There are more ships than sprites. Alot more. But i figured that out - they just had shans pointing to the appropriate RLE_s, so each RLE_ had many things pointing to it.

However, they must have somehow done a similar thing with shipyard and detailed shipyard pics . How do i set my ships to use a shipyard pic that already exists? I know it can be done because 80% of the ships in EVN do it. But how?! Same goes for target pic.
Much much thanks
-Az, who decided his new govt needed to defend itself
(it's at war with one faction, preparing for possible war with feds, and is battling pirates, so ships with pain-makeing implements on them are very important - sofar ive done a lightning varient and the ubiqious modified vipers - done ship resource, am going to use preexisting sprites and pics till i have time and equipment to make pseudo orig. graphics)

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You could try out my app: (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/cgi-bin/ubb/postdisplay.cgi?forum=Forum9&topic;=004472")(ANN:) Application Testers Required!(/url)

It works on a copy paste method, and enters the resource IDs for you. However, if you do not have the image in the clipboard, you will have to copy it from resedit or another dev application.

I'll add this feature in next... Copy/paste...

Good luck!
~SpacePirate

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(This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 08-11-2003).)

I dont think thats what I want to do. For now, atleast (as well as later) i need to have two ships sharing the same shipyard pic and target pic, pics that are already in the nova ship graphics files. I know it is possible, because it is done in the game (see how all those target pics are the same for the all the fed. vipers? there is only one target pic for fed vipers.) I swear there must be a "use this other ship's shipyard and target pics" setting somewhere.....

Also, some newfangled program link isnt what i want - I want to know what to set in resedit, both on principle, and for practial reasons: I am severly limited as to what programs i can run, so lets keep it to resedit/novatools. If it wouldnt run on a decade old mac, i cant run it.
-Az

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(This message has been edited by Azratax2 (edited 08-11-2003).)

According to the bible, dësc resources 13000-13767 are used for shipyard descriptions, so I think they just used those resources' Graphic field to point to the appropriate PICT resources which they reused.

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Okay, thanks. That gets the shipyard pics that show when you get info on the ships, but what bout the thumbnails and the target pics?
Thanks
-Az

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Target Pix ID# = Ship RID# - 128 + 3000
Shipyard Pix ID# = Ship RID# - 128 + 5000

In the base Nova files they're in Nova Ships 7.

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Yeah, I know bout those RIDs, and i could throw my plug together with them. But it would be a real waste of space and memory, and is not the "Right Way" to accomplish this.
But:
There are three kinds of pirate vipers, for example, (166, 333, 334), but only one target and shipyard pic for pirate vipers (3038 and 5038 respectively) that are used by all pirate vipers. How are 333 and 334 told to use the pics that 166 uses?.
-Az

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You only need pics for the first ship. Nova is smart enough to figure out that multiple shäns reference the same RLEs, and accesses the appropriate target and shipyard pics accordingly.

So, you see, I told you the "right way."

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Woah. Cools! Thats surprisingly "smart". Nova never ceases to amaze me.
Much thanks!
-Az

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