for the development of not a plug-in...

...but a gigantic series of EV Chronicles for the webboard, based off each of the games with their missions and characters and plots... of course, expanded as I see fit to make several good yearns in the three different EV universes...

... :blink: ...

That's right. I know we get the story in the game, but I love writing and I love the EV stories, I thought it'd be neat to make short stories about each of the missions, kind of like write out the ev universe and post it on the chronicles as a series based off the stories in the ev games. There'd be the EV ones, the EVO ones, and the EVN ones...

the thing is, I was wondering if I could get access to all that text and dialogue without playing the game through... like in word or text documents. Not only the mission string texts, but all the planet and ship and outfit descriptions as well. :blink: Writing and EV are my hobbies... combining them would be a dream come true...

Has anyone translated them out there, or is there a way I could access them easily?

Thanks for bearing with me...

Get yourself an editor, open up Nova Data 3, 5 and 6 in it, and look at the "desc" resources.
Nova Data 5 and 6 have all the mission descs together, 3 has the landing descs and outfit ones, and there are the other little details.
But all text is in those three ones.

Hey thanks...
will this work only for Nova, or will the editor be able to access the resources of all three games?

(and can I find the beginning texts i.e mankind leapt for the stars, as well in the resource files?)

...thanks for the reply, appreciate it.

If you open EVC and EVO data files in the editor it should be fine (though I'm not sure if it works on EVNEW).
The beginning texts, if I'm not mistaken, are all images, so you should have a look through other files.
I'll check to see where the intro text is.

Edit: ok, the intro texts are in "Nova Titles 1", in the PICT section, IDs 8200, 8201 and 8202. You won't be able to extract just the text though

This post has been edited by Pace (haldora) : 28 October 2004 - 03:35 PM

Ah great! Thanks a million, mate.

You're welcome.
Oh, and I completely forgot all this time: welcome to the boards!

I believe the opening texts for EV and EVO are kept in a string resource.

Vaughn Decker, on Oct 28 2004, 10:22 PM, said:

Hey thanks...
will this work only for Nova, or will the editor be able to access the resources of all three games?

(and can I find the beginning texts i.e mankind leapt for the stars, as well in the resource files?)

...thanks for the reply, appreciate it.
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In the original EV and EVO games, the intro texts were in STR# resources, that plug editors can open as well; in the EV and EVO TC, though they have been put in a dësc.

EDIT: meh, why do you feel the need to beat me by about two minutes?;)

This post has been edited by Zacha Pedro : 28 October 2004 - 03:53 PM

Yep, thanks a bunch you guys.

Zacha Pedro, on Oct 28 2004, 08:50 PM, said:

EDIT: meh, why do you feel the need to beat me by about two minutes?;)
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Who, me? tries to look innocent
That's okay, you said it better anyway.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this: There's a W00tware tool called Mish/Mash that's almost specifically designed for this! It will export all the descs as a plain text file (and reimport them later, but that doesn't matter much!). You can get it on Ambrosia's site.