This topic is directed towards those new to this forum and new to developing plugins...

I'm going to put a bunch of helpful links here, others please contribute to the list.

• (url="http://"http://www.mac.com/")Apple's iDisk, a good host for graphic developers.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/ev/addons.html")Escape Velocity Addons Page.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/evo/addons.html")EV Override Addons Page.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/cgi-bin/ubb/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum;=EV+Plug-in+Developer+FAQs&number;=29&DaysPrune;=20&LastLogin;=")EV Plugin Developer FAQ.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.evula.com/evo_bible/")Online EVO Bible.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=ResEdit213.sit.hqx")ResEdit -- what plugin developers should use to do most of the plugin.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=evo-templates.sit.hqx")EVO ResEdit Templates.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=outfeditor.hqx")Outfit Editor -- R & R's ResEdit Templates for easier editing of outfits in EVO.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=govteditor.hqx")Government Editor -- R & R's ResEdit Templates for easier editing of governments in EVO.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=shipwrite118.hqx")ShipWrite -- R & R's ship editing application. Not a ResEdit template.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=Crillee.sit.hqx")Crillee Font -- The font used in EV and EVO.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=ev/utilities&file;=EVDevelopersMap.sit")EV Developers' Map(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=ev/utilities&file;=ResEditBeginnersGuide.sit.hqx")ResEdit Beginners' Guide -- A very good guide for people totally new to ResEdit and EV plugin developing.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=ev/utilities&file;=EVBible.sit")The Escape Velocity Resource Bible.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=ev/utilities&file;=SchmeltaV.sit")Schmelta V -- a mission editor for EV.(/url)

• (url="http://"http://www.jonpearse.f2s.com/hotlinks")Hotlinks -- a very large list of links to various EV, EVO, and EVN sites all over the internet.(/url) And Gildor will probably be wanting to have me give credit to him...

This is just a little list I've come up with in a few minutes...as I said, please do show more links. And I hope this is helpful to all the new plugin developers.

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(url="http://"http://users.aol.com/burgr/evedit.html")http://users.aol.com/burgr/evedit.html(/url)

^^ the EV-Edit Homepage

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(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/chaosgrafix")Conwy Station(/url)
(url="http://"http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Genres/Strategy/Escape_Velocity_Series/")DMOZ's EV/O Directory(/url)

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Originally posted by Jak205:
**http://users.aol.com/burgr/evedit.html

^^ the EV-Edit Homepage
**

Actually, I didn't put any EV Edit links in there on purpose; I find that EV Edit hampers rather than helps any plugin developing, -especially- when learning how to make plugins.

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YakKa Foob MoG. GRuG
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Well I just find the starmap editing thing useful, even though I know of its ability to mess all my plugins up.

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(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/chaosgrafix")Conwy Station(/url)
(url="http://"http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Genres/Strategy/Escape_Velocity_Series/")DMOZ's EV/O Directory(/url)

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Originally posted by Jak205:
**Well I just find the starmap editing thing useful, even though I know of its ability to mess all my plugins up.
**

I'm not totally sure of this, but I'm pretty sure that the EV and EVO Developers' Maps allow you to do that, too.

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Don't forget (url="http://"http://modenstudios.com/evodev")Resource Freighter 3(/url)! Find all sorts of great stuff here.
-david-

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Can anyone give me a good reason to continue working on Fusion? I know that a few people liked it, but if i get a good response, i will resume the project.

For those that dont know, it was my attempt at an EV/O Resource Editor.

PPC Download link: (url="http://"http://www.danicsoft.com/~waller/fusion/Fusion046.sit")http://www.danicsoft...n/Fusion046.sit(/url)

If anyone wants me to continue working on it, email me at nicwaller@shaw.ca
I wont be watching this topic.

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(This message has been edited by Iridium (edited 11-14-2001).)

Hey, thanks for the links! But, where are some good sites to download pre-made spites?(I see a lot of reapeats in plugs, so I know you are out there!)

Oh yea, I agree with that opinion of EVEdit. Yes, whoevere made it worked hard, but it REALLY sucks!

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Die, Cruiser, die!
--Last log from Scoutship 4299--

(This message has been edited by dashriprock (edited 11-14-2001).)

Hey, EV-Edit is good for learning the ropes of plug-in developing. But for seriousl programming, it does suck.

As for the downloadable sprites, most of the good sites are in the Resource Freightor 3(someone already gave you a link above).

As for Iridium, go for it! There aren't enough real plug-ins for EVO, I'm sure Fusion would be a welcome addition. If you need help with it, this is the place to ask for it. I'm pretty busy with SRE, but if you need any plotline/conceptual/idea help, I'd be plenty willing and capable.

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Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...

Does anyone know where I can get the "Movies to Sprites" utility I've heard of?

