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Josiah
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Post subject: Code changing  Posted: July 28th, 2009, 11:41 pm |
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Is it possible to change the class label properties, such as changing a "sav" to hop-in-able? Also, is it possible to change the sprite tables, or create a new one? Every time I try to change a sprite table, like overwriting Splinter with Jet Pack (  ), and inserting Jet Pack into the .map file, (names_03 I think) it displays the names of that name group as rectangles in the base colors, e.g. offensive in green.... Help anyone??? 
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Sporkinator
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Post subject: Re: Code changing Posted: July 29th, 2009, 11:49 am |
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I don't see how you are able to add new strings to the sprite tables or names*.map files. The names*.map files aren't readable, and the sprite tables probably shouldn't be edited unless you have a backup of the stock files.
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Josiah
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Post subject: Re: Code changing Posted: July 29th, 2009, 6:37 pm |
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Sporkinator wrote: The names*.map files aren't readable, and the sprite tables probably shouldn't be edited unless you have a backup of the stock files. I always have a backup of everything. duh. Nah just kidding, some people really don't know that they should have backups, which is totally goofy, I know. However, I can successfully insert "Jet Pack" where "Splinter" was, and it will display the splinter "picture" when I name, say a flying pilot, "Jet Pack". BUT, when I go to edit the names_03, and insert jet pack over splinter, it displays rectangles in the base colors, e.g. offensive as a green rectangle, like I said in my first post. BTW, the "names_**.map" are quite readable... http://www.mediafire.com/?tx1yzhjdjszyou will have to zoom in on it, but it is still readable.
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Sporkinator
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Post subject: Re: Code changing Posted: July 30th, 2009, 6:02 pm |
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Hmm, what are you opening them in? I don't see anything when I open them in MAPViewer, just black on top and white on bottom... maybe objects.act is the wrong palette.
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Josiah
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Post subject: Re: Code changing Posted: July 31st, 2009, 12:12 am |
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Sporkinator wrote: Hmm, what are you opening them in? I don't see anything when I open them in MAPViewer, just black on top and white on bottom... maybe objects.act is the wrong palette. yah, I use the planets, they seem to work just fine. Anyway, it works just fine, by this process: open MAPViewer; open mars.act; navigate to bzsw.zfs extract folder, open names_03.map; look at pic, save as bmp if needed; well there you have it. BTW, mars.act is the one I use most of the time.
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Sporkinator
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Post subject: Re: Code changing Posted: July 31st, 2009, 7:25 am |
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Strange, it doesn't work for me.  1. Opened MAPViewer.exe. 2. Opened ACT Palette mars.act. 3. Opened names_03.map. I always thought they were unreadable because of this. After seeing nothing in MAPViewer, I tried notepad and hex editor and gave up since they displayed nothing useful either. It seems I can't read the text strings in them like you can. When I save as BMP, I still don't get the image with the text strings.
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