I'm very new at making plug-ins for evn. I wanted to add my own ships to evn, so i downloaded addships2.0, resedit, novatools,etc. I modled my ship using strata 3d and used the sprites package to make the pict and mask, but when i use resedit it sends me to a list of numbers and the tutorials say i should see a spining version of my ship, or i should edit the base image id( add ship text) and things like that. I dont know how to do any of this and im very confused 
and dont know where to go. So if anyone can explain to me slowly what to do exactly after ive made the quicktime movie i would be eternally grateful.
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Did you install novatools?
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Are you clicking on the spďn recourse?
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Yea a little icon that says spďn under it. If that does not appear then you need to create the recourse but its more likely you didnt install novatools right. Try this open up ships 3 (in the nova data folder) and tell me what you see.
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Originally posted by xandor86:
**spin recourse?**
Try downloading and installing Novatools again. Just to make sure you know how to do this, you should open the Novatools file in Resedit, then copy the contents of Novatools into the Resedit preferences file, replacing the contents of the preferences file. This should all be done in Resedit. Even if you did know this, sometimes it doesn't work perfectly, as I learned first hand. Hope that helps.
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Originally posted by AfterBlast:
**Yea a little icon that says spďn under it. If that does not appear then you need to create the recourse but its more likely you didnt install novatools right. Try this open up ships 3 (in the nova data folder) and tell me what you see.**
i think i did this right but probably not: when i click on nova ships 3 it starts the game
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Originally posted by xandor86:
**i think i did this right but probably not: when i click on nova ships 3 it starts the game**
Hmm, check and make sure you're still in Resedit.
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Originally posted by xandor86:
**Do i go to pref. un der file or to the file under system prefs?**
Under the system prefs.
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Originally posted by xandor86:
**when i copy it to the prefs in system it quits but when i open it again it has all the resources copied but 3 (STR#, TITL,TMPL) What does this mean?**
Ok, that's probably the problem. First, give a lot more memory to Resedit. Do this by highlighting the Resedit program, selecting Get Info from the file menu, and under the submenu that says general info, change it to memory, then increase the minimum and suggested memory sizes. Then keep trying to copy the Novatools files into the Resedit prefences until all files are copied. I did check, and those three files that didn't get copied are in my Resedit prefs, so that's your problem. Hope this helps.
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This thread belongs on the EV Developers Corner. I will move this thread there, please continue your discussion in the new thread.
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Originally posted by xandor86:
**It worked! thank you! where do i go from here?**
Depends on wehre you are, here is a cheaklist.
normal sprite pic copied into target file(new resedit file) with the pict resource ID 128(for ease)
mask sprite pic copied into target file with the pict resource ID 129(for ease)(make shure that the mask and sprite pics are same size otherwize it cuts into the sprite.)
Apple K to creat new resource, Spin. Creat new resource, in ID insert 128. in mask ID insert 129. In x size insert the (width of the pic)/(# of horazontal frames) Now, hopefully you made your image with a size that is a multiple of 6 and 8, it makes it much easyer. In y size, do same as in x.
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Your sprites are off. You need the first one to be pointed straight up.
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Originally posted by xandor86:
**Now it flys sideways, what am i doing wrong?**
It flys sideways? Strange.
Basically, your ship should start pointing up, then the easiest thing to do is just to have each sprite from there rotating clockwise in 10 degree increments. That's 36 sprites altogether.
I'm not sure how it ended up flying sideways, so keep trying, and if you need help, err, post away!
Hope that helped,
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