I'm just toying with the idea of making a small Nova plugin now that the summer holidays have finally started (it raining cats and dogs outside making sunbathing out of the question). A couple of Q's which I really should know the answer to....

1.How do I "install" Nova tools and is it supposed to be a ResEdit Document ?
2.Is there a Nova resource calc. like Pontius' excellent one for EV.
3.Any decent plug-ins out that demonstrate decent ideas implemented properly into EVN (NOT CSE SWITZERLAND).

P.S. Anyone with custom graphics/sounds they want to showcase should e-mail them to me at : paulos@gofree.indigo.ie

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Answers:

1. Using ResEdit, open up the file included with the NovaTools download and open your ResEdit Prefrences document. Copy contents of NovaTools into ResEdit Prefrences. Save. Quit. Reopen ResEdit.

2. Not yet.

3. Don't think there are yet, although an abundence of plugs have come out. I haven't had time to check. I haven't played Nova in over a month... I'm out of the loop :frown:

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Thanks for that, Nova tools is working fine and I've created some concept artwork and dësc's for the plug. Just another question arose when I was creating a custom coloured Viper for a militia :

Is there any way to e xport the rlë8 files to one long Pict or JPEG file and viceversa ?

If anyone could help me on this it would be brilliant (or if anyone would do it for me....wishful thinking.

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Posted the "special" shipyard picture for one of the New ships:
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/whamman2000/viper.gif")http://www.geocities...n2000/viper.gif(/url)

and the new title screen: (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/whamman2000/splash.gif")http://www.geocities...2000/splash.gif(/url)

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Originally posted by Wham!Man:
http://www.geocities...n2000/viper.gif

Yuck, save that as a JPEG, not a GIF, and it'll probably look a lot better. Same goes for some of the other graphics on your site.

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Originally posted by Wham!Man:
http://www.geocities...2000/splash.gif

Image does not exist.

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First of all, Geocities isn't letting me look at any of the images.

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Originally posted by Wham!Man:
1.How do I "install" Nova tools and is it supposed to be a ResEdit Document ?

Try reading the readme.

Matrix

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Originally posted by Wham!Man:
Is there any way to e xport the rlë8 files to one long Pict or JPEG file and viceversa ?

w00tware's EnDeRLE will do that for you. Of course, since I rarely use bookmarks, and I'm too stupid to write these things down, I don't remember what the URL is.

Matrix

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Originally posted by what_is_the_matrix:
**First of all, Geocities isn't letting me look at any of the images.
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You have to copy the URL and paste it into the address bar. Geocities doesn't allow it to be linked to.

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Thanks for the tip EVula, as you can see my graphical talent is about equal to yours (e.g. Non-Existent ). I got the new splash screen uploaded properly and I plan to re-do the writing on top because It looks really bad.... I've done a load of dësc's and thanks for the w00tware tip.
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/whamman2000/splash.JPG")http://www.geocities...2000/splash.JPG(/url)

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(This message has been edited by Wham!Man (edited 06-03-2002).)

Just a few MORE questions (I'm becoming a bore, I know...)

1.How do you link dësc resources to ship resources ? As in my shďp resource is 408 what would the RESOURCE number of my dësc be ?

2.Do shäns have to have a spďn resource and both a rlë8 & rlëd resource?

3.Is there any sort of medium sized plug out which I could use as a guideline (All my ships would have all the picts and glows).

Thanx again,

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Originally posted by Wham!Man:
**Just a few MORE questions (I'm becoming a bore, I know...)

1.How do you link dësc resources to ship resources ? As in my shďp resource is 408 what would the RESOURCE number of my dësc be ?

2.Do shäns have to have a spďn resource and both a rlë8 & rlëd resource?

3.Is there any sort of medium sized plug out which I could use as a guideline (All my ships would have all the picts and glows).

Thanx again,
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Bah, I've written this twice already, but it keeps getting erased when I turn away from the computer...

1. The desc id is equal to the ship id - 128 + (13000 for shipyard desc, and 14000 for hire desc).

2. Shans have absolutely nothing to do with spins and the other way around. Shans are for ships only, and spins are for weapons, planets, explosions, boxes, etc. You can use pict sprites in your spins and shans, but nova doesn't cope well with them. If you use rle sprites, I think that you need to have both (it doesn't hurt), but that's fine because EnRLE can make both formats simultaneously.

3. Let's see, the Gundam 0083 Teaser Plug is a good one ;). Otherwise, a good place to look is in Nova Ships 1, Nova Ships 2, Nova Ships 3, Nova Ships 4, Nova Ships 5, Nova Ships 6, and Nova Ships 7. 1-4 have sprite data, 5 and 6 have shipyard pics, and 7 has the descs among other things.

Matrix

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After finally getting NOVA to load (I had both a spďn and a shän resource or something of that nature) the ship will simply not work! It comes up in the shipyard perfectly (thanks for the dësc help) but when i try to move it it crashes Nova. It seems to me like a mask error from the old EVC days but I simply don't know. You seem to be the person in the know matrix so I've forwarded the plug to you. And anyone who wants to contribute/see the plug-in e-mail me and I'll have a teaser by Wednesday evening.

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Oh found the problem, you DO need both a rlëd and rlë8 resource. It's taking shape and anyone who wants a copy or wants to contribute e-mail me. Thanks for all your help guys but remember, the newbie is never far off .

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Originally posted by Wham!Man:
**Oh found the problem, you DO need both a rlëd and rlë8 resource. It's taking shape and anyone who wants a copy or wants to contribute e-mail me. Thanks for all your help guys but remember, the newbie is never far off:) .

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Send me a copy.

Matrix

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