[Darius]

Ok, this is a problem which I've had before, but now it seems to have reared its ugly head again. Is there any way for custom mission loading images to show up while the pictures themselves are in a VP? I've had them show up fine before, but that was because I was using my Freespace 2/data/missions as a working folder to store them. Now that I've packed my campaign up nice and proper and cleared my missions folder they don't seem to show up anymore.

Pics are JPG btw, which didn't prevent them from showing up before when jpg/tga flag was enabled.

EDIT: Bugger. Could some kind mod please move this to the FRED section?

[karajorma]

In which folder of the VP did you put them in?

I've never done it myself but Raider Wars kept it's loading screens in the Interface folder. I'd be somewhat surprised if they loaded from missions as I can easily imagine that the game filters that folder and only accepts .fs2 and .fc2 files.

That said I'd expect the same thing to be done to the loose files in Data\Missions too

[Darius]

Heh. I was always under the impression that it didn't matter which folder the files were in, so long they were in either the data or the root Freespace folder. Maybe the rules change once they're in a VP. *shrug*

I don't mind releasing it without mission loading screens, if people want they can extract them as loose files.

[jr2]

FreeSpace2\data\missions

should =

mod.vp/data/missions

[chief1983]

Actually jr2, if you'll notice, in the VPView app, when you look at the tree, everything in the vp is usually underneath the folder called data.

[jr2]

Hmm.... try that on the Retail .VPs    I did notice... but, if you notice different, then does it make a difference?  Or is it just cosmetic?

[chief1983]

What are you smoking?  All I'm saying is that in the VPs, all the files are under the folder data.  Which is where they belong.  So \data is _not_ left out of VP files, and Freespace2\data\missions is the same as mod.vp/data/missions, according to your scheme.  That's all I meant to say.  So, theoretically, you can have a VP with files in it for a folder other than data, although I don't see much point to that.

[jr2]

I will post screenies when I get home. 

[chief1983]

Anyway Darius, did you have any luck with this yet?  There was another thread with some tips on this.  I'd try getting them to work as PCX, Hunter was having some trouble with these last night too but got it working finally using 256 color pcx.  Then try other types (I'd try uncompressed DDS next).

[jr2]

Eh...   chief, you were right... on the left hand pane it doesn't have \data\, but the actual pathname is \data\<leftpanename>...

EDIT: Fixx0red my n00bish post.

[chief1983]

I WIN BROTHAH, ONE TO NOTHING, BOOYAH!

Ok really though, it's cool, no problem, I just had the vp viewer open right in front of me as I made the posts, so I was really looking forward to seeing yours be different.  Guess that'd have been some sort of weird bug.

[Darius]

Anyway Darius, did you have any luck with this yet?  There was another thread with some tips on this.  I'd try getting them to work as PCX, Hunter was having some trouble with these last night too but got it working finally using 256 color pcx.  Then try other types (I'd try uncompressed DDS next).

Sorry, haven't been paying much attention to this thread. I'll give the PCX a try, and if it doesn't work, DDS. I'm just baffled why jpg/tga was working perfectly until I packed it into a VP.

[chief1983]

Oh, that might be related to the path search order issue, it's fixed in versions after 3.6.9 though.  May not be the same bug, but now that you I think about it, maybe it is.  Either way, hope something works for you.