Help: Delete an object with an animation (Giants Editor)

[FarmCatJenkins]

Hi,
I am wondering if someone knows the steps to take to remove an object from a mod map that has an animation in Giants Editor. I would like to take out a preplaced gate from a prebuilt farm. I had tried to remove the gate previously, but got either an error or warning about it in the log and quickly reverted back to the original version. I am assuming there is something I have to do in an XML but I don't know where to begin to look.

TIA

[anthu]

Hello Farmcat
My first step in such things is, not do delete - try moving.
I mean, i move things from above the map under the map. coordinate Y to zero or a minus value.
So it is away from map without any other changes.
For objects with animations, there is a xml in the modmap search for animations.xml or such one.
In this xml you can delete the lines for this animations (or outcommend it).
Lg
Andreas

[FarmCatJenkins]

Hello Farmcat
My first step in such things is, not do delete - try moving.
I mean, i move things from above the map under the map. coordinate Y to zero or a minus value.
So it is away from map without any other changes.
For objects with animations, there is a xml in the modmap search for animations.xml or such one.
In this xml you can delete the lines for this animations (or outcommend it).
Lg
Andreas

Thanks Andreas. So I could theoretically delete the gate in GE then comment out the line for that gate in animatedObjects.xml and that would be the only steps?

[TheSuBBie]

Be aware that the animation might be part of a placeable and as such the animation sequence will be in that placeables xml.

[FarmCatJenkins]

Be aware that the animation might be part of a placeable and as such the animation sequence will be in that placeables xml.

Would they be part of a placeable if they are on the main map.i3d?

Well here is the gate in question. Has the same name as some others for the cow barns, but I have seen no reference to any of these in the animatedObjects.xml or any animations in any of the cowbarns in the placeables folder.

[Eische]

You don't need to delete animations.
Simply move the gate or other objects below the map. 50 meters usually is enough.

That is the savest way to avoid breaking something else in the map.

If you delete things from a map or any other mod, the node numbering changes. This could break references to xml files or cause other problems.

[Steel_Horse]

Or just use the mod Map Object Hider to hide it and not mess with GE at all. The only tricky thing with gates is it can take a few seconds to find reference point on the gate in order to be able to hide it.

[FarmCatJenkins]

I did hide it under the map. Thanks for the help