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 Guides to Offset Determination and Commenting 
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So, from this thread, I was surprised to see that it's not common knowledge how to exactly determine proper offsets other than tweaking and testing. Or maybe it's just a matter that anyone who understands how to isn't bothering to explain it.

There is an old tutorial on the wiki, but many, many aspects of it are either inaccurate or missing information. Plus, no one uses the wiki for anything but Lua reference anyways. (because of its shortcomings, which are caused by the fact that no one uses it. Unfortunate.)

These are my personal methods using windows xp's paint. Other methods may be more suitable for you, but hopefully the information provided here will be useful to you in getting started. Without further ado, the guides.
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If you have any troubles following this guide, or have suggestions for its improvement, feel free to post. If I don't notice the reply, you can PM me if you want. These guides can be redistributed for any helpful purpose.


Attached below are the sprites I used in these guides, so if you want to recreate the steps with the same source material to verify that you're following it correctly, or something like that, you'll be able to do so. Please don't use these sprites for your own released mods, though.


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Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:28 pm
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This is a great job to new moders , I liked it.


Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:22 pm
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Thumbs up, awesome work. :grin:


Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:46 pm
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I might actually start modding now.


Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:13 am
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Thanks for the positive comments.
Speaking of comments...
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-- this is a .lua line comment
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:47 am
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To ini you can show the basic properties , like:

- How you can you use one AEmitter and what it's one AEmitter.
- How you can make one HDFirearm , Attachable( armor to who don't know ) ... stronger.
- How you can put infinite bullets in one mag.
- How you can change the bullet's particle go faster and for what make it go faster.
and the history continues ...


Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:15 am
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Correction! The end comment for block comment in Lua is simply ]].
Thank you.


Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:42 am
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Really? I noticed that just ]] works in the formatting of Notepad ++, but it seems --]] is usually used, and all the online sources I bothered to find said --]] (all two of them), and I didn't try just ]] in-game. But now I have tried it in game, and it works fine, so I'll just fix that up. Thanks for noticing and reporting the problem.


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Thanks, this guide has really helped with finding the offsets on weapons I make. Before I used to just type random numbers on them all until it looked right, not very professional at all.

By the way, where did you get that Windows theme?


Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:33 am
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Well, you see, I had it highly customized, by leaving it at the default for Windows XP Home Edition. my computer's specific OS installation.
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Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:23 pm
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Very useful and complete tutorial, thank you a lot :grin:


Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:08 pm
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Oh god I should really do limbs at some point shouldn't I? They have offsets relative to offsets relative to spriteoffset and all sorts of other nonsense. Everyone seems to trial and error these things waaaay too much.

EDIT: oh wow, forgot to say what a decent job you did of this Azukki. A+ would read again, all that jazz.


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Yes! For the longest time I, just like the others have had to go through the pain of trial and error to find the points. Although even though I did I usually had no idea what I was doing. This guide cut down the amount of times I had to start up CC.. Thank you!

Edit: Actually I've got a question, do you know what the max pixels you can have between the joint offset(of the hand) and the support offset is?


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Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:09 pm
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depends on your actor's arm length, not the engine.


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It's not that big a deal though, as the actor will just hold it with one hand if it can't reach. You can add a line that decreases accuracy if the actor's only using one hand though.


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