:36 PM #6
Don't worry about it, just click ok and you should be fine. I get that message all the time, it doesn't have any effect on export.
2005-10-01, 12:37 AM #7
eggtooth, any chance you can post the 3do? just 'cuz I'm curious... :rolleyes:
May the mass times acceleration be with you.
2005-10-02, 12:30 PM #8
Well I have a new related question now. I want to use SetThingModel to change the model on the fly as the player moves vertically through a series of similar 3dos. The detailed part of the 3do will ultimately move with the player, acting like several 3do LOD. But when I use it in cog the new model is not appearing...I'm left with no model at all. I've used this SetThingModel before succesfully with a very simple model. I am wondering if maybe because the 3dos have a different layers when i export them if this makes SetThingModel not work. Or what?

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