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ŃCafall

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Originally posted by Cafall:
**Does anyone know where I can get the "Movies to Sprites" utility I've heard of?
**

Unless I'm mistaken, you're referring to "Pics 2 Sprites"...I don't know who made it, or where exactly you could find it (it used to be on the old EV site). I would warn you about that program, though...PICS format has become a rare thing these days, and there were some slight program-to-program differences in it that caused Pics 2 Sprites to choke...
I recommend doing all sprites as the good ol' 36 individual renderings, and then using a photoshop automation to put them all in one file.

A few more helpful hints on sprites:

- Render them double-size, and when you've got the sprite file all put together shrink it by half (making sure to be in the RGB color mode, not Indexed color). This guarantees smooth anti-aliasing on things, even if the original renders weren't anti-aliased at all!

- Lighting ships high-contrast, with a subtle backlight so the shadows aren't completely black, makes for the cleanest transitions into the EV 8-bit indexed color mode. The mac 256-color scheme has more grey tones than anything else (red in close second), and so ships that are mostly grey will turn out smoother.

- I think this has been well covered, but don't ever make any sprite with tile dimensions of 80 pixels X or Y. You get some odd results, and it can crash EV sometimes.

But anyways...yeah..."Pics 2 Sprites"...that would be the program's name.

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(This message has been edited by Onyx (edited 11-15-2001).)

Good topic I'll try to keep it near the top. Damnit, why can t moki just implement a 'sticky' topic feature =P

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Originally posted by Cafall:
Does anyone know where I can get the "Movies to Sprites" utility I've heard of?

I have it on my harddrive, though I've never used it. And I don't remember where I got it...

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Originally posted by Onyx:
I recommend doing all sprites as the good ol' 36 individual renderings, and then using a photoshop automation to put them all in one file.

There's also a program called MakeSpin, which takes a set of 36 files and creates a spin and a mask. Again, I'm not sure where to find it. I imagine these are somewhere in the EV addons stuff.

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Originally posted by 21st Century Digital Boy:
As for Iridium, go for it! There aren't enough real plug-ins for EVO, I'm sure Fusion would be a welcome addition.

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Originally posted by Iridium:
For those that dont know, it was my attempt at an EV/O Resource Editor.

I'll look into using your app. I haven't done any plug stuff in a while, but quality utilities are in short supply. cougheveditcough

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I think so, Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them.

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Originally posted by rebelswin_85:
**I'll look into using your app. I haven't done any plug stuff in a while, but quality utilities are in short supply. cougheveditcough
**

He's probably not going to work on it again for a while . . . a 'while' being until he learns Cocoa well enough to write it; it was written in REALBasic before (blech) and he's trying to give up REALBasic (with good reason! :)).

Oh, by the way, he's not watching this topic.

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Originally posted by Lord Gwydion:
Oh, by the way, he's not watching this topic.;)

Bah, I know that. I was trying subtly poke fun at Digital Boy.

Anyhow, I looked up pics2sprites and MakeSpin in the addons pages:
(url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=ev/utilities&file;=MakeSpin20PPC.hqx")http://www.ambrosias...keSpin20PPC.hqx(/url) (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl?path=evo/utilities&file;=Pics2Sprites.sit.hqx")http://www.ambrosias...Sprites.sit.hqx(/url)

I couldn't find movies2sprites, but if that's really what you want then send me an email and I'll figure out a way to send it to you.

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Pinky, Are you pondering what I am pondering?
I think so, Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them.

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Originally posted by Onyx:

Originally posted by Cafall:
(b)Does anyone know where I can get the "Movies to Sprites" utility I've heard of?(/b)

Unless I'm mistaken, you're referring to "Pics 2 Sprites"...I don't know who made it, or where exactly you could find it (it used to be on the old EV site).

I believe this "Movie to Sprites" is R&R; Software's m2s. As for Pics2Sprites, it was written back in 1996 by none other than Matt Burch himself, and was used to create the actual game's sprites.

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Originally posted by Lord Gwydion:
it was written in REALBasic before (blech) and he's trying to give up REALBasic (with good reason! ).

Don't bash REALbasic, it can do things quite effectively in a fraction of the time taken by other environments if used properly.

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David Arthur
(url="http://"http://members.aol.com/darthur1/talon-ev/")Talon Plugin for the original Escape Velocity(/url)
(url="http://"http://members.aol.com/darthur1/mc/")An Upcoming EV Override Mission Editor(/url)

(This message has been edited by David Arthur (edited 11-15-2001).)

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Originally posted by David Arthur:
**Don't bash REALbasic, it can do things quite effectively in a fraction of the time taken by other environments if used properly.
**

Sorry, but I just can't resist any chance to bash any form of BASIC. But really, Cocoa is much more powerful, and I'm pretty sure Iridium has got plenty of time . . .

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Oops...

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Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...

this seems to be getting off-topic...

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Die, Cruiser, die!
--Last log from Scoutship 4299--

Come on, people! Add more links to the list!

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YakKa Foob MoG. GRuG
PubbuWuP ZiNk WattooM
GaZoRK. CHuMBLE SpuZz.