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Posted by Warlord on 10-19-2001 05:16 PM:

Ship selection icons

After over half year of lurking I can play this incredible TC and I'd like to thank you for making this. This comes little late because I was in vacation this week and I was unable to post.

I have some questions:

I found out that ships.tbl has wrong filenames in $Ship_icon: and $Ship_overhead:. That's why ship icons in ship selection won't show and it caused FS2 to crash when you tried to change ships.

Loadout readme says that ship overhead is example: $Ship_overhead: load-starfury
Still MODs ship table have different entrys:
$Ship_icon: auroraicon01
$Ship_overhead: auroratop01

Icons should work(worked for me) if you change those entrys to:
$Ship_icon: starfury
$Ship_overhead: load-starfury

Then change zephyr and nial as well.
Zephyr:
$Ship_icon: zephyr
$Ship_overhead: load-zephyr
Nial:
$Ship_icon: nial
$Ship_overhead: load-nial

First question is have above done accidentally or for some purpose?

Other question is why 2_load-starfury won't work? It reads in loadout readme and should be hi-res picture for load-starfury. Or does game use picture depending what resolution you use and you don't have to put 2_ manually? I use 1024*768 and I tried both entrys. Only load-starfury worked.

I think thats all for now. See ya.

Posted by FSF Ashrak on 10-20-2001 11:15 AM:

yup worcked for me

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Posted by Warlord on 10-20-2001 04:10 PM:

Strange that ships.tbl has wrong filenames when right files still existed.

Posted by Drahkas on 10-20-2001 05:58 PM:

yeah it works now

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Posted by White-SF on 10-20-2001 06:38 PM:

Just changed it, too... Thanks for this post!

Changed it for the Lintira Shuttle as well because it's flyable and because it's in one of TS_Shadow's missions.

PS: This was the first time I had a look into the ships.tbl-File... Result: I just flew some kind of "Ranger Custom Starfury Fighter"... I love those neutron guns!

PPS: My FS2 didn't crash... I simply didn't see the icons/images, but I could change ships and weapons though.

Posted by Londo Molari on 10-20-2001 06:47 PM:

where are these table files located?

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Posted by White-SF on 10-20-2001 06:48 PM:

data/tables ... that's what I call pure logic!

PS: Just found the loadout readme in the extras folder... It's interesting that it says something about editing the ships.tbl and gives the example for "load-starfury" but does only explain, that "load_starfury" is 640*480 and "2_load-starfury" is 1024*768... Nothing about the fact that all loadoutscreen-filenames were wrong in general. Strange thing...

Posted by Warlord on 10-21-2001 10:30 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by White-SF
Just changed it, too... Thanks for this post!

Changed it for the Lintira Shuttle as well because it's flyable and because it's in one of TS_Shadow's missions.

PS: This was the first time I had a look into the ships.tbl-File... Result: I just flew some kind of "Ranger Custom Starfury Fighter"... I love those neutron guns!

PPS: My FS2 didn't crash... I simply didn't see the icons/images, but I could change ships and weapons though.

I changed Lintira too. My FS2 did crash if I pressed in place where icon should be. I could also change weapons but not ships.

Now everything works.

Strange that "2_load-starfury" won't work even though I use 1024.

Posted by White-SF on 10-21-2001 01:15 PM:

I changed the ships.tbl to load-starfury and my game is set to 1024*768 ...

Now I just had a look at the two images 2_load and load...
I compared it with the one used in the game. If you look at the distance between the symbols for the missile ports, you will see that FS2: TBP automatically uses the high resolution version...

I think if you type in 2_load-starfury, the program will look for 2_2_load-starfury as it has been set to use the high resolution versions!

Posted by Eternal One on 10-21-2001 01:25 PM:

Re: Ship selection icons

quote:
Originally posted by Warlord
After over half year of lurking I can play this incredible TC and I'd like to thank you for making this. This comes little late because I was in vacation this week and I was unable to post.

I have some questions:

I found out that ships.tbl has wrong filenames in $Ship_icon: and $Ship_overhead:. That's why ship icons in ship selection won't show and it caused FS2 to crash when you tried to change ships.

Loadout readme says that ship overhead is example: $Ship_overhead: load-starfury
Still MODs ship table have different entrys:
$Ship_icon: auroraicon01
$Ship_overhead: auroratop01

Icons should work(worked for me) if you change those entrys to:
$Ship_icon: starfury
$Ship_overhead: load-starfury

Then change zephyr and nial as well.
Zephyr:
$Ship_icon: zephyr
$Ship_overhead: load-zephyr
Nial:
$Ship_icon: nial
$Ship_overhead: load-nial

First question is have above done accidentally or for some purpose?

Other question is why 2_load-starfury won't work? It reads in loadout readme and should be hi-res picture for load-starfury. Or does game use picture depending what resolution you use and you don't have to put 2_ manually? I use 1024*768 and I tried both entrys. Only load-starfury worked.

I think thats all for now. See ya.

Accidentally. We had some issues with the naming of the pics, and accidently ships.tbl had invalid references. Will be fixed soonish.

2_load_starfury works. In the ships.tbl, you'll only put the name of the 640x480 version. The game automatically adds "2_" in front of the name to find the 1024x768 version.

Posted by White-SF on 10-21-2001 01:29 PM:

So I was right!

Posted by Warlord on 10-21-2001 02:03 PM:

Thanks Eternal One

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