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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Solatar on October 18, 2003, 04:33:24 pm

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: Solatar on October 18, 2003, 04:33:24 pm

I used to use this proggy a lot, then I deleted it along with a bunch of other fs2 stuff. Now I'd like to use it again, but when I try to generate a new background, it tells me nebulae.lst and suns.lst can't be found. I can plainly see they are in both the directory the program is in, and the directory my missions are in. Any help?

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 18, 2003, 04:47:08 pm

They need to be in C:\Program Files\Kazan, regardless of where you installed the program. What you do if you don't have a C: drive I don't know...

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: Solatar on October 18, 2003, 04:48:30 pm

Thanks, I had them installed in C:/Applications/Kazan (I have so many progs, I keep most commercial ones in Program Files, and other stuff, like my fs2 MODing things, in Applications.

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: Kazan on October 18, 2003, 06:56:25 pm

um diamond... im not sure that's entirely accurate... *goes and pulls up code*

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CRegistryManager reg;
reg.GetString("Software\\DMEN\\FS2UTIL", "InstalledAt",
 "C:\\Program Files\\kazan", CStemp, 1024); // defaults to the default install path

InstallPath = CStemp;



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apstring Suns = InstallPath + "\\Suns.lst";
apstring Nebs = InstallPath + "\\Nebulae.lst";
ifstream Sin(Suns.c_str(), ios::nocreate);
ifstream Nin(Nebs.c_str(), ios::nocreate);


where ever the string value named InstalledAt in registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DMEN\FS2UTIL points at is where they need to be


*considers updatting this util as well*

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 18, 2003, 07:14:22 pm

Huh. Well what I said before is based on my experiments. I've been in the same situation as Sol, and decided to check where the app wanted to install itself. I tried putting the files there and hey presto. All that coding stuff you just said means nada to me :D

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: Krackers87 on October 21, 2003, 12:14:27 am

where can some 1 get this background generator?

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: Kazan on October 21, 2003, 01:02:39 am

see signature - first url listed

Title: Little problem with Kazan's random bg generator
Post by: IPAndrews on October 29, 2003, 04:22:37 am

Hey Kaz, are you going to fix this so it doesn't pile up all the nebs at 0 and 180o? I have the code. I'll give it to you if you ask nicely :P