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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Kellan on May 06, 2002, 08:20:06 am

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: Kellan on May 06, 2002, 08:20:06 am

I was just wondering if anyone has found a way to make Terran HEAD-anis consistently appear for the ship arrival/dogfight messages coming from a Vasudan fighter or bomber, and vice versa. By this I mean that not only would they say normal messages as you want (easy enough) but the other messages ("bandit on your tail!" etc) would appear as though from the same - or same species, at least - head.

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: 67th GW Leader on May 06, 2002, 08:34:34 am

Just put the ships persona to Wingman-6-vas for your terran ships and wingman-3 for your vasudan ships ;)

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: Kellan on May 06, 2002, 11:07:09 am

Thanks, I'll give it a go. I sometimes get patchy results with the damn personas...

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: 67th GW Leader on May 06, 2002, 11:08:35 am

Same here sometimes, at times they just revert back to or whatever :P

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: Kellan on May 06, 2002, 11:41:30 am

I think it has to do with setting the personas being the last thing you must do. If you don't do it last, it reverts, or something.

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: 67th GW Leader on May 06, 2002, 12:25:44 pm

Yeah, it's a tad annoying :mad:

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: TrashMan on May 06, 2002, 12:46:15 pm

Can anyone tell me in which res do the pcx files (that you turn into ani's) have to be for the pilot/command ani's during the game? They are in the interface folder, right?

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: Stunaep on May 06, 2002, 02:58:31 pm

I can't be sure about the resolution (find out in AniView) but they must be 256 color grayscale.

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: CP5670 on May 06, 2002, 04:25:04 pm

160x120; same as the pilot images. The color palette used is actually some special one; it has 256 colors, but only the first 16 have grays in them (one blue as well), with the rest all green. This palette must be used for anything on the hud or for briefing icons for it to work properly; just extract it out of one of the original ani or pcx files. ;)

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Same here sometimes, at times they just revert back to or whatever :P

I have also had this happen once or twice in my missions, but I was never really able to determine the cause. Maybe it changes back to default when some other property of the fighters is changed. (like the squadron logo file bug)

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: Tar-Palantir on May 07, 2002, 07:44:51 am

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Same here sometimes, at times they just revert back to or whatever :P

I think this happens whenever you doing anything to the mission, at least that's my experience. Damn annoying if you ask me.

Title: Ships and Personas
Post by: 67th GW Leader on May 07, 2002, 08:37:29 am

It happens when you change a wing as a whole. like select them all. and edit